Provisional Programme23- 24 May 2016
The Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA)
University of Cape Town, Republic of South Africa
Provisional Programme
Monday 23 May
09.30- 10.00 Welcome
10.00- 11.00 Introduction and Notes
- Adrien DELMAS (IFAS), Giulia BONACCI (IRD, URMIS), Shamil JEPPIE (HUMA, University of Cape Town) and Jean Albergel (IRD)
11.00- 12.00 Panel 1: Contours of a Cuban Pan-Africanism I
- José Luis MARTàN ROMERO (Universidad de La Habana) : Cuban Health Collaboration in Africa. The experience of Health National School of Cuba and the Impact of Solidarity in the Formation of its Staff Culture of Work
- Agustàn LAÓ MONTES (University of Massachusetts) : Diverse Discourses and Politics of Pan-Africanism: Comparing Cuba, Brazil, and Venezuela
12.00- 13.30 Lunch
13.30- 15.00 Panel 2: Imagining and Experiencing Africa I
- Karo MORET MIRANDA (Universidad Pompeu Fabra) : Ecué Yamba Ó, hermeneutical Juego by Alejo Carpentier
- Marzia MILAZZO (Rhodes University, Vanderbilt University) : Disappearing Blackness: Transculturation and Fernando Ortiz’s Por la integracioÌn cubana de blancos y negros (For a Cuban Integration of Whites and Blacks)
- Kali ARGYRIADIS (IRD, URMIS) : Cubanos en Nigeria, nigerianos en Cuba: los actores polàticos, cientàficos y religiosos de la construcción de una filiación
15.00- 15.15 Coffee break
15.15- 16.45 Panel 3: Imagining and Experiencing Africa II
- Joà£o Felipe GONà‡ALVES (Universidade de Sà£o Paulo) : Across the Straits and the Ocean: Cuban-American Connections with Africa
- Emma GOBIN (Université Paris VIII) : Between a Renewed Cuban Africanism and a Nigerian Panafricanism: Reflections on Contemporary Religious Collaborations
- Nahayeilli B. JUàREZ HUET (CIESAS) : From ‘Negro Brujo’ to Cultural Patrimony: Transnational Circulation of the ‘Orisha Tradition’ between Nigeria and Cuba
16.45- 17.45 Itinerary
- Pablo RODRàGUEZ RUIZ (Instituto Cubano de Antropologàa) : Hacer antropologàa en un contexto de conflicto armado. La experiencia de la investigación multidisciplinaria acerca de la cuestión nacional en Angola
Tuesday 24 May
09.00- 10.30 Panel 4: Contours of a Cuban Pan-Africanism II
- Emmanuel ALCARAZ (Université Paris X) : Las relaciones entre Algiers y Cuba desde 1962 hasta 1965 a los origenes de la politica cubana en Africa
- Bernardo J.C. ANDRE & Héloise KIRIAKOU (Paris IV Sorbonne, Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne, IMAF) : “The Cuban Internationalism” to serve the “Brothers” parties
Adrien DELMAS (IFAS)
Cuba against Apartheid
10.30- 10.45 Coffee break
10.45- 12.15 Panel 5: Contours of a Cuban Pan-Africanism III
- Michel LUNTUMBUE (GRIP) : The Congo: First Crossroads of Cuban Influence in Africa?
- Delmas TSAFACK (University of Dschang) : The Cuban Presence in Equatorial Guinea from 1969 to Today: Motivations and Legacies
- Yonas ASHINE (Makerere University, Addis Ababa University) : Friendship Square and Cuba Camp in Addis Ababa. Narrating the Ethio-Cuba Relations in the Age of Two Successive Developmentalisms in Ethiopia
12.15- 13.45 Lunch
13.45- 14.45 Panel 6: Afro-Cuban Rhythms and Exchanges
- Charlotte GRABLI (EHESS) : Atlantic Dialogues: Sound Correspondences and the Congolese Recreation of Afro-Cuban Music
- Elina DJEBBARI (King’s College) : Cold War and Cultural Policies: Musical Exchanges between Cuba and West Africa, 1960s-1970s
14.45- 15.00 Coffee break
15.00- 16.30 Concluding Remarks and Open Debate
- Giulia BONACCI, Kali ARGYRIADIS, Pablo RODRàGUEZ RUIZ, Shamil JEPPIE, Adrien DELMAS
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