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The Siddis of India and the African Diasporas in Asia
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For more details contact Jean-Pierre Angenot [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Goa, India, from 9th to 20th of January 2006 at The
International Centre, Goa, India [see:
www.internationalcentregoa.com ]

Promoted by

* THE TADIA SOCIETY [The Society for Research, Culture, Education 
  and Development of the African Diaspora in Asia (TADIA)], 
  associated with the UNESCO Slave Route Project, India.

The Siddi or Siddhi people are Indians of mainly North-East
and East African descent, whose ancestors arrived in India
from the 1st to the 19th century. The Siddis came from Africa
as slaves, soldiers, sailors and merchants. The earliest
African presence in India was on the Konkani Coast as a
result of the Arab slave trade. The 17th century saw the
largest influx of Siddis, as many were sold to Hindu princes
by Arab and Portuguese slave traders, and mainly used as
domestic servants and farm labourers. Some Siddi slaves
escaped into the forests to form their own communities.
Siddis occasionally rose to prominence — a few rulers of
Bengal in the 15th century were Siddis, and during the
British colonial period Siddis attained military and
governmental leadership positions. Rough estimates put their
population at 20 to 30 thousand, mostly living in the state
of Gujarat. Since they are generally dark-skinned, they
occupy the bottom rung of the Indian caste system, and exist
mainly on the margins of Indian society. Siddis have adopted
the indigenous religions (most Siddis are Muslim), food, and
customs of India; though remnants of their African heritage
are retained in their music. Siddis are employed mainly in
the agricultural sector. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siddi

Co-promoted by

* FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF Rondônia - UNIR, Porto Velho, Brazil 
* Moulana AZAD NATIONAL URDU UNIVERSITY - MANUU, Hyderabad, India 
* National Law School of India University - NLSIU, Bangalore, India 
* KARNATAK UNIVERSITY - KUD, Dharwad, India 
* UNIVERSITY OF ALCALA, Afro-Ibero-American Studies, Madrid
* University of California at Los Angeles - UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
* Institute for Technical Support to Third World Countries, Brasília
· ALIANCA BRASIL-ÍNDIA, Londrina, Brazil

Sponsored by

* FORD FOUNDATION, New Delhi
* THE PRINCE CLAUS FUND FOR CULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT, Amsterdam
* CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION, Lisbon

CO-ORGANISERS:

* Kiran Kamal Prasad (The TADIA Society & Jeeta Vimukti 
  Karnataka Organisation, Bangalore, India)
* Jean-Pierre Angenot (Federal University of Rondônia, Brazil)

Members of the organiSation steering committee :

* Francis Guntipilly (The TADIA Society & Centre Ashirvad, 
  Bangalore, Karnataka, India)
* Rustom Bharucha (Writer, Kolkata, West Bengal, India)
* Geralda de Lima Angenot (CEPLA Research Centre, Federal 
  University of Rondonia, Guajara-Mirim, Brazil)
* Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy (University of California at 
  Los Angeles, USA) 

PROGRAMME SCHEDULE and TIMETABLE:

* Academic Discourses: 10-14 January 2006
* Interaction day between Scholars and Siddis
  15 January 2006
* Festival of African and Afro-diasporic 
  Song, Music, Dance and Drama: 15-18 January 2006
* Festival of African and Afro-diasporic Cinema:
  15-19 January 2006
* Workshop on Socio-Economic Development Strategies
  for Siddis: 16-19 January 2006
* History Tour: from 20 January 2006

MONDAY 9 JANUARY 2006

AFTERNOON 

>From 12.00      : ARRIVAL OF DELEGATES AT INTERNATIONAL CENTRE, GOA
13.00           : LUNCH                                                 
14.00 - 18.00   : REGISTRATION
from 14.00      : EXPOSITION OF AFRICAN AND AFRO-DIASPORIC PICTURES
                  (private collection of Edouard Vincle)
19.00           : WELCOME RECEPTION 
                : performance of  the Sidi Goma, Black Sufis of
                  Gujarat musical group **.

