Past Events - 2006
Fall 2006 Events
Betrayal and Diaspora Consciousness: Rites and Rights of Passage
Date: October 13
Presenter: Aisha Khan, Department of Anthropology at New York University
Co-sponsored by: Department of Anthropology
The University of Iowa Afro-Cuban Drum and Dance Ensemble
Date: October 20 -22
Queer Latino Shame
Date: October 27
Presenter: Rubén Ríos Avila, University of Puerto Rico-Río Piedras
Co-sponsored by: the Latin American Studies Program
Spring 2006 Events
Afro-Caribbean Legacies: Memory, Ritual, Resistance
Lecture and Performance Series
Dessalines Toro d’Haiti:’ The Archive of Voudou
Date: February 1
Presenter: Laurent Dubois, Dept. of History, Michigan State University
Discussant: Mark Peterson, Dept. of History
Horse-headed Woman: The Hybrid Art of Lydia Cabrera and Wilfredo Lam
Date: February 20,
Presenter: Diana K. Davies, Director, International Programs
Spring 2006 Graduate Student Colloquium
Cuban and Jamaican Cultural Practices in Contemporary Luanda
Date: March 8
Presenter: Beatriz Rodríguez Feo, ABD, Dept. of Anthropology
The Poetics of Negrismo and Négritude
Date: March 8
Presenter: Mamadou Badiane, ABD, Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Discussant: Anny Curtius, Dept. of French & Italian, and Peter Nazareth, English and African Studies
Gaspar Betancourt Cisneros ' El Lugareño': Modernity, Slavery, and Enlightenment in Nineteenth-Century Cuba
Date: April 3
Presenter: José Gomariz, Assistant Professor, Florida State University
The Voice of the Slave: Juan Francisco Manzano's Poetics of Resistance
Date: April 4
Presenter: José Gomariz, Assistant Professor, Florida State University
Discussant: Adriana Méndez Rodenas, UI Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese
Silencing Slavery in Puerto Rico : Contemporary Representations of African Heritage in Elementary Education
Date: April 17
Presenter: Isar P. Godreau-Visiting Professor, UI Dept. of Anthropology; Researcher and Director, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Puerto Rico at Cayey
Discussant: Paul Greenough, UI Dept. of History
