INTERROGATING THE AFRICAN DIASPORA: PERFORMING AFRICAN DIASPORAS
2006 GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE
August 7th,
2006
8:30 – 9:00: Opening Statements
Dr. Jean Muteba
Rahier, Coordinating Faculty, Interrogating the African Diaspora
Dr. Raul Moncarz, Vice-Provost, Biscayne Bay Campus, FIU
Dr. Joyce Peterson, Associate Dean, College of Arts &
Sciences, FIU
The Hip Hop Trans/Post-Nation: The African
Diaspora, Popular Culture, and Globalization
Chair: Nzinga Mack, Florida International University
Natasha
Himmelman, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Maria
McMath, Princeton University
9:30 – 9:45 Soundtracking: Tracking
Sounds as Mobile Structures of Afro-Feelings
Sionne
Rameah Neely, University of Southern California
9:45 – 10:00 Discussant: Dr.
Véronique Helenon, Florida International University
10:00 – 10:15 Open Discussion
Performing Gender Identities, Sexuality, and the Black Body
Politics I
Chair: Dara Schoenwald, Florida International University
10:30 –
10:45 Magnificently Physical: Big Mama,
Performance, and the Reproduction of Black
Mothering
Bodies
Marlo
David Azikwe, University of Florida
10:45 – 11:00 Bartmann,
Bananas, Battys, and Badoonka-Doonks: Re-Presenting Black Female
Sexuality and Contesting Subjectivity
Treva
Lindsey, Duke University
11:00 –
11:15 Tourism and the Commodification of
Black Culture and Black Bodies in Bahia,
Brazil
Erica
Williams, Stanford University
11:15 –
11:30 Condoms and Carnival: Finding
Meaning in Inappropriate Laughter
Katherine
Smith, University of California, Los Angeles
11:30 –
11:45 Discussant: Dr. Gaurav Desai,
Tulane University
11:45 –
12:00 Open Discussion
12:00 – 1:30 Lunch Break
Performing Gender Identities, Sexuality, and the Black Body
Politics II
Chair: Dr.
Dionne Stephens, Florida International University
1:30 – 1:45 Feminist Camp Nao Bustamante, Coco Fosco,
and Dirty Harriet Tubman
Uri
McMillan, Yale University
1:45 – 2:00 De Jamette in We: Performativity and the
Visual Politics of Gender in Contemporary
Trinidad
Carnival
Samantha
Noel, Duke University
2:00 – 2:45 Just Give Us the Bones: Theatres of
Remembering African Diasporic Bodies
Connie
Rapoo, University of California, Los Angeles
2:45
– 3:00 Discussant: Dr. Felipe Smith, Tulane
University
3:00 – 3:15 Open
Discussion
Practices of Exclusion and Cultural Citizenship:
The Making of the African Diaspora
Chair: Dr. Dean Wagstaffe, Indian River Community
College
3:30 – 3:45 Reviving and Reclaiming Black Identities
in Argentina through Performance: Afro-
Brazilians in Buenos Aires
Judy
Anderson, University of Florida
3:45 – 4:00 Sacred Journeys and Vodun Ancestry:
Diaspora Homecoming and the Formation of
an African Diasporic Subjectivity
Jung Ran Annachiara Forte, École des
Haute Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris
4:00 – 4:15 Dancing Through “Performance-Scapes:”
Transnationalism and West African Dance
in the African Diaspora
Sharon Kivenko, Harvard University
4:15 – 4:30 Mapping Diaspora in Queer
Celebrations: Imagining Home, Nation and
Belonging in
Pride Parades and Pelau Masqueerade
Cassandra Lord, University of Toronto
4:30 – 4:45 Discussant: Dr. Percy Hintzen, University
of California, Berkeley
5:30 – 5:45 Exploring the Narrative Value of the
African Musical Arts
Ondra Thomas-Krouse, University of
Georgia
6:00 – 6:15 Open Discussion
6:15 – 6:45 Closing Remarks: Dr. Jean Muteba Rahier, FIU; Dr. Percy
Hintzen, University of
California Berkeley; Dr. Felipe Smith, Tulane
University; and one Seminar
Participants’ Representative
6:45 – 7:15 Certificate
Distributions
Dr. Mark Szuchman, Dean, College of Arts
& Sciences, FIU
Dr. Doug Kincaid, Vice-Provost,
International Studies, FIU
7:15 Dinner Reception