| 8:25 am – 8:45 am: | Introductory Paper -Neil Kodesh: “A Comparative Note from the Healer’s Shrine” |
8: 45 am - 11:00 am: Composing and Representing Power in the Longue Durée
Chair: Thomas Spear
- Jan Vansina
- "Oral Traditions, Art, and the Survival of the Kuba Kingdom"/ "Art, traditions orales et survie du royaume Kuba"
Kairn Klieman: "The Ancient History of Bwiti in West-Central Africa"
- James Sweet
- "The Evolution of Ritual in the African Diaspora: Central African Kilundu in Brazil, St. Domingue, and the United States, 17th-19th Centuries"
- Nancy Hunt
- "Rethinking Red Rubber Narratives: Visual and Sexual Economies in the Congo Free State"
- John Cinnamon
- "A Biography of "Mademoiselle": Healing and Appropriating Power in Colonial Gabon"
General discussion
11:00 am -11:15 am – Break
11:15 am - 12:30 pm: Roundtable: "Ruptures and Continuities in Equatorial
- Africa
- A tribute to, and discussion of, Jan Vansina's Equatorial Tradition"
12:30 pm- 2:00 am – Lunch
- 2
- 00 pm – 4:00 pm: On the Social Front: Gender, Masculinity and Popular Culture
Chair: Aliko Songolo
- Rachel Jean
- Baptiste: "Gendering the Equatorial Historical Tradition: Marriage, Sexuality and Divorce in Twentieth Century Gabon"
- Didier Gondola
- "Tropical Cowboys, Masculinity and Ritualized Violence in 1950s Kinshasa"
- Jeremy Rich
- "Notions of Honor and Masculinity in Gabon, 1918-1945: Insults and Public Acts of Disrespect in the Town of Kango"
Charles Tshimanga-Kashama: "Affaire d'Etat d'Olomide: Musique populaire et histoire sociale du Congo"/ "Olomide's State Affair: Popular Music and Social History in the Congo"
- Marissa Moorman
- "Music and Gender in Late Colonial Angola: Clubs vs. the Maquis"
4:00 pm - 4:30 pm: Break
4:30 pm – 6:30 pm: Le retour du politique / Is Political History Back?
Chair: Michael Schatzberg
Enrique Okenve: "And Tradition Took Over: Equatorial Guinea 1968-1979"
- Florence Bernault
- "De la modernité comme impuissance: fétichisme et crise du politique en Afrique équatoriale"/ "The Powerlessness of Modernity: Fetishism and Political Crisis in Equatorial Africa"
- Meredith Terretta
- "Nationalists Go Global: From Cameroonian (UPC) Vilage Maquisards to Pan-African Freedom Fighters"
Rémi Bazenguissa-Ganga: "Le politique en colonie : violence, guerres électorales et construction de l'Etat au Moyen-Congo"/ "Politics in the Colony: Violence, Electoral Wars and State-Building in the Colonial Congo-Brazzaville"
General discussion – Moderator TBA
Participants:
Rémi Bazenguissa-Ganga (EHESS, Paris)
Florence Bernault (Un. of Wisconsin-Madison)
John Cinnamon (Miami University)
Didier Gondola (Indiana Un.-Indianapolis)
Nancy Hunt (Un. of Michigan-Ann Arbor)
Rachel Jean-Baptiste (SUNY-Albany)
Kairn Klieman (Un. of Texas-Houston)
Neil Kodesh (Un. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Alisa LaGamma (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Marissa Moorman (Un. of Indiana-Bloomington)
Enrique Okenve (African Caribbean Institute)
Jeremy Rich (Middle Tennessee State Un.)
Michael Schatzberg (Un. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Aliko Songolo (Un. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Thomas Spear (Un. of Wisconsin-Madison)
James Sweet (Un. of Wisconsin-Madison)
Meredith Terretta (LeMoyne College)
Charles Tshimanga-Kashama (Un. of Nevada-Reno)
Jan Vansina (Un. of Wisconsin-Madison)
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