WEEK 1 – HISTORICAL & CULTURAL DIALOGUES
5:30-6:30pm: Opening Reception
Michele Reid-Vazquez, Director, NEH Summer Institute
Sheila Vélez Martínez, Director, Center for Civil Rights and Racial Justice
Monday 6/6 - Race in Latin America
9:00am-9:15am: Welcome
Michele Reid-Vazquez, Director, NEH Summer Institute, Afrolatinidad Studies Initiative and Center for Ethnic Studies Research; Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Ann Cudd, Provost and Senior Vice Chancellor, University of Pittsburgh
9:15am-10:40am: Morning Session Speakers
Keila Grinberg, Professor of History and Director, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Keisha-Khan Perry, Presidential Penn Compact Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pennsylvania (virtual)
10:50-11:45am: Reading Discussion
11:45am-1:15pm: Welcome Lunch
1:30-3:30pm: Tour Hillman Library Latin American Collection and Exhibit
Martha Mantilla, Librarian for Latin American Studies Collection, Department of Area Studies, University of Pittsburgh Library System
Tuesday 6/7 - Afro-Latin America: A Short History
9:00am-9:15am: Announcements
9:15am-11:45am: Morning Session Speakers
George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
Sherwin Bryant, Associate Professor of African American Studies and History
10:50-11:45am: Reading Discussion
11:45am-1:15pm: Lunch on your own
1:30-3:15pm: Workshop - Teaching Afro-Latin-America
George Reid Andrews and Sherwin Bryant
Wednesday 6/8 - Transnational Dialogues
9:00am-9:15am: Announcements
9:15am-10:40am: Morning Session Speakers
Paulina Alberto, Professor of History, University of Michigan
Juliet Hooker, Professor of Political Science, Brown University (virtual)
10:50-11:45am: Reading Discussion
11:45am-1:15pm: Mentoring Lunch
George Reid Andrews, Sherwin Bryant, Keila Grinberg, Michele Reid-Vazquez, speakers and 9 assigned participants
1:30-3:30pm: Workshop - Pre-Circulated Projects-in-Progress (8 assigned participants)
Facilitators: Nancy Mirabal, Sherwin Bryant
Project Feedback: Nancy Mirabal, Sherwin Bryant, Keila Grinberg
Thursday 6/9 - Latin American Immigration to the US, 1880-present
9:00am-9:15am: Announcements
9:15am-10:40am: Morning Session Speakers
Nancy Mirabal, Associate Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland
Jennifer A. Jones, Associate Professor of Sociology and Latin American and Latino Studies, University of Illinois-Chicago
10:50-11:45am: Reading Discussion
11:45am-1:15pm: Lunch on you own
1:30-3:30pm: Workshop - Pre-Circulated Projects-in-Progress (9 assigned participants)
Facilitators:
Jennifer A. Jones, Martha Mantilla
Project Feedback: Jennifer A. Jones, Martha Mantilla, George Reid Andrews
Friday 6/10 - Literature and Identity
9:00am-9:15am: Announcements
9:15am-10:40am: Morning Session Speakers
Vanessa K. Valdés, Dean, Macaulay Honors College, Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, City University of New York
Jerome Branche, Chair, Department of Hispanic Languages and Literatures; Professor of Latin American Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Pittsburgh
11:45am-1:15pm: Mentoring Lunch
Eddie Bonilla, Jennifer A. Jones, Nancy Mirabal, Michele Reid-Vazquez, speakers, and 8 assigned participants
1:30-3:30pm: Workshop: Zuly Inirio, Afro-Latinx Song and Opera Project
WEEK 2 – CULTURAL DIALOGUES AND AFROLATINIDAD FUTURITIES
Monday 6/13 - Digital Platforms/Public Representations
9:00am-9:15am: Week 2 Welcome, Recap and Announcements
9:15am-10:40am: Morning Session Speakers
Ariana Curtis, Director of Content, Smithsonian’s Our Shared Future: Reckoning with Our Racial Past, Office of the Undersecretary for Museums and Culture, Smithsonian Museum
Zaire Dinzey-Flores, Chair and Associate Professor of Latino and Hispanic Caribbean Studies
10:50-11:45am: Reading Discussion
11:45am-1:15pm: Lunch on your own
1:30-3:30pm: Workshop - Teaching Afro/Latinx
Eddie Bonilla, Postdoctoral Fellow in Latinx Studies, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
Michele Reid-Vazquez, Director, NEH Summer Institute, Afrolatinidad Studies Initiative, and Center for Ethnic Studies Research; Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Tyrica Terry Kapral, Humanities Data Librarian, University Library System, University of Pittsburgh
Tuesday 6/14 - Musical Circulations
9:00am-9:15am: Announcements
9:15am-10:40am: Morning Session Speakers
Petra Rivera-Rideau, Associate Professor of American Studies, Wellesley College
Robin Moore, Professor of Ethnomusicology, Editor, Latin American Music Review, University of Texas at Austin (virtual)
10:50-11:45am: Reading Discussion
11:45am-1:15pm: Mentoring Lunch
Eddie Bonilla, Martha Mantilla, Anju Reejhsinghani, Michele Reid-Vazquez, speakers, and 8 assigned participants
1:30-3:30pm: Workshop - Pre-Circulated Projects-in-Progress (8 assigned participants)
Facilitators: Martha Mantilla, Eddie Bonilla
Project Feedback: Eddie Bonilla, Martha Mantilla, Anju Reejhsinghani
6:30pm: Performance: Hugo Cruz and Caminos (Afro-Cuban music trio)
Wednesday 6/15 - Sport and Resistance
9:00am-9:15am: Recap& Announcements
9:15am-10:40am: Morning Session Speakers
Anju Reejhsinghani, Assistant Vice Provost for Strategic Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Administration, University of Wisconsin
Rob Ruck, Professor of History, University of Pittsburgh
10:50-11:45am: Reading Discussion
11:45am-1:15pm: Lunch on your own
1:30-3:30pm: Excursion - Visit Roberto Clemente Museum
Facilitators:
Gina Garcia, Associate Professor, Department of Educational Foundations, Organizations, and Policy, University of Pittsburgh
Shawn Alfonso Wells, NEH Institute Manager; Panther Programs Manager, Global Experiences Office, University of Pittsburgh
Thursday 6/16 - Transnational Religions
9:00am-9:15am: Announcements
9:15am-10:40am: Morning Session Speakers
Solimar Otero, Professor of Folklore and Ethnomusicology, Indiana University Bloomington
J. Lorand Matory, Lawrence Richardson Distinguished Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University (virtual)
11:45am-1:15pm: Lunch on your own
1:30-3:30pm: Independent Research on Projects-in-Progress
Friday 6/17 - Institutionalization & Program-Building
9:00am-9:15am: Announcements
9:15am-10:40am: Morning Session Speakers
Alejandro de la Fuente, Director, Afro-Latin American Research Institute; Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin American History and Economics, Professor of African and African American Studies and History, Harvard University
Manuel Mendez, President, DC AfroLatino Caucus; Library Associate-Mount Pleasant Branch, Washington DC Public Library
11:45am-1:15pm: Lunch on your own
Participants complete online program surveys
1:30-3:45pm: Wrap Up Roundtable
Roundtable Speakers:
George Reid Andrews, Eddie Bonilla, Anju Reejhsinghani
Virtual - Sherwin Bryant, Jennifer A. Jones, Nancy Mirabal
4-5pm: Closing Reception
Shelome Gooden, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Research in the Humanities, Arts, Social Sciences and Related Fields, Professor of Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh
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