COLLEGE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES

DEPARTMENT OF WORLD LANGUAGES AND CULTURES

&
Howard University’s Interdisciplinary Research Group on African and African Diaspora Studies

Organize

International Conference
African/Diaspora Migrations,
Displacements and Movements: Histories,
Politics and Poetics
October 30 – November 1, 2019
Howard University
Washington, DC

In Observance of the U.N. Declaration of the

Decade for the People of African Descent (2015-2024)
and for recognition and justice
Main Venue of the Conference (Plenaries and Concurrent Sessions):
MINER HALL
2565 Georgia Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20059

Additional Venues:
Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center
2218 6th Street NW Washington, DC 20002

Founders Browsing Room

2400 Sixth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20059

Interdisciplinary Research Building

2201 Georgia Ave NW, Washington, DC 20059
 PROGRAM*
* The program is tentative. Changes can occur in the final (digital and print) program.

WEDNESDAY, October 30, 2019 MINER HALL

8:30 – 9:30 am A Welcome /Continental Breakfast*

*The Continental Breakfast is only offered the first day of the

conference

8:30 am – 6:00 pm On Site Registration

All participants will need to register for first time or to confirm
their pre-registrations
Registration is free

9:30 am – 6:00 pm Book Exhibits

9:30 am – 6:00 pm African/Diaspora Art Exhibits

Expected Guest: Chérif Mamadou, Ivorian Artist

Confirmed Guests: Erik Olivera, Afro-Cuban Artist

Dr. Anne Bouie, African American Artist
Pilar Escobar, Afro-Colombian Artist

WEDNESDAY, October 30, 2019 MINER HALL ROOM 117

9:30 – 10:00 am Plenary 1 International Conference Inaugural Session

Opening Remarks
Dr. Anthony K. Wutoh
Dr. Rubin Patterson
Dr. Dana Williams
Dr. James Davis
Dr. Clément A. Akassi
Provost and Chief Academic Officer
Dean, College of Arts and Sciences
Interim Dean, Graduate School
Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences and Interim
of Chair of the Department of World Languages and
Cultures
International Conference Chair

10:00 – 10:15 am Break

WEDNESDAY, October 30, 2019 MINER HALL ROOM 117

10:15 – 11:30 am Plenary2/Palestra 2 Conversando com Jenyffer

Nascimento e Raquel Almeida,
Escritoras e Ativistas Afro-
Brasileiras (Conversation with
Jenyffer Nascimento and Raquel
Almeida, Afro-brazilian Writers and
Activists)

Resumo/Summary
Jenyffer Nascimento e Raquel Almeida falarão de suas escritas e do lugar da mulher
negra nas literatura e sociedade brasileiras.

Jenyffer Nascimento and Raquel Almeida will talk about their work and the place of
black woma/en in Brazilian literature and society.

Presiding
Bárbara Simões-Daibert, Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (Brasil)

Interpretation will be provided

11:30 am – 1:00 pm Break/Lunch at Own

Pausa/Almuerzo personal
Pause/Déjeuner personnel
Pausa/Almorço pessoal
WEDNESDAY, October 30, 2019 MINER HALL

1:00 – 2:15 pm ROOM 117

Session 1 Roundtable. Peace, Security and Venezuelans: Current

Situation Facing Displaced Afro-Colombians

Presiding
Gimena Sanchez, Director for the Andes, Washington, DC Office for Latino Affairs
(WOLA)

Presenters
Marino Córdoba, Founder, AFRODES, Colombia

Marco Romero, Executive Director, Consultancy for Human Rights and Displacement
(CODHES), Colombia

Pedro Cortés, CET Academic Programs Colombia

1:00 – 2:15 pm ROOM 105

Session 2 Roundtable. Different Faces of Migration: Uncovering

Experiences of Young Immigrants in the U.S.

