II First World Diasporas of Color Undergraduate Conference: "Global(izing) identities and migration across diasporas"

Program

Throughout Semester

The Alan Lutkus International Film Series

Throughout Conference

Art Exhibit - Milne Library Gallery

. Liz Cho (BA Psychology, SUNY Geneseo ’11): Echoes. In Echoes, a series of portraits, Cho, the daughter of first-generation South Koreans, captures honest impressions of her subjects, who are engaged in seemingly insignificant actions, engrossed in the routines and demands inherent to modern living. Providing a stripped-down glimpse into Americana, this collection of photographs is an appreciation for the everyday and the ostensibly familiar—art that is immediately accessible and relatable.

. Our Voices, Our Songs. A collection of moving artwork, poems, and artefacts created by migrants and farm workers who have come to/through Western New York from Africa, Latin America, the and Canada, sharing the legacy of their cultures with us. Exhibit Designers: Julia Stewart-Bittle, Geneseo Migrant Center; and Rose McEwen, SUNY Geneseo.

Friday, April 25th

12:00 Noon Milne Library Gallery: Art Exhibit Inauguration

1:00-8:00pm Newton Hall Lobby: Conference Registration

2:00-3:15pm Newton Hall 203: “Collaborative Activism”: A panel of students and professionals engaged in life-long, life-changing, and life-sustaining community development partnerships inspired by Dr. Rose-Marie Chierici Panelists: . Kim Davies-Hoffman, Coordinator of Reference & Instruction, Milne Library, SUNY Geneseo . Anst-Bidry Gelin (BS in Biochemistry, Honors Program, SUNY Geneseo ’09), Resident Physician in Emergency Medicine, Carilion Clinic/Virginia Tech School of Medicine. Roanoke, VA MD, University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health . Megan Lee (BA Anthropology, SUNY Geneseo ’09), Community Outreach, TB Control Program, Onondaga County Health Department Bureau of Disease Control. Syracuse, NY . Phara Souffrant (BA International Relations, SUNY Geneseo ‘11), Educational Trainer, Global Kids. New York, NY . Grace Trompeter (BS Biochemistry, SUNY Geneseo ’13), MSPH Candidate, Human Nutrition Program, Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. Baltimore, MD Moderator: . Dr. Nancy Chin, Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. Rochester, NY

3:30-5:15pm Sturges Auditorium: Celebration Honoring Retiring Professor Dr. Rose- Marie Chierici, Anthropology Department Chair. Guest Speakers: . Dr. Carol S. Long, Interim President, SUNY Geneseo . Dr. Christopher Dahl, President Emeritus, SUNY Geneseo . Mr. Bob Lynch, Former Director, Geneseo Migrant Center. Leicester, NY . Dr. Emilye Crosby, Professor, Deptartment of History, SUNY Geneseo . Dr. Paul Pacheco, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, SUNY Geneseo Principal Speaker: . Dr. John Mazzeo, Director, Master of Public Health Program; Assistant Professor of Anthropology, DePaul University. Chicago, IL Interim President Carol S. Long, Interim Provost David Gordon, the Department of Anthropology and the Conference Organizing Committee invite you to stay for the reception following the program of speakers. . Ted Canning’s Steel Drums Ensemble

Friday, April 25th (Continued)

5:30–6:45pm Newton Hall 203: "(En)countering Diasporas, Empowering Survivors": a panel of scholars and professionals actively engaged in working with the victims of diasporas to empower themselves and others Panelists: . Katherine Freeman (International Relations and Spanish ’08), Center for Court Innovation, The Bronx County District Attorney’s Office. Bronx, NY . Mike Reho, Director, Geneseo Migrant Center. Leicester, NY . Luis Ricardo Torres Rivera, Social Justice Coordinator, First Unitarian Church of Rochester. Rochester, NY Moderator: . Fatima Rodríguez Johnson, Coordinator of Multicultural Programs, Center for Community, SUNY Geneseo

7:00–8:00pm Sturges Auditorium: Conference Inauguration Welcome Address: . Conference Director Dr. Rose McEwen, Associate Professor, Department of Languages and Literatures; Coordinator, Latin American Studies Program, SUNY Geneseo Guest Speaker: . " 'Where They Need Me': Haitian Health Professionals, Humanitarian Medical Aid and the Promises of Transnational Futures" Dr. Pierre Minn, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Université de Montréal. Montreal, Quebec, Canada Dance Performances: . “American-Punjabi Bhangra Remix” - Geneseo Bhangra: Harrison Dole, Dwayne Jeffrey, Nicole Lamberson, Valerie Marchesi ,Elizabeth Ohman, Kevin Weber . “Los Matatanes” - Latino Student Association: Edith Alvarez, Jessica Díaz, Jovani Hernández, Michael Izdebski, Danely Lopez, Shayne O'Brien, Eliseo Rodríguez, Michelle Tavarez . “Chicken Salsalitos” - Latino Student Association: Sam Aviles, Jackie Germick, Liesel Gutiérrez, Joel Pineda, Leslie Rosales, Jonathan Sabatino . “Yosakoi” - Japanese Culture Club: Pamela Emengo, Julie Jo, Seung Yun Kim, Isshu Kikuma, Yvonne Li, Sarah Marasco, Min Pyo, Rie Tanaka, Marika Tani, Seungji Yang