Tuesday 10 JANUARY 2006

08.00            : BREAKFAST
08.45 - 09.45    : REGISTRATION

09.45 - 11.00    : OPENING CEREMONY

Master of Ceremony Francis Guntipilly (The TADIA Society &
Centre Ashirvad, Bangalore, India). Chairperson: Jean-Pierre
Angenot (Federal University of Rondônia, Brazil) Chief Guest:
Margaret Alva, Winner of the 2005 International Nelson
Mandela Award for Minority Empowerment, United Nations, New
York. Ali Moussa Iye, Chief, UNESCO Slave Route Project,
Division of Cultural Policies and Intercultural Dialogue,
Paris Miguel Neneve, International Assessor of the Rector,
Federal University of Rondonia, Brazil. Luis Beltran , UNESCO
Chair on Afro-Ibero-American Studies, University of Alcala de
Henares, Madrid, Spain. Clodomir Santos de Morais, founder of
the Institute for Technical Support to Third World Countries,
Brasilia, Brazil. John Kosta Siddi, President, TADIA Society,
a Project associated to the UNESCO Slave Route Project,
India. Farida Al Mumbrik Sidi, Vice-President, TADIA Society.
Kiran Kamal Prasad, co-organiser of the conference

11.30 - 12.45    :  Keynote address 1 (Hall A) Chairperson
and presenter: Rustom Bharucha (writer, Kolkata, India) *
Gwyn Campbell McGill University, Montreal, Canada "The
Afro-Asian diaspora: Myth or reality?"

14.00 – 16.00: THE WESTWARDS AND THE EASTWARDS AFRICAN
DIASPORAS (Hall A) Chairperson: Luis Beltran, UNESCO chair on
Afro-Ibero-American Studies, University of Alcala, Madrid,
Spain * Carlos Moore, The University of the West Indies,
Republic of Trinidad & Tobago "Toward a new Pan-Africanism
for a globalized world" * Sheila S. Walker Afrodiaspora,
Inc., Washington, DC, USA “Mozambique kingdoms with Congo
queens: The unsuspected pan-africanism of the Americas”.
* Carole Boyce Davies African-New World Studies, Florida
International University, Miami, USA. "The encyclopedia of
the African diaspora: An overview". * Claudio C. Pinheiro
Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil "Translating
worlds, inventing empires: Reflections on colonial projects,
language and slavery at the early modernity Portugal"

16.30 - 17.30    : GENERAL DISCUSSION, Coordinator: Rustom
Bharucha (Writer, Kolkata, India)

20.30            : VIDEO SESSION:  AISHA BILKHAIR KHALIFA,
"Spirit Possession Practices in the United Arab Emirates".
Benigna Zimba, "Slave Routes and Oral Tradition in
Southeastern Africa: History in Images" (60 minutes).

WEDNESDAY 11 JanUARY 2006

09.00 - 10.00    :  Keynote address 2 (Hall A)

Chairperson: Jean-Pierre Angenot (Federal University of
Rondonia, Brazil) Ali Moussa Iye, Chief, UNESCO Slave Route
Project, Division of Cultural Policies and Intercultural
Dialogue, Paris. "The UNESCO Slave Route Project: New
orientations".

10.30 - 13.00    : THE SIDDIS IN ANDHRA PRADESH (Hall A)
Chairperson: Bonginkhosi A. Bhutana Sikhondze (University of
Swaziland, Kwalusemi). Fitzroy Andre Baptiste, University of
West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, West Indies. "African-descended
communities in the Indian sub-continent: from invisibility to
visibility". Ababu Minda Yimene Max-Plank Institute, Halle,
Germany "Dynamics of ethnic identity among the Siddis of
Hyderabad". Rekha Pande, Moulana Azad National Urdu
University, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. "The
socio-cultural world of the Siddi women of Hyderabad",
Shahida Murtaza Moulana Azad National Urdu University,
Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India. "The status of girls among
the African diaspora in Hyderabad". Nicholas Glean.
University of Sunderland, United Kingdom. "Deccani historical
discourse and the Siddis: An introductory examination of the
representation of the Siddis in historical literature". 

