Thursday, April 26, 2012

3:30p.m.: Symposium venue opens

4:00 - 4:10p.m.: Opening remarks

4:10p.m.: Opening Keynote

• Niyi Osundare, University of New Orleans
• "Joined at the Hip: African Literature and Africa's Body-politic"
  
  
• (Keynote speaker introduced by Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́)

Friday, April 27, 2012

8:00 - 9:30a.m.
A) States, Performances, and their Doubles
Chair: Sofia Samatar, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 1) Florence Bernault, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "A Dazzling Solicitude Spectacles of Profusion and Desire in Contemporary Gabon"

• 2) Luis Madureira, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Where 'God is Like a Longing': Theatre and Social Vulnerability in Mozambique"

9:30 - 9:45a.m.: Break

9:45 - 12:00 noon
B) Cities: States
Chair: Nmachika Nwokeabia, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 1) Sarah Harrison, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Welcome to Lagos: State Power, Slum Clearances, and Urban Modernity in Postcolonial Nigeria"

• 2) Anne-Maria Makhulu, Duke University
• "The Right to the City across the South African 'Transition'"

• 3) Ato Quayson, University of Toronto
• "Spatial Practices and Performative Streetscapes: On Oxford St., Accra"

12:00 noon - 1:30p.m.: Lunch

1:30 - 3:45p.m.
C) Conjuring: State and Being
Chair: Patrick Otim, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 1) Lark Porter, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Talibé Exploitation in Senegal: A Manifestation of the Xala State"

• 2) Matthew Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Reassembling Things that have Fallen Apart: Conceptualizations of Political Community in Nigerian Literature and State Television"

• 3) Akin Adesokan, Indiana University
• "'Jesus Christ Executive Producer': Penetecostal Parapolitics in Nollywood Films"

3:45 - 4:00p.m.: Break

4:00p.m. - 5:30p.m.
D) Writing, State-stressed
Chair: Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́, Ohio State University

• 1) Kunle Ajibade, Lagos, Nigeria
• "Pains and Pleasures of Practising Journalism in a State of Siege"

• 2) Ken Walibora Waliaula, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "The Quest for the Right to be Human in Prison Poetry"

Saturday, April 28, 2012

8:00 - 10:15a.m.
E) Presents, Pasts
Chair: Aliko Songolo, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 1) Sofia Samatar, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "The Revenge of the Present: Tayeb Salih's Bandarshah"

• 2) Nevine El Nossery, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Fissures of Trespass in the Midst of National Disenchantments"

• 3) Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "The Revolution Will Be Cartooned! African Political Cartoonists and the North African Uprising"

10:15 - 10:30a.m.: Break

10:30a.m. - 12:00noon
F) Lures and Politics of Leisure
Chair: John Nimis, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 1) Louise Meintjes, Duke University
• "Luck with Bones: Post Apartheid Cultural Brokerage on the World Music Circuit"

• 2) Michael Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Soccer and the State: The Politics and Morality of Daily Life"

12:00 - 1:30p.m.: Lunch

1:30p.m. - 3:00p.m.
G) Wondrous Knowing
Chair: James Sweet, University of Wisconsin-Madison

• 1) Helen Tilley, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• "Wisdom, Anima, and 'Traditional' Therapeutics: Epistemological Translations and Constructs in African States, 1930-1980"

• 2) Olúfémi Táíwò, Seattle University
• "Philosophy and the Postcolonial State in Africa"

3:00 - 3:30p.m.: Break

3:30p.m.: Closing Keynote

• Patrick Chabal, King's College, London
• "Re-imagined Modernities: Culture and the Study of Politics in Post-colonial Africa"
  
  
• (Keynote speaker introduced by M. Crawford Young)

• Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison