USA Africa Dialogue Series - 11th Annual Africana Studies Symposium to focus on Caribbean Women

PROGRAM

UNC Charlotte

11^th Annual Africana Studies Symposium

April 3, 2013

 

Caribbean Women in Contemporary Societies: Trends and Prospects

 

Venues

Cone 320 & 112

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

9201 University Blvd.

Charlotte, NC 28223

 

APRIL 3, 2013

 

8:45—9:00 (Cone 320)

 

WELCOMING REMARKS

Dr. Akin Ogundiran

Chair Department of Africana Studies

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

9:00—10:00 AM  (Cone 320)

 

Session I  

Reconfiguring Power Relations through Performance

 

Presenters

Berta Jottar, Ph.D.

Independent scholar and filmmaker

Rumberas: Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary Cuban Rumba

 

Lia Bascomb, ABD.

University of California at Berkeley

Rude Girl, Big Woman: Power and Play in Representations of Caribbean Women

 

Commentator:

Takiyah Amin, Ph.D.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

10:30—12:00  (Cone 320)

 

Session II

Caribbean Women's Agency in Films and Literature

 

Nadège Clitandre, Ph.D.

University of California, Santa Barbara

 Edwidge Danticat, Haiti, and the Diasporic Canon

 

Consuelo Martínez-Reyes, Ph.D.

Princeton University

 A Puerto Rican Cinema Produced by Foreign Lenses: Female Roles in Maruja and El Otro Camino

 

Tiffany Boyd Adams, Ph.D.

Claflin University

 Caribbean Women Maturing and Evolving in Trinidad: A Comparative Look at the Indo-and Afro-Trinidadian Bildungsromans

 

Commentator:

Felix Germain, Ph.D.

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

12:00-1:30 - Lunch Break

 

1:30—3:00  (Cone 320)

 

Session III

Inside and Outside the Nation: Caribbean Women and Citizenship

 

Florencia Cornet, Ph.D.

University of South Carolina Columbia

 E Kurasaoleña Nobo: Expression of the Curaçaoan Woman in the Paintings by Jean Girigori, Minerva Lauffer, and Viviana Cornet

 

Dalea Bean, Ph.D.

University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica

Victims or Perpetrators?: The Stories of Incarcerated Jamaican Women

 

Karen Flynn, Ph.D.

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

 You Need to Press On': Lillie Johnson as a Public Intellectual

 

Commentator:

Greg Wiggan, Ph.D.,

University of North Carolina at Charlotte

 

3:30—4:30  (Cone 112) 

Film Screening

Berta Jottar, Conflict-O-Rumba: The Persistence of Memory (2003: 37'00).

 

5:00—6:00  (Cone 320)

Keynote Address

Après Paris: Paulette Nardal and The Rights of Woman­­

Speaker: T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, Ph.D.

Vanderbilt University

Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Distinguished Professor of Humanities

For more information, please contact fgermain@uncc.edu

 

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Akin Ogundiran, Ph.D. | Chair, Africana Studies Department

Professor of Africana Studies, Anthropology & History

UNC Charlotte | Africana Studies | Garinger 113

9201 University City Blvd. | Charlotte, NC 28223

NEW Phone: 704-687-5162 | Fax: 704-687-3888

ogundiran@uncc.edu | http://www.africana.uncc.edu

 

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