Entre los días 6 al 10 de octubre de 2008 se celebrará en la Universidad de León la II Conferencia Internacional « Afroeuropeos : Culturas e Identidades.

En esta conferencia Internacional tomarán parte destacados africanistas de distintas universidades europeas.

PROGRAMA

II INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE “AFROEUROPEANS: CULTURES AND IDENTITIES / AFROEURPÉENS: CULTURES ET IDENTITÉS / AFROEUROPE@S: CULTURAS E IDENTIDADES”

• GENERAL PROGRAM

ORGANIZATION: RESEARCH GROUP “AFROEUROPE@S: CULTURAS E IDENTIDADES NEGRAS EN EUROPA.”

CONVENOR: DRA. MARTA SOFÍA LÓPEZ RODRÍGUEZ, UNIVERSIDAD DE LEÓN.

SCIENTIFIC COMMITEE:

DRA. ASUNCIÓN ARAGÓN VARO, UNIVERSIDAD DE CÁDIZ, ESPAÑA
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DRA. OLGA BARRIOS HERRERO, UNIVERSIDAD DE SALAMANCA, ESPAÑA.

SHARMILLA BEEZMOHUN, WASAFIRI & GEORGE PADMORE INSITUTE, UK.

DRA. SABRINA BRANCATO, J. W. GOETHE UNIVERSITÄT FRANKFURT AM MAIN, GERMANY.
DRA. INMACULADA DÍAZ- NARBONA, UNIVERSIDAD DE CÁDIZ, ESPAÑA.

DRA. MAYA G.VINUESA, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALÁ DE HENARES, ESPAÑA.

DR. RAIMI GBADAMOSI, THE SLADE SCHOOL OF FINE ART, UK.

DR. JOHN MCLEOD, UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS, UK.
DR. LANDRY-WILFRID MIAMPIKA, UNIVERSIDAD DE ALCALÁ DE HENARES, ESPAÑA.

DONATO NDONGO BIDYOGO, UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI, USA.

DR. MBARE NGOM, MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY, USA.

DRA. JOANA PASSOS, UNIVERSIDADE DO MIHNO, PORTUGAL.

DR. MARK STEIN, WWU UNIVERSITÄT MÜNSTER, GERMANY.

DR. PATRICK WILLIAMS, NOTTINGHAM TRENT UNIVERSITY, UK.

PROVISIONAL PROGRAM:

MONDAY 6/10/2008.

9-14 REGISTRATION.

10-12 SIMULTANEOUS PANELS:

Panel 1: Donato Ndongo

• A Kiss of Death: The Perils of Migrancy in Donato Ndongo’s El Metro. Maurice Frank O’CONNOR, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain.

• Where does exile begin? The nameless protagonist in Las tinieblas de tu memoria negra and Los poderes de la tempestad among traditions & modernity, home & distance. Mischa G. HENDEL, Universidad de Viena, Austria.
• Donato Ndongo and Mundo Negro: A Chronicle of Denuntiation. Alfred MARKEY, Universidad de León, Spain.

Panel 2: Women in the diaspora

• Anxiety, Fear, Despair: The Experiences of a Biafran Family in the Diaspora during the Nigeria/Biafra Civil War As Portrayed in Momah’s Titi: Biafran Maid in Geneva. Terri OCHIAGHA, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain.

12 OFFICIAL OPENING BY ACADEMIC AUTHORITIES.

12:30 COFFEE BREAK
13 INAUGURAL LECTURE: DR. STUART WARD, UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGUEN: “POSTCOLONIAL EUROPE: THE ENDURING IMPRINT OF AFRICA.”

16:30 PLENARY LECTURE: D. PEDRO PÉREZ SARDUY, POET, JOURNALIST AND WRITER (CUBA/UK): “VIVIR EN LONDRES PARA UN POETA CUBANO /TO LIVE IN LONDON BEING A CUBAN POET”

17:30 COFFEE BREAK

18-20 EXHIBITION AND DISCUSSION OF THE DOCUMENTARIES “OGGUN, AN ETERNAL PRESENCE,” BY GLORIA ROLANDO (CUBA) AND “LEJOS DEL CIELO” BY TONY ROMERO (CUBA/ESPAÑA), WITH THE PRESENCE OF BOTH DIRECTORS.