Presiding
Itziri Gonzalez-Barcenas, College Advisor and College Advising Corps

Presenters
Melyssa Minto, Duke University

Brice Rosette, Alumni of Howard University and EM Strasbourg Business School

(France)

Olanike Oyedepo, Davidson College

1:00 – 2:15 pm ROOM 106

Session 3 Roundtable. Unveiling the Untold: Displacement,

Movement, (Hi)stories, and Impact on Diaspora
Youth/Families

Presiding
Kailande Cassamajor, Howard University
Pan African Diaspora Youth Association (PADYA)
Sector(s): Science & Technology

Presenters
Affi Allado-Anka, Founder & President: Dream & Success Initiatives, Inc.
Pan African Diaspora Youth Association (PADYA)
Sector(s): Health; Empowerment, Faith, and Spirituality

Richmond Danso, Howard University

Pan African Diaspora Youth Association (PADYA)
Sector: Agriculture

Mary Apollo, Miss African Union, South Sudan 2019

Pan-African Diaspora Youth Association (PADYA)
Sector: Health
1:00 – 2:15 pm ROOM 107

Session 4 Universalism, Globalization and

Migrations: From Africa to French
Caribbean

Presiding
Jay Lutz, Oglethorpe University

Presenters
Khady Diène, Howard University
“From Senghor’s Civilisation de l’Universel to AchilleMbembé’s Politiques de
l’Inimitié”

Samuel Zadi, Central Connecticut State University

“Mondialisation et Méandres de la ‘solidarité Africaine’”

Virginie Aline, Howard University

“Particularisme des mouvements migratoires des afro-descendants aux Antilles
françaises”

2:15 – 2:30 pm Break

WEDNESDAY, October 30, 2019 MINER HALL

2:30 – 3:45 pm ROOM 117

Session 5 Migraciones de la diáspora afrodescendiente en

América Latina. Tránsitos y permanencias en
geografías racializadas (Parte I)

Organizing and Presiding

Angela Yesenia Olaya Requene, ALARI (Harvard University) and Universidad
Nacional Autónoma de México

Respondent
Mónica Patricia Toledo González, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala (México)

Presenters
Andrea Guerrero Mosquera, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México)
“Salvajes, bárbaros y monstruosos: La imagen del africano durante el siglo XVII”

Ebony Marie Bailey, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

“Documentar la negritud: representaciones de la comunidad haitiana en la frontera norte
de México

Mónica Patricia Toledo González, Universidad Autónoma de Tlaxcala (México) and

Carlos Alberto González Zepeda, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad
Cuajimalp (México)
“Habitar en el tránsito: precariedad y migración garífuna en su trayecto por el centro-
oriente de México”

Angela Yesenia Olaya Requene, ALARI (Harvard University) and Universidad

Nacional Autónoma de México
“La frontera entre Colombia y Ecuador: movilidades de comunidades afrocolombianas en
escenarios del narcotráfico”

Session would be bilingual

2:30 – 3:45 pm ROOM 105

Session 6 Framing Black Internationalist

Frameworks, Diasporic Movements, and
the Development of New Scholarship by
Howard University’s Historians
Presiding
Latif A. Tarik, Elizabeth City State University

Presenters
Kimberly F. Monroe, Trinity Washington University
“Claudia and Assata: Historicizing Africana Women Literature and
the Black Radical Tradition”

Adisa Vera Beatty, Howard University

“The Reverse Migration of Afro-Caribbean Garveyites”

L. Jonathan Collier, Howard University

“Towards Reaspora: Chicago’s Black Power/Arts Movement, and
Howard University in the Creation of FESTAC ‘77’”

Diana Senior-Angulo, Universidad de Costa Rica

“Desplazamientos y prácticas migratorias de las poblaciones afrocentroamericanas
durante el siglo XX”

2:30 – 3:45 pm ROOM 106

Session 7 (Un)Desired Haiti: Justice and

Recognition for its Migrants, Arts
and Religion
Presiding
Marc Christophe, Howard University

Presenters
N. BaNikongo, Howard University
“Afro-Haitian Migrants & the Case Against Danielo Medina Sanchez, President,
Dominican Republic”

Elsie Hernandez, Haitian American Museum of Chicago (HAMOC)

“First Haitians Chicago: The Contributors”

Jay Lutz, Oglethorpe University

“Vaudou in Haiti, Senegal and Harlem”
2:30 pm – 3:45 pm ROOM 107

Session 8 African Diaspora Women in Movement:

Deconstructing the Representation of
Women in Work Place and Art/Music

Presiding
Josephine Dawuni, Howard University

Presenters
Valerie Lacarte, Institute for Women’s Policy Research
“Integrating into the US Labor Market The Case of Caribbean Immigrant Women”

Tracey L. Walters, Stony Brook University

“Beyond Domestic Work: Jamaican Female Migrant Farmworkers in Canada”

