1ST ROCKY MOUNTAIN WORKSHOP ON AFRICAN HISTORY
August 9-10, 2019
BYU Salt Lake Center
345 W. North Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah
(all sessions held in Room 107)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 9, 2019
Check-in: 1:30pm - 2:30pm
Panel 1: 2:30pm - 3:45pm
“Healthy Life Trajectories: Wealth in People and Meditations on Value in Soweto, South Africa”
Brooke Bocast, Montana State University
“Bogeys and Misconceptions: The Formation and Portrayal of Tanzanian Population Policy (1974-81)”
Kristen Carey, Boston University
“A Crisis of Control: Schools and the Expansion of Chiefs’ Authority in Colonial Ghana,
1919-1935”
Lacy Ferrell, Central Washington University
Panel 2: 4:00pm - 5:15pm
“Historical Changes in Porter Work on Mount Kilimanjaro”
Leslie Hadfield, Brigham Young University
“Labor Demands: Guestworker Claimsmaking in Kenya’s Tea Industry, 1956-1966”
Muey Saeteurn, University of California, Merced
Dinner: 6:30pm
Caffé Molise (404 South West Temple)
SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 2019
Breakfast: 8:15am - 9:15am
Panel 3: 9:30am - 10:30am
“Gobert Edet and the Expansion of the RLDS Church into Southeastern Nigeria, 1962-1966”
Dima Hurlbut, Boston University
“A Fish Story?: Global Harbingers and Human Perfidity in the Upper Nile Watershed”
James McCann, Boston University
Panel 4: 10:45am - 12:00pm
“The French Reading the Saharan Islam (1854-1920)”
Cheikh Isselmou, University of Arizona
“The ‘Finished Products’ of Maendeleo ya Wanawake: Britain’s Attempt of Social Engineering Amongst Kenyan Women, 1952-1960.”
Bethany Rebisz, University of Reading
Lunch: 12:30pm - 1:30pm
Panel 5: 1:30pm - 2:45pm
“Unmoored from the Ocean: Global Disconnection and Social Transformation on the First Millennium East African Coast”
David Bresnahan, University of Utah
“‘I Need to Protect Everyone’: Exploring Banyamulenge (Violent) Masculinity”
Christopher Davey, University of Bradford
“Journey Through the Genocide Memorials of Rwanda”
Stephanie Wolfe, Weber State University
Debriefing: 3:00pm - 3:30pm
SPECIAL THANKS
BYU Salt Lake Center
BYU David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
BYU Department of History