afro-latin@ forum
presents
Afro-Latin@s Now!
Strategies for Visibility and Action
November 3-5, 2011
New York City
Limited seating available. Advance registration will end on Oct. 25th.
Enrollment Options (Select One) *
$25 – General Registration (includes lunch & conference materials)
$0 – CUNY Student Registration (Must show student ID at check-in; does not include lunch)
$0 – GC Faculty Registration (Must show ID at check-in; does not include lunch)
Venues
Thursday, November 3rd
5:30pm – 8:00pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
515 Malcolm X Blvd.
New York, NY 10037
Friday, November 4th
8:30am – 6:00pm
Graduate Center of the City University of New York
365 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Saturday, November 5th
12:00pm – 6:00pm
El Museo del Barrio
1230 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10029
Conference Program
Thursday, November 3rd
6:00pm – 9:00pm
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Plenary Conference Opening
Khalil Gibran Muhammad, Director, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture
Miriam Jiménez Román, director, afrolatin@ forum
Juan Flores, chair, afrolatin@ forum
Round-table discussion with
James Counts Early, Director Cultural Heritage Policy Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage, Smithsonian Institution, and
Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University
Maria Rosario Jackson, Urban Policy Institute
Silvio Torres Saillant, Syracuse University
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, New York University and ENCUENTRO, INC.
Cultural Presentation
Friday, November 4th
8:30am – 6:00pm
Graduate Center, City University of New York
8:30-9:30
Arrival and registration
9:30-11:00
* In and Out of Focus: Media and Representation
* We Count: Identity, the Census and Visibility
11:15-12:45
* Gender & Sexuality within Afrolatinidad
* Community Building: Activism, Policy Issues, Networking
12:45-1:45 Lunch
2:00-3:30
* Filling the Gaps: Youth and Education
* Connecting Stories: The Practice of Racial Dialogues
4:00-5:30
* Mapping the Afro-Latin@ Body in the Visual Arts
* Afro-Latin@ Historical and Cultural Flowsradition, Resistance, &
* Representation of Afro-Latin@ Discourse(s)
5:30-6:30
Closing dialogue & conclusions
Exhibition: Afro-Latinidad in the Visual Arts
Saturday, November 5th
12:00pm – 6:00pm
El Museo del Barrio
12:00-1:45pm
Workshop: Afro-Latin@ Youth and Identity
2:00-4:00pm
Panel: Writing and Teaching Afro-Latin@ Perspectives
4:00-6:00
¡Now y Para Siempre! Afro-Latin@ Open Mic
Institutional Sponsors
Center for the Humanities at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York
El Museo del Barrio
Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean, City University of New York
Institute of International Education
WK Kellogg Foundation
New York Council for the Humanities
Office of Educational Opportunity and Diversity Programs at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture | The New York Public Library
W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research, Harvard University
WNYC.org
Promotional Partners
The Malcolm X & Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center
City Limits
Afro-Colombia New York
NoMAA
Individual Sponsor
Ruth Gilmore, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
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