Kierra Porter, Lone Star College Systems

“Matriilineal Legacies, the Past, and the Struggle of Black Female Authenticity in Jazz”

3:45 – 4:00 pm Break

WEDNESDAY, October 30, 2019 MINER HALL

4:00 – 5:15 pm ROOM 117

Session 9 From Enslavement to Travels. A long

March of Resistance through Writing,
Language and (Visual) Art
Presiding
Alexandra Lima da Silva, The Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies-University of
Illinois & the Rio de Janeiro State University

Presenters
Kris’tina Ackerman, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
“Afro-Language as Resistance”

Anne Bouie, Independent Historian and Visual Artist

“Material Culture and the Visual Arts as Tools of Resistance to Enslavement

Alexandra Lima da Silva, The Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies-University of

Illinois & the Rio de Janeiro State University
“Winds of Freedom: Travels, Self-Writings and Resistance”
4:00 – 5:15 pm ROOM 105

Session 10 What Lies on the Pacific

Coast: Displacement and Migration of
Afro-Colombians - A Roundtable
Organized by Changó, Howard
University’s Students Cultural Society for
the Knowledge pf Afro-Hispanic/Afro-
Latino Experiences
Presiding
Gyselle García, Howard University

Presenters:
Crystal Yuille, Howard University
Cristian Mina, Howard University
Kim Austin, Howard University

4:00 – 5:15 pm ROOM 106

Session 11 Trauma and Memory in the Narration of

Displacement(s)/Migration. An
Interdisciplinary Approaches

Presiding
Stève Puig, St John’s University, New York

Presenters
Juanita Gilliam, Morgan State University
“Memoir, Memory, Migration”

Wendy McBurney, Howard University

“Too Close to Home, the Saga of the Venezuelan Humanitarian and Immigration Crisis”

Renée Latchman, Howard University

“Caribbean Migration, Trauma, and Displacement in Maryse Condé’s Desirada”

Stève Puig, St John’s University, New York

“‘Entre l’ancrage et la fuite’: déplacements et vagabondage dans l’œuvre de Louis-
Philippe Dalembert”
4:00 – 5:15 pm ROOM 107

Session 12 Being Black, Immigrant, and In the

Closet

Presiding
Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis, New York City Department of Education

Presenters
Ashley D. Clemons, University of Florida
“Defining the Un-Native: Tracing Representations of Black Bottom Detroit’s
Metaphysical Migratory Movement in Dominique Morisseau’s Paradise Blue & Robert
Hayden’s ‘Elegies for Paradise Valley’”

Paul Mukundi, Morgan State University

“No Longer at Peace: The Disruptions of Homosexuality in Tendai Huchu’s The
Hairdresser of Harare”

Abimbola Cole Kai-Lewis, New York City Department of Education

“Beyond the Estate: Migration Stories in the Music of Emcee Chosan”

THURSDAY, October 31, 2019 MINER HALL ROOM 117

8:30 am – 6:00 pm On Site Registration

All participants will need to register for first time or to confirm
their pre-registrations
Registration is free

9:30 am – 6:00 pm Book Exhibits

8:30 am – 6:00 pm On Site Registration

All participants will need to register for first time or to confirm
their pre-registrations
Registration is free

9:30 am – 6:00 pm Book Exhibits

9:30 am – 6:00 pm African/Diaspora Art Exhibits

Expected Guest: Chérif Mamadou, Ivorian Artist

Confirmed Guests: Erik Olivera, Afro-Cuban Artist

Dr. Anne Bouie, African American Artist
Pilar Escobar, Afro-Colombian Artist
THURSDAY, October 31, 2019 MINER HALL ROOM 117

9:30 – 10:45 am Plenary 3/Plenaria 3 Conversando con Shirley Campbell

Barr, Escritora y Antropóloga
Afrocostarricense (Conversation
with Shirley Campbell Barr, Afro-
Costa Rican Writer and
Anthropologist)

Resumen/Summary:
Shirley Campbell hablará de sus obras y de la problemática de ser rotundamente
negra, mujer y descendiente de la inmigración caribeña (anglófona) en Costa Rica.

Shirley Campbell will talk about her writing and the question of being unapologetically
black, woman, and descendant of English-Speaking/Caribbean immigrant in Costa
Rica.

