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AFRO-CUBAN
ARTISTS:
Manuel Mendive
Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar
Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal
A RENAISSANCE
April 27–30, 2016 • Columbia, Missouri
Day 1: Wednesday, April 27
Time
4:40 pm
Information
Transport to Opening for out-of-town guests
Location
Hampton Inn
Lobby
Conference Opening, Reception and Gallery Exhibition
• Welcome by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Conference Chair
5:00 –
6:30 pm
• Welcome by Alisa Carlson, Curator of the MU Museum of Art and
Archaeology
• Welcome by Michael O’Brien, Dean of the College of Arts and Science
MU Museum of Art
and Archaeology
at Mizzou North
This special exhibition focuses on two of the most celebrated
contemporary Cuban artists, Manuel Mendive Hoyo and Eduardo
“Choco” Roca Salazar.
Play
Letters from Cuba, by Maria Irene Fornés
7:30 pm
Based on decades of correspondence between Fornés and her brother
in Havana, Letters from Cuba moves back and forth in time, space and
spirit, revealing the ties between Francisquita, a young dancer in New
York, and her relatives in Cuba.
MU Corner
Playhouse
Day 2: Thursday, April 28
8:00 am
Check-in
9:00 –
10:00 am
Keynote
Welcome by Michael Middleton, University of Missouri Interim System
President
and Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Conference Chair
Inaugural Words
Nancy Morejón, Cuban Academy of Language
10:00 am
Coffee Break
Hampton Inn Foyer
Hampton Inn
Missouri/Stephens
Rooms
Hampton Inn
Columbia Room
Breakout Sessions
1A
PANEL: The Poetics and Landscapes of Afro-Cuban Literature
Chair: Dawn Stinchcomb, Purdue University
10:30 am –
12:00 pm
The Ashé Poetry of Nicolás Guillén
Thomas Edison, University of Louisville
Reverse Ekphrasis: The visual poetics of “Amo mi a Amo,” by Nancy Morejón
Cathy Callaway, University of Missouri
Nancy Morejón: A writer who paints (Una escritora que pinta)
Gabriel Abudu, York College of Pennsylvania
Hampton Inn
Stephens Room
1B
PANEL: Afro-Cuban Religions as Transcultural Movements
Chair: Lisa Rathje, Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts
in Education
10:30 am –
12:00 pm
Bilongo: The Racialized Exoticism and Cultural Imaginary of the Afrocubana
Stephen Cruikshank, University of Alberta
Hampton Inn
Missouri Room
La Regla de Ocha Ifá. Más allá de las fronteras de la transcultración
Hugo Garcia, Western Washington University
La Regla de Osha-Ifá dentroy fuera de Cuba. Un devenir en movimiento
René Rubi Cordovi, Texas A&M University
12:00 –
1:30 pm
Lunch (additional ticket required)
Hampton Inn
Columbia Room
Breakout Sessions
2A
PANEL: Afro-Cuban Women: Between Text and Image
Chair: Mamadou Badiane, University of Iowa
Poéticas de la transculturación: Danza afrocubana entre texto e imagen
Adriana Méndez Rodenas, University of Iowa
1:30 –
2:30 pm
Hampton Inn
Stephens Room
Magdalena Campos-Pons frente a José Antonio Robés: dos maneras de
proyectar la imagen de la mujer afro-cubana
Ana Zapata-Calle, University of West Georgia
2B
PANEL: Representations in Puerto-Rican Art
Chair: Gwendolyn Diaz, St. Mary’s University
Maternidades puertorriqueñas: pintura, grabado y collage
Ivette Guzman Zavala, Lebanon Valley College
Hampton Inn
Missouri Room
En primera persona plural: Arte en el contexto de una comunidad
afrodecendiente
Daniel Lind-Ramos, University of Puerto Rico Humacao
2:30 pm
3:00 –
4:00 pm
Coffee Break
Keynote
Welcome by Flore Zéphir, Director of the Afro-Romance Institute
Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and Artistic Creation
William Luis, Vanderbilt University
Hampton Inn
Columbia Room
Hampton Inn
Missouri/Stephens
Rooms
4:30 pm
Transport to Evening Event for out-of-town guests
Hampton Inn Lobby
5:00 –
6:00 pm
Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal
Exhibition, Artist’s Gallery Talk and Reception
