UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA - AFRICAN STUDIES CENTER |
FACULTY CLUB
Alumni Hall, Club Room, and Lenape Room
University of Pennsylvania
sponsored by University of Pennsylvania, and Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges
SESSION A
Panel 1
8:30 - 10:00
(Alumni Hall)
Dan Ben-Amos, University of Pennsylvania: "The King Who
Buried his Wife Alive"
Nilgun Anadolu Okur, Temple University: "At Crossroads of Reconstruction:
Ritual and Tradition in Contemporary Nigerian Drama, Femi Osofisan and
Tess Akaeke Onwueme "
Nadève Ménard, University of Pennsylvania: "Stabilizing
the métis in Henri Lopes' Le Chercheur d'Afriques
"
David Conrad, SUNY-Oswego: "Fear and Loathing in Northeastern
Guinea: Bardic Constructions of Wicked Sorcerers and Dangerous Medicine"
Chair: Kwesi Yankah, University of Pennsylvania, University of Ghana
Discussant: Oluropo Sekoni, Lincoln University
SESSION A
Curtis Keim, Moravian College: "Images of Africa among College
Students"
Kandioura Drame, University of Virginia: "Images of Africa
Presented to African Students and Professors"
Lynda Hill, Temple University: "Images of Africa among Contemporary African-Americans"
Stan Yoder, University of Pennsylvania: "Images of Africa from
Americans Living orTravelling in Africa"
Chair: Carolyn Holmes, Philadelphia School District, African-American
Studies Dept.
Discussant: Doug Anthony, Franklin & Marshall College
SESSION B
Panel 3
10:30-12:00
(Alumni Hall)
Amanda Kemp, Cornell University: "Playing the Negro: Black
South African Radicals on Stage in Everyday Life"
Carol Muller, University of Pennsylvania: "Capturing the 'Spirit
of America' in the Music of South African-American Jazz Singer, Sathima
Bea Benjamin"
Rita Barnard, University of Pennsylvania: "On Miss South Africa
and Madiba Magic: Beauty, Race and Nation in the New South Africa"
Chair: Farah Griffin, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College
SESSION B
Panel 4
10:30-12:00
(Club Room)
Leigh Swigart, University of Pennsylvania: "Communicating
the Quotidian: The Conjuncture of Language and Message in Senegalese Popular
Media"
Solimar Otero, University of Pennsylvania: "Ikû and Cuban Nationhood: Yoruba Mythology in the Film Guantanamera"
Pedzisai Mashiri, University of Zimbabwe: "Television Drama in Zimbabwe and the Representation of Blacks and the City"
Chair: Karega-Munene, University of Pennsylvania, National Museums of
Kenya
Discussant: Elisa von Joeden-Forgey, University of Pennsylvania
SESSION C
Panel 5
2:30-4:00
(Alumni Hall)
Jo Ellen Fair, University of Wisconsin, and Lisa Parks,
UC-Santa Barbara: "Surveillance of Violence in Africa: Cameras, Satellites, Imagemaking, and Responsibility"
Charles Okigbo, University of North Dakota (with Mary Kizito
and Christine Kyayonka): "Communicating Africa: Analysis of
African Media Content"
Rod Chavis, Philadelphia Neighborhood Development Project: "Communicating Africa in the Western Media"
Robert Washington, Bryn Mawr College: "The Media's Peculiar
Coverage of Clinton's Africa Visit"
Chair: Mary Osirim, Bryn Mawr College
Discussant: Rick Shain, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science
SESSION C
Panel 6
2:30-4:00
(Lenape Room)
Thomas Callaghy, University of Pennsylvania: "Intervention
and Sovereignty in Africa: Networks and Innovation in the International
Debt Regime"
James Zaffiro, Central College, Iowa: "Democratization, Civil
Society and the State: Comparing the Role of Mass Media in Zimbabwe and
Botswana"
P. L. E. Idahosa, York University Founders College: "Globalization,
Sovereignty and the African Nation-State"
Elizabeth Jamillah Koné, Temple School of Law: "The Right of Self-Determination in the Angolan Enclave of Cabinda"
Stephen Howard, Ohio University: "Communicating Islamic Reform:
the Campaigns of the Republican Brotherhood"
Chair: Steve O' Connell, Swarthmore College
Discussant: Marc Ross, Bryn Mawr College
SESSION C
Panel 7
2:30-4:00
(Club Room)
Neil Sobania, Hope College: "Where's the Beef? 125 Years
of Maasai and Zulu Images in Popular Culture"
Andrew Gordon, University of South Carolina: "Finding Oneself
in the African Other: European/American Observations on the Fulani"
Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Brown University: "As to the Position
of Women: African Women in Western Travel Writings"
Jennifer J. Schaming, University of North Carolina: "Not at
Face Value: The Importance of Employing a Feminist Critical Cultural Perspective
in Studying Media Portrayals of Sub-Saharan African Women"
Chair: Ahmed Shariff, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Lee Cassanelli, University of Pennsylvania
SESSION D
Panel 8
4:30-6:00
(Alumni Hall)
Barbara DeGorge, St. John's University "The Modern Day Slave
Trade and the Media: Slavery in the Sudan"
Tonya Taylor, University of Pennsylvania: "The Construction
of the Dangerous African Other"
Keith Snow, Freelance Journalist & Photographer: "Assessing
Images of Africa in the Western Media"
Vera Viditz-Ward, Bloomsburg University: "Photographers in
the Field: Contexts and Consequences"
Chair: Ali B. Dinar, University of Pennsylvania
Discussant: Allyson Purpura, Haverford College
SESSION D
Panel 9
4:30-6:00
(Club Room)
Maghan Keita, Villanova University: "Africa Backwards and
Forwards: Interpreting Africa and Africans in Pre-and Post-Modern Space"
Peter Glomset, Villanova University: "The Gutenberg Galaxy
and Africa"
Kwesi Yankah, University of Pennsylvania; University Of Ghana "Africa
and the Academic Media"
Chair: Tracey Hucks, Haverford College
Discussant: Lucius Outlaw, Haverford College
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