Presiding
Dana Senior-Ángulo, Universidad de Costa Rica

Interpretation would be provided

10:45 – 11 am Break
THURSDAY, October 31, 2019 MINER HALL

11:00 am – 12:15 pm ROOM 117

Session 13 Roundtable. Migraciones de la

diáspora afrodescendiente en América
Latina. Tránsitos y permanencias en
geografías racializadas (Parte II)

Presiding
Leticia Calderón Chelius, Instituto de Investigaciones José María Mora (México)

Presenters
Heidy Julieth Micolta Montaño, Colectivo Microsesiones Negras (Colombia)
“Desafíos de las Mujeres Afrodescendientes inmigrantes en Chile”

Gloria Nallybe Prado Pino, Harvard University

“A biosocial analysis of the journey of the critically ill in Chocó, Colombia”

Sandra Patricia Martinez Basallo, Universidad del Valle (Colombia)

“De los ríos a la ciudad: el proceso migratorio de los jóvenes afrodescendientes hacia
Pereira, Colombia”

Domila do Prado Pazzini , IFCH-Unicamp (Brasil)

“‘El camino’: un análisis del trayecto de haitianos desde Brasil hasta México”

Leticia Calderón Chelius, Instituto de Investigaciones José María Mora (México)

“Vivir en México siendo haitiano, ¿Cómo reaccionan los mexicanos?”
11:00 am – 12:15 pm ROOM 105

Session 14 Discussing Telaraña the last book of

Cristina Rodríguez Cabral, Afro-
Uruguayan Writer – A Roundtable by
Howard University’s Students

Presiding
Nicole D. Price, Northern Arizona University

Presenters
Marley Ford, Student, Howard University

Mykara Fuller, Howard University

Brittany Goddard, Howard University

Andrés Gómez, Howard University

Jessica Grider, Howard University

Jewell Humphrey, Howard University

Sophia Hussein, Howard University

Josyana Joshua, Howard University

Kone Nesengani, Howard University

Tabitha Norton, Howard University

Cydney Stephens, Howard University

Lucero Walker, Student, Howard University

11:00 am– 12:15 pm ROOM 106

Session 15 Diáspora Africana no Rio de Janeiro

(Brasil)
(African Diaspora in Rio de Janeiro
(Brazil))

Organizing
Gracy Mary Moreira, ONG Casa da Tia Ciata, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)

Presiding
Ana Araujo, Howard University

Presenters
Gracy Mary Moreira, ONG Casa da Tia Ciata, Rio de Janeiro
“O Rio de Janeiro e as políticas de patrimônio da diáspora africana”

Mercedes Guimarães, Instituto Pretos Novos, Rio de Janeiro

“A Pequena África, o Cais do VaIongo e a UNESCO : de 2011 a 2018, um histórico”

Interpretation would be provided

11:00 am – 12:15 pm ROOM 107

Session 16 Parallel Migrations and

Displacements in
Africa, Asia and Latin America

Presiding
Gerceida Jones, New York University

Presenters
Verny Varela, Howard University
“The displacement of Afro-Colombians and Indigenous and their impact in the main
cities of Colombia”

Phiwokuhle Mnyandu, Howard University

“‘I Am Here But I Do Not Want to End Up Here’: A Comparative Analysis of Transitory
and Aspirational Motivations Among Africans Studying in China and South Africa”

Lacina Yéo, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny d’Abidjan (Côte d’Ivoire)

“The Globalization of African Culture Through Cultural Transfers between Africa,
Europe, America and China”

Gerceida Jones, New York University

“Parallel Migrations: Dogon People and the Incas”

12:15 – 1:15 pm Break/Lunch at Own

Pausa/Almuerzo personal
Pause/Déjeuner personnel
Pausa/Almorço pessoal
THURSDAY, October 31, 2019 MINER HALL

1:15 – 2:30 pm ROOM 117

Session 17 Diálogos ‘amefricanos’

estrategias de acción de
afrodescendientes en
Argentina, Brasil y Perú
Organizing and Presiding
Camila Daniel, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

Presenters
Fernanda Felisberto, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro de Letras/
Instituto Multidisciplinar
“O romance de autoria feminina negra brasileira contemporânea: o entre lugar
discursivo e estético na diáspora contemporânea”

Tania Lizarazo, University of Maryland Baltimore County

“Mujeres Pacíficas: Digital Storytelling as Collaborative Knowledge Production”

