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13th Greater New York Area African History Workshop (GNYAAHW)
Friday, April 05, 2019, 08:30am - 05:00pm
13th Greater New York Area African History Workshop
April 5, 2019
At Princeton University
Location: A71 Simpson
(across from Robertson Hall/Woodrow Wilson School fountain,
Washington Rd/Prospect Ave)
PROGRAM
9:00–9:30 | Coffee & Welcome
9:30–11:15 | Panel I: (Re-)Education
Chair: Emmanuel Kreike (Princeton University)
- Elisa Prosperetti (Princeton University), “L’Aventure 46: Educational Insurgency in Côte d’Ivoire and the Shadow of the Nation”
- Chambi Chachage (Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies), “Engendering Entrepreneurs: Africanization and Business Education in Tanzania”
- Ray Thornton (Princeton University), “From Dustbin Boys to Skilled Computer Language ‘experts’:” computer literacy education and the structural adjustment of the self in 1980s Kenya
- Benedito Machava (Princeton Society of Fellows), “Reeducation Camps and the Carceral Regime in Socialist Mozambique”
- Alexandra Antohin (George Washington University), “Precarious Heritage: Tensions between Tourism and Preservation in Ethiopia”
11:15–11:30 | Coffee & Tea
11:30–1:00 | Panel II: Intimacies
Chair: Gregory Mann (Columbia University)
- Luz Colpa (Columbia University), “Looking for Love: An Affective Analysis of Transnational and Interethnic Marriage in the Dakar Civil Marriage Registry, 1951”
- Barbara Cooper (Rutgers University) “Historicizing Paternity”
- Kim Worthington (Princeton University), “A strange intimacy: how the reading of a forbidden memoir reshaped South Africa’s national narrative”
- Robby Zeinstra (Princeton University), “Interspecies communication and collaboration in Zimbabwe’s guerrilla war”
1:00–1:45 | Lunch
1:45–3:15 | Panel III: Transcontinental Solidarity & Imperial Antagonism
Chair: Jacob Dlamini (Princeton University)
- David Kofi Amponsah (University of Pennsylvania), “Enchanted Geography: India in the West African Popular Imagination”
- Ruodi Duan (Harvard University), “Fashioning a Vernacular of Solidarity: Beijing, Dar es Salaam, and Zanzibar, 1960–1966”
- Jeremy Rich (Marywood University), “An African Jerusalem Found and Lost: Ecumenical Christians, Foreign Aid, and the Kimbanguist Church in the Democratic Republic of Congo, 1965–1974”
- Wendy Belcher (Princeton University), “Early Pan-African Projects: New Perspectives on the Ethiopian Fourteenth-Century Text of the Kebra Nagast”
3:15-3:30 | Coffee & Tea
3:30–5:00 | Panel IV: Health and Healing
Chair: Cymone Fourshey (Bucknell University)
- Devon Golaszewski (Columbia University), “‘Volunteerism’ and Rural Health in Mali, 1965–1980”
- Vincenza Mazzeo (Johns Hopkins University), “The Battle for ‘Pap Smears’ in SPEAK Magazine: Health as Liberation in South Africa, 1982–1994”
- Conor Wilkinson (Columbia University), “A Social History of Plant and Insect Use among Great Lakes Bantu Speakers”
- Kathryn Blair (Yale University), “Rottenness at the Foundation: The Trial of Dinuzulu kaCetshwayo, King of the Zulu”
5:00-6:00 | Closing & Reception
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Format panels: 15 minutes for each individual speaker and 30 minutes for questions and discussion at the end of each panel. Because we have a full program, the allotted time for speakers and discussion will be strictly managed.
Local organizers: Emmanuel Kreike, Elisa Prosperetti, Ray Thornton, Tim Waldron, Kim Worthington, and Robby Zeinstra. For inquiries:
Sponsors: African Studies Program, Princeton University & Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS)
DIRECTIONS: see http://m.princeton.edu/map/
Transport: Parking is limited at Princeton. For parking and transport: https://transportation.princeton.edu/sites/default/files/TT-Park-F2017-Final%5B1%5D.pdf