14.30 - 16.30    :  THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE NEAR EAST AND
IN THE MIDDLE EAST (Hall A) Chairperson: Manolo Florentino
(Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil).   Aisha
Bilkhair Khalifa Harvard University, Boston, USA "Secrecy and
the circulation of knowledge among African musical groups in
the United Arab Emirates". Ehud R. Toledano Tel-Aviv
University, Israel "Taming the new with the familiar:
Enslaved Africans in the Ottoman empire". Galia Sabar Tel
Aviv University, Israel "New forms of slavery or unique
communities of international migrant workers? Sub-Saharan
Africans in Israel: 1984-2004". Esma Durugonul Akdeniz
University, Antalya, Turkey "Afro-Turks in the region of
Antalya"

or 

14.30 - 16.30    : HYBRID AFRICAN IDENTITIES (Hall B)
Chairperson: Teotônio R. de Souza (Universidade Lusófona de
Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal)  Catherine M. Miller
IREMAM-CNRS, Aix-en-Provence, France "An African diaspora
within an Afro-Arab country : West Africans in the Sudan"
Benigna Zimba Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo, Mozambique
"Consumption of female cloth:  An aspect of Mozambique and
Indian cultures (early century to ca. 1950s)". Miguel Neneve
Federal University of Rondonia, Brazil "Literature as means
of decolonization: African literature in Portuguese" Michael
Weeder St Philip's Rectory, Capetown, South Africa "Naming
the dead: the challenges surrounding the uncovering of a
slave burial ground in Cape Town".

17.00 - 18.30    : THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE NEAR EAST AND
IN THE MIDDLE EAST 2 (Hall A) Chairperson: Ineke van Kessel
(African Studies Centre, Leiden, Netherlands) Niambi
Cacchioli University of London, Birkbeck College, United
Kingdom "The hidden narrative: Representations of African
slavery in Persian memoir literature".  Fitzroy Andre
Baptiste University of West Indies, Mona, Jamaica, West
Indies "Habshis in late 18th C.E. Afghanistan: A research
note" Vittorio Morabito University of Catane, Italy "Contacts
between Ethiopia, Yemen and India in 17th century"

or

17.00 - 18.00    : AFRO-ASIAN INTERFACES (Hall B)
Chairperson: Eva Maria Sebestyen (Eotvos Lorand University,
Budapest, Hungary). Jonathan R. Walz University of Florida,
Urbana, USA "Afroasian interfaces: Archeological perspectives
in connections and diaspora". Edouard Vincke Belgian
Cooperation Ministry, Brussels, Belgium "Gestures with the
hands: An anthropological reading and a method for an
intercultural comparison (India-Mozambique-Congo)". Jeanette
Pinto Sophia College & The Heras Institute of Indian History
and Culture, Mumbai, India "African Slavery and Christian
humanism in Portuguese Goa". 

18.30 - 19.30    :  GENERAL DISCUSSION, Coordinator: Rustom
Bharucha (Writer, Kolkata, India). 

20.30            :  VIDEO SESSION : Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy
"From Africa to India: Sidi Music in the Indian Ocean
Diaspora" (74 minutes). "The Sidi Malunga Project:
Rejuvenation of the African Musical Bow in India" (46
minutes)

THURSDAY 12 JANUARY 2006

09.00 - 10.00    :  Keynote address 3 (Hall A) Chairperson:
Francis Guntipilly (TADIA Society & Centre Ashirvad,
Bangalore, India)  Teotonio R. De Souza Universidade
Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Portugal "”Alforria"
before abolition of slavery in Goa: 17th-18th Centuries”

10.30 - 13.00    : THE SIDDIS IN MAHARASHTRA (Hall A)
Chairperson: Maude Dikobe (University of Botswana, Gaborone,
Botswana) * Beheroze Shroff University of California at
Irvine, USA "Sidis in Bombay" * John E. McLeod University of
Louisville, USA "Shifting marriage-patterns among the Sidis
of Janjira and Sachin" * Anuradha Bhattacharjee Delhi "Jews
in Siddi Janjira" * Ivan Vander biesen Catholic University of
Leuven, Belgium "The economic basis for acculturation
processes in the 19th century Indian Ocean: the importance of
the Omani-Zanzibar connection with the Indian Subcontinent" *
Clifford J. Pereira Black & Asian Studies Association,
London, United Kingdom "Return to Africa: The 'Bombay
Africans' and the Freretown settlement". 

