Diasporic Counterpoint: Africans, Asians and the Americas
A Conference Sponsored by the Center for African American History
and the Program in Asian American Studies
Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208 U.S.A.
April 20-21, 2007
All Panel Sessions at McCormick Tribune Center Forum
Friday April 20
The Conference Begins
1:00
Welcome
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University
1:15 — 3:30
Panel 1
Theme: Working Race
Moderator: Butch Ware, Northwestern University
Panelists:
Jean J. Kim, Dartmouth College
“Local Girls” in Plantation Medicine: Citizenship, Race, and Professionalism in Hawai’i, 1918-1948
Jamie Monson, Carleton College
Building the Rainbow of Friendship: A Transnational Labor History of the TAZARA Railway, 1965-1976
Lori Pierce, De Paul University
Haole ‘Ele’ele: Hawai’i and the Eradication of Blackness
Cadence A. Wynter, Columbia College
“Harmony and Dissent: African and Asian Diasporas in England's Education System, 1950-1980”
3:45 — 5:00
Opening Plenary Address
Gary Y. Okihiro, Columbia University
5:00 — 6:30
McCormick Tribune Center Lobby
Reception
Live Music: The Makaya McCraven Jazz Ensemble
7:00
Film Screening
“Mutiny: Asians Storm British Music”, a documentary by Vivek Bald
Followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker, Vivek Bald
Saturday April 21
8:30 — 10:45
Panel 2
Theme: Making and Mediating Diasporas
Moderator: Carolyn Chen, Northwestern University
Panelists:
Vivek Bald, New York University
“Indian Radicals and Sailors in the Overlapping Diasporas of 1920s New York”
Aisha Khan, New York University
“Absent-Presences: Visibility and its Meanings in New World Diasporas.”
Candice M. Lowe, Vassar College
“The Dialectics of Diaspora: The Struggle for (Em)Placement in Multicultural Mauritius “
Pedro Machado, New York University
“The African Slaving and Slavery Worlds of Gujarati Merchants in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries”
11:00 — 12:30
Lunch
11:00 — 12:30
Harris Hall 108
Working Lunch for Panelists to discuss the anthology of papers coming out of the conference.
Presiding:
Darlene Clark Hine, Northwestern University
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University
12:45 — 2:45
Panel 3
Theme: Mixing Musics
Moderator: Nitasha Tamar Sharma, Northwestern University
Panelists:
Darren Lee Brown, Michigan State University
“‘Reggae Gone International:’ Recovering the Cultural Productions of Asians of Jamaican Descent in Reggae Music”
Adrian Gaskins, University of Minnesota
“From Native Son to Native Guns: Hip Hop and the Politics of Racialized Diasporas”
Tamara Roberts, Northwestern University
“‘One Family, Many Children’: The Afro-Asian Aesthetic”
3:00 — 5:00
Panel 4
Theme: Political Counterpoints
Moderator: John Cheng, Northwestern University
Panelists:
Daryl Maeda, University of Colorado at Boulder
“‘We are Part of the Third World People’: The Transnational Imaginary of Asian American and African American Radicals”
Sylvia Chan-Malik, University of California at Berkeley
“Not Without My Radical Fundamentalist Islamic Burqas: Race, Feminism, and the Neo-Orientalization of America’s Islam”
Judy Tzu-Chun Wu, Ohio State University
“Anti-Imperialist Travelers: Asian-Black Internationalism and Radical Orientalism”
5:00 — 6:15
Closing
Held at the McCormick Tribune Center Forum
Closing Plenary Speaker:
Rhoda Reddock, University of the West Indies, Trinidad and Tobago
Closing Remarks:
Ji-Yeon Yuh, Northwestern University
6:30 — 8:30
John Evans Alumni House
Dinner for Organizers and Panelists
Live Music: The Makaya McCraven Jazz Ensemble
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