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<p style="text-align: center;">Events Speakers, Presentations and Schedule:</p>
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<h3 style="text-align: center;">Saturday, February 27, 2016</h3>
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9:30-9:50 am  <strong>Continental Breakfast/Café y bizcochitos</strong>

<strong>Speakers and presentations:</strong>

9:50-10:00 a.m.  <strong>Welcome &amp; Introductions</strong>

10:00-10:45 am  <em><strong>Rebranding Race: From Violent Rebels to Happy Natives in Post-Conflict Colombia</strong></em>

This project follows a group of (maroons), who, after four hundred years of marginalization, discrimination and displacement, become primary icons for tourism. <strong>Amber Henry</strong> is a Ph. D. Student in Anthropology and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.

10:45-11:30 am  <strong><em>Printed exclusions: Taller Puertorriqueño's Silk Screen Workshop and the Suppression of Blackness</em></strong>

Ph. D. candidate, U. of Texas at Austin, 2016, <strong>Tatiana Reinoza</strong> considers the complicated relationship between Puertoricanness and blackness during the 1970’s. She received an MA in Art History from U. of Texas, Austin, and is the recipient of several awards including the 2015 Inter-University Program for Latino Research-Mellon Dissertation Fellowship.

11:30-12:15 am <em><strong>The Criminalization of the Immigrant and Deportation as a Theater of Cruelty</strong></em>

<strong>David C. Brotherton</strong> is Professor of Sociology at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York. He is the author of numerous books and articles on such subjects as gangs, immigrants, deportation, social exclusion and the practices of resistance.

12:15 am-12:45 pm <strong>Plenary (Theater) Q &amp; A</strong>

12:45-2:00 pm   <strong>Lunch</strong> (Provided by La Finca Café Caterers, Dance Room, 2nd floor)

Lunchtime Roundtable -<em><strong> Shifting Identities in a Monolithic World: Implications for Social Workers</strong></em>

The discussion is moderated by<strong> Elena Marie DiLapi</strong> will take place in second floor cafeteria.  Up to 6 CEU's are available to LSW's in partnership with the Department of Social Work at La Salle University.  When you register please indicate if you are applying for Social Work CEU's.

2:00 - 2:45 pm  <strong><em>The Meanings of Afro-Latino: A Curatorial Perspective</em></strong>

<strong>Dr. E. Carmen Ramos</strong> Curator of Latino Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum. The presentation will explore the challenges, possibilities and approaches to addressing Afro-Latino issues through the lens of the visual arts.

2:45 - 3:00 pm          <strong>  Q &amp; A</strong>

3:00 - 4:45 pm     PANEL    <strong><em>Unpacking Hispañola in Context: Migration, Art, and Afro-Latinidad in Contemporary United States </em></strong>

Panelists:

Moderator: <strong>Abigail E. Lapin Dardashti</strong> is a Ph.D. candidate in Art History at the CUNY Graduate Center. Recently, she received a fellowship at the Smithsonian American Art Museum to study the work of contemporary Dominican-American artists. Lapin Dardashti is a Graduate Teaching Fellow at City College, CUNY, and an Adjunct Professor at Long Island University Post.  Lapin Dardasthi is the guest curator for the exhbition <a href="http://tallerpr.org/event/unpacking-hispanola/" target="_blank"><em>Unpacking Hispoñola</em></a> with Scheraze Garcia and Firelei Baez in Taller Puertorriqueño.

<strong>Sherezade Garcia</strong> is a New York City Based artist. Her work is the collections of El Museo del Barrio, The Museum of Modern Art (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic), and the National Palace of the Dominican Republic (Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic).

<strong>Firelei Baez</strong> received her M.F.A from Hunter College. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as el Museo del Barrio, Bronx Museum, Wave Hill, and the Studio Museum in Harlem.

<strong>Shaun Leonardo</strong> is a multidisciplinary artist who uses modes of self-portraiture as a means to convey the complexities of masculine identity and question preconceived notions of manhood. Leonardo is based in Brooklyn, New York City.

<strong>Gabriela Watson</strong> Aurazo is a Brazilian of Afro-Peruvian descent filmmaker and activist. She directed the documentary We, Afro-Peruvians (Brazil, Peru, 2012, 45min) screened in the USA, Latin American and Africa. Her research and productions are related to Afro-Brazilian and Afro-Peruvian identity, African Diaspora, black women, media and education.

<strong>Miriam Jiménez Román</strong> is Executive Director of AfroLatin@ Forum, a research and resource center focusing on Black Latin@s in the U.S. For over a decade, she researched and curated sociohistorical exhibitions at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, where she also served as the Assistant Director of the Scholars-in-Residence Program. She was the managing editor and editor of Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies and is co-editor of The Afro-Latin@ Reader: History and Culture in The United States, which received the 2012 American Book Award.

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