14.30 - 16.30    : THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
(Hall A) Chairperson: Oziel Marques da Silva (Federal
University of Rondonia, Brazil) * Abdul Sheriff & Arnold J.
Temu Zanzibar Museums The Open University of Tanzania,
Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania "The 'Zanzibaris', an African
diaspora in South Africa: a puzzle" * Gwyn Campbell McGill
University, Montreal, Canada "The significance of the
Malagasy slave trade in the Indian Ocean" * Beatrice Nicolini
Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan, Italy "A
glimpse to Indian merchant communities in Zanzibar during
1800: the Topan family through British archive sources" *
Bonginkhosi Sikhondze University of Swaziland, Kwaluseni,
Swaziland "The Indian ocean theatrical social, economic and
politial dynamics contribution to the Indian and Atlantic
African diaspora in the 16th and 19th centuries". 

or

14.30 - 16.30    : THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN LATIN AMERICA AND
THE CARRIBEAN (Hall B) Chairperson: Geralda de Lima Angenot
(CEPLA Research Center, Federal University of Rondonia) *
Luis Beltran UNESCO chair on Afro-Ibero-American Studies,
University of Alcalá, Madrid, Spain "Iberian American African
heritage" * Maude Dikobe University of Botswana, Gaborone,
Botswana "Crossing borders: Gender and ethnicity in calypso,
the case of Dropatee Ramogonnai" * Kabengele Munanga
University of Sao Paulo, Brazil "The contemporary descendants
of enslaved Africans in Brazil: Current situation and
problems" * Manolo Florentino Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil "Comparative aspects of the traffic of
Africans to Brazil (18th – 19th Centuries)". 

17.00 - 18.30    :  THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
2 (Hall A) Chairperson: Esma Durugönül (Aknediz University,
Antalya, Turkey) * Tracy Sharpley-Whiting Vanderbilt
University, Nashville, USA "Reunion Island, the black
diaspora, and the new Europe". * Edward L. Powe Researcher,
Madison, USA "Songoru, a black leader in the Maldives". *
Daniella Police Michel University of Mauritius, Reduit,
Mauritius "From the slave of African descent to Mauritian
Creole: the new anthropos". 

or

17.00 - 18.30    : THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN LATIN AMERICA AND
THE CARRIBEAN 2 (Hall B) Chairperson: Kabengele Munanga
(University of São Paulo, Brazil). * Eva M. Sebestyen Eotvos
Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary "Angolan roots in a
North East Brazilian umbanda cult" * Catherine Barbara Kempf
& Mary L. Galvao Federal University of Rondonia,
Guajara-Mirim, Brazil "Fortune and misfortune of a 'mocambo'
in the Bahian Reconcavo" * Eduardo Judas Barros State
University of Londrina, NEAA, Brazil "African diaspora in
Brasil: The negro front and the black movement" Mary L.
Galvao & Catherine Barbara Kempf State University of Bahia,
Salvador, Brazil & Federal University of Rondonia "Quilombola
midwives of the Bahian Reconcavo: Language, rituals and
symbols". 

18.30 - 19.00     :  GENERAL DISCUSSION, Coordinator: Rustom
Bharucha (Writer, Kolkata, India)

20.30             : 4 BOOK LAUNCHES: (a) Kiran Kamal Prasad
(2006). In Search of an Identity: An Ethnographic Study of
the Siddis in Karnataka. Bangalore: Jana Jagrati Prakashana.
179 pp. (b) Kenneth X. Robbins & John E. McLeod, eds. (2006)
African Elites in India: Habshi Amarat. Ahmedabad: Mapin
Publishers (c) Nicolini, Beatrice. Makran, Oman and Zanzibar:
Three-Terminal Cultural Corridor in the Western Indian Ocean
(1799-1856). Islam in Africa, 3. Leiden, Holland: Brill
Academic Publishers. (d) Benigna Zimba, Edward Alpers & Allen
Isaacman (2005). Slave Routes and Oral Tradition in
Southeastern Africa. FILSOM Entertaiment, Maputo.

22.30            :    VIDEO SESSION

SERGIO CAMPOS & NATACHA ROMAO: “Osmosis: Karnataka Siddis”
(35 minutes)

FRIDAY 13 JANUARY 2006

09.00 - 10.00     :  Keynote address 4 (Hall A) Chairperson:
Fitzroy Andre Baptiste (University of West Indies, Mona,
Jamaica, West Indies) LaToya Shanae Beck University of
California, Berkeley, USA "African presence or African
diaspora: Double consciousness and the African diaspora". 

