Some individuals have
been invited by the ASA Board of Directors, the Program Committee, or the Local
Arrangements Committee to serve in a multiple capacity.
(IV-A9) Security, Violence, and Uneven Development in
Chair: Tony
Samara, George Mason U
Tony Samara, George Mason U, Fear in the City: Global Governance and the
Integration of Cape Town into the Post Cold War World System
Gary Kynoch, Dalhousie U, Urban Violence in Colonial Africa: A
Comparative Perspective
Joy Chadya, U of Manitoba, The Untold Story: War, Flight and Internal
Displacement of Rural Women to Harare During the Zimbabwean Liberation War,
1974-1980.
(IV-B15) Roundtable: Possibilities and Constraints of
Peacebuilding in the
Chair:
Catharine Newbury, Smith College
Georges Nzongola-Ntalaja, UNDP
William Swing, United Nations
Margaret Vogt, United Nation
Howard Wolpe, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Suliman Baldo
Aliko Songolo, U of Wisconsin – Madison
(IV-B30) Roundtable: The Future of
Chair:
Toyin
(IV-C3) Roundtable: African Military Security: Challenges and
Hopes
Chair:
(IV-G6) Economy and Society in
Chair: Mark
Hunter,
Rajeev Patel, Centre for Civil Society, The Third Nelson Mandela: The Abahlali
baseMjondolo (shackdwellers) movement and the formation of political
consciousness
Hein Marais, None, Buckling: Dealing with the Unequal Impact of AIDS in South Africa
Mark Hunter, Aids and The Changing Political Economy of Sex in South Africa: Beyond
the Male Migrant Infector Model
Lungisile Ntsebeza, U of Capetown, The Political Economy of Agrarian Movements
in South Africa: To What Extent Are They Agents for Social Change?
Discussant:
(IV-G10) Perspectives on Agriculture in African Economies
Chair:
(IV-H6) Environmental History and Policy I: Managing Legacy
Landscapes
Chair:
Chris Duvall, U of Wisconsin
Chris Duvall, U of Wisconsin, Human
Settlement History and Baobab Regeneration in Southwestern Mali
Paul Laris, California State U, Long Beach,
The ‘Legacy Landscape’
of Fire and Long-term Fallow in the Malian Savanna
Paul Lane, British Institute in Eastern Africa,
Landscape Change and Environmental
Narratives on the Laikipia Plateau, Kenya
Michael Sheridan, U of Vermont, Matters of Scale in African Environmental
Histories: Sacred Groves and Community Forestry in Tanzania
(IV-I21) Roundtable: Africa Between Clash and
Chair:
Robert Ostergard, Binghamton U
Jacob Ajayi, U of Ibadan
Ali Mazrui, Binghamton U
Amadu Kaba, Seton Hall U
Seifudein Adem, Binghamton U
Patrick Dikirr, Binghamton U
(IV-K5) Roundtable: Reconstituting Political Order in a Post
9/11 World I
Chair:
(IV-K8) Changing External Ties in an Era of Globalization
Chair: Ulf
Engel, U of Leipzig
Ulf Engel, U of Leipzig, Explaining Change: Germany's Southern Africa
Policy 1960-75
Tony Chafer, Portsmouth U, France and Africa: From Confidence to Confusion
Jean Kachiga, Simpson U, China in Africa
Nikolas Emmanuel, U of California-Davis,
Bargaining on Asymmetry:
Appraising the Effectiveness of Political Conditionality
Howard Lehman, U of Utah, Japan's National Economic Identity and
African Development
(IV-L8) Cultural Visions
Chair:
Charles Bado, U of Southern California, Abidjan November 2004; A Lieu de Mémoire Revisited
with Camera : Bakaba’s Bare Hand Victory
Patricia Hickling, Hickling Design, Ethnography and the Erotic: The Nude and
Semi-nude Photographs of Francois Edmond Fortier.
