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RECENT BLACK STUDIES AND SYMPOSIA
source: NINSEE site

Internationale Congressen en Symposia-
Trajectories of Emancipation: An International Symposium

African Diaspora: Challenges to Establish a Material and Immaterial Heritage
Trajectories of Emancipation: An International Symposium

This international symposium entitled: “Trajectories of Emancipation” is the third of a series of symposia that have been collaboratively organised by the Center for Global Studies and Humanities (CGSH, Duke University), Institute for Postcolonial and Transcultural Studies (INPUTS, University of Bremen), and the National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy (NiNsee, Amsterdam) during the past two years.

We would like to continue the conversation this year (2009) at NiNsee with a symposium on Trajectories of Emancipation and Black European Thinkers. We are glad to announce that the symposium will be enhanced with the participation of the Black European Research Network.

The Black European Research Network refers to a collective of scholars working in the fields of Black European Studies, African American Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, Economics and Philosophy. The Network was established in June 2008, in conjunction with the first Summer School on Black Europe.

Participants are welcome to join but we are no longer accepting paper proposals.
The symposium will take place on June 29th and 30th at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Confirmed participants are listed below:

Confirmed Participants with titles:

"Tracing Anthony Benezet's Abolitionist Agenda: Decolonizing Enlightenment Discourse?"
Carsten Junker, Universität Bremen

“The Subject of (Black) European Ethnography: Theorizing Belonging through Fanon's Phenomenological Responsibility and Appadurai's Global Modernity”
Eddie Bruce Jones, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Europäische Ethnologie

How "Caucasians" became "Black": Circassians, modernity and the emancipation discourses"
Madina Tlostanova, Department of History of Philosophy, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia

"Four Eighteenth-Century Portraits of Black 'Invisibility': Jacobus Capitein, Anton Amo, Abram Gannibal, and Le Chevalier de Saint-George"
Allison Blakely, Boston University

"Brown Europe? Mixed Ethnicity in Britain"
Chinelo Njaka, University of Manchester

“Fatal Junctions: Intersections of Post-Colonial Constructions of Blackness In France”
Mitsy Chanel Blot, University of Texas, Austin

"To Be, or not to Be: 'Black Europe' as a Research Question"
Jasmine Cobb, University of Pennsylvania

“Decolonizing the Mind: A Critical Analysis of Scientific Studies on Suriname”
Sandew Hira, Amrit Consultancy

"The Advent of Black Thinkers and the Limits of Continental Philosophy."
Walter Mignolo, Duke University

“Rethinking Emancipation: Cesaire, Fanon, and the (De)colonial Revolt Against Cartesianism”
Nelson Maldonado-Torres, University of California Berkeley

"Aime Cesaire's Decolonial Intellectual Legacy"
Ramon Grosfoguel, University of California Berkeley

“An Exile’s view of Community; the Life of Richard Wright”
Abdul R. JanMohamed, University of California Berkeley

“The Black, the African, and the European: Melancholic Convergence and Distinction in the Formation of Modern Reason”
Lewis Gordon, Temple University and the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica

"The Unfinished Business of Emancipation: The Legacies of Anglophone and Dutch Abolition"
Stephen Small, University of California Berkeley and Kwame Nimako, ISHSS/NiNsee

"Historic Disadvantage and Emancipation: Leadership Challenges"
Philomena Essed, Anitoch University and Kwame Nimako, ISHSS/NiNsee

"Blacks in the Netherlands: Their Social Network and Social Mobility"
Artwell Cain, NiNsee

"Negritude in the Netherlands"
Susan Legêne and Eugene Chateau, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

“Whiteness, alone - The Colonial Reception of a De-Colonial Writer’s Texts: Examining Toni Morrison’s Essays in a White German Framework"
Julia Roth, Humboldt University Berlin and University of Potsdam

For more information over the symposium, please contact Amy Abdou at a.abdou@ninsee.nl

African Diaspora: Challenges to Establish a Material and Immaterial Heritage

Mexico, July 19 – 24, 2009
To be held at: 53 Congress of the Americanist
The People from Americas Changes and Continuities: “The Construction of Self-identities in a Globalized World”

Coordinators:
Martha Luz Machado – Caicedo (National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery)
Mario Diego Romero (Universidad del Valle Colombia).

