HOFSTRA CULTURAL CENTER presents an international conference

Between Three Continents:
Rethinking Equatorial Guinea on
the Fortieth Anniversary of its Independence from Spain

Thursday-Saturday
April 2-4, 2009

Papers

THURSDAY, APRIL 2, 2009

OFFICIAL CONFERENCE WELCOME

• David A. Powell, Professor of French and Chair
  Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Hofstra University
• Benita Sampedro Vizcaya, Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, Hofstra University
  Conference Co-Director
• Baltasar Fra-Molinero, Associate Professor of Spanish, Bates College
  Conference Co-Director

PANEL I-A:
EQUATORIAL GUINEA IN HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE

• Gerhard Seibert, CEA/ISCTE, Portugal
  “Equatorial Guinea’s External Relations: São Tomé e Príncipe and the CPLP”

PANEL I-B:
EMPIRE’S INTELLECTUAL AND POLITICAL PROJECTS

• Dorothy Odartey Wellington, University of Guelph, Canada
  “‘Equatorial Guinea Is Different’: literatura colonial de Guinea Espanola en el contexto del África Occidental”

PANEL II-B:
THE UNHOMELY AT HOME AND ABROAD: EXILE, DISPLACEMENT, AND EMPIRE BUILDING

• Fernando García Gimeno, Writer, Spain
  “La sociedad y la agricultura en Guinea Ecuatorial”

PANEL III-B:
THE UNHOMELY AT HOME AND ABROAD: EXILE, DISPLACEMENT, AND NATION BUILDING

• Thenesoya Vidina Martín de la Nuez, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
  “La memoria negra de los retornados. Guinea Ecuatorial en la narrativa española actual”

PANEL IV-A:
THE POLITICS OF OFFSHORE (OIL/GAS) PRODUCTION IN WEST AFRICA: STATE POWER, SOVEREIGNTY, CIVIL LIBERTIES, AND THE GLOBAL CAPITAL

• Alicia Campos Serrano, Universidad Autónoma, Madrid, Spain
  “Continuity and Change in the Political Economy Around Equatorial Guinea”

PANEL IV-B:
HAUNTED BY THE DICTATOR: THE SPECTER OF FRANCISCO MACÍAS NGUEMA (1968-1979)

• Max Liniger Goumaz, Historian, Switzerland
  “Palabras de un veterano. Ilusiones y desencantos de un experto de la UNESCO en Guinea Ecuatorial bajo la primera dictadura nguemista (1972-1974). Qué tal la Suiza Africana?”
• María Nsue Angüe, Writer, Equatorial Guinea
  “Efectos colaterales del colonialismo en Guinea Ecuatorial”

FRIDAY, APRIL 3, 2009

PANEL V-B:
GENDER MATTERS

• Damaso Mitoha Ondo Ayekaba, University of Washington-Seattle
  “The Politics of Gender Parity in Equatorial Guinea: Prospects for a More Sustainable Political and Social Civility in the 21st Century”
• Remei Sipi Mayo, Writer, Founder of the Ewaiso Ipola Association
  Equatorial Guinea

PANEL VI-A:
READJUSTING THE LITERARY CANON

• Michael Janis, Morehouse College “Igbo and Fang: Feminism in West African Women’s Fiction in the College Classroom”
• Naomi McLeod, University of St. Andrews, Scotland
  “The Construction of Identity in Two Novels by Joaquín Mbomio Bacheng”

PANEL VII-A
HUMAN RIGHTS, RESISTANCE, AND CREATIVITY IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA

• Celestino Nvo Okenve Ndo, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
  “El capitalismo familiar de Guinea Ecuatorial: un modelo no sostenible”
• Wenceslao Mansogo Olo Obono, Professor of UNED
  Equatorial Guinea “Derechos humanos y situación política en Guinea Ecuatorial”

PANEL VII-B:
FRAMES OF IDENTITY: FROM TRANSNATIONAL TO LOCAL

• Justo Bolekia Boleká, Writer, Equatorial Guinea
  “Enculturación y guineoecuatorianidad: reafirmación de una identidad”
• Gerardo Behori Sipi Botau, Writer, Equatorial Guinea
  “Guinea Ecuatorial: el pensamiento socio-político del pueblo bubi”

SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 2009

PANEL VIII-A:
ECONOMIES OF EMPIRE: THE EARLY 20TH CENTURY

• Dolores García Cantús, Universidad de Valencia, Spain
  “El trabajo forzado bubi en la colonia española de Fernando Poo entre 1890-1912: Videant Consules”
• Simon R. Doubleday, Department of History, Hofstra University
• Juan José Díaz Matarranz, Universidad de Alcalá de Henares, Spain
  “La hacienda pública en Guinea Ecuatorial entre 1900-1923”

PANEL VIII-B:
THE DISAPPEARING ATLANTIC ISLAND: ANNOBÓN

• Arlindo Manuel Caldeira, Centro de História de Além-Mar da Universidade Nova, Portugal
  “Organizar la libertad. Independencia de facto en la isla de Ano Bom (Annobón) durante los siglos XVIII y XIX”
• Gustau Nerín Abad, Historian, Spain
  “¿Socialismo utópico en Annobón? La aventura revolucionaria del sargento Castilla (1931-32)”
• Francisco Zamora Loboch, Writer, Equatorial Guinea
  “Los paraísos imposibles”
• Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Writer, Equatorial Guinea
  “La insularidad de Annobón: el refugio de las musas”

PANEL IX-A:
INDEPENDENCE DE-REALIZED: 1968 THEN AND NOW

• Eugenio Nkogo Ondo, Philosopher, Equatorial Guinea
  Joseph G. Astman Distinguished Conference Scholar
  “Guinea Ecuatorial: reminiscencia histórica, luces y sombras de un proyecto político, sueño de un posible resurgimiento”

PANEL IX-B:
TRANSCENDING THE (POST)COLONIAL: IDENTITY AND LITERATURE IN EQUATORIAL GUINEA TODAY (PART I)

• Ana Zapata-Calle, University of Missouri-Columbia
  “El camino del ‘exilio interior’ hacia el infierno en La revuelta de los disfraces de José Siale Djangany”

PANEL X-A:
ETHNOGRAPHIES OLD AND NEW

• Isabela de Aranzadi, Anthropologist, Historian and Musician, Spain
  “El viaje de un tambor, África de ida y vuelta en annoboneses y fernandinos. Instrumentos musicales de Guinea Ecuatorial”

PANEL X-A:
ETHNOGRAPHIES OLD AND NEW

• José Fernando Siale Djangany, Writer and Lawyer, Equatorial Guinea
  “Escritores guineanos y expressión literaria”
• Nayra Pérez Hernández, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain “La identidad mirada en un paisaje (des)habitado: a través de tres décadas de poesía guineoecuatoriana”