10.30 - 13.00 : THE SIDDIS IN KARNATAKA 1 (Hall A)
Chairperson: Benigna Zimba (Eduardo Mondlane University,
Maputo, Mozambique) Pashington Obeng & Henry John Drewal
Harvard University & University of Wisconsin- Madison, USA
“Religion and arts of Siddis of Karnataka”

* Francis Guntipilly The TADIA Society & Centre Ashirvad,
Bangalore, India 'Siddis and Jesuits in Mundgod' * Sonia
Miegakanda Bouketo Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales, Paris, France "The evolution of the status
of the Karnataka Siddis from the 15th Century to at the
present time". Timothy D. Walker University of Massachusetts,
Dartmouth, USA "Abolishing the slave trade in Portuguese
India: Documentary evidence of popular and official
resistance to crown policy, 1842-1860

14.30 - 16.00: THE SIDDIS IN KARNATAKA 2  (Hall A)
Chairperson: Miguel Neneve (Federal University of Rondonia,
Brazil) * Pramod B. Gai Karnatak University, Dharwad "DNA
Profiling of Siddi of Karnataka" * Prakash V. Patil
Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, Belgaum, Karnataka "Pattern
of anemias in Siddis of Karnataka by blood analysis" * 
Valdir Vegini, Selmo A. Apontes & F. da Silva University of
Joinville, Brazil, Federal University of Acre & CEPLA UNIR,
Brazil "Some phonetic and phonological peculiarities of the
Siddi-Konkani language".

or

14.30 - 15.30: THE AFRICAN DIASPORA IN THE FAR EAST (Hall B)
Chairperson: Aisha Bilkhair Khalifa (Harvard University,
Boston, USA) * Ineke van Kessel African Studies Centre,
Leiden, Netherlands "African soldiers in the Netherlands East
Indies (Indonesia)" * Kim Bok-Rae Center for International
Area Studies, Seoul, South Korea "African presence in Korea"

16.30 - 17.30    : Hall A session continuation Chairperson:
Jacinta Castelo Branco Correia (Federal University of
Rondonia, Brazil) * Geralda de Lima Angenot & Oziel Marques
da Silva CEPLA Federal University of Rondonia, Brazil "The
Portuguese and the African influences on the Siddi-Konkani
language" * Jean-Pierre Angenot & Selmo Azevedo Apontes
Federal University of Rondonia & Federal University of Acre,
Brazil "The influence of the Dravidian sub-apical palatal
articulation type on the retroflexed consonants of the
Indo-Aryan Siddi-Konkani dialect". 

17.30 - 18.30    :  GENERAL DISCUSSION, Coordinator: Rustom
Bharucha (Writer, Kolkata, India)

20.00            :    VIDEO SESSION :  Sheila Walker
"Scattered Africa: Faces and Voices of the African Diaspora"
(55 minutes) * Beheroze Shroff "We´re Indian and African:
Voices of the Sidis" (22 minutes) and "Voices of the Sidis:
Ancestral Links"(26 minutes). 

SATURDAY 14 JANUARY 2006

09.00 - 10.00 :  Keynote address 5 (Hall A) Chairperson:
Rustom Bharucha (Writer, Kolkata, India)* Kiran Kamal Prasad
The TADIA Society & Jjeeta Vimukti Karnataka Organisation,
Bangalore, India "Race, caste, class: the dilemmas
confronting the Siddis in Karnataka".

10.30 - 13.30 : THE SIDIS IN GUJARAT AND THE SHIDIS IN
PAKISTAN (Hall A) Chairperson: Abdul M. Sherif (Zanzibar
Museums, Tanzania) * Amy Catlin-Jairazbhoy University of
California, Los Angeles, USA "Consequences of international
touring among Sidis of Gujarat: A developmental perspective"
* Sabir Badal Khan University of the Studies of Naples, Italy
"On the music of the Shidis in Pakistan" * Abdulaziz Y. Lodhi
Uppsala University, Sweden "Linguistic evidence of Bantu
origins of the Sidi of Gujarat and the Shidi of Balochistan"
* Pedro Machado New York University "The African slaving and
slavery worlds of Gujarati merchants: the eighteenth and
nineteenth centuries" * Rizwan Kadri, Shree Swaminarayan Arts
College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India "African Sidisi diaspora
in Gujarat and their cultural contribution". 