(IV-O3) African Women's Leadership I: National Politics
Chair:
Judith Van Allen, Cornell U
Gretchen Bauer, U of Delaware, Women Gendering Parliaments in East and
Southern Africa
Judith Van Allen, Cornell U, Radical Citizenship: Women's Political
Leadership and Social Transformation--Lessons from Botswana
Mary Moran,
Colgate U, Iron Ladies, Women in White: Varieties of Gendered Activism in Post-War
Liberia
Akosua Adomako Ampofo, U of Ghana, Wisdom Is Not Like Gold Which Should Be Kept
In A Safe (Twi proverb) - Female Faculty and Perceptions of Women in Leadership
at the U of Ghana, Legon
Discussant: Kathleen Sheldon, UCLA
(IV-Q2) Roundtable: Open
Chair:
(IV-R4) Managing Bodies in Today’s Kenya: Subjected and
Regulatory Bodies in Politics, Conservation, and Health
Chair:
Jennifer Coffman, James Madison U
Ngeta Kabiri, UNC-Chapel Hill, Dispersing Environmental Governance
Authority in Kenya: Accounting for the Paradoxical Role of NGOs
Jennifer Coffman, James Madison U, Conservationism and Managing Bodies in
Southern Kenya
Miroslava Prazak, Bennington College, Kuria Girls and the NGOs
Kimberly Chapman, U of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Rye
Schwartz-Barcott, Understanding ‘Managing Bodies’ in East Africa’s
Largest Slum: Grassroots, Participatory Development and Carolina for Kibera,
Inc.
Mwenda Ntarangwi, Hip Hop and the Politics of Development in East Africa
(IV-S5) Pop Culture and Politics: Understanding the Role of
Informal Cultural Politics in
Chair:
Peter VonDoepp, U of Vermont
Kevin Fridy, American U, and Victor
Brobbey, American U, Win the Match and
Vote for Me: The Politicization of Ghana’s Accra Hearts of Oak and Kumasi
Asante Kotoko Football Clubs
Stephen Marr, U of Florida, Buy, Buy, Buy: Consumption, Identity and the
Making of Modern Citizens in the Shopping Malls of Gaborone, Botswana
Lisa Brooks, Yale U, Songs and Sovereignty: Performing Nation
through Music Addressing HIV/AIDS in Botswana
(IV-S11) Cultural Problematics
Chair:
Richard Baah
Richard Baah, Cultural Absolutes, a Guide
to Inter-culture Tolerance
Tekle Woldemikael, U of Redlands, Political Culture in Eritrea
Hussein Adam, College of the Holy Cross,
A Tale of Two Somali Political
Cultures
Daniel Smith, Brown U, The Nigerian Factor: Corruption and Culture
in Africa’s Giant
Ernest Uwazie, California State U, The Gacaca Justice in Post Genocide Rwanda:
Challenges and Prospects for Reconciliation
Simon Toulou, U of Geneva, Becoming a
Professional Griot: What Type of Education?
(IV-T1) Roundtable: Reconstructing Political Ideology and
Ritual: In Honor of
Chair:
Heran Sereke-Brhan,
(IV-U1) On Dangerous Ground: (Re) Thinking African Cinema and
Diasporic Transnationalism Through Popular Culture
Chair:
Bennetta Jules-Rosette, U of California-San Diego
Bennetta Jules-Rosette, U of California-San Diego, Africanisms
in Josephine Baker's Princesse Tam-Tam: Filmic Journeys and the Cultural
Imaginary in Diasporic Cinema
Wayne Osborn, U of California - San Diego,
A Drink at the Bar, A Dream of
Afar: The Bar as Liminal Space in African and Diasporic Cinema
Peter Bloom, U of California - Santa Barbara,
Eruptions of Violence: (Black)
American Media Spectacle in the French Political Landscape
Francesca Castaldi, Viewing Joseph Gaï Ramaka's Karmen Geï from different Interpretative
locations: Subversions and Stereotypes.
