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This proposal is for an exhibit of drapo lwa (spirit flags) created by Haitian artist Mireille Delice. These intricately embroidered banners are created with tens of thousands of glass seeds and depict the spirits and symbols of Haiti's often understood spiritual tradition, Vodou. Having conducted fieldwork in Haiti since the late 1990s, I became interested in Mireille Delice's work as she maintains relationships with family members, employees and clients in Haiti and abroad. This exhibit would highlight Mireille Delice's work working within the conference theme of "Confluences" and present the parameters of an artist-anthropologist collaboration. Mireille Delice would be on-site to present her work and demonstrate her technique (with possibilities of collaborations with First Nations artists who also work with glass seed beads). As an anthropologist, I would be available to translate and facilitate interactions between the artist and CASCA members, and if appropriate, provide ethnographic context for her work.

Dr. Charlotte Al Khalili — Participant Dr. Janelle Baker — Participant Alexandra Frankel — Organizer & Participant Lel Khalesimoghaddam Ghaen — Participant Luisa Isidro Herrera — Chair and discussant Dr. Lukas Ley — Participant

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Box lunches available for participants who have purchased lunch tickets through the CASCA registration page.

In responding to the conference theme, three experts in the field will share their insights on the dynamics of race, gender, and citizenship in different postcolonial contexts. Drawing on their long-term ethnographic work, the speakers will focus on idiosyncrasies of their case studies and reflect on common patterns if not universalities of certain phenomena. The subjects they will tackle - migration, border regimes, identities in global world, processes of racialization - speak both to the broader scholarship and to current sociopolitical debates. Isar Pilar Godreau, NIH, Puerto Rico. "Black Mediterranean, Black Atlantic: a view from Puerto Rico." Hélène Neveu Kringelbach, University College London. "Black Mediterranean, Black Atlantic: migration and transnational intimacies" Angelica Pesarini, University of Toronto. “"Black Mediterranean, Black Atlantic: narratives from Black Italia"

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