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Cross-Talk:
Conversations on
Race and Language

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

February 24-25 2022

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Cross-Talk: Conversations on Race and Language

Brown University’s Modern Languages ‘22 conference showcases panelists and participants discussing and dialoguing on issues of race and language in the field of modern languages. 


Please join us either virtually or in-person as we discuss and question how events related to race, racial justice and social justice have become transnational and impact the languages, literatures, and cultures that we study, teach, research and learn. The conference program includes engaging sessions on curriculum design and critical pedagogies, activism, transnational mobilities, racial politics, the Global South and several on translation. 

You may register here.


The conference is a collaborative event between the following departments and centers at Brown University -- Africana Studies, Brazil Initiative, Comparative Literature, East Asian Studies, French Studies, German Studies, Hispanic Studies, Italian Studies, Literary Arts, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, Slavic Studies, Middle East Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies and the Center for Language Studies.

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Keynote:

Antonia Carcelén-Estrada

Amazonian Indigenous and Black Pacific History: Intercultural Translation and Orality


In her keynote address, Professor Antonia Carcelén-Estrada (Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador and Sarah Lawrence College, New York) will discuss race and language in the context of oral histories and intercultural translation in the Amazon and the Black Pacific. She will compare her translational work in these two geographies, to highlight how orality operates differently for Afro-descendant-black women mobilizing memory in Ecuador's Esmeraldas Province in the Pacific and for the various Amazonian Indigenous nations defending the Living Forest from a colonial and depredatory resource extraction. What these projects show is that orality and intercultural translation feature prominently in these processes of resistance to a racial and linguistic coloniality.


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Schedule

Thursday, February 24, 2022

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Click here to download the schedule as a PDF. You may find a linked final schedule here.

Registration

1:45-3:45 pm

Opening Remarks

2:00 pm

Welcoming remarks by Zachary Sng, Professor of German Studies

Session 1: Race, Language and Curriculum Design

2:30-3:30 pm, Petteruti Lounge

Moderator: Zachary Sng
Facilitator for Virtual Questions: Jeremy Lehnen

Naemi McPherson, East Asian Studies, Brown University.

Promoting Anti-Racism in Japanese Language Education: Microaggressions in “Everyday Conversation”

Andressa Maia, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Brown University.

Transnational Racial Dialogues in an Accelerated Portuguese Course

Makana Kushi, Native American & Indigenous Studies, Brown University.

Supporting Indigenous Heritage Language Study

Session Two: Teaching Practices and Critical Pedagogies

3:45-4:45 pm, Petteruti Lounge

Moderator: Jane Sokolosky

Facilitator for Virtual Questions: Zachary Sng

Anke Biendarra, European Languages and Studies, University of California, Irvine.

Critical Pedagogies of Teaching Black Germany in the European Context

Jesse Van Amelsvoort and Marrigje Paijmans, European Studies & Dutch, University of Amsterdam.

Teaching Diversity at a Dutch University

Keynote Address

5:00 pm, Metcalf Research Building, Friedman Auditorium, 190 Thayer Street.

Kevin McLaughlin, Dean of the Faculty, Professor of English, Comparative Literature and German Studies, Brown University.

Welcoming Remarks

Jane Sokolosky, Director, Center for Language Studies, Brown University.

Introduction

Jeremy Lehnen, Associate Director, Center for Language Studies and Director, Brazil Initiative, Hispanic Studies and Portuguese and Brazilian Studies.

Virtual Moderator

Antonia Carcelén-Estrada, Universidad San Francisco de  Quito, Ecuador and Sarah Lawrence College, New York.

Amazonian Indigenous and Black Pacific History: Intercultural Translation and Orality

Reception

6:15 pm

Reception following keynote address

Schedule

Friday, February 25, 2022

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8:30-10:30 am

Session 3: Transnational Cultural Mobilities

9:15-10:30 am, Kasper Multipurpose Room

Moderator: Jeremy Lehnen

Facilitator for Virtual Questions: Jane Sokolosky

Roopam Mishra, Center for Language Studies, Brown University.

Tracing Mobilities through Dialogues of Power

Paulo Dutra, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of New Mexico.

Racionais MC’s, Ice Cube, and the Language of Rap

Andrew Colarusso, Literary Arts, Brown University.

Half-lives: Cagots, Cacos, and a Recrudescence of Medieval European Racism in Reggaeton

Silvia Bermúdez, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Remei Sipi Mayo and the Emergence of Black Feminisms in Contemporary Spain

Session Four: New Forms of Knowledge and Expression: Languages and/in Activism

10:45-11:45 am, Kasper Multipurpose Room

Moderator: Paulo Dutra

Facilitator for Virtual Questions: Elsa Belmont Flores

Katherine Goldman, Latin American & Caribbean Studies, Brown University.

Las Tesis and the Performance "A Rapist in Your Path": Translation and Resistance beyond Borders

Corine Tachtiris, Comparative Literature, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Beyond US-Centric Anti-Racism through Translation

Ana Marques Garcia, Department of Spanish & Portuguese, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Intersectional Pedagogy and Counter-Hegemonic Spanishness in "Ser mujer negra en España" (2018) by Desirée Bela-Lobedde

Lunch and Undergraduate Poster Presentations

11:45-1:00 pm, Kasper Multipurpose Room

Join undergraduates who will share their research and projects relating to indigenous languages as well as memory, history, jazz and public health. You may see their presentations here and find out more about their studies here.

Session Five: Racial Politics of Translation

1:00-2:00 pm, Kasper Multipurpose Room

Moderator: Anke Biendarra

Facilitator for Virtual Questions: Olga Blomgren

Adrian Hernandez-Acosta, Hispanic Studies, Brown University.