Discussant:
(IV-U2) Imaging Communities: Visual Media as Spaces of
Solidarity
Chair:
Marie Nathalie LeBlanc, Concordia U
John McCall, Southern Illinois U, The Pan-Africanism We’ve Got:
Nollywood’s Invention of Africa
Andrew Ivaska, Concordia U, Cosmopolitanism, Authenticity and
Late-Colonial Spectatorship in Dar es Salaam
Onookome Okome, U of Alberta, Do Popular
Nigerian Video Films Matter?
(IV-YSP33) Gender, Ethnicity, and Identity in African
Democratization
Chair:
Wonbin Cho,
Wanjiru Kamau, U of
(V-B6) Political Transitions: Democracy, State Formation, and Violence in Colonial
and Postcolonial Lusophone Africa
Chair:
Kathleen Sheldon, UCLA
Rosa Williams, U of Chicago, Creating a Healthy Colonial State in
Southern Mozambique, 1875-1910
Margarida Paredes, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, Building
Violence: Portugal Responsibility in the Failed Political Transition in Angola,
in 1974-75
Jean-Michel Mabeko-Tali, Howard U,
Rethinking Transitions: Changes and
Permanence in African Political Discourses and Practices in the Era of
Globalization – Case Studies of
Legislatures
Project, U of
Discussant:
(V-B24)
Chair:
(V-C8) Social Consequences of Conflict
Chair:
Susan Shepler, American U
Susan Shepler, American U, Transnational Fosterage of War-Affected
Children in West Africa
Nurudeen Akinyemi, Kennesaw State U, Towards a Regional Approach to Refugee
Protection in West Africa
Clemente Abrokwaa, Penn State U., Conflicts, Refugees, and Africa's Image in
Western Media: The Case of the Lost Boys of Sudan
Beth Dougherty, Beloit College, Prosecuting Gender-Based Crimes at the
Special Court for Sierra Leone
(V-F8) Political Blackness in the
Chair: Paul
Saucier
Paul Saucier, Black Dialogue (Remix): Expanding and Reshaping Meanings and Boundaries
of Blackness Among African Youth in the US
Menna Demessie, U of Michigan, Black Representation Revisited: The
Congressional Ethiopian Caucus in the United States House of Representatives
(V-G7) Economy and Society in
Chair:
Richard Schroeder, Rutgers U
Richard Schroeder, Rutgers U, Tiffany’s, Terrorists and
Tanzanite: Contesting the Emergence of a
South African Gemstone Cartel in Tanzania
Darlene Miller, Rhodes U, Regional Hegemonies, Local Counter-hegemonies
- African Labor and South African Companies in Zambia and Mozambique after
Apartheid
Gregory Ruiters, Rhodes U, Knowing Your Place: Urban Services and Local
Governability in the New South Africa
Discussant: James Ferguson, Stanford U
(V-H3) Biodiversity Dialogue in
Chair:
Nurudeen Akinyemi, Kennesaw State U
Seife Ayele, The Open U, Biodiversity and Biosafety Systems Building
in Africa
Noah Zerbe, Humboldt State U, Negotiating Biopolicy in Zimbabwe: The Uses
and Limits of Participatory Governance
Joel Hartter, U of Florida, and Joel
Hartter, U of Florida and Abraham Goldman, U of Florida Resource Use and Household Livelihoods in Western Uganda: Living Near
Wetlands and Forest Fragments
(V-H5) Environmental History and Policy II: Retelling Environmental Narratives
Chair:
William Moseley, Macalester College
Diana Davis, U of Texas, (Neo)Colonial Environmental Histories,
Neoliberalism and the Transformation of Agriculture in Morocco
