African Studies Association 2018 Wisconsin Participants

The 61st annual meeting of the African Studies Association (ASA) is set to convene from November 29-December 1 in Atlanta, Georgia. The University of Wisconsin is highly represented. See the full program here.

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FACULTY

Simon Akindes, University of Wisconsin – Parkside
Unfinished Democratization: Political and Social Movements and the Futures of the Poor – 12/01/2018 – 2:00 PM

Emily Callaci, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Improvising the Family: Contraception and Family Planning in Africa in the 1960s – 12/01/2018 – 4:00 PM
Expulsions and the Materiality of Place-Making (Discussant) – 12/01/2018 – 4:00 PM

Katrina Daly Thompson, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Author Meets Critic: How to Do Things with Popobawa with author Katrina Daly Thompson – 11/29/2018 – 10:30 AM
Queering Swahili-as-a-Foreign-Language Instruction – 12/01/2018 – 4:00 PM

Jacques St. Ermitte, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Encountering the Diaspora in Fieldwork: Race, Gender and Positionality – 11/29/2018 – 8:30 AM

Neil Kodesh, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Uganda and the Decolonization of Knowledge: Medical Knowledge (Chair of panel) – 11/29/2018 – 4:00 PM
Disease, Migration, and Trade through Digital Humanities: Teaching Pre-1800 African History, Part 1 of 3 (Discussant) – 11/30/2018 – 8:30 AM

Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Abiola Irele: Contributions to Literature and African Studies (Panelist on roundtable) – 12/01/2018 – 4:00-5:45
Publish that Article: Part I (Panelist on roundtable) – 11/29/2018 – 2:00 PM
BLACK PANTHER and Afro-Futures theme (Chair of roundtable) – 12/01/2018 – 10:30 AM

Reginold Royston, University of Wisconsin – Madison
The Voice of the Diaspora: Examining How Podcasts Craft African Tech Futures – 11/30/2018 – 2:00 PM
BLACK PANTHER and Afro-Futures theme (Panelist on Roundtable) – 12/01/2018 – 10:30 AM
Ghanaian Popular Culture Studies: A Key Subfield in African Studies (Panelist on roundtable) – 12/01/2018 – 2:00PM

Damon Sajnani, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Global Ghettoes: Hiphop’s Diasporic Class Consciousness and Critiques of Mainstream Musics in Senegal and Trinidad and Tobago – 11/30/2018 – 4:00 PM

Aliko Songolo, University of Wisconsin – Madison
The Crisis in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: Towards what Future? (Chair of roundtable) – 11/30/2018 – 10:30 AM

Scott Straus, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Lee Ann Fujii’s Contributions to Understandings of Political Violence in Rwanda and Beyond (Panelist on roundtable) – 11/29/2018 – 10:30 AM
Author Meets Critic: Coups, Rivals and the Modern State: Why Rural Coalitions Matter in Sub-Saharan Africa (Panelist on roundtable) – 11/29/2018 – 4:00 PM

Ndirangu Wachanga, University of Wisconsin – Whitewater
Memorializing African Voices in African Diaspora Studies (Panelist on roundtable) – 11/30/2018 – 8:30 AM
Micere Githae Mugo: Transforming Scars of Oppression into Ornaments of Beauty – 11/30/2018 – 2:00 PM
Chair of Screening of the documentary “Unbreakable” on the life of Micere Githae Mugo – 12/01/2018 – 4:00 PM

Julie Weiskopf, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Education Has No End: Tanzania’s National Literacy Campaign, 1969-1984 – 11/29/2018 – 2:00 PM

Anika Wilson, University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee
Afrofutures of Hidden Wealth: Prophetic Visions and Spiritual Treasures of Malawi – 11/30/2018 – 2:00 PM