MU Bingham
Gallery
6:15 pm
Film — Olazábal: Un hacedor de objetos / A Maker of Objects
MU Corner
Playhouse
Day 3: Friday, April 29
8:30 am
9:00 –
10:00 am
10:00 am
Check-in
Keynote
Welcome by Pat Okker, Senior Associate Provost
Speaking from Historical Silences: Gloria Rolando’s 1912: Voces para
un silencio / Breaking the Silence
Flora González Mandri, Emerson College
Coffee Break
Hampton Inn Foyer
Hampton Inn
Missouri/Stephens
Rooms
Hampton Inn
Columbia Room
Breakout Sessions
3A
PANEL: Reflections and Interpretations: Afro-Cuban Visual Arts
Chair: Gwendolyn Diaz, St. Mary’s University
WORD and IMAGE in recent works by Manuel Arenas and Roberto Diago
Marilyn Miller, Tulane University
10:30 am –
12:00 pm
The Ship in Cuban Visual Thinking: Media and Migration
Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, RWTH (Rheinland-Westfalen Technische
Hochschule) Aachen, Germany
Hampton Inn
Stephens Room
Mute Screams: Althusser Between Lam and Álvarez-Ríos
Bécquer Seguín, Cornell University
3B
PANEL: Memory, Resilience, and Identity Through Afro-Caribbean Music
Chair: Dawn Stinchcomb, Purdue University
Endangered Rhythms and Musical Arrangements in Contemporary
Cuba: The Case of La Colmenita and Dr. Seuss
Nicole Keating, Wordbury University
Hampton Inn
Missouri Room
La parranda de Calzada: memoria afroboricua
Eleuterio Santiago-Díaz, The University of New Mexico
12:00 –
1:30 pm
Lunch (additional ticket required)
Hampton Inn
Columbia Room
Breakout Sessions
4A
PANEL: Aesthetics of Religion and Film
Chair: Mary Barile
1:30 –
2:30 pm
Transculturación, sincretismo y palimpsesto iconográfico entre la Virgen
Hampton Inn
María y las deidades africanas en Cuba
Stephens Room
Yumary Alfonso Entralgo, Texas A&M University
Heavy Ears: Sound and Labour in the Ontologies of Nicolás Guillén
Landrián
Veronica Brownstone, University of Pennsylvania
4B
PANEL: Toward Ecological and Racial Harmony in Latin-American Spaces
Chair: Mamadou Badiane, University of Missouri
1:30 –
2:30 pm
(continued)
La ecología según la percepción de las comunidades indígenas en
Latino América y cómo aplicarla en la actualidad
María Elena González Ruelas, Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro
Universitario de la Costa
and Nelly Hostein, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour /
Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de la Costa
Hampton Inn
Missouri Room
Identidad racial en Cuba: estereotipos decimonónicos y retórica de la
igualdad en “Los dioses rotos”
Lídice Alemán, Wayne State College
2:30 pm
Hampton Inn
Columbia Room
Coffee Break
Roundtable: Artists and Keynotes
3:00 –
5:00 pm
Welcome by Charles Henson, Interim Vice Chancellor for Inclusion,
Diversity and Equity
Facilitated by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook
5:30 pm
Transport to Evening Event for out-of-town guests
Hampton Inn
Hampton Inn
Lobby
Manuel Mendive
6:00 pm
• Reading by Milbre Burch – The Separation of Heaven and Earth and
other Patakís from the Santeria tradition
MU Corner
Playhouse
• Film – El mundo mágico de Mendive / The Magical World of Mendive
Day 4: Saturday, April 30
8:30 am
Check-in
Hampton Inn
Keynote
Welcome by Hank Foley, Interim Chancellor
9:00 –
10:00 am
Afro-Cuban Heritage Tradition-Bearers: Reflections on Community and
Country Identities and Cuban Cultural Policy
Hampton Inn
Missouri/Stephens
Rooms
James Counts Early, Former Director Cultural Heritage Policy at the
Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
10:00 am
Coffee Break
Hampton Inn
Columbia Room
Thank you to the local committee members from both MU and the community
who have given so much time to this project. Particular thanks to those who have
hosted people in their homes and served as translators. Additional thanks to the
students from the Cambio Center, including Eva López for her work on publicity.