The International Congress of Americanists (ICA) is a scientific organisation with a long tradition. The first Congress was held in the city of Nancy in France, on August 25, 1875, organised by the Société Américaine de France. They have met without interruption since then. Throughout the years, the congresses have increased the number of subjects studied and presently, they gather specialists in Anthropology, Archaeology, Art, Law, Economy, Education, Philosophy, Geography, History, Linguistics, Sociology, Urban Studies, Human Rights and other technological areas.

Today the ICA meets every three years and is attended by a high number of participants in a wide variety of scientific arenas: symposia, conferences, international association meetings and organisations related to American studies, etc.

The symposium that we are proposing is the result of an effort that was carried out two years ago, in the first symposium "The African Diaspora: its History and its Challenges" at 52 Congress of Americanists (Seville 17 – 21 of July 2006). At this international event, we gathered scientists from Venezuela, Colombia, Brazil, Equator, Curacao, Costa Rica, Mexico, the Netherlands, United States, Portugal and Spain. During this meeting, we decided that we would discuss, among others topics, the role of the historic memory of the African Diaspora; its implication and its exercise as an instrument of defense of the identity of the afro-descendants in relation to the panorama of each one of the American nations.
Following these guidelines, we planned to discuss the concept of “Heritage” in the context of the African Diaspora. The symposium “African Diaspora: Challenges for the Consolidation of its Heritage”, will ask what nations have been doing to support and legitimate this heritage. Furthermore, the symposium intends to unravel the challenges that this heritage presents to the future, with a view to the legacy of slavery, that continues to permeate a great many of the institutions in the American countries. See the symposium proposal on the Web-page of the 53 ICA: http://www.53ica.com/simposios/antropologia.html

Contact : Martha Luz Machado m.machado@ninsee.nl
Day 1 :
First Session: 9 :00 A.M. to 13:20 PM
9:00 AM
Ieteke Witteveer , Dr. Lionel Janga
“Reviving Curacao's African Past Tracin Location Of Resistence, Punishments, And Spirituality” .
National Arqueology and Atropological Memory NAAM. Curazao
ieteke@onenet.an

9:20 A.M.
Ana Margarida Santos Pereira
“ Magical Bonds: African Practices And Conflict Negotiation In Colonial Brazil”
Universidad de Coimbra - Portugal
anaspereira@yahoo.com

9:40 A.M
Juan M. de la Serna
“ Transformaciones de la resistencia esclava. Formas, tiempos y espacios de la Nueva España”
Centro de Investigaciones sobre America Latina y el Caribe (CIALC) Universidad Nacional de México.
dlserna@servidor.unam.mx

10: 00 A.M. Coffee Pause

10: 20 A.M.
Cristina Verónica Masferrer León
“Las familias esclavizadas. Identidad, Matrimonio y niñez de los africanos en la ciudad de México”
Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia (ENAH-INAH). México
cristinamasleon@gmail.com

10:40 A.M.
Mario Diego Romero Vergara
“Familia afrocolombianas como patrimonio cultural y social afrodescendiente”
Universdad del Valle – Colombia
diegorome@gmail.com

11:00 A.M .
María Elisa Velázquez
“Africanos y Afrodescendientes en México: retos para el reconocimiento de su patrimonio cultural”
Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia. México
mavelaz@prodigy.net.mx

11:20 A,M
Francisco Zuluaga Profesor Titular Universidad del Valle – Colombia
“Esclavitud Resistencia y libertad entre las sociedades negras de Colombia”
Universidad del Valle. Colombia
fzuluaga@latinmail.com