14.30 - 16.00: SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE SIDDIS 1
(Hall A) Chairperson: Francis Guntipilly (TADIA) * Clodomir
S. de Morais Institute for Technical Support to Third World
Countries, Brasilia, Brazil "Integrated system of
capacitation and scientific researchs for the regional
development" * Jacinta C. B. Correia Federal University of
Rondonia, Brazil "Learning from Africa" * Henry John Drewal &
Pashington Obeng University of Wisconsin- Madison Harvard
University, Boston, USA "Stitching and survival: The Siddi
women's quilting cooperative of Northern Karnataka"

16.30 - 17.30    : SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF THE SIDDIS 2
(Hall A) Chairperson: Clodomir Santos de Morais (Institute
for Technical Support to Third World Countries, Brasilia,
Brazil) * S. Japhet National Law School of India University -
NLSIU, India a piece on the socio-legal situation of the
Karnataka Siddis * Rachana Govil Deputy Director, Sports
Authority of India, New Delhi & Arjuna Awardee "Impact of
sports on socio-economic status of Siddi community in India". 

17.30 - 18.00    : NOTE ADDRESS BY THE DIRECTOR OF CASA ASIA,
SPAIN Chairperson: Luis Beltran, UNESCO chair on
Afro-Ibero-American Studies, University of Alcala, Madrid,
Spain Jon de la Riva Director, Casa Asia, Barcelona,
Catalonia, Spain "A bridge between Spain and Asia"

18.00 - 19.00    : INTERACTIVE SESSION BETWEEN SIDDIS AND
SCHOLARS: A BALANCE Coordinators: Kiran Kamal Prasad (The
TADIA Society, Bangalore, India) & Rustom Bharucha (Writer,
Kolkata, India)

20.30            :   VIDEO SESSION :  Desmond Nazareth &
Christopher Rego "Souls and Spices" (70 minutes)

SUNDAY 15 JANUARY 2006: INTERACTION DAY BETWEEN SCHOLARS AND
SIDDIS 

10.30 - 13.00    :  FRATERNIZATION FETE

14.00 - 15.30    : Women’s songs leading to Session with
Henry Drewal : the manufacture of quilts

16.00 - 17.40    : Festival of African and Afro-diasporic
Cinema FILM 1 DRUM. South Africa.  d. Zola Masoko.  In
English and Zulu with English subtitles. 2004.  100 min.

20.00            :  Festival of African and Afro-diasporic
Song, Music, Dance and Drama. Bad Shaha MUSICAL GROUP from
MUMBAI

MONDAY 16 JANUARY 2006

WORKSHOP ON SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES FOR SIDDIS:

10.30 - 12.30     :  Mapping: Homes, villages, the forest. 
Listing of economic and social resources. Sharing different
contexts of everyday life and struggle.

14.00 - 15.45     : SITUATIONAL IMPROVISATIONS leading to
Autobiographical TESTIMONIALS.

16.00 - 17.35     : Festival of African and Afro-diasporic
Cinema FILM 2 PAUL ROBESON: TRIBUTE TO AN ARTIST.  
U.S.A. Saul J. Turell  In English.  1979.  30 min. FILM 3
BLACK GIRL. LA NOIRE DE...  Senegal.  d. Ousmane Sembene. 
In French with English sub-titles.  1966.  65 min

20.00             : Festival of African and Afro-diasporic
Song, Music, Dance and Drama Gujarati Sidi Goma MUSICAL GROUP
from Ahmedabad KARNATAKA MUSICAL GROUP from LaLguli, YELLAPUR

TUESDAY 17 JANUARY 2006

WORKSHOP 

10.30 - 12.30    :  Rituals of birth, marriage, death.

14.00 - 15.45    :  Continuation of social rituals:
Discussion of their economic implications. Reflection on
performances seen on the first two nights with the performers
and organiSers like Amy Catlin.

16.00 - 17.55    : Festival of African and Afro-diasporic
Cinema FILM 4 : LUMUMBA. Congo/U.S.A.  d. Raoul Peck.  In
French with English subtitles. 2000.  115 min.

