Virtual Program
Tuesday, April 9th, 2024
5:00 Keynote, Kinder Building, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Guided Tour of the MFAH’s Latin American Art Collection
Mari Carmen Ramírez, Wortham Curator of Latin American Art
5500 Main Street, Houston
Registration for this event is required. Please Register at this link by April 2nd: https://forms.gle/EtSB7Pzhh69Lhws58
Wednesday, April 10th, 2024
9:45 Opening Remarks, Kyle Morrow Room
Dr. Fay Yarborough, Associate Dean of Humanities
10–11:30 Contested Monuments Panel, Kyle Morrow Room
Chair: Gabriel Miguel
Liliana López, “Otros o Nosotros: Conquest and Tradition in the Toledo Cathedral.”
Ginevra Bria, “Claude Lévi-Strauss Drawings. Contested Monuments 1935–1938, The Brazilian Kinships of Structures.”
Dru Sanders, “The Contested Memory of Heywood Shepherd.”
Commenter: Gerardo Gurza Lavalle
12–1:30 Lunch, History Department, 3rd Floor, Humanities Building
2–3:30 Contested Identity Panel, Kyle Morrow Room
Chair: William Gillispie
Cristiano José Steinmetz, “Invisible Surrealists and the Black Atlantic: the case of the 1932 magazine Légitime Défense.”
Letıćia Leme, “Arte moderna ‘feminina’ (francesa): narrativas em disputa na imprensa brasileira no século XX.”
Morgan Bettin-Coleman, “Bargaining with Blood: Mixed-Race Identity and the Legal Contestation of Enslavement in Nineteenth-Century Virginia.”
Violeta Romo Norquist, “‘Adopted Children, Children of the Heart’: narratives on legitimate and illegitimate adoption in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century in Mexico.”
Commenter: Moramay López-Alonso
3:30–4 Coffee Break
4–5:30 Contested Memory Panel, Kyle Morrow Room
Chair: Laura Vázquez Arreguín
Francisco Phelipe Cunha Paz, “Dor Negra, Herança Branca: As memó rias da escravidão e a lista do patrimônio mundial no Brasil (1980 – 2020).”
Rodrigo Pereira dos Anjos da Silva, “Eugenia brasileira: a necessidade de historicizar uma memória.”
Luana Saturnino Tvardovskas, “Memória e contraconduta na arte feminista negra do Brasil contemporâneo.”
Commenter: Laura Correa Ochoa
7:00 Dinner, Martel House, Rice University
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
9–10:30 Contested Archives Panel, Kyle Morrow Room
Chair: Erica Augenstein
Aldair Rodrigues, “Archives, Memory and Black Organization Collections: The Case of Edgard Leuenroth Achive.”
Alesson Ramon Rota, “Mapping Dissonant Heritage in Latin America: 2011–2023.”
José Luis Galván Hernández, “Memoria y archivos. Una propuesta metodológica para el estudio de los documentos judiciales de la Hacienda novohispana en el siglo XVIII.”
Mariana Gómez Villanueva, “La importancia de la memoria y las fuentes orales para la historia de las mujeres: el caso de las activistas católicas feministas en México (1970– 1990).”
Commenter: Sherwin Bryant
10:30–11 Coffee Break
11–12:30 Contested Spaces Panel, Kyle Morrow Room
Chair: Dionne Babineaux
Bruno Buccalon, “What is sacred in a forest? Afro-Brazilian rituals and their erasure at the Tijuca Forest during the 1940s.”
Elisa Pomari, “The industrial heritage narrative from a Latin American perspective: industrial migration, dark heritage, and the Anthropocene.”
Victor André Costa da Silva, “(Des)construir a narrativa histórica: repensando a alcunha da ‘Guerra dos Bárbaros’ e do ‘extermıńio’ indıǵena nas Capitanias do Norte (1680-1720).”
Talison Picheli, “Race, slavery, and the precariousness of freedom in nineteenth-century New Orleans and Rio de Janeiro: a comparative perspective.”
Commenter: Alexandre Pelegrino
12:30–2 Boxed Lunch, pick up outside of Kyle Morrow Room
12:30–2 Black Students Affinity Group Lunch
2–3:30 Contested Narratives Panel, Kyle Morrow Room
Chair: Talison Picheli
Kirsten Hilson, “Bridging the Gap: National Mythologies, Public Memory, and Professional Historians.”
Ricardo Pirola, “Raça, linchamentos e as lutas pela memória da abolição no Brasil.”
Taina Silva Santos, “A História das mulheres negras vista por elas mesmas e a contribuições do ativismo para a formulação da agenda historiográfica (Brasil-1970, 1980).”
Mário Eugenio Evangelista Silva Brito, “Harlow, Blake e Dike, a história colonial anglófona na primeira metade do século XX: crise, diversidade e a produção de uma história atlântica.”
Commenter: Alida Metcalf
4–5:30 Racial Geography Tour
Adrienne Rooney, Lynne Lee, and Marc Armeña
Meet at the main campus gates, at the corner of Sunset and Main