SHIFTING THE GEOGRAPHY OF REASON VIII:
The University, Public Education, and the Transformation of Society
September 29-October 1, 2011
Rutgers University, New Brunswick
For a complete program go to http://caribphil.org/CPA_2011.html
Below are highlights from the program.
For further information please contact Prof. Nelson Maldonado-Torres at nmtorres@rci.rutgers.edu, President of the CPA and Associate Professor, Department of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies/Program in Comparative Literature, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University.
THURSDAY, SEPT. 29TH
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
STUDENT CENTER, COLLEGE CAMPUS
· 3:00 pm to 4:45 pm: Registration, Student Center
· 5:00 pm to 5:45 pm: Welcome and Performance by Urayoán Noel, Student Center
· 5:45 pm to 7:30 pm: Plenary session at the Student Center: The University, Public Education and the Transformation of Society, Multipurpose Room, Student Center, College Campus. Plenary members: Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Catherine Walsh, Lewis Gordon
**7:30 pm to 10:00 pm: Reception for presenters, organizers, and special guests. Dinner, music, dancing.
FRIDAY, SEPT 30TH
9:00 am to 10:45 am
· Shifting the Geography of Disciplines: Interdisciplinary Dialogues
· Fanonian Theory and Critique: Political and Academic Interventions
· Political Action & Economic Development in the Caribbean and Africa
· Education at the Borders: Postsecondary Teaching from the Underside of History
· Discussing Yemaya: Gender and Sexuality in Afro-Cuban Religions
· A Session Engaging Cristina Beltran’s The Trouble with Unity
11:00 am to 12:30/12:45 pm
· Decolonizing Education
· Strategic Optimism: University of Puerto Rico as Site of Urban, Cyber and Institutional Transformations
· Visualizando la identidad caribeña en el arte contemporáneo [Visualizing Caribbean Identity in Contemporary Art]
· Rethinking the Caribbean from Archipelago Studies
· Environmental Caribbean Studies
1:45 to 2:50: PLENARY SESSION
· Frantz Fanon & Nicolás Guillén Prizes
· Moderator: Lewis R. Gordon, CPA Chair of Prizes
· Featuring Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award winners Molefi Kete Asante, Michel Rolph-Trouillot (prize will be awarded in absentia); Fanon Book Award winners Susan Buck-Morss and Marilyn Nissim-Sabat; and Guillén Prize winner Junot Díaz.
3:00 pm to 4:45 pm
· Critiquing Knowledge and Teaching Critique
· Roundtable: Intervening from the Disciplines
· Latin America and the 19th Century
· Revolutions & Social Mobilizations: Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America
· A Session Engaging Paul Apostolidis’s Break in the Chains: What Immigrant Workers Can Teach America about Democracy
· Africological Perspectives: In Celebration of Professor Molefi Kete Asante
5:00 pm to 6:45 pm
· Fanonian Theory and Critique: Fanon’s Legacy
· Public Spheres in Public Education
· A Session Engaging George Shulman’s American Prophecy
· Del ser latinoamericano
· Philosophies of Resistance Across Haiti, Cuba, and the World Stage
· Caribbean Diasporic Paths: Latina/o and West Indian
· Pa/lante: Film with Iris Morales
7:00 pm TO 8:30 pm
· Multipurpose Room, Student Center
· Plenary session: Remembering Fanon and Glissant
· Commemoration of Frantz Fanon’s Death (1925-1961) and the Publication of The Wretched of the Earth(1961), and Remembering Glissant (1928-2011). Featuring Mireille Fanon-Mendès France and Omar Benderra from the Frantz Fanon Foundation (France), Nkosinathi Biko from the Biko Foundation (South Africa), and former Fanon prize winners Paget Henry (Brown University), Linda Martin Alcoff (Hunter College and CUNY Graduate Center), Sibylle Fischer (NYU), Alejandro de Oto (CONICET, Argentina).
SATURDAY, OCT. 1st
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY
BLOUSTEIN & MASON GROSS SCHOOLS
9:00 am to 10:45 am
· Shifting Paradigms in Education
· Avant-garde Gestures and Caribbean Intellectual Tradition
· Border Thinking/Thinking Borders: Race, Space, Ethnicity and Identity
· Music and Dance: Epistemologies in Movement
· Critical Imaginaries: The European University and Public Institutions
· Author-Meets-Critics: Susan Buck-Morss Hegel, Haiti, and Universal History
11:00 to 12:30/45
· Transformative Pedagogies and the Liberation of “Creativity”: Contemporary Art, Decolonial
· Aesthetics and Fanonian Invention I
· Roundtable: On the Ground and in the World: University of Puerto Rico Strike Leaders Reflect on
· Strategic Influences and Contributions in Local/Global Struggle Against Neoliberalism
· The Cinema of Nicolás Guillén Landrián—Problems and Perspectives
· The Caribbean Episteme: Poetics
· Thinking Home, Gender, Diaspora and History Through Caribbean Literature
· Prisons/Imprisonment/Prison Narratives
1:30 pm-3:15 pm
· In Conmemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Passing of Antenor Firmin
· Transformative Pedagogies and the Liberation of “Creativity”: Contemporary Art, Decolonial
· Aesthetics and Fanonian Invention II
· Decolonial Theorizing and Glissant: Dialogue, The Middle Space, and the Ethics of Opacity
· (Mis-) Representing Women: On Female Bodies, Visions, Texts
· A Session Engaging Drucilla Cornell and Ken Panfilio’s Symbolic Forms for a New Humanity
· Phobogenic Discourses of Race, Slavery, Gender and Religion
3:30 pm to 5:00/5:15 pm
· Thinking from the South: The Critical Sociology of Boaventura de Sousa Santos
· Indian, African, and Afro-Caribbean Phenomenology
· Caribbean Keywords in Political Theory: Populism, Alienation, Resistance
· From the New Negro to Negritude: Radical Black Thought
· Communities of Strangers: Beyond Citizenship and Insularity
· Metaphysics and Religion
5:30 pm to 7:00/7:15 pm
· Fanon, Africa, and the Arab Revolts (
· Re-imagining the Limits of Caribbean Epistemological Critique
· Genealogy, Intersectionality, and Interstitiality: Accounting for Differences in Migration, Diaspora and Caribbean Thought
· Roundtable: Transforming the Academic Reality of Caribbean Studies in the Diaspora through Praxis
· Coloniality of Power and Black Resistance
· Hegel, Modernity, Haiti
7:15 pm to 9:00 pm
Closing Reception for activities at Rutgers, New Brunswick
Including wine & hors d’oeuvres and a dance exhibition
Place: Gallery, Mason Gross School of the Arts
SUNDAY October 2nd (activities at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial Center, NYC)
10:30 am to 12:15 pm. Panel: “Reflecting on Dominican, Haitian and Afro-Dominican Discourses”
1:30 to 2:30 pm. Panel Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Death of Antenor Firmin (1850-1911) with Lewis Gordon (Temple University) and Greg Beckett (University of Chicago).
2:30 to 3:30: Panel Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the Passing of Frantz Fanon (1925-1961). Drucilla Cornell (Rutgers University), Lewis Gordon (Temple University), and others tba.
3:45 to 5:30 pm. A conversation about the legacy of Frantz Fanon, Steve Biko, Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz with two daughters and a son: Mireille Fanon Mendès-France (France), Nkosinathi Biko (South Africa), and Malaak Shabazz-tbc (USA)
