Global Movements, Local Identities: Race, Space, and the African Diaspora in Latin America

MARCH 6-7, 2008
University of California Los Angeles

Organized by the UC Berkeley Afro-Latino Working Group and the UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics

Sponsored by the Inter-American Foundation

In recent years there has been an explosion in scholarship that goes beyond recognizing the presence of Afro-Latin Americans and towards interrogating this topic more deeply. Building on the momentum of this research and a successful 2007 Afro-Latino Working Group Conference, our second annual conference will be held in collaboration with the UCLA Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Politics. The goal of this conference is to advance inter-disciplinary scholarship that produces critical theories and methodologies for understanding the African Diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean. We aim to create a forum for graduate students to dialogue with established scholars whose work explores the African Diaspora in Latin America. This conference will foster new academic dialogues about race, ethnicity, culture, society, economy, politics and nation.

The 2008 conference will focus on the impact of movement, globalization, and notions of space on processes of racialization and identity formation within the African Diaspora in Latin America. Departing from scholarship that treats the African Diaspora in Latin America as a fixed product of forced migration from Africa, this conference will highlight continual movement and interaction within the Diaspora. It seeks to explore cultural and political change within the African Diaspora as well as examine the creation of new diasporas. The conference includes 12 graduate student speakers as well as panels of invited Latin American activists and invited faculty speakers.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND PRE-REGISTRATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
www.clas.berkeley.edu:7001/Research/workinggroups/groups/afrolatino/globalmovements/conferenceschedule.html

There is no cost to attend the conference.