Judith Anderson, CUNY Borough of Manhattan Community College

“The Many Faces of Controversy: Blackface and Black Political Organizing in Buenos
Aires”

Camila Daniel, Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro

“The waves of the Black Pacific: Afro-Peruvian Identity in the United States”
1:15 – 2:30 pm ROOM 105

Session 18 Double Consciousness or Double

Marginalization? The
Complexities of Quest for Self-
Identities and Representations

Presiding
Denise Jarrett, Morgan State University

Presenters
Daniel R. Hernandez, Educator and Independent Scholar
“Being Afro-Latino: An Identity within an Identity”

Juliet Onyiba, Howard University

“The Confused American Accent: Autoethnography Of Personal Experience”

Nohora A. Arrieta Fernández, Georgetown University

“Estéticas de la opacidad: la plantación de azúcar en dos artistas visuales de Brasil y el
Caribe”

Denise Jarrett, Morgan State University

“Where Do I Belong Jamaica or America? Ambivalence in Claude McKay’s Cultural
Identity”

1:15 – 2:30 pm ROOM 106

Session 19 The Problematic Location of the

Diasporas in the Narration(s) of
Nation(s)
Presiding
Jean-Jacques Taty, Howard University

Presenters
Cheikh Thiam, The Ohio State University
“Decolonizing the Racial State: Immigration, Nativism, and Citizenship

Gérard Keubeung, Bowdoin College

“Crise de l’État-nation et immigration chez Wilfried N’sondé”

Jean-Jacques Taty, Howard University

“French Education System in the Age of Multiculturalism”

Nacer Wabeau, Universidad de Costa Rica

“The Algerian Pacific Revolution: the role of the Algerian diaspora”
1:15 – 2:30 pm ROOM 107

Session 20 Histories, Alterities and Black

Québec

Presiding
David Boucher, Lycée Maisonneuve (Montréal, Québec)

Presenters
Kwangsoon Kim, Kongju National University (South Korea)
“Catch If You Can: Subverting White Imagination of Histoire in Valerie Martin’s
Property”

Sheng-Mei Ma, Michigan State University

“Afro-Asian Filmic Duet”

David Boucher, Lycée Maisonneuve (Montréal, Québec)

“District 9 de Neil Blomkamp: allégories, altérité et Histoire des Noirs”

2:30 – 2:45 pm Break

THURSDAY, October 31, 2019 MINER HALL

2:45 – 4:00 pm ROOM 117

Session 21 African Descents in Brazil: What has

Changed since the Middle Passage?

Presiding
Clarence Lusane, Howard University

Presenters
Eliseo Jacob, Howard University
“Black Lives Matter in Brazil: Cidinha da Silva’s #Parem de nós matar

Bárbara Simões Daibert, Universidade Federal de Juiz de

Fora (Brasil)
“African Diaspora in Brazilian literature: the Middle Passage in the works of Maria
Firmina dos Reis and Heloisa Maranhão”

Elaine Cristina Espindola Camargo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (Brasil)

“A definição de um conceito: O trabalho análogo de escravo em Santa Catarina, 1995-
2017”
2:45 – 4:00 pm ROOM 105

Session 22 African/Diaspora Revolts and

(Re)Negotiation of Identity/Unity

Presiding
Uchenna Onuzulike, Bowie State University

Presenters
Temitope Fagunwa, Osun State University (Osun State, Nigeria)
“African Spirituality and Slave Revolts in the Americas, 1791 – 1835

Aboussou Dadoua, Independent Scholar

“Subversion: Nkrumah in the Dock and a Stumbling Bloc to African Unity”

Bayo Omolola, Howard University

“Yoruba Wedding in a New Location: Americanized or Pure?

Uchenna Onuzulike, Bowie State University

“Igbo Diasporic Experiences: The Case of Second-Generation”

2:45 – 4:00 pm ROOM 106

Session 23 Africa and Its Challenging

Politics of (Im)Migrations

Presiding
Lorenzo Morris, Howard University

Presenters
David Oluwasegun Yusuf, Partnership for African Social and Governance Research
(Nairobi, Kenya)
“How The EU Border Regime Transforms African ‘Departure Cities’’: Case Study of
The Migrant Urbanism of Benin City Nigeria”

Solomon M. Gofie, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)

“State-Society Antagonisms: the ‘U- turns’ of the EPRDF Diaspora Engagement in
Ethiopia?”