William Moseley, Macalester College, Neoliberal Agricultural Narratives and Land
Redistribution Policy in South Africa’s Western Cape
Jacob Tropp, Middlebury College, The Problem of ‘Custom-izing’
Environmental Histories in the Eastern Cape, South Africa
(V-I19) Roundtable: Where is
Chair:
Carole Collins
Ann-Louise Colgan, Africa Action
Imani Countess, American Friends Service Committee
Akwe Amosu, Open Society Institute
(V-I23) Exploring Nationalist Trajectories: Pan Africanism and
Social Change
Chair:
Jeffrey Ahlman, U of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign
Jeffrey Ahlman, U of Illinois-Urbana, Champaign, Rebuilding
the Pan-African Bridge: Kwame Nkrumah, the Algerian Revolution, and the Postcolonial
African Community, 1957-62
Jessica Powers, Stanford U, Detainment, Deportation, and Decolonization:
Sr. Janice McLaughlin, the Zimbabwe Civil War, and A Battle of Contested
Meanings
Jeremy Pool, Emory U, Social Problems and Political Threats: Responses
to Youth Delinquency and Unemployment in 1950s Ghana
Christian Williams, U of Michigan, “Producing Exile: Knowledge,
Nationalism and ‘The Facts’ about Swapo Detentions in Lubango,
Angola, 1985-86, 1989 and 2005”
(V-K6) Roundtable: Reconstituting Political Order in a Post 9/11 World II
Chair:
(V-K12) Roundtable:
Chair:
(V-N2) Beyond the Residential Household: Children's Spatial and Social Locations
Chair:
Lacey
Bruce Whitehouse, Brown U, Blood and Soil: How Migration De- and
Re-Territorializes Households in Contemporary Mali
Caroline Archambault, Brown U, Broadening a Co-Residential Model in the
Determination of Educational Participation among Kenyan Maasai
Nicholas Townsend, Brown U, Spatially Separated and Socially Supportive:
Fathers and Children in Rural South Africa
(V-N3) Roundtable: Rethinking Our Approaches to HIV/AIDS Research in
Chair:
(V-O15) Gender and Civil Society in the 'New
Chair:
Hannah Britton, U of Kansas
Hannah Britton, U of Kansas, Gender, Democracy, and Civil Society
Organizations in South Africa
Betty Harris, U of Oklahoma, Women's Formal and Informal Leadership in
the Not-So-New South Africa
Denise Walsh, U of Virginia, The Gendered Limits of South African Civil
Society
Theresa Ulicki, Dalhousie U, The South African Police Service’s
Organizational Response to Gender Inequity: New Directions or Half Measures?
(V-Q1) Relatedness and Rights in Child Fostering in
Chair: Cati
Coe, Rutgers U
Erdmute Alber, Parenthood and Social Reproduction Reviewed: Reasons, Functions and the
State of the Debate on Child Fosterage in Africa
Rachel Reynolds, Drexel U, Child Fostering and Child Labor in the
African Novel
Catrien Notermans, Radboud U Nijmegen, Debating Child Fosterage in Critical Moments
of Illness and Death in Cameroon
Cati Coe, Rutgers U, Pawning in Akuapem, Ghana: Thinking about
Rights-in-Children
Discussant: Caroline Bledsoe, Northwestern U
(V-R7) Problems Confronting NGO Advocacy in
Chair: Sam
Bullington, U of Missouri
Sam Bullington, U of Missouri, Constitution-Making in the Rainbow Nation:
Sexual Orientation and Democracy in Contemporary South Africa
Josaphat Balegamire, Katholieke U Leuven & Africa Tomorrow, Civil
Society in Politics in the DR Congo Post-conflict Transition: Too Much Too Soon?