Translation Across the Black Atlantic: Lose Your Mother, a Case Study

Remo Verdickt, English Literature, KU Leuven, Belgium.

“The beat of the language of the people who had produced me”: Racialized Language in European Translations of James Baldwin

Nina Simon & Nada Al-Addous, Herder Institute, Leipzig University.

On the Potential of Cultural Studies: Reflections on the Question of Gorman's Poem's Translators for German as a Foreign Language

Session Six: Translating Culture and Reception Studies

2:15-3:15 pm, Kasper Multipurpose Room

Moderator: Olga Blomgren

Facilitator for Virtual Questions: Jeremy Lehnen

Le Li, Translation Studies, Binghamton University - SUNY.

What is “Chinese”? Politics of Global Prizes and Transnational Production

Jaeyeon Jeon, Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Is The Vegetarian Korean? What English Translation Allows and Withholds

Nishant K. Narayanan, Center of German Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India.

Unequal Conversations: Destabilizing Race and Language in Yoko Tawada’s “Das nackte Auge”

Session Seven: In Dialogue with the Global South – Race, Language, Literature, and Culture

3:30-4:30 pm, Kasper Multipurpose Room

Moderator: Jeffrey Niedermaier

Facilitator for Virtual Questions: Jane Sokolosky

Olga Blomgren, Center for Language Studies, Brown University.

Archipelagic Poetics and Narratives of Dis-location: Isaac Julien’s "Ten Thousand Waves" (2010)

Jay Gao, Literary Arts, Brown University.

The Legacy of the Avant-Garde: Haunting Language and Nation in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's DICTEE

Deanna Ren, Chinese Language & Literatures, Washington University, St. Louis.

Decolonizing Madness of the Mind and Body: Lu Xun's "Diary of a Madman" in Translation

Session Eight: Transdisciplinary Connections

4:45-6:00 pm, Kasper Multipurpose Room

Moderator: Jane Sokolosky

Facilitator for Virtual Questions: Olga Blomgren

Kevin Ennis, Portuguese & Brazilian Studies, Brown University.

Confronting Neocolonial Violence in Brazilian Extractivist Narratives

Samuel Johnson, Modern Languages & Literatures, University of Miami.

Extraction in the Amazon, Indigenous Media, and Intercultural Networks

Ahngeli Shivam, American Studies & English, Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Germany & Georgia State University.

Race, Language, and the Political Agenda

Yurika Tamura, East Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara.

Politics of Forgetting and "Americanization" in Contemporary Japanese Diasporic Discourses

Concluding Remarks

6:00 pm

Jeremy Lehnen, Director of the Brazil Initiative, Associate Director of the Center for Language Studies, Affiliated Faculty in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Hispanic Studies, Brown University

Reception

6:15 pm

Reception to follow concluding remarks.

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Register

Registration is Open!
To request special services, accommodations or assistance for this event, please contact the Center for Language Studies at languages@brown.edu or 401 863 5674 as far in advance of the event as possible. Thank you.

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Our Presenters

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Nada Al-Addous

Leipzig University

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Jesse van Amelsvoort

University of Amsterdam

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Silvia Bermúdez

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Anke Biendarra

University of California, Irvine

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Olga Blomgren

Brown University

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Antonia Carcelén-Estrada

Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador and Sarah Lawrence College, New York

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Andrew Colarusso

Brown University

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Paulo Dutra

University of New Mexico

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Kevin Ennis

Brown University

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Jay Gao

Brown University

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Katherine Goldman

Brown University

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Eva Gomez Garcia

Brown University and Nebrija University, Spain

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Adrian Emmanuel Hernandez-Acosta

Brown University

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Jaeyeon Jeon

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Samuel Johnson

University of Miami

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Le Li

Binghamton University - SUNY

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Andressa Maia

Brown University

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Ana Marques Garcia

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Makana Kushi

Brown University

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Naemi McPherson

Brown University

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Roopam Mishra

Brown University

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Marrigje Paijmans

University of Amsterdam

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Deanna Ren

Washington University in St. Louis

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Ahngeli Shivam

Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany & Georgia State University

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Nina Simon

Leipzig University

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Corine Tachtiris

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

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Yurika Tamura

University of California, Santa Barbara

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Remo Verdickt

University of Leuven, Belgium

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Nishant K. Narayanan

Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India and The English & Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad, India

Sponsors

The Center for Language Studies

The Cogut Institute: The Humanities Initiative Programming Fund

The Charles K. Colver Fund

In Collaboration with:

Department of Comparative Literature

Department of East Asian Studies

Department of French and Francophone Studies

Department of German Studies

Department of Hispanic Studies

Department of Italian Studies

Department of Portuguese & Brazilian Studies

Department of Slavic Studies

Department of Literary Arts

Native American & Indigenous Studies Initiative

Center for Middle East Studies

Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies

The Brazil Initiative

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Conference Locations

Petteruti Lounge and the Kasper Multipurpose Room are located in the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center at 75 Waterman St., Providence, RI 02912. The Friedman Auditorium is located in the Metcalf Research Building at 190 Thayer Street, Providence, RI 02912.

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Logistics

Brown University is located on College Hill, just east of Downtown Providence.

Getting to Brown

Brown is conveniently located near I-95 and I-195, TF-Green Airport, Providence Train Station, and about an hour from Boston Logan Airport. Click the links below for more information.

Traveling by Car:

Driving Directions

Traveling by Air:

TF Green, Boston Logan

Traveling by Train:

Amtrak Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority

Hotel

Guests may inquire about room availability at the special Brown rate at the Hampton Inn & Suites in Downtown Providence.

58 Weybosset Street

Providence, RI 02903

401 608 3500


Book online or via phone. The deadline to reserve at this rate is: February 02 2022.

Click here to make a reservation.

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