Rethinking Multiculturalism: Brazil, Canada, and the United States January 29 and January 30, 2010 Preliminary Program DAY 1 (Friday, January 29): 8:30 to 9:00: coffee 9:00 to 10:30: Welcome & opening plenary session: ‐ Bob Lovelace, Ardoch Algonquin First Nation ‐ Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies ‐ Tania Das Gupta, Founding Chair, Department of Equity Studies ‐ Paul Lovejoy, Harriet Tubman Institute ‐ Eduardo Canel, CERLAC ‐ Ambassador Américo Dyott Fontenelle, Consul‐General of Brazil in Toronto ‐ Gislene dos Santos (University of Sao Paulo ‐ USP): Human Rights and Discourses of Multiculturalism, USP & Founder, Chair in Multiculturalism 10:30‐10:45 coffee break 10:45‐12:15 concurrent sessions Multicultural Policy: Robert Maciel and Timothy Vine (University of Western Ontario): Redistribution and Recognition: Questioning Multicultural Approaches in Canada Alison Burns (York University): A Critical Examination of Canada's Decision to Boycott the Durban Review Conference Hijin Park (Brock University): Narrating the multicultural nation in the Asia Pacific century: The Role of Governon General Adrienne Clarkson Rita Liberato and Cecilia Rocha (Ryerson University): Food and Belonging: Exploring Cultural Food Security with an Indigenous Community in Brazil Comparative Indigeneity Beenash Jafri (York University): "Indian" from Where? Rethinking the Relationship Between Aboriginality, Diapora and Racialization Bonita Lawrence (York University): Erasing Indigeneity and Displacing Sovereignty: the Relationship between Canadian Multiculturalism and Indigenous People Zahir Kolia (York University): Apologies, Settler Melancholia and the Production of Temporal Transitions in Settler Colony 'Canada' Katherine MacDonald (York University): Living Culture: Indigenous Identity Construction in the Brazilian Amazon 12:15‐1:15 lunch 1:30‐3:00 plenary session (invited speakers) Jan Hoffman French (University of Richmond): The Power of Definition: Brazil's Contribution to Universal Concepts of Indigeneity Cecil Foster (University of Guelph): Racial Democracy and Official Multiculturalism: Onthologies of Blackness in Brazil and Canada Mariza Soares (Fluminense Federal University ‐ UFF): Multiculturalism in Brazil: looking backward and planning forward 3:00‐3:15 coffee break 3:15‐4:45 concurrent sessions Identity and Race: Patricia Landolt (University of Toronto) and Luin Goldring (York University): The Politics of Toronto Latin American Community Organizations, 1970‐2000: Between in‐group diversity and the ethnicizing imperative of state multiculturalism Douglas Cole Libby (Federal University of Minas Gerais ‐ UFMG): A Culture of Colors: Representational Identities Among Native‐Born Afro‐Brazilians in Eighteenth‐and Nineteenth‐Century Minas Gerais Nielson Bezzera (UFF): Baquaqua in Rio de Janeiro: Multicultural Experiences of the Atlantic World Vanessa Oliveira (York University): "The Angolan Empire": Brotherhoods and (re) construction of ethnicity in the diaspora Education ‐ I: Aparna M Tarc (York University): multicultural approaches to teacher education Anna Kirova (University of Alberta): Current and emerging trends in the critical theoretical perspectives on multicultural education Lucia E Yamamoto (Shizuoka University, Japan): Contextualizing the transnational families and their children's education in a multicultural society Regina Andrade and Andreya Navarro (Research Aid Foundation of Rio de Janeiro ‐ FAPERJ): QUESTÕES DE MULTICULTURALISMO E VULNERABILIDADE DA POPULAÇÃO DE CRIANÇAS E JOVENS DA Comunidade da Favela da Mangueira da cidade do Rio de Janeiro – Brasil 4:45‐5:00 coffee break 5:00‐6:30 concurrent sessions Policy on Indigeneity and Race Jessica Franklin (McMaster University): From Colour‐blindness to recognition: political pathways to new identity practices in Brazil Alexandre Vargem: O Estado brasileiro frente as Solicitacoes de Refugio: o caso dos Africanos (1998‐2006) Simone Ritta dos Santos (Porto Alegre City Hall & Social Aid and Citizenship Foundation (Fundacão de Assistencia social e cidadania): Os remanescentes de comunidades de quilombos do Rio Grande do Sul e a luta por reconhecimento: igualdade e diferença na esfera pública Luisa F. Schawartzm (University of Toronto) and Grazielle M. D. Silva (Harvard University): Unexpected narratives from Multicultural Policies: Translations of Affirmative Action in Brazil Yafet Tewelde (York University): Multicultural Genocide Education ‐ II: Fabiane Bravo: Multicultural Education in North/South Context: The Comparative Impact of Official Multicultural Legislation in Canada and Brazil Alexandre Da Costa (Queen’s University): Re‐imagining 'Race' through the Brazilian Curriculum: Teacher and Administrator Experiences with Implementing Law 10,639/03 Modesto Amegago (York University): Towards a More Inclusive Dance Education: A Multicultural Approach to Teaching Dance at York University May Bletz (Brock University): Ina von Binzer: Os meus romances: alegrias e tristezas de uma educadora alema no Brasil Discussant: Aparna M Tarc (York University): multicultural