Program
(Printed-Version)

9:00 - 9:10 Welcoming Remarks

9:10 - 10:40 Session I: Fictions of the Past
Chair:
-Tim Burke (Swarthmore College) "Out of the Shadow of Sovereignty: The Writing of African History After Nation-Making"
-Rachel Frankel (University of Pennsylvania) "History as Unfinished Business: The Nongqawuse Episode and the Xhosa in Modern South African Literature."
-Kalala Ngalamulume (Bryn Mawr College): "Belgian Colonialism, Memory, and the Uses and Abuses of the Past in DR Congo"

10:40 - 10:50 Coffee Break

10:50 - 12:30 Session II: Transnational Passages
Chair:
-T. Obinkaram Echewa, (West Chester University) "Africa: A Native View"
-Rachel Renyolds (Drexel University) "Ebo Landing and New Storytelling of the Slave Trade"
-Cheikh Babou (University of Pennsylvania) "Builders of a New Africa": How African Immigrants in the Diaspora are contributing to Economic and Cultural Changes on the Continent (The Case of Senegalese Female Hair braiders in the United States)

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch Break

1:30 - 3:00 Session III: (Un)Covering Current Events
Chair:
-Carol Davis (Philadelphia Inquirer) "Angelina's Africa: How Print Media Covers the Continent"
-Ali B. Dinar (University of Pennsylvania) "Framing the Darfur Conflict: 'Arabs' vs. 'Africans'
-Lee Cassanelli (University of Pennsylvania) "The Somali Union of Islamic Courts: Muslim Zealots, Al-Qaida Cell or Clan Faction"

3:00 - 3:15 Coffee Break

3:15 - 4:45 Session IV: Re-Presenting Africa in the Academy
Chair:
-Abioseh Porter (Drexel University) "ALA: Re-Presenting African Literature"
-Mary Osirim (Bryn Mawr College) "Re-Presenting Women and Gender in Africa: Scholarship and Activism of the ASA's Women's Caucus"
-Mary Ebling (Drexel University) "Information to Rights: African New Media and Human Rights"

5:00 - 6:30 Reception