| 8:00-9:00 a.m. |
Registration and Light Breakfast Buffet |
| 9:00-10:45 a.m. | Panel One: Rethinking Political and Religious Landscapes in Eastern and Southern Africa |
Chair: Kofi Baku, University of Ghana-Legon and Penn State University
Presenters:
Matthew Kustenbauder, Yale University
"Believing in the Black Messiah: A History of Simeo Ondeto and the Legion Maria of the African Church Mission in Western Kenya"
Omotayo Jolaosho, Rutgers University
"'You Have Struck Rock': Freedom Songs and the Contribution of South African Women to the Liberation Movement"
Michael Panzer, University of Albany
"The Pedagogy of Revolution: Youth, Generational Conflict, and Education in the Formation of Mozambican Nationalism and State Formation, 1962-1970"
David Jones, University of Albany
"Facing the Epokolo: Public Floggings and Contestations over Legitimacy in Colonial Namibia"
Allen Howard, Rutgers University
"The Spatial Dynamics of Christian Bodies, Places, Networks, and Landscapes in Africa"
COFFEE BREAK
11:00-12:15 Panel Two: New Perspectives on Individuals and the State in Africa
Chair: Benita Sampedro, Hofstra University
Presenters:
Jay Spaulding, Kean University
"Rhetoric and Reality in the Nubian Tradition of Statecraft"
Charlotte Walker, Yale University
"Manipulating the State: Legal Reform and the Evolution of Corruption in Late Colonial and Independent Cameroon"
Michael Ralph, New York University
"If this be treason… Theorizing Senegalese Secularism"
12:15-1:15 LUNCH
1:15-2:45 Panel Three: Gender and Social Welfare in Africa
Chair: Carina Ray, Fordham University
Presenters:
Christine Cynn, Barnard College
"Regulating Proper Gendering: PEPFEAR in Cote d'Ivoire"
Lynda Day, Brooklyn College-CUNY
"Women Chiefs in War and the Post-War Reconstruction of Sierra Leone"
Christine Saidi, Hunter College-CUNY
"Motherpower in the Early History of East-Central Africa, 400 BCE to the Present"
Abosede Ajibike George, Barnard College
"Not Up to Age: The Social Life of Innocence Ideology in Lagos Nigeria, 1935-1950"
Barbara Cooper, Rutgers University
"Chronic Malnutrition and the Trope of the Bad Mother: Reflections on the 2005 Crisis in Niger"
2:45-4:00 Panel Four: Natives, Whites, and Social Policy under Apartheid
Chair: Dorothy Hodgson, Rutgers University
Presenters:
Harvey Feinberg, Southern Connecticut State University
"Black South Africans and the Land after the Natives Land Act: Responding to Land Hunger between 1913 and 1936"
Grace Davie, Queens College-CUNY
"African Social Workers in 1950s South Africa: The Ambiguities of Social Welfare Administration"
David Bargueno, Princeton University
"Discriminatory and Democratic Social Policies in the 'White' History of South Africa"
BREAK
4:15-5:30 Panel Five: Re-Examining Encounters between Africa and the West
Chair: Gregory Mann, Columbia University
Presenters:
Amy Van Natter, CUNY Graduate Center
"Rethinking United States' Foreign Policy in West Africa and the Transatlantic Slave
Trade, 1836-1844"
Moha Ennaji, Rutgers University
"Impact of French Culture and Modernization on Post-Colonial Morocco"
Megan Schmidt,
"Belgiums's Blood Stained Hands: The Colonial Impact on the Rwandan Genocide"
6:00 DINNER
5TH ANNUAL GREATER NEW YORK HISTORIANS OF AFRICA WORKSHOP
MAPS AND TRAVEL INSTRUCTIONS
Campus Map: http://www.hofstra.edu/StudentServ/IC/ic_campus_map.cfm
Train
Take the Long Island Rail Road (for schedules and fares: http://www.mta.info/mta/schedules.htm) from Pennsylvania Station in New York City or Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn to the Hempstead Station, which is less than two miles from Hofstra's campus.
When you arrive at the Hempstead Station, the complimentary Hofstra Campus Shuttle Bus will take you to the Hofstra campus. The shuttle will be either a large, blue bus or a small white commuter van. Otherwise, just take a taxi for a short 5-minute trip to the Hofstra campus.
The Hofstra Campus Shuttle Bus arrives across the street from the Hempstead Station at 7:30 am and then every 38 minutes after the hour.
Car
From Upstate New York
Take the Throgs Neck Bridge to the Cross Island Parkway then onto the Grand Central
Parkway eastbound. The Grand Central Parkway will become the Northern State Parkway.
Bear right and exit at Exit 31A, Meadowbrook Parkway.
FROM MEADOWBROOK PARKWAY
Once on the Meadowbrook Parkway, get off at Exit M4 West (Hempstead--Coliseum). This will be the same exit number whether you are on the Meadowbrook Parkway Northbound or Southbound. Follow the exit ramp to Hempstead Turnpike-West.
On Hempstead Turnpike, at the third traffic light, turn left onto California Avenue (Hofstra's Information and Public Safety Office is located on the far left corner). PARKING is available in both parking lots on the left side of California Ave.
Or, Take the Triboro Bridge to the Grand Central Parkway. The Grand Central Parkway will become the Northern State Parkway. Bear right and exit at Exit 31A/Meadowbrook Parkway. From this point see directions From Meadowbrook Parkway (above).*
From Manhattan
Take the Midtown Tunnel, which will lead you onto the Long Island Expressway (L.I.E.).
You will be traveling eastbound on the L.I.E. for approximately 15 miles. After the Roslyn
Road exit move into the far right lane. You will notice a large sign: Northern
State/Meadowbrook Parkway (Exit 38). The right lane will lead you onto this road. You are
now on the Northern State Parkway. Bear right and exit at Exit 31A/Meadowbrook Parkway.
From this point see directions From Meadowbrook Parkway (above).*
From the George Washington Bridge
Proceed over the bridge to the Cross Bronx Expressway onto the Throgs Neck Bridge to the
Cross Island Parkway, then onto the Grand Central Parkway eastbound. The Grand Central
Parkway will become the Northern State Parkway. Bear right and exit at Exit
31A/Meadowbrook Parkway. From this point see directions From Meadowbrook Parkway
(above).*
From the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
Take left exit off bridge onto the Belt Parkway East and follows signs to merge left onto
Exit 25A/Southern State Parkway East. Stay on Southern State Parkway to Exit
22N/Meadowbrook Parkway North. From this point see directions From Meadowbrook Parkway
(above).*
The Business Development Center in Axinn Library The Business Development Center is located on the second floor of the Axinn Library, the tallest building on the South Campus.
If you have any questions, feel free to contact Benjamin Talton at hisbat@hofstra.edu or 646-244-2043. For 24-hour assistance contact Hofstra's Information Center and Public Safety Office at (516) 463-6606.
Hofstra's Workshop Sponsors
Department of History
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