8:00pm Newton 203: Screening of film “Tey” (“Today”): “A toast to life through an exploration of its morbid counterpart. The latest from the French/Senegalese director is a diasporic tale of the final day in the life of Senegalese returnee Satché”. Discussant: . Dr. Maria Lima, English Department, SUNY Geneseo

SATURDAY, April 26th

(All events today in MacVittie Student Union, “CU”)

8:00-noon Student Union Lobby: Registration

8:30-9:30am: Session A Undergraduate Panels

CU 319: Edwidge Danticat: The Immigrant Writer at Work (Chair: Hanna Richman, SUNY Geneseo) . Druse, Kristen (SUNY Geneseo): “Memorialization in ‘Brother, I’m Dying’” . Neill, Sean (SUNY Geneseo): “Archiving Haiti, Cataloging Trauma: Absence, Silence, and Misidentification in Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker” . Wight, Thomas (SUNY Geneseo): “Writing Transnationally: The Role of the Immigrant Writer”

CU 135 Hunt Room: Neo-Slave Narratives (Chair: Andrea Springer, SUNY Geneseo) . Abaya, Tatiana (SUNY Geneseo): “Les Petites: Camerounian Young Women in the Clutches of Society” . Iasiello, Stephanie (Emory University): “’12 Years a Slave’ and Representation of Suffering” . Thurston-Chase, Molly (SUNY New Paltz): “Jineterismo and its Effects on Women in Cuban Society”

CU 322-323: Pedagogies of Resistance (Chair: Paul Rehac, SUNY Geneseo) . Bryand, Vanessa (SUNY New Paltz): “Witnessing Inequality: Education as a Means to Transcend Borders” . Nagy, Mary Kate (SUNY New Paltz): “The Effects of Immigration on Education Initiatives of Sending and Receiving Countries: The Cases of Ecuador and the United States” . Veudna, Laury (SUNY New Paltz): “Why Incorporating Culture and Language in the Development of a Black Child is so Important”

9:45-10:45am: Session B Undergraduate Panels

CU 135 Hunt Room: “Americanizing” the First American: Dakota Writers in the Progressive Era (Chair: Erin Koehler, SUNY Geneseo) . Jordan, Brooke (SUNY Geneseo): “Native American Diasporas” . Moore, Lyndsay (SUNY Geneseo): “Native American Citizenship in the Works of Zitkala- Ša and Eastman” . Pino, Katherine (SUNY Geneseo): “Strength, Preservation, and Perseverance”

Saturday, April 26th (Continued)

9:45-10:45am: Session B Undergraduate Panels (Continued)

CU 319: Negotiating Otherness in Nation Building (Chair: Hannah Pruch, SUNY Geneseo) . Pina, Stephanie (SUNY New Paltz): “’ Yo hablo and speak en español and in English:’ Spanglish as a language of subversion” . Rumsey, Nikita (SUNY Geneseo): “Negotiating the National: visualizing Global Identity in Contemporary Islamic Art” . Saffioti, Joseph (SUNY New Paltz): “Caliban Revisited in the Age of Transnationalism”

CU 322-323: The Red Market: A Spatial and Anthropological Study of Global Kidney Trafficking (Chair and Discussant: Tushara Surapaneni, SUNY Geneseo.) . Naz, Tasmia (SUNY Geneseo): “Sellers” . Davidowicz, Erin (SUNY Geneseo): “Buyers” . Barber, Taryn (SUNY Geneseo): “Brokers” . Fernandez, Chloe (SUNY Geneseo): “Structural Violence”

10:45-11:00am Student Union Lobby: Coffee Break

11:00am-Noon: Session C Undergraduate Panels

CU 135 Hunt Room: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: Undoing the Single Story (Chair: Devon Poniatowski, SUNY Geneseo) . Ansong, Rachel (The City College of New York): “Inventing the West African Immigrant Woman: Laws of Traditions, Values, and Gender in “The Arrangers of Marriage” . Beach, Erin (SUNY Geneseo): “Adichie’s Akunna, Confined to a Single Story” . Meadows, Megan (SUNY Geneseo): “Not Knowing the Details”

CU 322-323: Globalization and Caribbean Identities (Chair: Thomas Wight, SUNY Geneseo) . Baez-Aquino, Marielayne (SUNY New Paltz): “Effects of Globalization in the Process of Denationalization of Dominicans of Haitian Descent” . Matthias, Brittany (SUNY New Paltz): “The Impact of Globalization on the Collective/Individual Identity of the Yucatec Mayan People” . Sánchez, Maritza (SUNY New Paltz): “Transnational Woman: Dominicanidad and Bachata Beyond National Borders” . Vargas, Megan (SUNY New Paltz): “The Racism and Racial Identity of Women in , and the Dominican Republic”

