Conference: Ethnohistory and the Construction of Identity in Africa, 03/06

Registration is now open for the conference 'Ethno-History and the Construction of Identity in Twentieth-Century Africa', to be held on 31 March and 1 April 2006 at the University of Cambridge.

The gathering will provide an opportunity for presenting new and ongoing research on the intellectual roots and enduring vitality of local African historiography; the genre's changing political dimensions and contributions to the construction of local and ethnic identities; and the social profiles and biographies of the genre's practitioners and their relationships with academic historians.

Papers will be given by, among others, Tom McCaskie, Richard Rathbone, Patricia Hayes, Emma Hunter, Gregory Maddox, Jan Shelter, Derek Peterson, David Gordon, Christopher Lee, John Lonsdale, Etienne Smith, and Justin Willis. A round-table will involve two practicing ethnohistorians, the Senior Chief Kanongesha (Zambia) and the Rev. Richard Baguma (Uganda). The keynote will be delivered by Prof. Karin Barber, entitled 'Historical Writing at the Yoruba Language Press in the Twentieth Century'.

A full conference programme, including information concerning registration, can be found at the website
<http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/2005-6/ethnohist.html>. Academic inquiries may be addressed to one of the conveners: Prof. Megan Vaughan (mav26@cam.ac.uk), Dr. Derek Peterson (drp31@cam.ac.uk), or Dr. Giacomo Macola (gm333@cam.ac.uk).

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