UW-MADISON ALUMNI

Mohammed Rafi Arefin, NYS Gallatin School of Individualized Study
Fuel, Forest and Propulsion: Congo’s Whaleboats and the Rural Anthropocene – 11/30/2018 – 10:30 AM
The Politics of Neglect: Waste, Labor, and Representation in Cairo – 11/30/2018 – 10:30 AM – 12:15 PM

 Josephine Beoku-Betts, Florida Atlantic University
Advancing Women’s Rights and Protections Under UNSCR 1325 and 1820 in Sierra Leone: Where are We Now with Sexual Violence? – 12/01/2018 – 2:00 PM

Sean Bloch, Dartmouth
Building ‘Words’: Medicine in Post-Independence Northeastern Kenya – 11/29/2018 – 2:00 PM

David Bresnahan, University of Washington
Eating, Spending, and Assembling: Wealth and Social Complexity in the Pre-Swahili World – 12/01/2018 – 10:30 AM

John Campbell, Council on Foreign Relations
Nigeria: Reading the Road Ahead (Participant in roundtable) – 12/01/2018 – 8:30 AM

Lynda Day, CUNY Brooklyn College and Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley, California State University, Northridge
Sierra Leonean Women at the dawn of a new Era: Reflections (Discussant) – 12/01/2018 – 2:00 PM

Nicole Eggers, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Protest by Abstention: Kitawala and the Politics of Apoliticism in the DR Congo – 11/29/2018 – 4:00 PM

Theresah Patrine Ennin, University of Cape Coast, Ghana
Representations of Men and Masculinities in Ghanaian Literature and Film – 11/29/2018 – 8:30 AM

Laura Fair, Michigan State University
Author Meets Critic: How to Do Things with Popobawa with author Katrina Daly Thompson (Panelist) – 11/29/2018 – 10:30 AM

Robet Houle, Fairleigh-Dickenson University
Aldin Grout, ‘Beyond Mediation’ and Properly Assessing the Missionary Role in Christianization – 12/1/2018 – 2:00 PM

Philip Janzen
Imperial Boundaries and the Alternative Geographies of Sanitary Inspectors – 11/30/2018 – 2:00 PM

Brandon Kendhammer, Ohio University
Managing Dissent or Creating it? Muslim University Students and State Secularism in Cameroon – 11/30/2018 – 4:00 PM

Kathleen Klaus, Northwestern University
Giving and Taking Land: The Implications for Electoral Stability in Kenya – 12/01/2018 – 4:00 PM

 Jessica Krug, George Washington University
Sex(uality), Power, and Gender in a Global Angola – 11/30/2018 – 8:30 AM

Jeffrey Paller, University of San Francisco
Historical Legacies and the Political Development of the African City – 12/01/2018 – 2:00 PM

Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield, former Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs
Black Women Ambassadors: Contesting International Gender Hierarchies (Participant in roundtable) – 11/30/2018 – 4:00 PM

Leslie Townsend, California College of the Arts – Oakland
‘Not African Enough’: Trans-Forming LGBTQi Arts in 21st Century Africa – 12/01/2018 – 2:00 PM

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Upenyu Majee, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Regionalizing and Pan-Africanizing Higher Education Opportunities and Challenges – 11/29/2018 – 2:00 PM

Kathryn Mara, University of Wisconsin – Madison
#Burundicrisis: Social Media, Story-Telling, and Political Performativity – 11/30/2018 – 8:30 AM

 Omotola Okunlola, University of Wisconsin – Madison
(Un)funny Laughter: Sexist Humour and the Discursive Production of Femininity in Nigerian Stand-Up Comedy – 12/01/2018 – 4:00 PM

Nancy Rydberg, University of Wisconsin – Madison
International Development and Sex Education Programming in Northern Uganda: How Teachers and Students Co-Construct Post-Conflict Gender Relations – 11/29/2018 – 2:00 PM

Sarah Stefanos, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Shaky Deals? Ethiopian Agro-Investors and Tensions between Developmentalism and Neopatrimonialism in Ethiopian Land Concessions – 11/29/2018 – 8:30 AM

 

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