Friday, February 24th, 2023
- 11:00 AM Welcome by Ranjana Khanna, Director of the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute
Opening Remarks: Sarah Quesada
- 11:15-12:45 PM Session I: The Formation of Atlantic Latinidad
- Discussant: Walter Mignolo
- Joseph Slaughter (Columbia University): “Atlántico invertido”
- Magalí Armillas Tiseyra (Pennsylvania State University): “The Grounds for Comparison”
- David Kazanjian (University of Pennsylvania): “Ante-Possession”
- 1:45-3:00 PM Session II: Interrogating South-South Solidarity
- Discussant: María DeGuzmán (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Tahia Abdel Nasser (American University of Cairo): “Latin American-Arab Engagement”
- Ariana Vigil (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): “Solidarity or Spectatorship?”
- 3:00-4:00 PM Keynote: María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, NYU Introduced by Esther Gabara, Professor of Romance Studies, Duke University
- 4:30-5:30 PM Book Launch: The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature (CUP 2022)
- Moderator: Deborah Jenson
- Guest speakers: Ato Quayson (Stanford) & María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (NYU)
- 5:30-6:30 PM Reception
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Saturday, February 25th, 2023
- 9:00 am-10:15 Session III: Decentering the Atlantic Axis
- Discussant: Esther Gabara
- Richard T. Rodríguez (UC Riverside): “Sounding Intimacy and the Transatlantic Touch”
- Lanie Millar (Oregon): “Angolan Independence, Zumbi, and Making Black Brazil.”
- 10:30-12 pm Session IV: Internationalism and Cold War Politics in the Atlantic World
- Discussant: Annette Joseph-Gabriel
- Fatoumata Seck (Stanford): “Lyrical Combat”
- Sophie Esch (Rice): “Abaixo o Peixefritismo”
- Anne Garland Mahler (UVA): “Against Latin American Regionalisms”
- 1:00-2:00 Keynote: Ato Quayson (Stanford) Introduced by Charlie Piot, Professor of Anthropology and Director of Africa Initiative, Duke University
The symposium will take place at the Smith Warehouse, Ahmadieh Family Lecture Hall (Bay 4, C105)
114 S Buchanan Blvd, Durham, NC, 27701