Saturday, April 26th (Continued)

11:00am-Noon: Session C Undergraduate Panels (Continued)

CU 355 Fireside Lounge: Revolutionary Poetics (Chair: Amelia Abdellatif, SUNY Geneseo) . Langer, Kelly (SUNY Geneseo): “Embracing Color, Welcoming Difference” . Miller, Rebecca (SUNY Geneseo): “Hybridity and Entanglement in Linton Kwesi Johnson's ‘Bass Culture’” . Ramadhan, Gentaro (SUNY Geneseo): “Jollof Rice or Yorkshire Pudding?: Connecting Food and Identity in Kadija Sesay's Irki”

CU 319: Strategies of Survival (Chair: Yaobi Adjegan, SUNY Geneseo) . Qadar, Aweis (SUNY Geneseo): “Somali Diaspora and Development” . Reed, Jessica, with Emily Bressner, Samantha Cramer, and Gabrielle Rosato (SUNY Geneseo): “Nutrition in Newly Industrialized Nations” . Zaiter, Pamela (SUNY Geneseo): “A Comparison of Social Welfare Programs in Brazil and Colombia for Racial Equality”

12–1:45pm Student Union Ballroom: Conference Keynote Speech: "Transnational Migrations and Global Diasporas"

Keynote Speaker: . Dr. Abril Trigo, Distinguished Humanities Professor of Latin American Cultures, Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Director, Center for Latin American Studies. The Ohio State University – Columbus, OH Luncheon, Hosted by the Office of the Provost (Advanced registration and lunch ticket required) . The Welfare Poets

2:00-3:00pm: Session D Undergraduate Panels

CU 319: Diaspora Histories (Chair: Gentaro Ramadhan, SUNY Geneseo) . Cummings, Sherri (CUNY Brooklyn College): “Palm Trees and Cement Dreams: The Migration of Afro-Caribbean Women from the British West Indies to , 1900-1950” . Donley, Eric (SUNY Plattsburgh): “ ‘safe from lying and brute force?': Double- Consciousness and Black Loyalists Across the Atlantic” . Maloney, Mathew (Nazareth College): “Africanisms in Colonial New York: Cultural Retention Among Enslaved Africans and Freedmen in the 17th and 18th Centuries”

CU 355 Fireside Lounge: Latin American Diasporas: More than One Origin, More than One Destiny (Chair: Songeun Shin, SUNY Geneseo) . Alvarez, Kevin (SUNY Geneseo): “New Land, New Job, New Home” . Malone, Sean (SUNY Geneseo): “Latin American Diasporas: Causes, Implications, and Recovery” . Martínez, Sarah (SUNY Geneseo): “The Jewish Emigration from Europe to Uruguay” Saturday, April 26th (Continued)

2:00-3:00pm: Session D Undergraduate Panels (Continued)

CU 322-323: Neo-Colonialism and Women in Sub-Saharan Africa (Chair: Fiona Connors, SUNY Geneseo) . Gaye, Awa (SUNY Geneseo): “Neo-Colonialism in Africa or Continental Imprisonment: Who to Blame?” . Luma-Haddison, Daisy (SUNY Geneseo): “African Women in Politics” . Sinon, Maria-Gratias (SUNY Geneseo): “Is Feminist Literature Right for Francophone Africa?”

CU 135 Hunt Room: Robert Hayden: The Aesthetics of Double-Consciousness (Chair: Nikita Rumsey, SUNY Geneseo) . Fallon, Shane (SUNY New Paltz): “Poetry and War: Yusef Komunyakaa's Quest for Humanity” . Conn, Mike (SUNY New Paltz): “Robert Hayden and the Black Arts Movement” . Horry, Luana (SUNY New Paltz): “Robert Hayden and Socially Transformative Poetic Tactics”

Conference Closing Events

3:15-4:15pm CU 135 Hunt Room: “Power to the Peoples of Color: Challenges and Triumphs in the Professional World” Panelists: . Dr. Kodjo Adabra, Assistant Professor, Dept. of Languages and Literatures, SUNY Geneseo . Liz Cho (BA Psychology, SUNY Geneseo ’11), Public Relations Associate, Nobu Restaurant Group. New York, NY . Nick Robertson, Lecturer, Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Dept. of Criminal Justice, Rochester Institute of Technology. Rochester, NY Moderator: . Dr. Anjoo Sikka, Professor and Dean of the Ella Cline Shear School of Education, SUNY Geneseo

4:30-5:30pm Student Union Ballroom: “From Exclusion to Power: NY Dairy Farmworkers Organizing for Justice” An informative session about the efforts of the Justice Farmworkers Campaign leaders to organize and improve the working conditions faced by immigrant farmworkers whose labor has helped New York become the leading yogurt producing region in the nation. Session Leader: . Carly Fox, Education and Advocacy Paralegal, Workplace Health and Safety Project, Worker Justice Center of New York. Rochester, NY