Join us for the second installment of the webinar series – Transnational Dialogues in Afrolatinidad – that seeks to expand transnational, transregional, and interdisciplinary exchange on contemporary and historical issues in Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies.

This webinar focuses on gender, race, identity, and health, particularly involving the experiences of Afro-Brazilians, Afro-Argentines, and U.S.-based Afro-Latinxs. Scholars working at the intersections of Africana, Latinx, Latin American and gender studies will explore the ways that these issues overlap and impact Afro-Latin Americans and their diasporic communities in the U.S. 

Webinar Attendee Registration Link 

https://pitt.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_gpsaBwtvRo2LC_-yg2wiew 

Featured Panelists:            

Kia Caldwell, Professor of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; specialist in Afro-Latin America, Brazil, Black feminism, health, sociocultural anthropology. 

Jomaira Salas Pujols, National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, Doctoral Candidate, Department of Sociology, Rutgers University; specialist in race, place, education, and Afro-Latina girlhood. She is a founding member of the Black Latinas Know Collective – www.blacklatinasknow.org  

Erika Edwards, Associate Professor of Latin American History University of North Carolina at Charlotte; specialist in Afro-Latin America, Argentina, gender, race, identity, history. 

Paul Joseph López Oro, Assistant Professor of Africana Studies, Smith College; specialist in transnational Afro-Latinx, Garifuna/Central America, Black feminisms/queer theory and identity.  

Welcome: Manuel Roman-Lacayo, Associate Director, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Pittsburgh 

Co-Moderators:  

Keila Grinberg, Professor, Department of History, Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro

Michele Reid-Vazquez, Director, Afro-Latin American and Afro-Latinx Studies Initiative, Associate Professor of Africana Studies, University of Pittsburgh