Ginger
(V-S14) Culture and Development
Chair:
Chipasha Luchembe, California Polytechnic State U
Chipasha Luchembe, California Polytechnic State U, Culture
and Development in Southern Africa: Rethinking Policies and Practices
Benjamin Ogunfolakan, Obafemi Awolowo U, Dispersal
or Migration From Ife: Archaeological Evidence from Osun North East, Nigeria
Grace Hampton, Pennsylvania State U, Contemporary
African and African American Art: Geographically Separated but Bound by a Common
Spiritual and Artistic Heritage
Isabel Rodrigues, U of Massachusetts-Dartmouth,
A Site of Contention: The Politics
and Culture of Miniaturizing Empire
John Cinnamon, Miami (OH) U, Hybrid Economic, Kinship, and Religious
Imaginaries in Contemporary Gabon
(V-U4) African Audiences, African Images
Chair:
(V-YSP26)
Chair:
Sidney Kasfir, Emory U
Carmen McCain, U of Wisconsin-Madison, Mutum
Duka Mod’a Ne: HIV as Transformative Agent in Hausa Novels and Films
Monika Brodnicka, SUNY Binghamton, Living
-Tradition: A New Paradigm for Orality in West Africa
Julie Weiskopf, U of Uinnesota and Michele Wagner, U of Uinnesota, "Necessary, Successful, and
Unopposed:" Notions of Custodial Responsibility in the Creation of
Sleeping Sickness Concentrations in Kigoma Region, Tanzania, 1933-38
Lisa Binder, U of East Anglia, Things
Come Together: Zaria and Nsukka Revisited
Nicholas Hockin, Wesleyan U, Drums,
Headscarves, and Mothers’ Dances at Weddings in Bamako, Mali: Local
Change on the Margins of Globalization
Friday, 12:30 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the Current Issues Council
US/Africa Policy Dialogue
Chair:
(VI-A2) Boom and Bust on
Chair:
Gregor Dobler, Basel U
Gregor Dobler, CED-Bordeaux and Cristina Rodrigues, CED-Bordeaux The Dynamics of Growth and Regulation in Two
Southern African Boom Towns
Mattia Fumanti, Manchester U, Nation-building, Marginality and Citizenship
on the Namibian-Angolan Border
Paul Nugent, U of Edinburgh, Namibian Border Towns in Comparative
Perspective
Wolfgang Zeller, UCT and Bennett Kangumu, UCT From Apartheid Garrison to Transnational Boomtown: Katima Mulilo Before
and After Namibian Independence
(VI-B13) Institutional Choice and Recognition in Rural
Chair:
Jesse Ribot, World Resources Institute, Co-opting and Coercing Elected Councils:
Institutional Choice and Recognition in
Decentralization, Democratization
and Land Tenure in
(VI-B25) Identity, Ethnicity and Democratic states
Chair:
Bruce Magnusson, Whitman College
Bruce Magnusson, Whitman College, The Census and the Election: Identity and
Security in Africa
Kea Gorden, U of California, Santa Cruz,
Chiefs and Subjects, Councilors
and Citizens: Hybrid Forms of Democracy in the New South Africa
Solomon Gashaw, U of Minnesota-Morris, Primordial Federalism and the Ethiopian
State
Dauda Abubakar, Ohio U, From Neighbors to Killers: Rethinking
Identity, Citizenship and Democracy in Africa
(VI-E1) Roundtable:
Chair:
Dismas Masolo, U of
(VI-F3) Roundtable: African/Black Immigrants and U.S Advocacy
Chair:
Kelvin
(VI-G3) Roundtable: State-Building, Conflict Resolution and
Globalization: New Approaches to Accelerating
Chair:
Witney Schneidman, Leon H Sullivan Foundation
Witney Schneidman, Leon H Sullivan Foundation
John Prendergast, International Crisis Group
(VI-G5) Attaining the Millennium Development Goals in Africa
by 2015: Prospects, Constraints and Opportunities [Sponsored by the
Chair: Kwadwo
Konadu-Agyemang, U of Akron
Ian Yeboah, Miami U, Poverty Eradication,
Millennium Development Goals and Structural Bottlenecks of Minimalist