Barbara Franchi, Université Toulouse Jean Jaurès (France)

“Rejecting the 'Back-to-Africa' option - James Milton Turner's challenges and difficulties
in building the relationship between Liberia and the United States (1871-1878)”

Amphas Mbow-Mampoua, American University of London

“How West African Immigrants are politically Influential in The Republic of The Congo”
2:45 – 4:00 pm ROOM 107

Session 24 Colonial and Postcolonial Memory in

Patrick Chamoiseau, Marie Célie Agnant
and in Malgache’s Play

Presiding
Nacer Wabeau, Universidad de Costa Rica

Presenters
Iona Wynter Parks, Oglethorpe University
Understanding Across Differences in Chamoiseau’s Eco-Social Les neuf consciences du
Malfini

Awah Mfossi Sidjeck, Lyon College (Arkansas)

“Duvaliérisme au féminin : Devoir de mémoire et décentrement du phallus dans Un
alligator nommé Rosa de Marie Célie Agnant

Léandra Cormier, University of Maryland

Le théâtre malgache, entre classicisme et expérimentation : Évolution d'un genre
traditionnel ou interférence coloniale?

4:00 - 4:10 pm Break

THRUSDAY, October 31, 2019 MINER HALL ROOM 117

4: 10 – 5: 10 pm Plenary 4 Roundtable. Critical Time for Census and

Afro-Census in US and Latin America

Presiding
Carlos Quesada, Executive Director
International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights

Presenters
Robin Brown, U.S. Census Bureau

Elvia Duque, Latin American Program Officer

International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights

Francisco Javier Gil Castillo, ONG Sello Negro (Colombia)

Carlos Quesada, Executive Director

International Institute on Race, Equality and Human Rights
5:15 – 6:15 pm CAMPUS TOUR (Important Sites Only)
Visita Guiada del Campus (Sitios clave)
Visite Guidée du Campus (Sites-Clés)
Visita Guiada do Campus (Locais Chaves)

7:00 pm Salsa Night at Eighteen Street Lounge,

with the Band of Howard University’s
Professor, Verny Varela

Address: 1212 18th St NW, Washington,

DC, 20036

No Cover to Access the

Lounge
FRIDAY, November 1, 2019 MINER HALL ROOM 117

8:30 am – 6:00 pm On Site Registration

All participants will need to register for first time or to confirm
their pre-registrations
Registration is free

9:30 am – 6:00 pm Book Exhibits

8:30 am – 6:00 pm On Site Registration

All participants will need to register for first time or to confirm
their pre-registrations
Registration is free

9:30 am – 6:00 pm Book Exhibits

9:30 am – 6:00 pm African/Diaspora Art Exhibits

Expected Guest: Chérif Mamadou, Ivorian Artist

Confirmed Guests: Erik Olivera, Afro-Cuban Artist

Dr. Anne Bouie, African American Artist
Pilar Escobar, Afro-Colombian Artist

FRIDAY, November 1, 2019 MINER HALL ROOM 117

9:30 – 11:00 am Plenary 5 Roundtable with Authors

from Africa and the
African Diaspora

Presiding
Clément A. Akassi, Howard University

Presenters
Marie Célie Agnant, Haitian Born amd Afro-Québecoise Writer
Cristina Cabral, Afro-Uruguayan Writer and Professor
Shirley Campbell, Afro-Costa Rican Writer, Anthropologist and Activist
Jenyffer Nascimento, Afro-Brazilian Writer, Feminist and Activist
Nacer Wabeau, Algerian born Wrirer and Professor
11:00 – 11:15 am Break

FRIDAY, November 1, 2019 MINER HALL

11:15 am – 12:30 pm ROOM 117

Session 25 The Epistemological Complexities

on Approaching African/Diaspora
Issues (in Latin
America/Caribbean)

Presiding
Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas, North Carolina Central University

Presenters
Mamadou Badiane, University of Missouri-Columbia
“Cultural anxieties in Afro-Caribbean Literature and Film”

Justina Caicedo Salcedo, Grupo de Investigación AFROAMÉRICA XXI

“La escuela como dispositivo cultural”

José Manuel Batista, University of North Carolina at Charlotte

“Haitians in Rita Indiana Hernández’s Fictional Worlds”

