2010-2011
African History and Anthropology Workshop - 2010/2011
** Unless otherwise noted all events are on Tuesdays, 4-6pm, in the CAAS Conference Room **
Graduate Student Coordinators: Robyn d'Avignon (robdavig@umich.edu) and Edgar Taylor (edgarjac@umich.edu)
Faculty Coordinator: Derek Peterson (drpeters@umich.edu)
Sept 14 AHAW Workshop
Dr. Aly Drame, Dominican University, and Mellon-Sawyer Post-doctoral Scholar, University of Michigan
Title: ‘Marriage and Identity Change: the Bainunk Landowners of Pre-Colonial Casamance’
Sept 21 AHAW Workshop
Dr. Neil Kodesh, University of Wisconsin
For discussion: Kodesh, Beyond the Royal Gaze (Virginia, 2010), Ch. 5.
Oct. 5 AHAW Workshop
Workshop for proposal writers. Doctoral students wishing to workshop proposals-in-draft should contact the conveners.
Oct. 26 AHAW Workshop
Dr. Robert Blunt, Mellon-Sawyer Post-doctoral Scholar, University of Michigan
Title: ‘Inflationary Rituals: Gluckman’s Magic of Despair Revisited’
Nov. 9 Joint AHAW and CAAS Africa Workshop
Prof. Allen Isaacman, University of Minnesota
Title: ‘Struggles over Water, Struggles over Energy, Struggles over Memories: Cahora Bassa dam, 1965-2008’
Nov. 16 AHAW Workshop
Grace Okrah, Doctoral candidate, University of Michigan
Nov. 30 AHAW Workshop
Dr. Lorena Rizzo, University of Zurich, CAAS post-doctoral fellow
Title: ‘Scripts of Empire: Administrative Writing and Photography in Southern Africa’
Dec. 11 Sawyer Mellon Conference
Day-long conference on ‘Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Ethnicity in Africa’, venue TBA
Jan 18 AHAW Workshop
Henrike Florubosch, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, University of Michigan
Title: “The Panopticon of Others: Endogamy, Women's Bodies, and Mundane Practices of Secrecy"
Feb 1 AHAW Workshop
Dr. Gabrielle Hecht, Professor of History, University of Michigan
Title: "Nuclearity at Work in Gabon and Madagascar" (Chapter 7 from Uranium from Africa and the Power of Nuclear Things)
Feb 5 Conference, ‘Reframing Knowledge Production on 1970s Uganda’
Keynote Speaker: Holger Bernt Hansen, University of Copenhagen
Location: Saturday, 8:30-6pm, 1014 Tisch Hall
**Contact Edgar Curtis (edgarjac@umich.edu) for a program**
Feb 22 AHAW Workshop
Isabelle de Rezende, PhD Candidate in History, University of Michigan
Title: "Further Visual Adventures in Ethnicity: The Belgian Colonial Nation-State, Museums, Ethnographers, Administrators, and the Production of a Tetela Visual 'Catalogue,' c.1900-1940."
April 7 AHAW Lunch Seminar
Dr. Giorgio Miescher, Discussion of “Namibia's Red Line? South Africa's imperial 'barbarian border'”
Location: 12-1pm, CAAS Seminar Room
April 14 AHAW Lunch Seminar
Dr. Harri Englund, Discussion of “Prisoners of Freedom”
Location: 12-1pm, CAAS Seminar Room
Apr. 19 AHAW Workshop
Dr. Harri Englund, Professor of Social Anthropology, Cambridge University
Title: Human Rights and Village Headmen in Malawi: Translation beyond Vernacularization