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Schedule of Events


¡Aquí Estamos! Afro-Latin@s Now! Film Series
Every Friday in October 2011


Thursday, November 3rd, 6:00pm - 9:00pm 
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture


Plenary Conference Opening 

Welcome
  • Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
  • Miriam Jiménez Román, Director, afrolatin@ forum
  • Luz Benítez Delgado, W.K. Kellogg Foundation
  • Juan Flores, Chair, afrolatin@ forum

Round-table Discussion
  • James Counts Early, Director Cultural Heritage Policy Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution
  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
  • Maria Rosario Jackson, Urban Policy Institute
  • Silvio Torres Saillant, Syracuse University 
  • Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, New York University and ENCUENTRO, INC.

Cultural Presentation
  • Kwami Coleman, afrolatin@ forum, performing “El Manicero”

Friday, November 4th, 8:30am - 6:00pm
Graduate Center, City University of New York


8:30-9:30am
  • Arrival and registration

9:30-11:00am

1A. In and Out of Focus: Media and Representation 
Moderator: Laura Rivera, afrolatin@ forum
Panelists: 
  • Yvonne Latty, New York University 
  • Michelle Materre, Creatively Speaking and The New School
  • Lori Robinson, BLAC Detroit Magazine, and VidaAfroLatina
  • Iván Román, former Executive Director, National Association of Hispanic Journalists

1B. We Count: Identity, the Census and Visibility

Moderator: Guesnerth Josué Perea, AfroColombia NY and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists: 
  • Angelo Falcón, Latino Policy Institute
  • Jocelyn Géliga Vargas, Universidad de Puerto Rico-Mayaguez
  • Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, Universidad Nacional de Colombia·
  • Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas, North Carolina Central University

11:15am-12:45pm

2A. Gender & Sexuality within Afrolatinidad
Moderator:  Zenaida Méndez, National Dominican Women’s Caucus
Panelists:
  • Bertha Isabel Arzu, Enlace de Mujeres Negras de Honduras
  • Javier Cardona, Rehabilitation Through the Arts
  • Leticia Peguero, Robert Woods Foundation
  • Charles Rice-González, Bronx Academy of Arts and Dance (BAAD)

2B. Building Community: Activism, Networking, and Policy

Moderator: Ryan Mann-Hamilton, Graduate Center- CUNY and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists:
  • Luis Barrios, John Jay College of Criminal Justice-CUNY
  • Mirtha Colón, Casa Yurumein/Hondurans Against AIDS
  • Carlos Flores, Afro-Latin@ Institute of Chicago
  • Carlos Russell, Professor Emeritus at Brooklyn College-CUNY

12:45-1:45pm
  • Lunch

2:00-3:30pm

3A. Filling the Gaps: Youth and Education
Moderator: Melissa Valle, Columbia University and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists:
  • Manuela Arciniegas, The Legacy Circle
  • Khary Lazarre-White, Executive Director,The Brotherhood/Sister Sol
  • José Luis Vilson, Educator, New York City Public School
  • Hernando Viveros, Phelps Stokes Foundation, and Afro-Colombian youth activist

3B. Connecting Stories: The Practice of Racial Dialogues
Moderator: Ricardo Millett, Millett and Associates, Chicago
Panelists:
  • Stephanie Alvarez, University of Texas-Pan American
  • Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
  • Tanya K. Hernández, Professor of Law, Fordham University
  • Joseph Jordan, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill

4:00-5:30pm

4A. Afrolatinidad in the Visual Arts
Moderator: Tashima Thomas, Rutgers University and afrolatin@ forum
Panelists:
  • Liliana Angulo (Colombia)
  • Firelei Báez (NY)
  • Michael Paul Britto (NY)
  • Miguel Luciano (NY)

4B. Afro-Latin@ Historical and Cultural Flows: Current Transnational Research
Moderator: Roberto Marquez, Mount Holyoke College
Panelists: 
  • Maya Berry, University of Texas at Austin
“’Como Ayer’: A Performance of Citizenship in New Jersey’s Cuba of Tomorrow”
  • Aisha Cort, The Rivers School
“Black Cuban, Black American: Reading Afro-Latino Identities”
  • T.J. Obi, Baruch College, CUNY
“Negros Macheteros”: Afro-Latino Martial Arts in the Popular Imagination”
  • Laurence E. Prescott, Pennsylvania State University
“Remembering the Source: Reflections on Afro-Latin American Resistance and the Impact of the African American Struggle”
  • Jill Richardson, Borough of Manhattan Community College, CUNY
“Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao”

4C. Tradition, Resistance, & Representation of Afro-Latin@ Discourse(s): Current Transnational Research
Moderator:  Juan Flores, New York University
Panelists:
  • Ashley D. Aaron, San Francisco State University
“Afro-Latina/os Online: Filling a Gap in the Discourse of Afrolatinidad"
  • Sandra Andino, Taller Puertorriqueño, Inc.
“ Afro-Latinos in Philadelphia: Stories from El Barrio”
  • Kaysha Corinealdi, Yale University
“Bridging Communities, Reconfiguring Identities: Afro-Latin@ Educators and the New York City Ethno-Racial Landscape”
  • Natasha Gordon-Chipembre, Medgar Evers College, CUNY
“My Mother and Her Sisters: the Paradox of the Afro-Costa Ricans from Jamaica”
  • Kimberley Simmons, University of South Carolina
“Stirring the Sancocho and Gumbo and Seeing Africa: Afro-Dominican and African American Identity in the Context of the African Diaspora”

5:30-6:30pm
Closing Plenary: Dialogue & resolution
  • Miriam Jiménez Román, Director, afrolatin@ forum
  • Ejima Baker-Morales, afrolatin@ forum
  • Karen Juanita Carrillo, Journalist
  • Miguel Lopez, Jr., afrolatin@ forum
  • Laura Rivera, afrolatin@ forum
  • Lori Robinson, BLAC Detroit Magazine, and VidaAfroLatina
  • Melissa Valle, Columbia University and afrolatin@ forum

Saturday, November 5th, 12:00pm - 6:00pm 
El Museo del Barrio


12:00-1:45pm
Workshop: Afro-Latin@ Youth and Identity
Facilitators: 
  • Ejima Baker-Morales, afrolatin@ forum
  • Jadele McPherson, Lukumi Arts
  • Yamila Sterling, afrolatin@ forum

2:00-3:30pm
Panel: Writing and Teaching Afro-Latin@ Perspectives 
Moderator: Willie Perdomo
Panelists:
  • Dahlma Llanos Figueroa (Daughters of the Stone)
  • Ray Felix (Bronx Heroes)
  • Torrey Maldonado (Secret Saturdays)
  • Carmen Mojica (Hija de mi madre) 
  • Kevin Sabio (Raise Your Brown Black Fist: The Political Shouts of an Angry Afro-Latino)

4:00-5:30pm
¡Now y Para Siempre! Afro-Latin@ Open Mic
In memory of Piri Thomas (September 30, 1928 – October 17, 2011)


Emcees: Enmanuel Candelario & Frank Lopez, The Peace Poets

Featuring:
  • Anthony Morales, Spoken word artist
  • Conjunto Folklórico of Alianza Dominicana 
  • Frantz Jerome, The Peace Poets and 2050 Legacy
  • Mariposa, Spoken word artist
  • Tato Laviera, Spoken word artist
  • The Legacy Circle Women's Drum Cypher (TLC-WDC)

All interested artists are welcome!
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