3rd ROCKY MOUNTAIN WORKSHOP ON AFRICAN HISTORY
August 20-21, 2021
(all sessions held virtually due to Covid-19 Pandemic)
FRIDAY, AUGUST 20, 2020
Moderator: Leslie Hadfield
Welcome and Panel 1: 9:30am - 11:00am
Chair & Discussant: Benjamin Lawrance, University of Arizona
Aegis of Atrocity: Violence in RPF Memory
Christopher Davey, Independent Scholar
In the Shadow of Genocide: Rwanda, 1994
Stephanie Wolfe, Weber State University
Panel 2: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Chair & Discussant: Daren Ray, Brigham Young University
Enslavement in Translation: A Nyanja Dictionary and a Microhistory of Slavery Between Lake Malawi and the Swahili Coast
David Bresnahan, University of Utah
Reading the “Native”: The Ruse of Ethnology in Post-abolition Zanzibar
Alírio Karina, University of Cape Town
SATURDAY, AUGUST 21, 2020
Moderator: Leslie Hadfield
Panel 3: 9:30am - 11:00am
Chair & Discussant: Myra Houser, Ouchita Baptist University
Imaginative Links: Islam and Dreams of a Saharan French Empire
Doug Leonard, US Air Force Academy
Shifting Regimes and Colonial Realities: The Experience of Black Labor and Infectious Disease in Southwest Africa, 1917-1919
Nich Backman, University of Utah
Panel 4: 1:30pm - 3:00pm
Chair & Discussant: David Bresnahan, University of Utah
Muyaka's Lament: The Surrender of Mombasa, 1815-1840
Daren Ray, Brigham Young University
Chaos and Coercion
Abigail Meert, Texas A&M University
Debriefing: 3:00pm - 3:15pm
SPECIAL THANKS
BYU David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
BYU Department of History