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XVIII INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
AFRICAN AND AFRO-AMERICAN CULTURE
SANTIAGO DE CUBA
Dedicated to:
Africa and its influence on the countries of the region
From 11th to 16th of
April 2019
The Fernando Ortiz African Cultural Centre, the Romulo
Lachatañeré Chair of Afro-Caribbean Studies, the Provincial Directorate of
Culture, the Directorate of International
Relations of the CAP, the Centre for Applied Linguistics, University of Oriente
and the UNESCO Chair in Afro-Ibero American Studies of the University of
Alcalá, have the pleasure of announce the
XVII International Conference on African and African-American Culture,
to be held in Santiago de Cuba from 11th to 16th of April 2019.
The event proposes to bond experts, scholars and
people interested in African and African American issues, opening a space for
reflection on the most urgent problems of the subject, from a multidisciplinary
perspective.
Researchers from the social sciences, artists,
doctors, filmmakers, musicians, choreographers, dancers, priests and
practitioners of folk religions of African origin and the public in general are
convened to establish a debate on the following topics:
I- GENERAL
THEMES
•
Pre-colonial Africa: social, political and economic
structures.
•
The Atlantic slave traffic. Its treatment in the
current historiography. The slave and forms of manumission. Palenque and
maroons.
•
Africans
attitude facing the trading.
•
Colonial Africa. Major European establishments. Creation
of countries and nationalities in Africa. Wars of Liberation. Africa's
relationship with the world.
•
The African contribution as a component of the
national identity of the Americas people and the Caribbean for an
acknowledgement of our historical subject.
•
Diachrony and synchrony in linguistic, philosophical,
historical and literary studies on Africa, Afro-America and Afro-Caribbean.
•
Culture and identity within the African continent.
•
Gender, race and cultural identity.
•
Africans and Afrodescendant in the New World.
•
Multiculturalism, acculturation and re-Africanization
as current trends to provide treat the African component in the New World.
•
The political and cultural relationship among Africa
and the peoples of the Americas and the Caribbean.
•
African religions and its contemporarily en the New
World
•
Contemporary African and American religions.
•
The so called universal religions in Africa. Catholic,
Protestants, Islamic, etc.
•
Current situation of the African traditional religions
in the continent.
•
Africa in the twenty-first century. The current
cultural problems of the continent.
•
Historiography written by Africans.
II- WORKSHOPS
A- Workshop, "Color and Shape"
Dedicated to all manifestations of the visual arts
where the African trace. Painters, sculptors, ceramists, engravers,
photographers may participate and attend to theoretical works about the
following topics:
•
The African influence in the visual arts of the New World.
Spheres of contacts and influence.
•
The visual arts in the African continent.
•
The artist's concept in Africa and America.
It may also participate with an exhibit of their work,
with no more than three pieces, which will be displayed in a collective hall
previously coordinated with the management of the event.
Registration regulations comply with the general
regulations of the event.
B- Workshop "Images"
Dedicated to ethnological film and video, that collects
the image and treatment given to the African influence on American culture, and
to the African cinema.
Participants can show films, videos and present
theoretical work on topics such as:
•
Literature, film and video. Treatment of African
descendants by the media.
•
Ethnological video. Its contribution to the knowledge
of African reality and its process of transculturation in the New World.
•
Audiovisuals and cinema perspectives in Africa.
Audiovisuals reception will be until December 15th,
2017. Must include a thematic and technique summary of the play and the
filmmakers data. Videos and other film materials may not exceed 30 minutes. The
Committees decision is unappealable.
Registration regulations comply with the general
regulations of the event.
C- Workshop "The Ancestral Rhythm"
Dedicated to music and dancing of African origin.
Choreographers, musicians, dancers, musicologists and
scholars in general may participate; they will discuss the following topics:
•
African music: history, evolution and current
situation in the continent.
•
The African influence in the music and dancing of the
New World. Analogies, differences, changes and creation process towards the
formation of the national music.
•
The African element as a base for staging musical and
dance works.
•
Present times of the music and dancing in Africa.
Performances not exceeding 10 minutes, with no more
than 4 dancers may be presented. In the case of groups that decide to
participate in full, scenic areas of the city will be provided to perform, being
understood that these functions are part of their exposure during the event and
will not be charged.
Registration regulations comply with the general
regulations of the event.
D - Workshop "Mask"
Dedicated to the theatre. The African influence, and
the afrodescendant on stage, to a contemporary view.
Actors, theatre directors, set designers and students
of theatre in general may participate; they can exchange experiences from the
following topics under discussion:
•
Presence of African elements in theatrical productions
•
African descent on stage, both as subjects of history
and as playwrights
•
The theatre in Africa.
•
African literature and its theatrical representation.
In the case of groups that decide to participate in
full, they will be provided scenic areas of the city to perform, being
understood that these functions are part of their exposure in the event, and
will not be charged. Registration regulations are those general regulations of
the event. In the case of theatre groups who wish to participate and prior
coordination with the management of the event, a special registration fee may
be established per group.
E. Workshop
AfroMelenas
Project and the African Cultural Center Fernando Ortiz
is proud to announce the first Cuban Expo for women of Afrodescendant, on
April, 2019. This exciting event will be
held in conjunction with the XVII International Conference of African
and African-American Culture in the Caribbean city of Santiago de Cuba. Presenters will offer interactive workshops
on beauty, health, relationships, and history, based on the particularities of
the black women, especially the Cuban women of today.
The event pretends to gather specialists, attendees,
academics and all interested people about styling and how to take care of the
natural Afro hair, creating a spot to reflect about the most urgent problems of
the general matters from a multidisciplinary point of view.