Day 4: Saturday, April 30 (continued)
Breakout Sessions
5A
PANEL: Afro-Cuban Creativity: Exploring Cultural and Social Mobility
Chair: Solimar Otero, Louisiana State University
Reclaiming Rights to the Revolution: Afro-Cuban Womens’ Voices as Power
Devyn Spence Benson, Louisiana State University
Filmmaking as a Transnational Gesture Towards Community in Works
by Leonardo Guevara Navarro
Andrea E. Morris, Louisiana State University
Hampton Inn
Missouri Room
Inle: Exploring a Trans-Caribbean Poetics in Afro-Cuban Mythology,
Literature, and Art
Solimar Otero, Louisiana State University
5B
PANEL: The Urban Performance of Afro-Cuban Religiosity in Public Art
Chair: Geoffroy de Laforcade, Norfolk State University
10:30 am –
12:00 pm
Creación artística, marginalidad y turismo: entrelazamientos y malentendidos
Elías Asseff Alfonso, Callejón de Hamel
Símbolos religiosos de ascendencia africana en el arte
cubano contemporáneo
Lázara Menéndez, University of Havana
Hampton Inn
Stephens Room
Conviviality, Discursive Dissonance, and the Aesthetics of Public Art in a
Working-Class Community of Havana: The Callejón de Hamel
Geoffroy de Laforcade, Norfolk State University
5C
PANEL: Three women artists, three generations, three ethnicities,
three mediums: the Aesthetics of Engagement and Resistance
Chair: Dorothy Payne, Revolutionary Poets Brigade and ArtInternationale
The Insistent Gaze: Appropriating the Tropes of Individualism to Elicit
Liberating Critical Re-Visioning in Poetry and Painting
Dorothy Payne, Revolutionary Poets Brigade and ArtInternationale
Reconciliation and Revision: The Critical Imagery of Subjective and
Shared Re-Memory in Black and White; an African Artist in Exile
Fatimata Vetu, Artinternationale
Hampton Inn
Columbia Room
The Valoration of Experience: The Past as a Bridge to Empower and
Transform — Visual Narratives and Poetic Proclamations
Denise Ward-Brown, Washington University in St. Louis
12:00 –
1:30 pm
Lunch (additional ticket required)
Hampton Inn
Breakout Sessions
6A
PANEL: A Question of Time? Blackness, Cubanness, Justice in
Art and Literature
Chair: David Lisenby, William Jewell College
Non-Redemptive Mourning in Eusebia Cosme’s “Mamá Dolores”
Erin Finzer, University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Cuadros de costumbres y cultura visual en Cuba en el siglo XIX
Daylet Domínguez, University of California, Berkeley
Hampton Inn
Missouri Room
“Stories only wise fish can tell”: Afro-Caribbean Spirituality in the Poetry
of Adrián Castro
Emily Maguire, Northwestern University
“Dios será una mujer”: Retro-Futurist Peregrination in Fulleda’s
Historical Theatre
David Lisenby, William Jewell College
1:30 –
4:00 pm
6B
PANEL: Literary Discourse: Remembering the Ancestors
Chair: Lucy Lee, Truman State University
El vodú: protagonista y arma revolucionaria en “El reino de este mundo,”
de Alejo Carpentier
Hampton Inn
Francis Agbemade, Arizona State University
Columbia Room
Commemorative Struggle: Slave Rebellion, the Cuban Revolution and
the Art of Remembering
Alexander Sotelo Eastman, Washington University in St. Louis
Histeria femenina en “los Cuentos negros,” de Lydia Cabrera
María Vazquez, Eastern Connecticut State University
6C
PANEL: Cuban Artists: In Search of African Heritage
Chair: Jack Draper, University of Missouri
Experimental Autoethnography: “Yoko Osha” and “Bare-Faced” filmworks Hampton Inn
Lázara Rosell Albear, Filmmaker
Stephens Room
Afrocentric Journey through Cuba: a Reflective Interview with Afro
Cuban Artist Choco about the Application of the Nguzo Saba
Paulette Pennington Jones, City Colleges of Chicago
5:40 pm
6:00 pm
7:00 pm
Transport to Evening Event for out-of-town guests
Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar presentation
• Film – Choco
Cuban-themed Dinner & Music
Hampton Inn
Lobby
MU Student Center
Leadership
Auditorium
MU Student Center
The Shack
SPONSORS and CONTRIBUTORS
MU Museum of Art and Archaeology
MU Chancellor’s Distinguished Visitors Program
George Caleb Bingham Gallery
MU Afro Romance Institute
MU Office of the Vice Provost for International Programs
MU Lectures Committee
Manuel Mendive
MU Chancellor’s Diversity Initiative
Missouri School of Journalism — Strategic Communication
Norfolk State University
MU Department of Romance Languages and Literatures
Laura Pérez-Mesa
MU Department of Art History and Archaeology
Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar
MU Department of Theatre
MU Department of Art
MU Department of English
MU Department of Black Studies
Cambio Center
Santiago Rodríguez Olazábal