ASA Annunal Meeting @ New Orleans
The complete programme is also downloadable in pdf format at the ASA website. But here it is as well ... Hope there are not (major) mistakes ... The Annual Meeting is divided into eleven (11) sessions over four days:
Session I Thursday, November 19 12:45 P.M. - 2:45 P.M.
Session II Thursday, November 19 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Session III Friday, November 20 8:00 A.M. - 10:00 A.M.
Session IV Friday, November 20 10:15 A.M. - 12:15 P.M.
Session V Friday, November 20 2:45 P.M. - 4:45 P.M.
Session VI Friday, November 20 5:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M.
Session VII Saturday, November 21 9:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M.
Session VIII Saturday, November 21 11:15 A.M . - 1:15 P.M.
Session IX Saturday, November 21 3:00 P.M. - 5:00 P.M.
Session X Sunday, November 22 9:00 A.M. - 11:00 A.M
(I-J1) Mande Social Theory and Aesthetic Values
Chair: Candace Keller, Independent Scholar
Cullen B. Strawn, Indiana U, Kunfè Ko: Uncertainty in Malian Wasulu Hunters’ Music Performance and Hunting
Stephen R. Wooten, U of
Khadidiatou Gueye, U of Wisconsin Oshkosh, The Divination of Destiny and the Destiny of Divination in Dani Kouyaté’s Keïta, L’héritage Du Griot
(I-M1) Antiquities Trade, Repatriation, and Community Action to Heritage Losses in
Chair: Chapurukha M. Kusimba, The
Linda L. Giles,
Monica L. Udvardy, U of
Peter R. Schmidt, U of
(I-N1) Globalization of Popular Culture
Chair: Ruti Talmor,
Ruti Talmor,
Matthew Warne, Brown U, Kuduro Music and Contemporary
James P. Mokhiber, U of
(I-N2) Nollywood Reconsidered
Chair: John C. McCall,
Matthew H. Brown, U of Wisconsin-Madison, Osuofia Don Enta Discourse:Global Nollywood and the Politics of Identity in African Film
Frank N. Ukadike, The Tulane U, Revisioning History: Nollywood and African Film Criticism
John C. McCall, Southern Illinois U,
(II-B6) Purchase, Imitation, Trick or Swindle: Mechanisms of Cultural Diffusion from the
*Chair: Eli Bentor, Appalachian State U
Ivor L. Miller,
Amanda Carlson, U of
Jordan A. Fenton, U of
David Pratten,
(II-N3) Land and Landscape in Contemporary African Art [Organized by the Arts Council of the ASA (ACASA)]
Chair: Leora Maltz-Leca, RISD
Leora Maltz-Leca, RISD, Paul Stopforth: Beached Relics and the Countries of the Past
Gemma F. Rodrigues, Harvard U, Going Forward to the
*Herbert M. Cole, UCSB, The Multivalence of Igbo Earth in Art and Life
(III-B11) The Slave Past in the Present: Tradition, Memory and Heritage in
Chair: Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard U
Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard U, Crossing Histories, Conflicting Memories: Representing the Slave past
in
Kimberly Cleveland,
Markus Balkenhol, Vrije Universiteit, The Slave Past in the Present Metropole. Memory work on Slavery in the
Marie Rodet, U of
Alessandra Brivio, Università Milano Bicocca, Modernity and Tradition: Vodu Dynamics in Bénin
(IV-M4) Collecting the
Chair: Sarah Van Beurden, U of
John M. Janzen, U of
Sarah Van Beurden, U of
Allen F. Roberts, U of
(V-B23) Representing the Past: History and Memory in
Chair: Elizabeth L. MacGonagle, U of
Elizabeth L. MacGonagle, U of
Anna M. Dempsey, U of
Sophie Mew, SOAS, From Colonial, National to Global Museums: Their Trajectories and Roles in
(V-O4) Transformations in the Management of Death, Divination, and Witchcraft
Chair: Andre A. Wellington, Emory U
Rebekah Lee, Goldsmiths, U of
Scott M. Edmondson, UCLA, Nana Okomfo Kasa: Responses from the Demonized Religious Others to Ghanaian Christians
Andre A. Wellington, Emory U, Ethnomedicalization in Adam Ashforth’s Madumo: A Man Bewitched: Witchcraft, Sangomas, Muthi and other Distractions in Post-Apartheid South
Africa
*Susan Cooksey, U of
Change: Researching Artistic Form in
Chair: Jill
Jill
Brian Jeffery, U of
(VI-M9) Performing Africa in
Chair: Cynthia J. Becker,
Helen A. Regis,
*Cynthia J. Becker,
Rachel S. Breunlin, U of New Orleans, The Pan-African Imagination at the House of Dance & Feathers
Felipe Smith, African and African Diaspora Studies Program, No More of That Dignity Stuff!: Africa and the Public Transcript of New Orleans Festivity
(VI-M12) The Heritage Industry in
Chair: Rachel F. Giraudo, U of California-Berkeley
Rachel F. Giraudo, U of California-Berkeley, Those People: Community Involvement in Heritage Management and Tourism
Peter M. Probst, Tufts U, The Heritage Industry as an Image Machine: Experiences and Insights from
Lindsay M. Weiss, Columbia U, Heritage is Our Gold
Beverley Butler, U College
(VIII-F25) AfricaMap (Harvard U) [Sponsored by the ASA Board of Directors]
Chair: Joseph C. Miller, U of
Suzanne Preston Blier, Harvard U
Ben Lewis, Harvard U
(X-B41) Mande Studies at the Crossroads, Panel I [Organized by the Mande Studies Association (MANSA)]
Chair: Barbara Hoffman,
Kassim Kone, SUNY
*Patrick R. McNaughton, Indiana U, Mande Art Studies Transforming Into the Future
David C. Conrad, Mande Studies Association, Can a Fula be a Komotigi?: Entreprenurial Sorcery in
(XI-B47) Mande Studies at the Crossroads, Panel II
Chair: Kassim Kone, SUNY-Cortland
Dolores B. Koenig, American U, Development Studies in the Mande Region
Saidou N’Daou,
Susan K. McIntosh, Rice U, The Archaeology of Towns, Trade and Empire in the Northern Mande Area: Research Since 1995
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