#2926: Paper on women in Haitian Revolution at conference in New York

[Robert Corbett <bcorbett@netcom.com>]

From: Carolle Charles <Carolle_Charles@baruch.cuny.edu>

First Annual Conference
African Women and Their Descendants in the Caribbean and Latin America 
19th Century to the Present

				
This conference is part of 
Race & the Construction of the Puerto Rican Identity Series Project
initiated in 1998 by the Black and Hispanic Studies Department at Baruch
College and the Caribbean Cultural Center and African Diaspora Institute.
  
Conference Program 


8: 30 A.M. to 9:00 A.M. Registration

Friday, March 24, 2000

8: 30 A.M. to 6: 30 P.M.

Baruch College, CUNY
Conference Center
151 East 25th Street 7th Floor
New York, New York 10010

9:00 A.M. Welcome and Conference Objectives

Panel 1: Historical Perspectives  
9:15 A.M. to 10: 35 A.M.
				
Free Women of Color in 19th Century Puerto Rico
Félix V. Matos Rodríguez, Director, Center for Puerto Rican Studies at
Hunter College/CUNY

Las Lavanderas de Puerta de Tierra 
Aixa Merino Falú, Instituto Tecnológico de Puerto Rico  

Women of African Descent in the Dominican Parliament 
Jacqueline J. Polanco, Assistant Professor, John Jay College/CUNY

Mammies, Mulatas, and Mamis: The Objectification of Women's Bodies
Raquel Rivera, Ph.D., Consultant

Moderator: Marta Moreno Vega, Assistant Professor, Department of Black and
Hispanic Studies. This panel is sponsored by the Black and Hispanic Studies
Department, Baruch College/CUNY  



Panel 2: Multiple Voices, Multiple Claims: 
The Multiple Realities of Caribbean Women
10:45 A.M. to 12:00 P.M.

>From Mama Tinga to Globalization: Mujeres Campesinas Dominicanas 
Milagros Ricourt, Lehman College/CUNY
 
Women in the Haitian Revolution 
Sylvie Kande, Assistant Professor, French and African Program
New York University

Crafting Identities in the Diaspora: The Case of 'Las Luchadoras'
Jocelyn A. Geliga-Vargas, Assistant Professor, Department of Speech and
Theatre, Lehman College/CUNY

*Altagracia Ortiz, 
History Department, John Jay College/CUNY

*Topic not available at press time. 

Moderator: Carolle Charles, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
and Sociology.  This panel is sponsored by the Anthropology and Sociology
Department, Baruch College/CUNY


Lunch   
12:00 P.M. to 1:00 P.M.


Panel 3: Afro-Caribbean Women: Literary Perspectives 
1:15 P.M. to 2:30 P.M.

Echoes and Ecos: Dwelling Affirmed in African Caribbean Women's Writing
Carole Beane, Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literature,
Howard University

Afro-Caribbean Women: Absence and Representation in the Works of Dominican
Writers
Aida Heredia, Assistant Professor, Department of Latin American Studies,
Connecticut College

Multiple Belongings: Gender and Cultural Identity in Francophone Caribbean
Literature 
Marjorie Attignol Salvodon, Assistant Professor, French Department,
Connecticut College

Moderator Elena M. Martínez, Associate Professor, Department of Modern
Languages and Comparative Literature. This panel is sponsored by the
Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature, Baruch College.



Panel 4: Roundtable/ Mesa Redonda: A Bilingual Conversation with Writers
from the Spanish-speaking Caribbean/Una Conversación Bilingue con
Escritoras del Caribe Hispano-Center for Puerto Rican Studies 2000,
Hunter/CUNY
       2: 40 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.


Topics Include: The Changing Role of Women Writers, The Importance of
Literary Prizes, Publishing Houses, Translations, Issues of race and
ethnicity.  Particular emphasis will be placed on the
similarities/differences among Caribbean women writers in languages other
than Spanish and Latina writers in the United States. 

Roundtable Participants Include: Josefina Báez, Mylene Fernández, Lisa
Fiol-Matta, Mayra Santos Febres, Sherezada (Chiqui) Vicioso. 

Moderators: Daisy Cocco De Filippis and Sonia Rivera-Valdés.

Roundtable sponsored by the Caribbean Exchange Program/The Center for
Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College/CUNY.


Closing Reception and Cultural Presentation 4:15 P.M. to 6:30 P.M.


This program is organized by the Black and Hispanic Studies Department of
Baruch College.  Collaborators include: The Modern Languages Department;
Anthropology and Sociology Studies Departments at Baruch College; The
Caribbean Exchange Program/The Center for Puerto Rican  Studies at Hunter
College (CENTRO)/CUNY; and The Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora
Institute.  This program is also made possible by the generous support of
the Office of President Lirtzman; Dr. Samuel Johnson, Vice President of
Student Affairs; Baruch College Fund.

The program is subject to change.      










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