Our objective is to demonstrate to black women they look beautiful with their
natural hair, showing an ethnic style that also needs treatment for a healthy
development, using natural and easy- access products.
Professors in physical education, trainers,
nutritionists and all those that they have experience on the theme will be able
to participate, they can present works referred to the subject matter.
This workshop will treat about the home economy and
how to prepare a healthy food that favors not only the body but also the growth
and strengthening of the hair.
We summon to all that are interested in the topic to
establish a debate in the following workshops:
1.
Healthy
and happy: training and inner strength.
Dedicated to all the people that
take care of their health through a natural routine.
2. At
home: Healthy food
The participants will present about the following
questioning:
-
Does what we eat have influence in our hair?
-
Cuban cuisine and beauty.
3. Outfit,
style, fashion and beauty.
Like its name indicates, this workshop will extend
throughout on the use of the natural hair, focusing on the Afro style, its
care, types of hairdos, the Santiagueras’
woman's present-day style, the indiscriminate usage of products for the
stretching of the hair and the result in health.
Hair stylists, hairdressers and barbers that are
experienced on working the natural afro hair will be able to participate. They
can present shows of hairdos, exposing works about the theme.
4. Spiritual
health and well-being.
Live
in harmony with the nature, the benefits of practicing the traditional and
natural medicine, the energies and vibrations of the universe.
Botanists,
practitioners, trainers, professors and all those interested in the natural and
traditional medicine, tai-chi-chuan, chi-kung, reiky, etc.
III- SYMPOSIUM: Medicine and Culture
A space dedicated to the relationships established
between the medical sciences and disciplines of social sciences from the practice
of the Cuban internationalist medicine and other health agencies, which also
set intercultural contacts through the medical channel. A space dedicated to
the medicine doctors, where they can present their experiences, both in the
field of medicine, with works of their specialty and the challenges experienced
due to the cultural shock.
Papers could be presented on:
•
Traditional African medicine. Its evolution and
relationship with others in the New World
•
Tropical Medicine in Africa and
Afro-America
•
Homeopathic medicine.
•
The Cuban medical experience in Africa. Relations among
medicine and culture
•
Doctors without Borders and other similar
organisations in their practice of medicine and culture
•
The World Health Organization and its role in Africa.
•
Medicine, medical policies and human relationships.
•
Endemic diseases in Africa and America.
•
Disease and ethnicity.
•
Epidemics, viruses and control of the spread of
disease
•
IVº- GENERAL RULES OF PARTICIPATION
A- Reception of dissertations and communications
The papers should provide general information
includding: title, full name of the author or authors, scientific degree,
educational category, institution and country of origin, address, phone, fax,
e-mail.
The papers may not have more than two authors and they may not appear in
more than two publications.
The author or co-author who cannot attend the event
will receive his diploma of speaker and a disc with the publication if he pays
the registration fee.
In the case of the workshops, both theoretical works
and photographs of art exhibitions, abstracts and records of filmic works and
data of the exhibit must be submitted for inclusion in the Proceedings of the
Conference.
They thesis may have a maximum length of 12 pages - if
this length is exceeded, the paper will not be published - and 15 minutes of
presentation. The papers will be published on a DVD, for which it must be
delivered in digital format: double spacing, Arial 12 for the text and Arial 10
for bibliography and notes (the lastest will be placed at the end of the
document and its extension does not count in the number of pages).
Papers will be accepted until 15 January 2019.
Only the papers that meet the above requirements will
be published. The Organizing Committee is not responsible for the publication
of the works that arrive after the deadlines provided as admission or do not
meet the requirements of this announcement.
The verdict of the Scientific Committee and the
Editorial Department is unappealable and the it will be informed until the January
30th, 2019.
C-Workshops
In the case of visual artists, they should send a
short CV with no more than two pages and photographs of the exhibit they will
present for inclusion in the Proceedings; also, playwrights and dancers will
accompany the synopsis of their works, with a curriculum no more than one page;
and if it is a group, information about its history no more than three pages
D- Tickets
The Organizing Committee is not responsible with the
transportation from and to their provinces of origin.
E- Registration fee
Speakers and delegates: 200.00 CUC / MN
Students: 100.00 USD / MN
In the case of interested in participating during an
specific moment of the event there will be a different fee coordinated with the
direction of the event.
50.00 MN/CUC per workshop
30.00 MN/CUC per participation of one day during a
work commission.
NOTA, THE PAYMENT IS IN CUCS,
NO OTHER CURRENCY ALLOWED.
E- Accommodation
There will be modules of affordable accommodations in
hotels of the city, which may be requested through the Organizing Committee or
the tour operator Paradiso Agency.
F- Languages
English, French and Spanish
G-
Contacts
Dra. Marta E. Cordiés
Director: Fernando Ortiz African Cultural Centre
General Coordinator of the XVII Conference
Ave. Manduley No. 106 esq. A 5ta
Reparto Vista Alegre, Santiago de Cuba, CP: 90400
Telefax: (53-22) 642487
(53-22) 623893 (nights)
Lic. Maria Liduvina Bergues
Esp. / International Affairs
dquintana.dmesc@dpe.sc.rimed.cu
Lic. Martha Martinez Verges
President Scientific Committee
Dr. Luis Mancha
International coordinator
UNESCO Chair in Afroiberoamericanos Studies
Professional Congress Organizer (PCO):
Paradiso
Commercial Specialist
Paradiso turismo cultural
Santiago de Cuba
Email: paradiso@scsc.artex.cu
Phone: 53 22 620214/654814
Note: Please send
communications and acknowledgment through the three e-mail addresses to
facilitate prompt communication.
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