4th ROCKY MOUNTAIN WORKSHOP ON AFRICAN HISTORY
October 14-15, 2022
All sessions held at BYU Salt Lake Center & by Zoom
Triad Center, Building 3, 345 W N Temple St
Welcome and Panel 1: 10:30am - 11:45am
Chair & Discussant: Daren Ray, BYU
Gendering Incarceration: The Women’s Jail, Johannesburg, 1970-1983
Erin Hazan, University of the Witwatersrand
Minembwe: The Heart of Self-Defence
Chris Davey, Clark University
Lunch: 12:00 - 1:30 with Caitlin Tyler-Richards, African Studies Acquisitions Editor at Michigan State University Press
Panel 2: 1:30pm - 2:45 pm
Chair & Discussant: Leslie Hadfield, BYU
GLOW up: South Africa’s LGBTQIA+ movement and the Gay and Lesbian Organisation of the Witwatersrand during the 1980s
Jonathan Botes, University of the Witwatersrand
#peoplepowerourpower: Youth activism and electoral politics in Uganda, 1962 - 2022
Brooke Bocast, Montana State University
Panel 3: 3:00pm - 4:15 pm
Chair & Discussant: Jeff Glenn, BYU
The History of Maternity and Reproduction in Africa
Jennifer Tappan, Portland State University
History of Disease Eradication in Africa
Melissa Graboyes, University of Oregon
Dinner 6pm @ Ivy and Varley (55 W 100 S, SLC); outdoor seating
Panel 4: 9:00am - 10:15am
Chair & Discussant: Dave Bresnahan, University of Utah
Contesting Teleology: Non-Linear Time in West African Intellectual History
Doug Leonard, US Air Force Academy
Caribbean Intellectual History
Myles Osborne, University of Colorado- Boulder
Panel 5: 10:30am - 12:30pm
Chair & Discussant: Chris Conte, Utah State University
The Colonization of Smallpox Response in the Transkeian Territories, 1878-1900
Lindsay Frederick Braun, University of Oregon
Climate, Sunspots, and Forestry: Global Approaches to Understanding Malaria in British Mauritius
Yadhav Deerpaul, Iowa State University
“All Set for the Slump”: Promoting Tea Consumption in Postcolonial Kenya, 1977-1990
Muey Saeteurn, University of California, Merced
Lunch 12:30-1:30
Panel 6: 1:30pm - 2:45pm
Chair & Discussant: Chris Davey, Clark University
Becoming Baganda: Migrants, Refugees, and War in Twentieth-Century Uganda
Abigail Meert, Albion College
Journey Through Rwandan Memorials: Chapter Four Kigali Province
Stephanie Wolfe, Weber State University
Debriefing: 2:45pm - 3:00pm
(Optional) Hike
SPECIAL THANKS
BYU David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
BYU Africana Studies and Department of History
BYU Salt Lake Center