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