20.00            : Festival of African and Afro-diasporic
Song, Music, Dance and Drama KGN Arabic Duff band from
HYDERABAD Jamming of different Siddi musical groups.

WEDNESDAY 18 JANUARY 2006

14.00 - 15.45    :  Discussion of actual ways of earning a
living : problems, possibilities, and the need for
organization.  Question-and-answer session with Clodomir on
income generation.

16.00 - 17.47    :  Festival of African and Afro-diasporic
Cinema FILM 5: SUGAR CANE ALLEY (RUE CASES NEGRES)
Martinique/France. d. Euzhan Palcy. In French and Creole with
English subtitles. 1983. 107 min.

20.00            :  Festival of African and Afro-diasporic
Song, Music, Dance and Drama MANCHIKERI SIDDIS PLAY,
Manchikeri, Karnataka. 

THURSDAY 19 JanUARY 2006

9.00 - 12.00     : Questions, recommendations, strategies,
DREAMS socio-economic development projects possibilities of
forming an All India Siddi Federation preparation of the
First International Gathering in Africa of African
Descendants living in Asia, to be held in January 2009 in an
African country (Mozambique? Zanzibar? Djibouti?) with a
possible future proposal of forming an All-Asia
Afro-diasporic Federation.

16.00 - 17.37     : Festival of African and Afro-diasporic
Cinema FILM 6 : THE OTHER FRANCISCO (EL OTRO FRANCISCO) 
Cuba. In Spanish with English subtitles. Sergio Giral. 1975.
97 min.

20.00  23.22     :  AFRICAN CINEMA FESTIVAL: FILM 7 :
MOOLAADE.  Senegal/Burkina Faso.  d. Ousmane Sembene. In
French and Bambara with English subtitles 2004.  202 min.

ABSTRACTS IN ABSENTIA

List of abstracts from scholars who
cannot be present for the conference
these will be published together with the
other abstracts:

Alan Baxter
Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
The African presence in Macau

Alberto da Costa e Silva
Brazilian Academy of Letters, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
a piece on the Afro-Brazilian  history 

Ali Jihad. Racy
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
The life history of the lyre: Musical exchange between Asia
and Africa

Behnaz Mirzai Asl
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, USA
African slaves in Iranian history

Clovis Albano de Santana
Pontifícal Catholic University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Programme of autoemployment: the practice of the Large-scale
Capacitation Method in the urban milieu

Edward A. Alpers
University of California, Los Angeles, USA
African diaspora music in the Southwest Indian Ocean

Ivan Labra Moya & Isabel Rodriguez de Labra
IATTERMUND, Santiago, Chile & Harare, Zimbabwe
Community organisation across cultures:  Lessons learnt from
the contextualisation of the Organizational Workshops to
Southern Africa

Ivo Carneiro de Sousa
University of Porto, Portugal
Africans in the colonial and post-colonial formation of Eastern Timor

Joseph E. Harris
Howard University, Washington, USA
Global African diaspora studies: Its emergence and development

Julio Santana Braga
State University of Feira de Santana, Bahia, Brazil
The dynamics of the Afro-Brazilian ancestrality

Juan Jose Rojas Hererra, Jesus Morett Sanchez,
Luis Gerardo E. Hernandez
Maria Belén H.  Pacheco
University of Chapingo, Mexico
The Mexican expertise in the practice of the Organization
Workshops for Job Creation and Income Generation, with a
special attention to the areas reached by the African
diaspora.

Liliana Mosca
University of the Studies of Naples "Federico II", Italy
The slave trade in Madagascar in the second half of the
XVIIc. from trough the lens of some Anglo-American sources

Luz Maria M. Montiel
National Autonomous University of Mexico
The African presence in Mexico

Miguel Sobrado
National University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica
The state of the XXIst Century

Shihan de S. Jayasuriya
University of London., United Kingdom
Music and memories: Oral traditions in an Indian ocean island

Tiffany Ruby Patterson
Hamilton College, New York, USA
Unraveling African 'consciousness' in India

Vijayalakshmi Teelock
University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius
African slave trade to Mauritius: The Mozambican slave trade
to Mauritius in the 18th and early 19th centuries.



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