Government: A way Forward
Judith Shabaya, Baldwin-Wallace College,
Meeting the Millennium Development
Goals for Education and Literacy in Africa: A Review of the Prospects and
Challenges Facing Southern African Countries
Baffour Takyi, U of Akron, Gender Relations and Maternal and Child
Health in Africa: Implications for the Millennium Development Goals
Kwadwo Konadu-Agyemang, U of Akron, The Prospects of Attaining Environmental
Sustainability in Africa by 2015 Under the Millennium Development Goals: A
Critical
Assessment of Progress in Selected
African Countries
(VI-H4) Environmental History and Policy III: Claiming Land
and Resources
Chair:
Vimbai Kwashirai, Liverpool U, Educating Teak Forest Tenants in Zimbabwe
Discussant: James Webb, Colby College
(VI-H11) Perceptions of African Landscapes: Intersections of
State Power, Development Ideologies, and Scientific Knowledge
Chair:
Leslie Gray, Santa Clara U
Heather Hoag, U of San Francisco, Rivers of Power: The Changing Roles of
Africa’s Rivers
Catherine Corson, UC Berkeley, Beneath the Canopy: Forest Politics and
Madagascar's Conservation Agenda
Leslie Gray, Santa Clara U, Shifting Views of Desert Boundary Change:
Dryland Human-Environmental Relationships in 20th Century Sudan
(VI-I4) New Perspectives on Islam in
Chair: Mara Leichtman, Michigan
State U
James Searing, U of Illinois at Chicago, The
Greater Jihad and Conversion:
Mara Leichtman, Michigan State U, Making a Global Religion Local: Senegalese Conversion to Shi’ite Islam
Marloes Janson, ZMO, Following in The Prophet’s Footsteps:
Young Gambian’s Conversion to the Tablīgh Jamā‘at
Discussant:
(VI-I6) Family, Youth and the State in Colonial and Postcolonial
Chair:
Thomas McClendon, Southwestern U
Paul Ocobock, Princeton U, Coming of Age in a Colony: African Youth,
Law and Order in Colonial Kenya
Michelle Osborn, Oxford U, (Re)Imagining Youth in Colonial Nairobi
Alioune Sow, U of Florida, An Alternative to Colonial Education: Massa
Makan Diabaté "Comme une piqûre de guêpe"
Brandon County, Columbia U and Ryan Skinner, Columbia U, The Aesthetics of Malidenya: Family and the Nation in Postcolonial
Mali, 1958-2006
(VI-L4) Roundtable: Architecture for a Modern
Chair:
(VI-L6) Political Arts of/for Political Legacies
Chair:
Stephen Belcher,
Stephen Belcher, Unstable Mirror of the Present: Guinean Explorations of the Past
T. Spreelin MacDonald, Ohio U, The Aesthetic of Migration in the
Post-Apartheid Era: Phaswane Mpe’s
Apollo Amoko, U of Florida, Utopic Possibilities, Dystopic Art: Reading
the New South in "The Heart of Redness"
Amadou Fofana, Willamette U, Mise-en-Scène in Ousmane Sembene’s
Borom Sarret
Ada Azodo, Who does the African Write for? The Local and the Global in
(VI-N4) Health Globalizations: From Intellectual Property
Regimes to Changing Disease Patterns
Chair:
Jon Mortensen, Danish Institute for International Studies, Exporting
Healthcare: Trade in Health Services, GATS and
(VI-O6) African Women’s Leadership III: Human Rights
Rhetoric and Reality [Sponsored by the
Women's Caucus]
Chair:
Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Lehman College- CUNY
Bertrade Ngo-Ngijol Banoum, Lehman College- CUNY, African
Women Between Human Rights and Wrongs
Anne Rice, Lehman College, Breaking Silences: Nigerian Women Writers and Human Rights
Mojubaolu Okome, Brooklyn College, CUNY,
Globalization, Democracy and Human
Rights: Challenges and Possibilities in 21st Century Africa
(VI-R9) New Perspectives on Transnational NGO and Policy Issue
Linkages
Chair: Dean
McHenry, Claremont Graduate U