20:30 READING SESSION:
PEDRO PÉREZ SARDUY (CUBA/UK)
JUSTO BOLEKIA BOLEKÁ (EQUATORIAL GUINEA /SPAIN)
CESAR MBÁ (EQUATORIAL GUINEA /SPAIN)

TUESDAY 7/10/2008

10-11:30 SIMULTANEOUS PANELS:

Panel 3: Post-colonial Spain?

• «That amorphous mass:» Images of Africa and of African Peoples in Spain 1939-1975. Isabel ALONSO BRETO & Marta ORTEGA SÁEZ, Universidad de Barcelona, Spain
• “Afroespañoles” y migrantes en el imperio: la necesaria descolonización de la España poscolonial. Fernando BARBOSA RODRIGUES & Almudena CORTÉS MAISONAVE, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
• A Grain of Wheat (1967/1986), de Ngugi wa Thiong’o en español: Un grano de trigo (2006) y algunas reflexiones sobre la traducción de literatura africana. Juan Miguel ZARANDONA, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain.

Panel 4: African Presences in Black British Literature.

• Caryl Phillips’ New Europe. Dr. Donald M. MORALES
• Amazing Grace: The Ghosts of Newton, Equiano and Barber in Caryl Phillips’s Fiction. Sofía MUÑOZ VALDIVIESO, Universidad de Málaga, Spain.
• Rediscovering African Presence in Europe through black British Narratives. Francesca GIOMMI, University of Padua

11:30 COFFEE BREAK

12-13:30 PLENARY LECTURE: DR. GLORIA WEKKER, UNIVERSITY OF UTRECHT, THE NETHERLANDS: “A DUTCH PICTURE BOOK. MOMENTS IN A MULTI-ETHNIC SOCIETY”.

16:30-18: PLENARY LECTURE: DR. MAXIM MATUSEVICH, SETON HALL UNIVERSITY, USA: “JOURNEYS OF HOPE: TWO WAVES OF BLACK MIGRATION IN THE SOVIET UNION.”

18 COFFEE BREAK

18:30-20: SIMULTANEOUS PANELS:

Panel 5: Afroespañoles.

A round table with Toni Romero, Helena Jones, etc.

Panel 6: Black France

• Otherness and the Limits of Tolerance in Claire de Duras’s Ourika. Mohamed KAMARA. Wahington and Lee University, USA.
• Le ventre de l’Atlantique: l’espace symbolique de Fatou Diome. Valentina TARQUINI. University Roma Tre, Italy.
• Afropean Soul: a jazzy jive diasporan aesthetic. Alix PIERRE. Morris Brown College, USA.

20:30 READING SESSION:
GLORIA WEKKER (SURINAM/ THE NETHERLANDS)
TOMI ADEAGA (NIGERIA/GERMANY)
CRISTINA ALI FARAH (SOMALIA/ITALY)

WEDNESDAY 8/10/2006

10-11:30 SIMULTANEOUS PANELS:

Panel 7: Ecuatorial Guinea

• An approach to the concept of identity in the novels Cenizas de Kalabó y termes and Autorretrato con un infiel by José Fernando Siale Djangany. Naomi MCLEOD, University of St Andrews, Scotland.
• Adjá-Adjá y otros relatos: being a picaro in contemporary Equatorial Guinea. Jorge BERÁSTEGUI WOOD, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

Panel 8: Outsiders and Inner Exiles.

• Freedom, dignity and human rights in Buchi Emecheta and in Adélaïde Fassinou. Erica TACCHINO, University of Genova, Italy
• “Unhomed” at Home: Cultural Hybridity as Experienced by African Women in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s Nervous Conditions and Buchi Emecheta’s Kehinde. Irene PAGOLA, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain.
• La identidad afrocubana en la narrativa cubana para niños: temas y personajes. Aymée RIVERA PÉREZ, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain.

Panel 9: Theoretical Insights.

• Global Black Cultural Mythology: Intersections of Legacy and Heroics in
the African Diaspora. Christel N. TEMPLE, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA.
• Diasporic African Arts and the Internet. Daniela MELLORA, Leiden University, The Netherlands.

