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Guide to Arts & Culture at the ASA Conference

Identity

11/17, 12:45-2:45
Identities: Ethnic, Religious, and National

11/19, 9:00-11:00
Manufacturing Descent: Race & Genealogy in 20th-Century Africa

11/19, 11:15-1:15
Politics of Race and Reconciliation in South Africa

11/19, 3:00-5:00
Art, Fashion, and Identity

11/19, 3:00-5:00
Rethinking Race in Africa

11/20, 9:00-11:00
Marketing Identity: Ethnicity, Nationality, and the Politics of the Art Market

Ethnographic Turns and Cognitive Dissonance: Exploring Science, Magic, Healing, and Race

Art and Music

11/17, 3:00-5:00
Imaging African Art as a Collective Representation: Art Schools and Social Movements in Africa and the African Diaspora

11/17, 12:45-2:45
African Art and the Cosmos

11/18, 8:30-10:30
Healing through the Visual and Textual in African Arts

African Performances: Film, Theater, and Dance

11/18, 8:30-10:30
A la Memoire de Jean Rouch: Spirits of the Visual African Landscape

Language, Music, and Disease

11/18, 10:45-12:45
African Women's Verbal and Visual Artistry as Epistemology

11/18, 1:00-3:00
Yoruba Sacred Textiles in 20th Century Nigeria

11/18, 3:15-5:15
Roundtable: The Need for a Text for the Modern and Contemporary Art of Africa

11/19, 9:00-11:00
Looking Backward, Moving Forward: Similarities and Differences in Contemporary African and African Diaspora Art

Building a Body of Knowledge: Photographs, Archives, and Archaeological Evidence

11/19, 11:15-1:15
Reconsidering Historical and Art Historical Inquiry in Africa: The Case of the Bamum Kingdom in Cameroon

Representing the Body/Politic

Literature

11/17, 12:45-2:45
Medical Discourse in Literature

11/17, 3:00-5:00
Igbo World and Literature

11/18, 10:45-12:45
Theorizing the Body/Politic in the Literatures of Africa and the African Diaspora

Literature, the Arts, and Performance

11/18, 1:00-3:00
Health, Gender, and the Politics of Embodiment: Literary and Social Representations

Disease/Trauma and Literature

11/20, 9:00-11:00
Christopher Okigbo and Modern African Poetry

Media

11/18, 10:45-12:45
Cinema, Television, and Radio: Cultural Imperialism/Cultural Relations

11/19, 9:00-11:00
Film, Music, and Cartoons: Providing and Negotiating Images of Society, Past, and Present

Religion

11/18, 8:30-10:30
Religion and Healing in East and Southern Africa

11/19, 9:00-11:00
Perspectives on Pentecostal Healing

Islam and West Africa/Islam in West Africa

11/20, 11:15-1:15
Social Institutions and Social Control: Courts, Secret Societies, and Juju

Society

11/17, 12:45-2:45
Roundtable: Intangible Heritage in the Mande World

Bodily Acts, Embodied Knowledge: Performance and the Contours and Contexts of Community

Education, Identity, and Belonging

11/17, 3:00-5:00
Collecting Knowledge and Validating Morality Across Africa

11/18, 8:30-10:30
Science and Society in Africa: Constructing Knowledge and Changing Lives, Part I

11/18, 10:45-12:45
Science and Society in Africa: Constructing Knowledge and Changing Lives, Part II

Science Studies Meets Witchcraft Media and Post-Colonial Medical Debris in Neoliberal Africa

11/19, 9:00-11:00
Architecture and Time: Reconsidering Orality and Materiality in Africa

Culturing a Nation: Nigerian Unities and Disunities, Part I

11/19, 11:15-1:15
Culturing a Nation: Nigerian Unities and Disunities, Part II

Pre-Colonial/Colonial: Ruptures and Continuities in Regional African Traditions

11/19, 3:00-5:00
Culturing a Nation: Nigerian Unities and Disunities, Part III

Consanguine Exotics: The Paradox of Atlantic Crossings

11/20, 11:15-1:15
Roundtable: Le Long Voyage de la Femme du Fleuve: Adrian Adams and the Kungani Archive

Sports

11/18, 8:30-10:30
Displaced African Bodies in Sports: Issues and Perspectives on Globalization and Social Transformation

11/18, 10:45-12:45
Playing with History: Sport and the Politics of Representation

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