Challenges to Citizenship Series
Racism in
Latin America: A Symposium Honoring Dr. John Samuel Burdick
Syracuse University,
The Moynihan Institute of the Maxwell School and the Program on Latin
America and the Caribbean (PLACA) will host a symposium to discuss ‘Racism
in Latin America’ as a ‘Challenge to Citizenship’ in the region. The event
honors and celebrates the life, activism and intellectual productions of
Dr. John Burdick. ‘Racism in Latin America’ will bring together
leading thinkers on racialization, racial identity, black, Indigenous and
feminist politics, LBGQ+, religion, and the environment to explore racial
politics across the Americas. Dr. Burdick’s work defies neat conceptual
categories but according to Howard Winant, Burdick was an anti-racist
activist, feminist and student of the Afro Diaspora who opened new ways of
thinking about black cultural formations, identity, and
resistance. The symposium seeks to makes sense of the new racial
projects unfolding across the Americas and explore Dr. Burdick’s
work and contributions from a hemispheric perspective.
This event is organized
by Program on Latin America and the Caribbean (PLACA) and co-sponsored
by the Department of African American Studies and the Department of
Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
Friday,
February 12
1:00 – 5:15pm
Online via Zoom
1:00-1:15 – Welcome and Introductions
1:15-2:15 – Panel 1: Race, Gender, and the Alternative
Grammar of Anti-Racism
Panelists:
Patricia
Pinho, University of California, Santa Cruz
Kia Lilly Caldwell, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter Wade, University of Manchester
Moderator: Kwame Dixon,
Howard University
2:15-2:30 – Break with music provided by James Gordon Williams,
Syracuse University
2:30 – 3:45 – Panel 2: Reclaiming Citizenship:
Resistance, Power and Transnational Solidarity
Panelists:
Charmane Perry, The University of
Alabama at Birmingham
Zakiya Carr Johnson, ODARA Solutions
Jaimee Swift, Howard University
Kirssy González, Syracuse University
Moderator: James Gordon
Williams, Syracuse University
3:45 – 4:00 – Break with music provided by Milton R. Laufer,
Syracuse University
4:00 – 5:00 – Panel 3: Pan Africanism, Anti-Racism and the Law in
Latin America
Panelists:
Bernd Reiter, Texas Tech University
Tanya Hernandez, Fordham University
Howard Winant, University of California, Santa Barbara
Moderator: Silvio
Torres-Saillant, Syracuse University
5:00-5:15 – Closing Discussion and Remarks
Moderator: Kwame
Dixon, Howard University
For
more information, please contact Havva Karakas Keles, hkarakas@syr.edu
or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact Morgan Bicknell,
mebickne@syr.edu.
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