The organizing committee calls on all professors, researchers, students and all interested parties to submit proposals. The deadline for proposals is December 1, 2018.
Institutions and researchers will hold presentations of related research projects, workshops and courses. There will be themed visits to places of interest inside and outside of Havana.
Participants are encouraged to submit a proposal related to any of the following themes:
- Processes of Resistance and “Cimarronaje” (“Running away”): Slavery, illegal trafficking of slaves in Cuba and Africa. Expressions of Cimarronaje, uprisings, and other acts of rebellion.
- Culture, Identity and Otherness: Marginality, Ethnic Periphery in the Urban Profile, Remnants of African Linguistics, symbolic reflections as strategies for globalization, historical processes of transculturation, inter-ethnic affiliations as it relates to the restructuring of the social sphere.
- Orality. Adages, traditional songs, legends, patakíes[1], poetry, tongue twisters, riddles, cries, and oral narration.
- Archaeology. Study of Cimarron or “Palenque” sites, Study of slavery in urban and industrial settings, evidence of Hispanic-African transculturation at archaeological sites.
- Africa and its Diaspora
- The Role of the Museum when working with Communities in the Rescue of Traditions. Work done with children, youth and senior citizens, in museums and cultural centers, the care and conservation of heritage, work with sectors within the population with physical or mental disabilities
- Visual Anthropology
Proposals can be for the following formats: Presentations, conferences, panels, posters, video or multimedia (please specify the type of multimedia). Presentations, conferences, panels or posters should not exceed 15 pages (letter-sized, space and a half, 12-pt arial, with margins between 1 and 1/2 inches.)
Interested participants must complete registration then download and email the abstract form. Review and acceptance of proposals will be conducted on a rolling basis until December 1, 2018.
The workshop is hosted by La Casa De África, The Museum of the Slave Route Museum at Castle San Severino and sociocultural community project, Quisicuaba.
[1] Patakí is an oral narrative of the Lucumí faith (Lele, Ócháni. Diloggún Tales of the Natural World: How the Moon Fooled the Sun, and Other Santería Stories. Rochester, Vt: Destiny Books, 2011. Print.
