Afro-Christian Festivals of the Americas | Schedule
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Saturday, February 21, 2015
9:00am to 5:00pm
Sterling Memorial Library Auditorium
128 Wall Street
New Haven, CT 06511
Schedule
8:45 to 9:00 – Coffee
9:00 to 9:15 – Welcome
1. Reckoning with Africa - 9:15 to 10:45
Chair: Stuart Schwartz
Black Ceremonies in Perspective: Brazil and Dahomey in XVIII century - Junia Furtado, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
Queen Njinga in Brazilian Popular Culture: In Search of History and Memory - Linda Heywood, Boston University
2. Across Imperial Lines - 10:45 to 12:15
Chair: Tim Barringer
Moors and Christians on Congo Square? The Afro-Iberian Roots of New Orleans’ Mardi Gras Indians - Jeroen Dewulf, University of California, Berkeley
Afro-Catholic Ceremonies and Ritual Vocabularies of Sovereignty in Post-Emancipation Trinidad - Dianne M. Stewart, Emory University
12:15 to 1:15 - Lunch Break
3. Stretching the Social Frame - 1:15 to 2:45
Chair: Cécile Fromont
Public Performances of a Black Brotherhood in a Brazilian Mining Town - Lisa Voigt, The Ohio State University
Kings of the Kongo, Slaves of the Americas: Staging African Identity in a Renaissance Festival in Mexico City in 1539 - Miguel Valerio, The Ohio State University
2:45 to 3:00 - Break
4. Sounding Legacies – 3:00 to 4:30
Chair: Monique Ingalls
Black Legacies in Popular Catholic Ritual Musicking of South-East Brazil - Suzel Ana Reily, Queen’s University Belfast/Universidade de Campinas
The ‘immense universe’ of musical experience within Afro-Brazilian Congado - Glaura Lucas, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
4:30 to 5:00 Discussion