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Negotiating Spaces: Black Identity, Culture and Politics in South America
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Conference Schedule
Location: Hyde Hall University Room, The Institute for Arts & Humanities
DAY 1 |
Friday, April 1 2005 |
6:00-7:00 pm |
Sign-in and Dinner Reception
Latin Jazz selection performed by students from the Durham School of the Arts |
7:00-7:15 pm |
Welcome |
7:15-8:00 pm |
Keynote Address:
Black Movements and Democracy in Latin America , 1800-2000
Delivered by George Reid Andrews, Ph.D.
UCIS Research Professor and Professor of History
University of Pittsburgh
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DAY 2 |
Saturday, April 2, 2005 |
9:00-9:30 am |
Recap and Continental Breakfast |
9:30-11:30 am |
Discussant Panel 1: Black Activism and Public Policy
Panelists:
Ollie Johnson, Ph.D., Wayne State University
Discussant: Robin Kirk, Duke University Human Rights Initiative
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11:30-12:30 pm |
BREAK FOR LUNCH
Catering provided by Blue Corn Café, Durham
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12:30-2:30 pm |
Discussant Panel 2: Race and Culture in Another America Panelists:
Lyneise Williams, Ph.D., UNC Chapel Hill
Imagining Blackness in Early 20th Century Uruguay : The Art of Pedro Figari(1861-1938)
Antonio Tillis, Ph.D., Purdue University
Literary Configurations of Race and Culture in the Works of Manuel Zapata Olivella
Lolita Brockington, UNC Chapel Hill
Reclaiming the Forgotten: Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes, 1550-1782
Discussant: Tanya Golash-Boza, UNC Chapel Hill
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2:30-4:30 pm |
Discussant Panel 3: Afro-Columbia Under the Gun
Panelists:
Juan Ricardo Aparicio, Ph.D. candidate, UNC Chapel Hill
Caught between silence and stupor: displacement in the Colombian Pacific
Judi Morrison, Inter-American Dialogue
Social Exclusion and Armed Conflict: How the Exclusion of Afro-Colombians Fuels the War
Luis Gilberto Murillo, Lutheran World Relief
U.S. goverment-backed Plan Colombia and its impacts on Afro-Colombians
Discussant:
John French, Ph.D., Duke University
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