afro-cuban artists:

April 27–30, 2016 • Columbia, Missouri

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Day 1: Wednesday, April 27

Time Information Location

4:40 pm Transport to Opening for out-of-town guestsHampton Inn Lobby

5:00 – 6:30 pm

Conference Opening, Reception and Gallery Exhibition

• Welcome by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook, Conference Chair

• 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

This special exhibition focuses on two of the most celebrated contemporary Cuban artists, Manuel Mendive Hoyo and Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar.

MU Museum of Art and Archaeology at Mizzou North

7:30 pm

Play

Letters from Cuba, by Maria Irene Fornés

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 Hampton Inn Foyer

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

Hampton Inn Missouri/Stephens Rooms

10:00 am Coffee BreakHampton Inn Columbia Room

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

Breakout Sessions

1A PANEL: The Poetics and Landscapes of Afro-Cuban Literature Chair: Dawn Stinchcomb, Purdue University

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

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

1B PANEL: Afro-Cuban Religions as Transcultural Movements Chair: Lisa Rathje, Local Learning: The National Network for Folk Arts in Education

Bilongo: The Racialized Exoticism and Cultural Imaginary of the Afrocubana Stephen Cruikshank, University of Alberta

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

Hampton Inn Missouri Room

12:00 – 1:30 pm

Lunch (additional ticket required)Hampton Inn Columbia Room

1:30 – 2:30 pm

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

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

En primera persona plural: Arte en el contexto de una comunidad afrodecendiente Daniel Lind-Ramos, University of Puerto Rico Humacao


2:30 pm Coffee BreakHampton Inn Columbia Room

3:00 – 4:00 pm

Keynote Welcome by Flore Zéphir, Director of the Afro-Romance Institute

Afro-Cuban Intellectuals and Artistic Creation William Luis, Vanderbilt University


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 ObjectsMU Corner Playhouse

Day 3: Friday, April 29

8:30 am Check-in Hampton Inn Foyer

9:00 – 10:00 am

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



10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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

The Ship in Cuban Visual Thinking: Media and Migration Ineke Phaf-Rheinberger, RWTH (Rheinland-Westfalen Technische Hochschule) Aachen, Germany

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

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

1:30 – 2:30 pm

Breakout Sessions

4A PANEL: Aesthetics of Religion and Film Chair: Mary Barile

Transculturación, sincretismo y palimpsesto iconográfico entre la Virgen María y las deidades africanas en Cuba Yumary Alfonso Entralgo, Texas A&M University

Heavy Ears: Sound and Labour in the Ontologies of Nicolás Guillén Landrián Veronica Brownstone, University of Pennsylvania


1:30 – 2:30 pm

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4B PANEL: Toward Ecological and Racial Harmony in Latin-American Spaces Chair: Mamadou Badiane, University of Missouri

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

Identidad racial en Cuba: estereotipos decimonónicos y retórica de la igualdad en “Los dioses rotos” Lídice Alemán, Wayne State College


2:30 pm Coffee BreakHampton Inn Columbia Room

3:00 – 5:00 pm

Roundtable: Artists and Keynotes

Welcome by Charles Henson, Interim Vice Chancellor for Inclusion, Diversity and Equity Facilitated by Juanamaría Cordones-Cook

Hampton Inn

5:30 pm Transport to Evening Event for out-of-town guestsHampton Inn Lobby

6:00 pm

Manuel Mendive

• ReadingbyMilbreBurch– The Separation of Heaven and Earth and other Patakís from the Santeria tradition

• Film – El mundo mágico de Mendive / The Magical World of Mendive

MU Corner Playhouse

Day 4: Saturday, April 30

8:30 am Check-in Hampton Inn

9:00 – 10:00 am

Keynote Welcome by Hank Foley, Interim Chancellor

Afro-Cuban Heritage Tradition-Bearers: Reflections on Community and Country Identities and Cuban Cultural Policy

James Counts Early, Former Director Cultural Heritage Policy at the Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage



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)

10:30 am – 12:00 pm

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

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:GeoffroydeLaforcade,NorfolkStateUniversity

Creación artística, marginalidad y turismo: entrelazamientos y malentendidos ElíasAsseffAlfonso,CallejóndeHamel

Símbolos religiosos de ascendencia africana en el arte cubano contemporáneo Lázara Menéndez, University of Havana

Conviviality, Discursive Dissonance, and the Aesthetics of Public Art in a Working-Class Community of Havana: The Callejón de Hamel GeoffroydeLaforcade,NorfolkStateUniversity


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

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

Hampton Inn Columbia Room

12:00 – 1:30 pm

Lunch (additional ticket required) Hampton Inn

1:30 – 4:00 pm

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

“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


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 Francis Agbemade, Arizona State University

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

Hampton Inn Columbia Room

6C PANEL: Cuban Artists: In Search of African Heritage Chair: Jack Draper, University of Missouri

Experimental Autoethnography: “Yoko Osha” and “Bare-Faced” filmworks Lázara Rosell Albear, Filmmaker

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 Transport to Evening Event for out-of-town guestsHampton Inn Lobby

6:00 pmEduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar presentation

• Film – Choco

MU Student Center Leadership Auditorium

7:00 pm Cuban-themed Dinner & MusicMU Student Center The Shack

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

SPONSORS and CONTRIBUTORS

MU Department of Theatre

MU Department of Art

MU Department of English

MU Department of Black Studies

Cambio CenterSantiago Rodríguez Olazábal

Eduardo “Choco” Roca Salazar

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

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