U. of Pennsylvania: Circulations in African Culture, 10/06/95
The African Studies Consortium
Univ of Pennsylvania, Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges
THIRD ANNUAL WORKSHOP
CIRCULATIONS IN AFRICAN CULTURE
Friday, October 6, 1995
Bodek Lounge, Houston Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Panel 1 -- The Political Economy of Gender and Work
"The World Bank's Fundamental Misconception about
Sub-Saharan Africa," Sayre Schatz (Columbia Univ-
ersity and Temple University)
"The Cost of Doing Business: Urban Women Micro-
entrepreneurs and Adjustment in Zimbabwe," Mary
Osirim (Bryn Mawr College)
"The Transformation of Gender Roles in the Guinean
Nationalist Movement, 1946-1958," Elizabeth
Schmidt
(Loyola College in Maryland)
Discussant: Kate Crehan (New School)
Chair: Lee Cassanelli (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
8:30 - 9:45 a.m.
Panel 2 -- The Limits of Order and Disorder
"Eating People: The Right to Dispose," Achille Mbembe
(Univ. of Pennsylvania)
"Guerrilla and Government Struggles in Postwar
Zimbabwe: State and Nation Formation," Norma Kriger
(Johns Hopkins University)
"The Breakdown and Restoration of Order in the African
State: The Example of Angola," Marilyn Silberfein
(Temple University)
"Running in Circles in the Courts? Never Ending Court
Cases in Western Uganda," Simon Heck (Boston
University)
"Pushing the Limits for Profit: Zairian and Congolese in International
Trade," Janet MacGaffey (Bucknell University)
"Modernity Inside Out: The Reordering of 'Tradition' in Yoruba
Historiography," Rick Shain
(Philadelphia College of Textiles & Science)
Discussant: Tom Callaghy (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Chair: Alwiya Omar (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
10 am - 12 noon
Panel 3 -- Circulations in Popular, Official, and Commercial
Culture
"Fires, Tricksters and Poisoned Medicines: Popular
Cultures of Rumor in Onitsha, Nigeria, and Its
Markets," Misty Bastian (Franklin and Marshall
College)
"The Morality of Enslavement: Conflict Over the
Export Slave Trade in Central Madagascar, 1785,"
Pier Larson (Pennsylvania State University)
"So All May See What She Has Done at Night: Gender
Politics and Photographic Gazes in Eastern Zambian
Witchfinding," Mark Auslander (Haverford College)
"Advertisements as the Intersection of Popular and
Official Cultures: The Production of Multiple
Modernities in Zimbabwe, 1950-Present," Timothy
Burke (Swarthmore College)
Discussant: Steven Feierman (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Chair: Linda-Susan Beard (Bryn Mawr College)
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Panel 4 -- Literary and Symbolic Explorations of Aesthetic
Experience
"Sensory Valuation in Anlo-Ewe Aesthetic Practices,"
Kathryn Geurts (Univ. of Pennsylvania)
"Henri Lopes' Le Pleurer-Rire: Post-Colonial and
Post-Modern Novel," Koffi Anyinefa (Haverford
College)
"A Writer Dies in the Congo: Ambiguous Tributes to
Sony Labou Tansi," Leidy Moudileno (Univ. of
Pennsylvania)
Discussant: Mildred Mortimer (University of
Colorado)
Chair: Micheline Rice-Maximin (Swarthmore College)
2:30 p.m. - 3:45 p.m.
Roundtable -- The Relation Between African Studies and Diaspora
Studies
Isidore Okpewho (SUNY - Binghamton)
Houston Baker (University of Pennsylvania)
John Roberts (University of Pennsylvania)
Chair: Antonio McDaniel(a.k.a. Tukufu Zuberi), Univ. of
Pennsylvania
4:00 - 6:00 p.m.