2ND ROCKY MOUNTAIN WORKSHOP ON AFRICAN HISTORY
August 7-8, 2020
(all sessions held virtually due to Covid-19 Pandemic)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 7, 2020
Welcome and Panel 1: 9:00am - 10:30am
Chair: Leslie Hadfield, Brigham Young University
“Lemco in Southwest Africa: Transnational Dimensions of the Colonial Slaughterhouse”
Thaddeus Sunseri, Colorado State University
“Uses of ‘Genocide’ in Anglophone Cameroon”
Christopher Davey, Independent Scholar
“Memorialization in Rwanda: The Legal, Social, and Digital Constructions of the Memorial Narrative”
Stephanie Wolfe, Weber State University
Panel 2: 10:45am - 12:00pm
Chair: Dima Hurlbut, Boston University
“Practicing Muslims, Marginalized Pagans: Accommodating Arab Orthodoxies in the Zanzibar Sultanate, 1813-1895”
Daren Ray, Brigham Young University
“Honor, Debt, and Rupture in Mombasa, ca. 16th – 19th c.”
David Bresnahan, University of Utah
“‘Liberty or Death, FRONASA Shall Win’: Radical Theory and the Ugandan Exile Community in Dar es Salaam, 1966-1981”
Abigail Meert, Texas A&M International University
SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 2020
Panel 3: 9:00am - 10:15am
Chair: Dima Hurlbut, Boston University
“‘The Cat’s Paw of Dictatorship’: Police Intelligence and Self-Rule in the Gold Coast, 1948-1952”
Chase Arnold, University of San Francisco
“The High Entry Costs to International Participation: Why African States Could and Could not Contribute to the United Nations Expeditionary Force Mission in the Sinai.”
John Clune, U.S. Air Force Academy
“Understanding “Economic Independence”: Economic Nationalism and Liberalization in DRC
1965-1983”
Peter Vale, University of California, Berkeley
Panel 4: 10:30am - 11:45am
Chair: David Bresnahan, University of Utah
“Hide it in a Book: A History of Visibility in the Production, Consumption and Study of Nigerian Fiction”
Caitlin Tyler-Richards, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“The ‘Conversion’ of Anthony Obinna to Mormonism: Elective Affinities, Socio-Economic Factors, and Religious Change in Postcolonial Southeastern Nigeria”
Dima Hurlbut, Boston University
“Dialoguing with Retired Nurses: Involving Interviewees in the Interpretation Process in South Africa”
Leslie Hadfield, Brigham Young University
Debriefing: 12:00pm - 12:15pm
SPECIAL THANKS
BYU David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
BYU Department of History