approaches to teacher education 6:30‐9:00 reception __________________________________________________________________ DAY 2: (Saturday, January 30th) 8:30 to 9:00: coffee 9:00 to 10:30: Morning plenary session Valter Roberto Silverio (Federal University of Sao Carlos ‐ UFSC): Title? Tania Das Gupta (York University): Becoming 'Canadian': Discourses of Race, Ethnicity, and Diaspora in Twice‐Migrated South Asian Canadians John Tofik Karam (DePaul University): I, Too, Am the Americas: A View from the Arab Diaspora in Brazil, Canada, and the United States 10:30‐1045 coffee break 10:45‐12:15 concurrent sessions The State, Space, and Gender: Simone Bohn (York University): Building up State Capacity as a way of redressing gender inequality: Female Rural Workers in Brazil Kia Caldwell (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Patricia Grossi (Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul ‐ PUC/RS): The Social Experience of Black Women Who Access Sexually Transmitted Diseases/AIDS Prevention and Treatment Programs in Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil Faisal Kutty (York University Osgoode Hall Law School): The Myth and Reality of Shari'a Courts in Canada: Multiculturalism, Gender, Religion, the Limits of Accommodation, Legal Pluralism and a Delayed Opportunity for the Indigenization of Islamic Law Rulings Naveen Girn (York University): Concretizing Canada: Landscapes of Legitimization and Arthur Erickson History: Brigitte Cairus (York University): Being Gypsy and Brazilian: migration, interculturality and ethnic politics in southeastern Brazil, 1936‐2007 Fernanda Martinez de Oliveira (Latino Issues Forum): Povos Indigenas e o Estado no Brasil: limites do sistema federal Maria Isabel Bellini and Marinez Garlet (PUC/RS): A protecao da crianca Kaingang: uma divida social Michael Poplyansky (York University): Conservative Progressives? Early Reactions Against Multiculturalism on the Political Left in Canada and the United States: The Ethnic Heritage Studies Act and Manitoba 12:15‐1:15 lunch 1:30‐3:00 plenary session (invited speakers) Hebe Mattos (UFF): Slavery and Coffee in Rio de Janeiro: the contemporary map of Jongo and the presence of the past Winfried Siemerling (University of Waterloo): Multiculturalism, diaspora, hemispheric studies Darien Davis (Middlebury College): The Oblique Gaze in the Land of the Future: Afro‐Brazilians and Jews in Modern Brazil 3:00‐3:15 coffee break 3:15‐4:45 concurrent sessions Indigeneity, Immigration, Identity and Nationhood: Jacqueline Brigagao and Isaac Machado (USP): Imigrantes brasileiras nos Estados Unidos: desafios e lutas cotidianas Sarah Thompson (Asssociated Mennonite Biblical Seminary): Mennonites in Movement: Learning from im/migration experiences, multiculturalism, international collaboration and solidarity Alexsander Gebara (UFF): Circularity in the creation of the idea of nation in Brazil (19th century): Indianism, 'race' and miscegenation among Brazilian elite and travelers Craig Ross (York University): Multiculture/Subculture: Two‐Spirits and Governance Literature and Music: Margarita Feliciano (York University): The “Hispanic‐Canadian” Mode in Artistic Creation Hugh Hazelton (Concordia University): Aqui me quedo: nuevas direcciones en la literatura latinoamericana actual Jorge Etcheverry (Grupo America y la Escuela de Santiago): Multiculturalism and 'Literatures of Lesser Diffusion: Chilean Literature in Canada Maria Figueredo (York University): Brazilian Jazz, Spanish American Poetry and Living in North America: The Diasporic Imagination in the Music of Luciana Souza 4:45‐5:00 coffee break 5:00‐6:30 concurrent sessions Literature and Visual Culture Rodolphe Solbiac (Universite des Antilles et de la Guyane Martinique): L'ecriture de Neil Bissoondath des annees 1980 et 1990: une contestation fictionelle du multiculturalisme canadien Ricardo Postal (University of Warsaw): Hibridismo, Identidade, Cultura Brasileira, Modernismo Bettina Judd (University of Maryland): Multicultural Mammy: Shame and Reclamation in the Aunt Jemina Figure in the work of Betye Saar, Renee Cox, and Kara Walker Kalli Paakspuu (York University): Writing the Body: The Hypertext of Photography Dance, Music, and Carnival: Pier Armstrong (Cal State Los Angeles): Comparative multiculturalism, implicit social contracts, and carnival narratives Adriano Bittar and Luciana Ribeiro (State University of Goias ‐ UEGO): ¿Eu Danço, me Pergunte Como? Multiculturalismo e Identidade no por qua? grupo de danca Flavia Alessandra (State University of Santa Cruz ‐ UESC): Speaking African': connective contributions from Brazil, Cuba, and the USA in the making of black musicality (first half of the twentieth century) Natasha Pravaz (Wilfred Laurier University): On How 'Born Again Brazilians' Reshape Music in Toronto 6:30‐8:00 dinner (Closing Remarks) * Brazilian consulate invited speaker: Paulo Roberto de Almeida (?) Vanderlei Lucentini and Artur Matuck (USP): The Sippereo Report (performance art‐video file) Transition to Tubman Institute video festival‐Hebe Mattos and Paul Lovejoy