Registration

March 24th, 2021

08:00–08:30 (Mexico City) || 10:00 -10:30 (Boston) || 16:00 -16:30 (Johannesburg)

Inauguration ceremony

08:30-09:30 (Mexico City) || 10:30 -11:30 (Boston) || 16:30 -17:30 (Johannesburg)

Keynote Speaker

• Africa in the world; the world in Africa. María Paula Meneses, Centre for Social Studies, Coimbra University

Moderator: Alicia Girón, University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa, UNAM

09:30-11:30 (Mexico City) || 11:30 -13:30 (Boston) || 17:30 -19:30 (Johannesburg)

Panel 1 Structural changes after COVID-19

• Structural changes in the South African labour market after Covid-19. David Francis, Southern Centre for Inequality Studies, University of the Witwatersrand
  

• COVID- 19 and traditional agriculture in West Africa. Javier Sacristán, University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa, UNAM
  

• Will the Covid-19 crisis threaten the aspirations to industrialise in Ethiopia? Carlos Oya, SOAS, University of London

Moderator: Ana María Álvarez, University Program of Studies on Asia and Africa, UNAM

11:30-13:30 (Mexico City) || 13:30 -15:30 (Boston) || 19:30 -21:30 (Johannesburg)

Panel 2 African Muslims in the Americas

• Contested meanings of africanness: race, performance and the making of a Senegalese Muslim community in Brazil. Gana Ndiaye, Boston University
  

• Materializing Africana Islam: the use of African textiles among Muslims of African descent in the U.S. Kayla Renée Wheeler, Xavier University
  

• Murid making space in America: The Celebration of Ahmadu Bamba Day in New York City. Cheikh Anta Babou, University of Pennsylvania

Moderator: Fallou Ngom, Boston University

March 25th, 2021

08:00-09:00 (Mexico City) || 10:00 -11:00 (Boston) || 16:00 -17:00 (Johannesburg)

Keynote Speaker

• Youth politics & social movements in Africa. Alcinda Honwana, Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa, London School of Economics and Political Science
  

Moderator: José Luis Gázquez, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, UNAM

09:00-11:00 (Mexico City) || 11:00 -13:00 (Boston) || 17:00 -19:00 (Johannesburg)

Panel 3 Decolonial production boundaries and South-South Cooperation

• Decolonising 'Production'. Limits and possibilities. Prishani Naidoo, Society, Work & Politics Institute, University of the Witwatersrand

• Social demonstrations in Northwest Africa and the intercapitalist dispute. Adriana Franco, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, UNAM

• From pre-colonial boundaries to remote borderization politics: West African mobility in historical perspective. José Luis Gázquez, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, UNAM

• The colonial and postcolonial production of “non-existence” and the Acholi resistance in Uganda: the power of the invisible (anti-power). Marco Reyes, Autonomous University of Mexico City-Cuautepec

• Wole Soyinka’s Yoruba Tragedy: Hybridity as a Strategy of Cultural Decolonization. Karina Lamas, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM

Moderator: Benjamín Juárez, UNAM-Boston

11:00-12:00 (Mexico City) || 13:00 -14:00 (Boston) || 19:00 -20:00 (Johannesburg)

Exhibition Imbeleko

Ismail Farouk. Art For Humanity

Russel Hlongwane. Cultural producer and creative industries consultant based in Durban

Introducer: David Ruiz, UNAM South Africa

12:00-14:00 (Mexico City) || 14:00 -16:00 (Boston) || 20:00 -22:00 (Johannesburg)

Panel 4 Lusophone Africa: Transnationalism's, Movements and New Human Securities

• A profile of Eduardo Chivambo Mondlane: demystification or mere reflection on his interactions in the United States of America. José Cossa, College of Education, Pennsylvania State University

• The Portuguese language in Africa: a void power? Abel Djassi Amado, Simmons University

• The concentration camp of Tarrafal: carceral islands and archipelagos in Lusophone Africa. Anna Mester, Latin American and Iberian Studies Department, University of Massachusetts Boston

• Fighting for Gender Justice: From pre-independence to Poderoza. Aminah Pilgrim, University of Massachusetts Boston

Moderator: Rita Kiki Edozie, John W McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston

March 26th, 2021

08:00-09:00 (Mexico City) || 10:00 -11:00 (Boston) || 16:00 -17:00 (Johannesburg)

Keynote Speaker

• African ideas from a transcontinental perspective. Gilbert Khadiagala, African Centre for the Study of the United States, University of the Witwatersrand

Moderator: Rita Kiki Edozie, John W McCormack School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston

09:00-11:00 (Mexico City) || 11:00 -13:00 (Boston) || 17:00 -19:00 (Johannesburg)

Panel 5 Women and children migration and human rights

• Contemporary approaches to migration governance in southern Africa: colonial legacies and international influences. Tamara Last, African Centre for Migration and Society, University of the Witwatersrand

• African migrant women giving birth in South Africa, at risk of a silent death. Lorena Núñez, Department of Sociology, University of the Witwatersrand

• African female migrant journeys, human rights violations and the impossibility of access to health services at the southern border of Mexico. Alethia Fernández de la Reguera, Institute of Legal Research, UNAM

• Alternative views of feminism: Ama Ata Aidoo and Erna Brodber. Nair Anaya, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters, UNAM

• Sudan: political transition, social mobilization and gender. Rubén Peña, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, UNAM

Moderator: Arturo Mendoza, UNAM South Africa

11:00-13:00 (Mexico City) || 13:00 -15:00 (Boston) || 19:00 -21:00 (Johannesburg)

Panel 6 The African World & The Black Pacific

• Black dance in the black pacific: Carole Johnson, black internationalism, and The Challenge. Alex Carter, Poly Prep Country Day School

• Black Hong Kong, chinese Kingston: the caribbean circuitry of the black pacific. Tao Leigh Goffe, Cornell University

• Towards the black pacific(s). Guy Mount, Auburn University
  

• Blinded by Bandung? West Papua, Senegal and Negritude in Oceania. Quito Swan, University of Massachusetts Boston

Moderator: Glenn Chambers, Michigan State University

13:00-14:00 (Mexico City) || 15:00 -16:00 (Boston) || 21:00 -22:00 (Johannesburg)

Cultural Activity: Afro-Colombian Music Today

• Afro-Colombian Music Today: A Conversational Concert by Alí Cuama & Bombo Negro Live from Buenaventura, Colombia, Michael Birenbaum Quintero, Boston University

• Bombo Negro, Colombian musicians and activists

Introducer: Eric J. Schmidt, Boston University

14:00-14:30 (Mexico City) || 16:00 -16:30 (Boston) || 22:00 -22:30 (Johannesburg)

Closing ceremony