16th ANNUAL ARTURO SCHOMBURG SYMPOSIUM, FEBRUARY 2012

16^th ANNUAL ARTURO SCHOMBURG SYMPOSIUM, FEBRUARY 2012

Events Speakers and Presentations:

Film Screening

Friday, February 17, 2012

6:30-8:30 p.m. Episcopal Cathedral, 3723 Chestnut Streets

We of the SAYA, by Sisa Bueno: A slice of life documentary that exposes the systematic
problem of invisibility facing Afro-Latinos in continental Latin America.  Q and A with Sisa

Bueno.

Cuban Roots, by Pam Sporn: A black Cuban family, on their journey from Jamaica, via Cuba,

to New York City.  A historical and personal narrative of Black Latino identity, Diaspora, class,

immigration and US Cuban relations.

Symposium

Saturday, February 25, 2012

9:30-9:50 am "Continental Breakfast"

Speakers and presentations:

9:50-10:00 a.m.  Welcome & Introductions

10:00-10:45 a.m. Dr. Gilberto M. Blasini, Associate Professor University of Wisconsin/Milwaukee, “Caribbean Cinema and the concept of Créolité” explores the process of creolization in Caribbean culture through film.

10:45-11:30 am Dr. Jossianna Arroyo-Martínez, Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin “Caribbean Mediascapes: Race and Afrolatin@ Identities in U.S. Television”  analyzes the variety show, “El Show de Alexis  Valdés”, the uses of blackface, theater and performance in the Spanish Caribbean, kitsch, camp and transvestism, and the role of comedy and  the market in the representation of race, sexuality and contemporary Caribbean and US Latin@ bodies.

           

11:30 a.m.-12:15 p.m. Michelle Materre, Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Film and Associate Director of The School of Undergraduate Studies at The New School “Black is/Black Ain't: Facing Issues of Identity in Afro Latin Diaspora Media." Illustrated with clips of

Elza's Happiness (Le Bonheur D'Elza) (2011 ), Dir. Mariette Monpierre.

Black is/Black Aint Shorts Program

PANEL: 2-4:30 p.m.

Contemporary Afro-Latin@s Media: Perspectives, Challenges and Strategies/Afro Latin@ Media: Perspectivas, retos y estrategias.

Moderated by Dr. Ezekiel Dixon-Roman, Assistant Professor of Social Policy & Education, University of Pennsylvania.

Panelists:   

            Louis Massiah-Founder and Executive Director of Scribe Video

            Kim Haas-Founder and President of Haas Media

            Francisco Sandoval-Independent film, TV and theater actor

            Sisa Bueno-Producer-Director “We of the Saya”

            Neyda Martinez Co-Producer, Co-Curator of Creatively Speaking

            Panel Introduction by Evelyne Laurent-Perrault, PhD Candidate, NYU

For information about Registration, group rates and more, please call 215-426-3311 from Monday to Saturdays 9:00AM to 5:00PM.

Co-sponsored by University of Pennsylvania /Latin American and Latino Studies Program