11:40 A.M
Natacha Adama
“Reflections of Modern Day Societies that Look Backward: The Legacy of Slavery”
Duke University
n.adama@zonnet.nl

12:00 P.M.
Josiane Abrunhosa da Silva Ulrich
“Questões Sobre O Patrimônio Cultural: A Preservação Dos Terreiros Afro-Brasileiros De Candomblé E Das Comunidades Quilombolas”.
Universidade de Santa Cruz do Sul (UNISC)-RS/ Brasil.
josiane@unisc.br

12:20 P.M.
Marcelo de Andrade Vilarino
“Dialogo e interpenetração entre las festas congadeiras, umbandistas e candomblecistas em Belo Horizonte (Brasil)
Universidad Federal de Juiz de Fora / Brasil
marcelovilarino@yahoo.com

12: 40 P.M. -13 : 20 P.M. DISCUSION

Day 2
Second Session : 9:00 A.M. – 1:00 P.M.

9:00 A.M
Oscar Almario García
“La experiencia libertaria Negra en el Pacifico colombiano 1780 – 1930”
Decano Facultad de Ciencias Humanas y Economicas de la Universidad Nacional de Colombia ( sede Medellín)
oalmario@unal.edu.co

9:20 A.M
Martha Luz Machado
“Historia Cultural: Culturas, Bastones sagrados y mitos en el Litoral Pacifico Colombiano”.
National Institute for the Study of Dutch Slavery and its Legacy
m.machado@ninsee.nl

9:40 A.M
Linda Heywood
“Queen Njinga, the King of Komgo and Memory in Brasil”
(Boston University, USA)
heywood@bu.edu

10: 00 A.M. Coffee Pause

10:20 A.M
Adolfo Albán Achinte
“Memoria y territorio en el Valle interandino del rio Patía- Sur Occidente de Colombia”
Universidad del Cauca - Colombia
colorazul58@hotmail.com

10: 40 A.M.
Charlotte Plaideau
“La “puerta del retorno” . Identidad, cultura y diáspora en Cavo Verde”
Fondo National de Recherche Scientifique (FNRS)
Chalotte.Plaideau@uclovain.be

11:00 A.M
Rafael Antonio Díaz Días
“Ausencia y presencia de África en los Textos Escolares en Colombia”
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana – Colombia
rdiaz@javeriana.edu.co

11: 20 A.M
Ramiro Delgado
"Patrimonio: categoría fantasmagórica, usurpación simbólica en procesos de fortalecimiento de identidades; acciones reparadoras afro-colombianas: san Basilio de Palenque"
Universidad de Antioquia - Medellín, Colombia
csrami@antares.udea.edu.co

11:40 A.M
Jesús Alfonso Flores
“La minería en el Choco : punto de partida de poblamiento afrodescendiente”
Fundación Universitaria Claretiana. Quibdo - Colombia
jesalflo@yahoo.com

12 : 00 P.M
Patricia Muñoz Cabrera
“Unsettling the Soil of Significance: Nomadic Subjectivities in Gayl Jones’s The Healing (1998)”
Université Libre de Bruxelles. Bélgica
PMUNOZCABRERA@cs.com

12:20 P.M.
Julia Roth
“What Happens When the Subalterns Claims To Speak Back in Her Own Form? The Novela Testimonio as autho-ethnographic from in the tradition of the Slave Narrative” .
Humboldt University Berlin and University of Potsdam.
julia_roth@hotmail.com

12: 20 P.M. - 1: 00 P.M. Discussion and Conclussions
Ponentes pendientes por confirmar :

José Félix Riáscos
Etnoeducación afrocolombiana como patrimonio cultural
Universidad del Valle – Colombia

William Mina
Los deslumbramientos de Manuel Zapata Olivella .
Universidad del Pacífico Colombia

Rina Cáceres Universidad de Costa Rica

Agustín Lao- Montes Universidad de Boston

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