5th ROCKY MOUNTAIN WORKSHOP ON AFRICAN HISTORY
April 12-13, 2024
All sessions held at BYU Salt Lake Center
Triad Center, Building 3, 345 W N Temple St
Welcome & Snacks: 2:30 pm - 3:00pm
Panel 1: 3:00pm - 4:30pm
Discussant and Chair: Leslie Hadfield, BYU
The Nation’s Craft, the Women’s Mantle: Efua Sutherland and the Gendered Politics of the African Personality
Emmanuella Amoh, Baylor University
Olinga Travels: Emotions and Political Kinship in Transnational Connections
Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Dinner 6pm (Caffé Molise, 404 S. West Temple)
Discussant and Chair: Dave Bresnahan, University of Utah
Kiswahili Before Standardization: Making Missionary Dictionaries and Language Materials in Coastal East Africa, 1840-1903
Daren Ray and Harrison Brown, BYU
Popular Dis/Content in Luwero, 1962-1980
Abigail Meert, Albion College
Lunch 12:00-1:00 (Catered by Magreth Bundala, from Tanzania)
Panel 3: 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Discussant and Chair: Chris Conte, Utah State University
“Lake Explosions and the Levelling of Scientific, Spiritual, and Conspiratorial Knowledges in Cold War Cameroon”
Harmony O'Rourke, Pitzer College (The Claremont Colleges)
“Facts and Fiction about Early Guides on Kilimanjaro”
Leslie Hadfield, BYU
Debriefing: 2:30 pm - 2:45 pm
Afternoon Hike (optional & weather permitting)
SPECIAL THANKS
BYU David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies
BYU Africana Studies and Department of History
BYU Salt Lake Center