11:30 COFFEE BREAK

12-14 PLENARY LECTURE: DR. SABRINA BRANCATO, UNIVERSITY OF FRANKFURT: “AFROSPORIC WRITING. LOCAL AND GLOBAL CONTEXTS.”

EVENING AT THE MUSAC.

16:30-19:30 LAUNCHING OF WASAFIRI’S NEW ISSUE. PLENARY LECTURE BY DR. MARK STEIN, UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH, GERMANY, AND READING SESSION:
TOMAS ZMESCAL (CZECH REPUBLIC/CONGO)
JAMAL MAHJOUB (SUDAN/UK)
VALERIE MASON-JOHN (UK)

20-21 GUIDED VISIT TO THE MUSEUM.

THURSDAY 9/10/2008

10:11:30 PLENARY LECTURE: DR. JOAN ANIM-ADDO, CENTER FOR CARIBBEAN STUDIES, GOLDSMITH COLLEGE, UK. TITLE TO BE CONFIRMED. (CARIBBEAN DIASPORAS IN THE UK?)
11:30 COFFEE BREAK
12-14 SIMULTANEOUS PANELS:

Panel 10: Queer Afroeurope

A round table with Valerie Mason-John, Dorothea Smartt and ?.

Panel 11: European Dis/locations

• Africa(ns) in Finland and in Finnish non-fiction? Anna RASTAS, Dr.Soc.Sc., University of Tampere, Finland.

• ‘A lot of my friends from Africa hate being black they’d rather be white cause then they fit in they’d be accepted’: Exploring students voices on citizenship and identity. Romana KHAOURY, Queens University Belfast, Ireland

• Lisboa, Lisboetas e Portugueses. Joana PASSOS, Universidade do Mihno, Portugal.

• Masculinidad y decolonialidad desde el pensamiento fronterizo. Fernando ZARCO HERNÁNDEZ, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, Spain.

Panel 12: Music, Petry and the Performing Arts

• Black Jazz Musicians in Europe: Migration and Contemporary Afroeuropean Interactions. Joseph MCLAREN
• Patience Agbabi – Crossing Borders: Words on the Page and Words on the Stage. Sheree MACK
• Fighting for human rights: The Carib-Brit dub poetry of Linton Kwesi Johnson. Sara PAROLAI, Università di Genova, Italy.

• Playful Seriousness: Identity Construction and the Poetics of Performance in Benjamin Zephaniah’s Poetry. Oyeniyi OKUNOYE, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria.

16:30-18 SIMULTANEOUS PANNELS:

Panel 13: African Wo/men Writers

• Territorios periféricos y potencial femenino subversivo en las novelas africanas escritas por mujeres. Bibián PÉREZ RUIZ
• ‘Colouredness’ and race as regulatory practice in Zoë Wicomb’s David’s Story. María Jesús López Sánchez-Vizcaíno, Universidad de Córdoba, Spain.
• Gender, Family, and Nation in Aminatta Forna’s Ancestor Stones. Pilar CUDER DOMÍNGUEZ, Universidad de Huelva, Spain.

Panel 14: More African Presences…

• Cristopher Okigbo’s Labyrinths: a meeting point between African and European Poetry. Paula GARCÍA RAMÍREZ, Universidad de Jaén, Spain.
• La infamia para Ser. Una lectura de Trilogía de Argel, de Yasmina Khadra. Nayra Pérez Hernández, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain.
• The Black Atlantic Revisited: Sex, religion and diaspora in Helen Oyeyemi’s The Opposite House. Asunción ARAGON VARO. Universidad de Cádiz, Spain.

18 COFFEE BREAK

18:30 PLENARY LECTURE: DR. JOHN MCLEOD, LEEDS UNIVERSITY: NEW VISIONS OF POST-COLONIAL LONDON.

20:30 READING SESSION:
GRACE NICHOLS (GUYANA/UK)
VALERIE MASON-JOHN (UK)
DOROTHEA SMARTT (UK)
SHEREE MACK (UK)

22 CONFERENCE DINNER AND PARTY. LIVE MUSIC WITH RAPPER CHOJIN.

FRIDAY 10/10/2008
EXCURSION TO LAS MÉDULAS

LUGAR: Universidad de León

FECHA: 6-10 oCTUBRE 2008

Mas Información: www.afroeuropa.eu