Marco Polo Hernández-Cuevas, North Carolina Central University

“El abolengo negro-africano, estigmatizado, invisibilizado y negado vía la ideología del ‘
‘mestizo’ y ‘mestizaje latinoamericanos”
11:15 am – 12:30 pm ROOM 105

Session 26 África Lusófona e a Memória

Histórica do Tráfico
Transatlântico de escravos

(Lusophone Africa and the

Historical Memory of the
Transatlantic Slave Trade)

Presiding
Juelma da Conceição Gomes de Matos Ngala, Max Planck - Instituto Europeu de
História do Direito (Germany)

Presenters
Martinho Pedro, Universidade Pedagógica de Maputo (Mozambique)
“Moçambique : de carrefour da migração Sul-Sul ao ponto de destino de drifters

Maysa Espíndola Souza, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina/Institute for European

Legal History (Germany)
“Direito e trabalho: a Secretaria dos Negócios Indígenas de Guiné Bissau, 1917-1935”

Juelma da Conceição Gomes de Matos Ngala, Max Planck - Instituto Europeu de

História do Direito (Germany)
“Relações de dependência no século XIX: um olhar a partir do Arquivo Histórico do
Tribunal de Comarca de Benguela-Angola”

Interpretation would be provided

11:15 am – 12:30 pm ROOM 106

Session 27 Human/Political Rights, Race,

and Migrations in Africa, Europe
and US

Presiding
Daryl Harris, Howard University

Presenters
Idrissa Diarra, Policy Maker, Activist and Writer (Burkina Faso)
“De la prise en charge des migrations irrégulières internationales à fort risque en Afrique
subsaharienne”

Lorenzo Morris, Howard University

“Making Race and the Politics of Denial: A Comparison of French and American
Political Parties”

Clarence Lusane, Howard University

“Tell Me a Story Baba’: Black Panther’and Wakanda's Foreign Policy in the Age of
Neo-liberalism”

Daryl Harris, Howard University

“Double Consciousness and Black Political Thought”
11:15 am – 12:30 pm ROOM 107

Session 28 Between Negrophobia and

Acceptance of the African
Diasporas in France and US

Presiding
Derayeh Derakhshesh, Howard University

Presenters
Daniela Ricci, Université Paris Nanterre (France)
“Diasporas africaines et représentations en France”

Ndiaye Sarr, Université de Montpellier III (France) & Université de Casablanca (Maroc)
“Ecriture et migration: vers une démystification de l’ailleurs”

Paule Mireille Ngo Mbai, Howard University

“To Be Illegal Immigrant in a Foreign Country. Which Issues? The case of Yassine in the
movie Épouse-moi mon pote of Tarek Boudali”

Bréhima Sidibé, Université de Perpignan Via Domitia & Université Paris-Est Créteil
(France)
“Black America: Keepers of American democracy?”

12:30 – 1:30 pm Break/Lunch at Own

Pausa/Almuerzo personal
Pause/Déjeuner personnel
Pausa/Almorço pessoal
FRIDAY, November 1, 2019 MINER HALL

1:30 – 2:45 pm ROOM 117

Session 29 Mesa Redonda. Política pública para

población estudiantil negra en la Sede
Pacífico de la Universidad del Valle
(Public Policy for Students Population at
the Pacific Site of University of Valle)

Presiding
Luis Augusto Quiñones, Director
Universidad del Valle, Sede Pacìfico

Presenters
Lino Herminsul Tobar Otero, Líder Social e Investigador
Universidad del Valle, Sede Pacìfico (Colombia)

Luis Augusto Quiñones, Director

Universidad del Valle, Sede Pacìfico

Interpretation would be provided

1:30 – 2:45 pm ROOM 105

Session 30 Movimentos diaspóricos de resistencia y

de conexão com África (Diasporic
Movement of Resistance and connection
with Africa)

Presiding
Maia Ribeiro, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brazil)

Presenters
Itamar Cossi, Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina)
“Movimento diaspórico infantil nas narrativas de Mia Couto”

Naiara Paula Eugenio, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

“Padrões Estéticos que Conectam a Diáspora Africana Brasileira ao Continente
Africano”/“Aesthetic Pattern that Connect the Brazilian African to the African
Continent”

Maria de Fátima Maia Ribeiro, Universidade Federal da Bahia (Brasil)

