9:00-9:30 Breakfast Reception /Introduction
Welcoming Remarks by Lydie Moudileno,
Director, African Studies
Center,
University of Pennsylvania
9:30-10:30 Session
I: Agency and/in the Body
Chair: Clare Ignatowski, University
of Pennsylvania
- “The White Shadow,
or How to Write European Agency
Into the African Subject Without Apologetics”. Tim Burke, Swarthmore College
- “Multiple
Citizenship and its Implications
for Women”.
Susanna Wing, Haverford College
10:30-10:45 Coffee
Break
10:45-12:15 Session
II: Imagining Bodies
Chair :
Kalala Ngalamulume, Bryn Mawr
College
- “Displacing
Images and People in Contemporary
West African Film”.
Carina Yervasi, Swarthmore
College
- “Colonial Afterlives:
The Specter of Hispanism in the
Literature of Equatorial
Guinea”.
Lazaro Lima, Bryn Mawr
College
- “African Horror and
Noble French Love in Aida Madi Diallo's ‘Kouty, mémoire
de sang’”. Pim Higginson, Bryn Mawr
College
12:15-1:15 Lunch Break
1:15-2:15 Keynote Address
Introductory comments
by Donald Silberberg, University of Pennsylvania
“HIV
Control in Uganda: Behind the Success Story”
Elly Katabira, Makerere University Medical
School
2:15-3:15 Session III: Listening to the Body
Chair: Donald Silberberg, University of Pennsylvania
-“AIDS/HIV Risk,
Marriage and Sexual Relations in
Malawi”. Hans-Peter Kohler, University of Pennsylvania
- “Narrating
the Embodied Experience of HIV/AIDS”.
Tonya Taylor, University of Pennsylvania
3:15-3:30
Coffee Break
3:30-5:00 Session
IV: Minds at Work: Health Development
and Human Rights
Chair: Ali Dinar, University of
Pennsylvania
- “From Cairo
to Dakar: The Human Rights Approach to Reproductive Health Care
and the Micropolitics of Fertility
in Senegal”. Ellen Foley, University of Pennsylvania
-“HIV
Drugs as a Human Right: International
Debates and Health Development Models”.
Elise Carpenter, University
of Pennsylvania
- “’Risky’ Culture: Media Representations
and Local Interpretations of HIV/AIDS
Risk in Rural Kenya and
Malawi”. Crystal Biruk, University of Pennsylvania