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Guide to History at the ASA Conference

Colonial History

11/17, 12:45-2:45
Collaborative Hegemony: Missions, States, and European Expansion in Africa

Medical Science, Culture, and the Production of Knowledge in Colonial Kenya

11/17, 3:00-5:00
New Histories of Colonial Medicine

Colonial Medicine and Health in Africa

11/18, 8:30-10:30
Mau Mau's Hidden Generation: Youth, Family, and the State in the Kenya Emergency, 1952-1960

Foreign Imports, Local Meanings: Consumption in the Context of Imperialism

11/18, 1:00-3:00
Inventing Orthodoxy: Africans Shaping Mission Christianity During the Colonial Era

11/19, 9:00-11:00
Health and the Colonial Agency

11/19, 3:00-5:00
Senegal: Contestations In and Around Colonial Authority

The Maji Maji War 1905-1907: New Contexts, New Interpretations

Contemporary History

11/17, 12:45-2:45
Language as a Process in Historical Context

11/17, 3:00-5:00
Legacies of Islam Noir: Challenging the Persistence of Colonial Views of Islam in Africa

Post- Independence Politics in South Africa and Guinea

11/18, 8:30-10:30
Roundtable: Documenting the Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa: The Production of Knowledge, the Politics of Archives, and the Aluka Project

11/18, 10:45-12:45
The Ethiopian Revolution Thirty Years Later: Transformation of a Body/Politic

Expanding the View: New Perspectives on the Role of Mijikenda and other Non-Swahili Peoples on Kenyan Coastal History

11/18, 1:00-3:00
Prisons and Prisoners: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Colonial and Post-Colonial States and Identities

11/20, 11:15-1:15
Courts, Fields, and Verandahs: Space, Spectacle, and the Law in Zanzibar After the Revolution

Slavery

11/18, 10:45-12:45
Slavery, Statelessness, and Power

11/18, 1:00-3:00
A State of Mind and Body: Negotiating the Heritage of the Slave Trade and Slavery in West Africa

11/19, 9:00-11:00
Contesting Demographic Implications of Slavery Across the Sahara and North Africa: Slavery and Cultural Changes, Part I

11/19, 11:15-1:15
Contesting Demographic Implications of Slavery Across the Sahara and North Africa: Slavery and Population Demographics, Part II

11/19, 3:00-5:00
Slaving and Slavery in the Western Indian Ocean

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