Dean McHenry, Claremont Graduate U, The Role of the Ugandan Courts in the 2006
Elections: The Significance of Local and
International Support for Judicial Independence
Marie-Emmanuelle Pommerolle, U Yaoundé 2,
Cooperating in Activism: A
Comparative Analysis of North-South Mobilizations in Kenya and Cameroon
Brian Murphy, Niagara U, Mapping African Policy Issue Networks on the
Internet
Donna Patterson, Indiana U, Foreign Drugs and Parallel Markets: Perspectives on Female Pharmacy Ownership in
Dakar, Senegal
(VI-S3) Roundtable: South African Literature: Voicing and
Visibilizing in the spirit of Ubuntu [Sponsored
by the African Literature Association]
Chair:
(VI-S15) Survey Techniques in African Settings
Chair:
(VI-T4) Reviving Early African History: The Role of the Deep
Past in the 21st Century
Chair: Neil
Kodesh, U of Wisconsin-Madison
Rhiannon Stephens, Northwestern U, Ideologies of Motherhood in North Nyanza:
From the Deep Past to the Present
Akinwumi Ogundiran, Florida International U,
Towards a Cultural History of
Gender in the Bight of Benin: Mythohistorical and Archaeological Dimensions
Neil Kodesh, U of Wisconsin-Madison, Health, Wealth, and Knowledge: Clanship and
Well-Being in Precolonial Buganda
Discussant: David Newbury, Smith College
(VI-YSP10) Local and Global Aesthetics in African Literature
Chair:
Frieda Ekotto, U of Michigan
Mbaye Diouf, Laval U, Aesthetic of Model in the Feminine African
Novel
Bruyere Vincent, U Laval, Glorious Embodiments, The Mudimbe’s
Fable of Extra Muros Africa
Laurence Boudreault, U Laval, Culture as a Perpetual Redefinition of
Oneself : The Example of African Literatures
N'Goran David Koffi, Africa and the Prose
of the World: the Paradoxal Nature of a Literacy Institution
Katell Colin-Thebaudeau, U Laval, Title pending author translation into English.
(VII-A3) Castells in
Chair:
Danielle de Lame, Royal Museum for Central Africa
Bogumil Jewsiewicki, U Laval, Modernity of Tradition and Globality of
Local Knowledge in Urban Popular Culture in the Congo
Ciraj Rassool, U of the Western Cape, Remaking Cape Town: Memory Politics, Land
Restitution and the Skeletons of History
Abdou Maliq Simone, Goldsmiths College, Intersecting Virtualities in Some African
Cities
Ann Cassiman, U of Leuven, In the Shadow of the Global City: Power and
Politics of Information Networks among Urban Women Traders in a Secondary City
located in Northern Ghana
Discussant: Filip De Boeck, Catholic U of Leuven
(VII-B2) Roundtable: Democratization in
Chair:
Staffan Lindberg, U of
(VII-C4)
Chair:
(VII-C6) International Actors and African Conflict
Chair:
Stephen Burgess, US Air War College - DAS
Stephen Burgess, US Air War College - DAS,
Big States and “Anchor
States” in Africa
Stephan Klingebiel, The Peace and Security Framework in Africa: The Role of the
International Community
Tilo Stolz, United Nations, The Role of Targeted Sanctions in
Post-Conflict Peace-Building
(VII-D7) Islam and Modernity in
Chair:
Pearl Robinson, Tufts U
Pearl Robinson, Tufts U, Islam and Female Empowerment among the
Tijaniyya in Niger
Ousseina Alidou, Rutgers, the State U of NJ,
Muslim Women Architects of a
Decolonized Modernity in East Africa
Kim Searcy, Loyola U-Chicago, Performing Tradition: The Formation of the
Jafariyya Sufi Order through Ritual, Symbol, and Authority
Tabea Scharrer, Free U, Berlin, “My Life as a New Muslim” -
Conversion Narratives as a Means for Islamic Missionary Movements in East
Africa
Discussant: Roberta Dunbar
(VII-F2) Understanding Cultural and Religious Identities in the
Somali Diaspora
Chair:
Stephanie Bjork, UW-Milwaukee
Stephanie Bjork, UW-Milwaukee, Clan and Cultural Intimacy in the Somali
Diaspora
Marja Tiilikainen, U of Helsinki, Continuities and Changes: Somali Women and
Everyday Islam in the Diaspora
Rima Berns-McGown, U of Toronto, Integration in the Inner City: Somali Women
in Regent Park, Toronto
Mulki Al-Sharmani, The American U in Cairo, Social Research Center, Diasporic
Somalis in Cairo: The Poetics and Practices of Soomaalinimo
Discussant: Gudrun Kroner, Vienna U
(VII-G9) Different Perspectives on the Micro-foundations of
Economic Growth
Chair:
Chikwendu Ukaegbu, U of Wyoming
Chikwendu Ukaegbu, U of Wyoming, Constraints to Capitalist Development:
Reflections from Studies of Entrepreneurial Activity in Nigeria
Lawrence McNeil, Howard U, Innovation Spillovers and Economic Growth in
Africa
Renata Serra, U of Florida, Implications of Donor Subsidies and the Fate
of Micro-finance: The Case of Mali
Jose Munoz, Northwestern U, Doing Business in Northern Cameroon: The
Limits of Regulatory Reforms
(VII-H1) Producing Space for Conservation in
Chair:
Benjamin Gardner, UC-Berkeley
James Igoe, U of Colorado, Denver, Conservation in the Post-Colony: The
Privatization of Sovereignty in Tanzania's Northern Circuit
Elizabeth Garland, U of Chicago, Neoliberal Wildlife Work: Inside State
Attitudes toward Conservation in Tanzania
Mara Goldman, U of Wisconsin-Madison, Changing Conservation Contours and Relations
of Resistance in Northern Tanzania
Benjamin Gardner, UC - Berkeley, Making Space for Conservation in Tanzania:
Joint-Ventures, Territoriality and the Redefinition of Rights and Belonging in
Maasailand
Discussant: Nathan Sayre, U of California-Berkeley
(VII-H7) Environmental History and Policy, IV: Creating
Environmental Crises
Chair: Kate
Showers, U of Sussex
Emmanuel Kreike, Princeton U, War, Environment, and Crimes against
Humanity: From the Conquest of Africa to the Apartheid Wars
Rachel DeMotts, U of Botswana, "The Kruger is Coming Here:" Local
Perspectives on Internationalizing Conservation in Southern Africa
Kate Showers, U of Sussex, Environmental
Consequences of Electricity Policy: Hidden African River Histories
Maano Ramutsindela, U of Cape Town, From the 19602 to NEPAD: Continuities in
Environmental Agendas in Southern Africa
(VII-I10) New Perspectives on Islam in
Chair: Aly
Dramé, U of Illinois-Chicago
Beth Buggenhagen, Indiana U, Cloth, Gender and Islam in Global Senegal
Carrie Konold, U of Michigan, Popular Voices on Senegalese Secularism
Aly Dramé, U of Illinois-Chicago, Migration,
Marriage and Ethnicity: The Early Development of Islam in Pre-colonial
Casamance
Erin Augis, Ramapo College, Jambaar or Jumbax-out? How Sunnite Women
Negotiate Power and Belief in Orthodox Islamic Femininity
(VII-I16) Roundtable: “
Chair:
(VII-K4) Rethinking '
Chair:
Andrew Grant, Queen’s U, Timothy
Shaw, Royal Roads U and Pamela Mbabezi, Mbarara U of Science and Technology, Africa and Globalizations
Assis Malaquias, St. Lawrence U, Reestablishing Centrality: Africa and the
IPE of Energy Security
Discussant: Alfred Nhema, Organization for Social Science Research in Eastern
and Southern Africa (OSSREA)
(VII-M1) Popular Music and the African Diaspora
Chair:
Richard Shain, Philadelphia U
Richard Shain, Philadelphia U, Routes in Reverse: Senegal’s Los
Afro-Salseros 2001 Tour of Cuba
Halifu Osumare, U of California, Davis, Motherland Hip Hop: African American Youth
Culture in Senegal and Kenya
Daniel Douek, McGill U, "Here Comes the Judge:” Peter
Tosh as Pan-African Revolutionary
(VII-M2) Music as Medium:
Chair: