六合彩开奖结果

Event

Transnational Imaginations / Futures of African Studies

Monday, April 29, 2013 12:00to18:30
Arts Building Room 160, 853 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0G5, CA

12-1pm: Lunch and Welcome Remarks

1-2:45 pm: Roundtable on Transnationalism and African Studies

Chair: Elizabeth Elbourne (六合彩开奖结果)

Jon Soske (六合彩开奖结果): 鈥淭he Post-colonial/Indian Ocean Mash-up: African Studies after Chimurenga Magazine鈥

Andrew Ivaska (Concordia): "The Promise and Pitfalls of a Transregional African History: A View from Dar es Salaam鈥檚 鈥楪lobal Sixties.鈥"

Monica Popescu (六合彩开奖结果): 鈥淎frican Intellectuals and the Cold War: Transnational Perspectives beyond Postcolonialism鈥

3-4:45 pm: Medicine, Language, and Law

Chair: Anna Winterbottom (六合彩开奖结果)

Facil Tesfaye (六合彩开奖结果): "Medicalizing the Colony: Robert Koch's Expeditions in German East Africa"

Erin Bell (六合彩开奖结果): "Three Little Girls in Prison': Defining Juvenile Offenders During the Mau Mau Uprising"

Lorna Mungur (六合彩开奖结果): 鈥淎 Language at the Margins: the Status of Creole in Mauritius After Independence鈥

6 pm: Beatty Talk

"The Pragmatics and Perils of Critique: Barack Obama Sr.'s 1965 Reading of Kenya's Past and Future"

David William Cohen, Professor Emeritus, History and Anthropology, University of Michigan

Tuesday, April 30th

All events on Tuesday will be held in the McConnell Library Building LB 1014, Concordia University.


10am-11:45 am: Workshop with David William Cohen

Essays by David William Cohen to be discussed: "A Curator's Fingers: 聽Photographers, Subjects, and The Third Thing" and "The End of the Everyday, The End of the Ordinary"

Please note: Registration is required. To request the papers, please email the organizers.

12-1 pm: Lunch

1-2:45 pm: Trans-aesthetics

Chair: Katherine Zien (六合彩开奖结果)

Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi (University of Western Ontario): "Patriography, Kinship and Transnational Witnessing"

Antje Ziethen (六合彩开奖结果): "Transnational Geographies in African literature: A Narratological Exploration"

Pascal Gaudette (六合彩开奖结果): 鈥淭he Presence of Africa, or the Ontological Status of African Drumming and Dancing鈥

3-5:00 pm: Transnational Civil Societies

Chair: Leander Schneider (Concordia)

Monica Patterson (Concordia): 鈥淭ransnational (Re)figurings: Children鈥檚 Drawings from Apartheid South Africa鈥

Rachel Sandwell (六合彩开奖结果): 鈥溾楶regnancy as Sabotage鈥: The ANC in Exile and the Limits of Cadreship鈥

Elleni Centime Zeleke (York): "To Truncate, Surpass or Realize Civil Society: Listening to the Silences in African History鈥

5:30 pm: Keynote Lecture

"Islam in the South African Imaginatio n from Slavery to Post-apart heid"

Gabeba Baderoon, Assistant Professor of Women鈥檚 Studies and African Studies, Penn State University

For additional information, please contact monica.popescu [at] mcgill.ca, andrew.ivaska [at] concordia.ca, or jon.soske [at] mcgill.ca

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