All events are at Abroms-Engel Institute for the Visual Arts Lecture Hall, except those after 6:00 on Friday, which will be in the Hulsey Recital Hall.
| Schedule, 7 October: |
| 9:00 – Set-up
9:30 – Welcome to Birmingham, Kathryn Morgan, African American Studies 9:45 – Special Presentation to UAB by the Colombian Instituto Caro y Cuervo. UAB Humanities Librarian Heather Martin 10:15 – Announcement of New Books on Afro-Latin America |
| 10:45-12:15 Panel 1: Palenque, Colombia Today 10:45: Graciela Maglia, Literature and Cultural Studies, Instituto Caro y Cuervo and Yves Moñino, Linguistics, LLACAN de CNRS, France.“From live speech to cultural memory: Language and oral literature of San Basilio de Palenque (Colombia).” / “De la palabra viva a la memoria cultural: Lengua y literatura oral de San Basilio de Palenque, Colombia”In Spanish. |
| 11:05: Jaime Arocha, Anthropology, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
“Cultural Negotiation and Resistance in Afrocolombia” |
| 11:25: Ludmila Ferrari, Romance Languages and Visual Studies, University of Michigan “Un epígrafe cimarrón para la libertad: Monumentalización, silencio y repetición en el archivo de San Basilio de Palenque” |
| 11:45: Open discussion |
| 12:15 – Break |
| 12:30 – Keynote: Víctor Simarra and Bernardino. Representatives of Palenque, Colombia. English Interpreter: John Maddox, University of Alabama at Birmingham “Palenque (Colombia): Resistance and Negotiation in an Afro-Colombian community” |
| 1:30-2:40 Public Reception for UAB community. |
| 2:40-3:40 Panel 2: Black Resistance in the Age of Revolutions
2:40 – Pamela Murray, History, University of Alabama at Birmingham “Blackness and Liberalism: Afrocolombian Contributions to the Emergence of Colombian Democracy (c. 1821-c. 1880)” |
| 3:00 – Jane Landers, History, Vanderbilt University “Resistance by Petition: Status Complaints by the Free Black Militia of Cuba in the Eighteenth Century” |
| 3:20-3:40 – Open Discussion |
| 3:40-3:55 – Break |
| 3:55-4:45 Panel 3: Resistance and Negotiation through Creolization
3:55 – John Lipski, Linguistics, Pennsylvania State University “The Congo Language of Panama: Born of Resistance, Surviving Through Activism” |
| 4:15 – Armin Schwegler, Linguistics, University of California, Irvine “Ritual languages in Cuba: Palo Monte and the reconstruction of its ethnolinguistic (Kongo) origins” |
| 4:35 – Open Discussion |
| 4:45- Coffee Break |
| 5:00-5:20 Panel 4: Quilombo Lessons: Afro-Brazil
5:00 Rhonda Collier, Cultural Studies, Tuskegee University |
| 5:20 André Bueno, Ethnomusicology, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil “Afro-Brazilian clown traditions in three regions: 200 years breaking racist stereotypes, in a non-white majority country” |
| 5:40-6:00 Open Discussion |
| 6:10-7:00 Panel 5: Quilombos Reimagined. Location: Hulsey Recital Hall
6:10 Emanuelle Oliveira-Monte, Literature, Vanderbilt University “Quilombhoje and the Construction of Black Identity In Contemporary Afro-Brazilian Literature” 6:30 – John Maddox, Literature, University of Alabama at Birmingham “Pedagogy of the Possessed in Nei Lopes’s novel Oiobomé” 6:50 – Open Discussion 7:00-8:00 Alliance Francaise Lecture. Location: Hulsey Recital Hall. |
| Schedule, October 8: |
| 9:00-10:15 Panel 6: Resistance and Negotiation in the Atlantic World
9:00 – Carlos Orihuela, Literature, University of Alabama at Birmingham “El misticismo, la medicina y la erudición como formas de resistencia antiesclavista en el Perú colonial: los casos de San Martín de Porres y el Dr. José Manuel Valdés” In Spanish. |
| 9:20 – John Moore, Literature, University of Alabama at Birmingham
“‘The Island of Santo Domingo of Perú’: Tracing the Origins of José Soller, ‘Mulatto Pilgrim’” |
| 9:40 – Jordi Olivar, Cultural Studies, Auburn University
“On Human Trafficking and Prostitution in the Hispanic Atlantic (1877-1931)” |
| 10:00: Open Discussion |
| 10:15: Break |
| 10:30-11:45 Panel 7: Black Resistance and Negotiation Today
10:30 – Emily Sahakian, Literature, University of Georgia |
| 10:50 – Lesley Feracho, Literature, University of Georgia “Slavery, Migration and Resistance: Citizenship and the Nation in Contemporary Afro- Diasporic Women’s Literature” |
| 11:10 – Dellita Martin, Literature, University of Alabama at Birmingham “Resistance and Negotiation in Quince Duncan’s A Message from Rosa” |
| 11:30: Open Discussion |
| 11:45: Break |
| 12:00 – Keynote: William Luis, Literature, Vanderbilt. “Negotiating Resistance and Miguel Barnet’s The Autobiography of a Runaway Slave.” |
| 1:00-2:30: Lunch at Dreamland for speakers. |
| 2:30-5:00: Guests Visit Birmingham Civil Rights Institute. |
| 5:00: Guests return to hotel. |
| 3:00-5:30 – K-12 Workshop for Spanish Teachers: John Maddox, Graciela Maglia and Palenqueros |