“Formas de cooptação, resistência e empoderamento das mulheres (quase) moçambicanas
como marcas de pertencimento à terra face ao invasor português do império de Gaza, em
O bebedor de horizontes (2018), de Mia Couto”

Interpretation would be provided

1:30 – 2:45 pm ROOM 106

Session 31 Hispanophone Africa in Movement(s):

Cartographies, Re-Creation and Un-
Silenced Women Voices

Presiding
Elisa Rizo, Iowa State University

Presenters
Elisa Rizo, Iowa State University
“Cartografías alternativas de la migración África-Europa

Joseph Désiré Otabela, University of Missouri-Columbia

“Boniface Ofogo’s A piece of Africa in Colombia (Un pedazo de África en Colombia) or
the Re-creation of Africa from San Basilio de Palenque”

Price, Nicole D., Northern Arizona University

“Patrocinando el futuro: Nuevas voces femeninas guineoecuatorianas”
1:30 – 2:45 pm ROOM 107

Session 32 Structural Violence and Subversion of the

African Descents in Cuba and Colombia

Presiding
Ana Chichester, Mary Washington University

Presenters
Ana Chichester, Mary Washington University
“Activistas y madres: la mujer afrocubana en las guerras de independencia de Cuba”

Marcelo Fajardo-Cárdenas, University of Mary Washington

“Estrategias del discurso transgresivo de la otredad fragmentada en la dramaturgia de
Eugenio Hernández Espinosa”

Zoe Morales Ervolino , Yale University

“Quests of Civilization, Extraction, and Violence: Historicizing Visions of Development
in the Region of Urabá”
2:45 – 3:00 pm Break

FRIDAY, November 1, 2019 MINER HALL ROOM 117

3:00 – 4:15 pm Plenary 6/Plenaria 6 Proyecto Centenario de Manuel

Zapata Olivella (1920-2020) y la
resistencia afrocolombiana hoy

(Project Centenary of Manuel

Zapata Olivella (1920-2020) and
Afro-Colombian Resistance Today)

Presiding
William Mina Aragón, Universidad del Cauca (Colombia)

Presenters
Darío Henao, Universidad del Valle, Cali (Colombia)
“Proyecto Centenario Manuel Zapata OIivella y la literatura afrolatina

Luis Carlos Castillo, Universidad del Valle, Cali-Colombia

“Entramados organizativos y movimiento social afrocolombiano: desterritorialización y
resistencia”

Dayana Rendón Valencia, Afro-Colombian Journalist, Lawyer and Activist

“Medios de comunicación y conciencia identitaria”

William Mina Aragón, Universidad del Cauca (Colombia)

“ Descolonizando el bicentenario desde sujetos y procesos afrodiaspóricos”

Interpretation would be provided

4:15 – 5:00 pm Break

FRIDAY, November 1, 2019 MINER HALL ROOM 117

5:00 – 6:00 pm Plenary 7 Keynote Address by Dr. Dellita Martin-

Ogunsola, University of Alabama at
Birmingham

The keynote speaker will be introduced by Dr. James Davis, Associate Dean, Howard
University’s College of Arts and Sciences
FRIDAY, November 1, 2019 INTERDISCIPLINARY RESEARCH BUILDING

7:00 – 9:00 pm Closing Reception

The reception will feature a recital of poetry by Marie Célie Agnant (Haiti/Quebec),
Indran Amirthanayagam (USA), Cristina Cabral (Uruguay/USA), Shirley Campbell
(Costa Rica), Jenyffer Nascimento (Brazil), Nacer Wabeau (Algeria/Costa Rica).

It will feature also the performance of the Afro-Brazilian activist Gracy Moreira who is a
Samba expert and will interact with the participants of the conference. The Afro-Peruvian
artist Vicky Leiva will perform as well.

The Last Activity of the Conference will be the Visit of the National Museum of
African American History and Culture, On Saturday, November 2, 2019, at 10:30
am

La última actividad del congreso será la visita al Museo Nacional de Historia y

Cultura Africanoamericanas, el sábado, 2 de noviembre de 2019, a las 10:30 horas

La dernière activité du colloque sera la visite du Musée National d’Histoire et des

Cultures Africaines Américaines, le 2 novembre 2019, à 10h30

A última atividade do congresso será a visita do Museu Nacional da História e das

Culturas Africanas-Americanas, o dia 2 de novembro de 2019, as 10:30 horas