Fall 2010
September 28***:
Fall Welcome Event
Emily Osborn, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago
Title: “Colonialism, Republicanism, and Gender in French West Africa”
Discussants: Emily Lord Fransee, Ph. D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago
Emily Marker, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Chicago
***Please note: this opening event will be held at a different location. Please contact the coordinator, Lauren Coyle (lcoyle@uchicago.edu), for further details and directions.
October 12:
Betsey Brada, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: “Exposure: The Moral Aesthetics of Bodily Hazard in Botswana’s HIV Epidemic”
Discussant: Claudia Gastrow, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
October 26:
Kerry Chance, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: “The Work of Violence: Armed Attacks at the Kennedy Road Shack Settlement”
Discussant: Theo Rose, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
November 8***:
S’bu Zikode, President, Abahlali baseMjondolo, South Africa
Lecture: “When Loyalty Becomes Threat to Society”
Introductory remarks by Dipesh Chakrabarty, Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor of History, South Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago
***Please note: this event will be held at 5:30 p.m. in Haskell 315. The talk is co-sponsored with the National Economic and Social Rights Initiative, as well as with the Human Rights Program and the Human Rights Workshop at the University of Chicago.
November 9***:
Mark Canavera, Associate, Child Frontiers, and Activist, LGBTQI issues in Africa
Title: “Les Forces Nouvelles: Gay Identity and Armed Conflict in Côte d’Ivoire”
Discussant: Jay Sosa, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
***Please note: this event is a Red Lion Seminar, co-sponsored with the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University, as well as with the Gender and Sexuality Studies Workshop at the University of Chicago. The meeting still will be held at 6 p.m. in Wilder House.
November 11***:
David Bunn, Visiting Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Lecture: “An Informal Rule: English Landscape Legacies in South Africa’s Kruger National Park”
***Please note: this event will be held at 4:30 p.m. in Classics 110. A reception will follow.
November 12***:
David Bunn, Visiting Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago
Workshop: “Unnatural States: New Interdisciplinary Histories of African Game Preserves”
***Please note: this event will be held at 1 p.m. in Rosenwald 405 and is co-sponsored with the Nicholson Center for British Studies. Lunch will be provided.
November 23:
Charlotte Walker, Lecturer, Human Rights Program, University of Chicago
Title: “Judicial Battles and Litigious Empowerment in Colonial Cameroon: African Chiefs and the Control of Labor, Class, and Marriage”
Discussant: Lauren Coyle, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
December 2***:
ASW Dissertation Mini-Conference
Presenters:
Betsey Brada, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Filipe Calvão, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Kerry Chance, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Bernard Dubbeld, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Kathleen McDougall, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
***Please write to the coordinator, Lauren Coyle (lcoyle@uchicago), for further information on participating in this event.
December 7:
Roundtable on Exploratory Research in Africa:
Lauren Coyle, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: “Dual Ghosts of Dispossession: Schism and Reconstitution on the Margins of Ghanaian Gold Mining Towns”
Discussant: John Comaroff, Harold H. Swift Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, University of Chicago
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Zebulon York Dingley, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: “‘Better a Killer Than a Witch’: Reflections on Segeju Witch Beliefs and Social Structure”
Discussant: Jean Comaroff, Bernard E. & Ellen C. Sunny Distinguished Service Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, University of Chicago
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Erin Moore, Ph.D. Student, Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago
Title: “Microfinanced Girls: Reshaping Women’s Rights Culture in Kampala, Uganda”
Discussant: Emily Osborn, Assistant Professor of African History, University of Chicago
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Mary Robertson, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: “The Mediation of Racial Identities in Post-Apartheid South African Advertising”
Discussant: François Richard, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, University of Chicago
Winter 2011
January 11:
Presenter: N. Fadeke Castor, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology and Africana Studies Program, Texas A&M University
Title: “Festive Spirits: Centering Orisha in Trinidad and Venezuela”
Discussant: Lisa Simeone, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
January 25:
Bernard Dubbeld, Ph.D. Candidate, Departments of Anthropology and History, University of Chicago
Title: “Beyond Technique: Examining Transformative ‘Governmentality’ and Its Limits in Post-Apartheid South Africa”
Discussant: Zebulon York Dingley, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
February 22:
Anita Hannig, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: “‘But We Have to Empower Them’: Timetables, Medical Visionaries, and the Production of the Patient Entrepreneur at a Fistula Rehabilitation Center in Ethiopia”
Discussant: Xiao-bo Yuan, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
March 8:
Lisa Simeone, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: “Winning the Lottery: Global Crisis, International Migration and the Economic Integration of Africa”
Discussant: Bernard Dubbeld, Ph.D. Candidate, Departments of Anthropology and History, University of Chicago
Spring 2011
April 5***:
Ralph Austen, Professor Emeritus of African History, Department of History, University of Chicago
Title: “Colonialism from the Middle: African Clerks As Historical Actors, and Discursive Subjects or Objects”
Discussant: Emily Osborn, Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Chicago
***Please note: this session will begin at 6 p.m.
April 19:
Cécile Fromont, Assistant Professor of Art History, University of Chicago
Title: “History, Power, and Regalia: Kongo’s Visual Culture of Conversion, 1500-1800”
Discussant: Ingrid Greenfield, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Art History, University of Chicago
May 3:
Richard Roberts, Frances & Charles Field Professor in History and Professor of African History, Department of History, Stanford University
Title: “Human Trafficking, Scandals, and the Colonial State in French West Africa”
Discussant: François Richard, Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences in the College, University of Chicago
May 5***:
Charles Piot, Professor of Cultural Anthropology, African & African American Studies and Women’s Studies, Duke University
Title: “Hedging the Future”
Discussant: Anita Hannig, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
***Please note: this event lands on a Thursday and is a Red Lion Seminar, co-sponsored with the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University. The session will begin at6 p.m. and will be held at 1150 W. Fullerton Ave., Room 204 (in the same building as the Lincoln Park Public Library). Many thanks to the Center for Black Diaspora at DePaul University for securing the space.
May 19***:
Juan Obarrio, Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University
Title: “Small Leviathan: Genealogies of Local Sovereignty in Mozambique”
Discussant: Filipe Calvão, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
***Please note: this event lands on a Thursday, rather than the usual Tuesday.
May 24:
Filipe Calvão, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: “‘It Was the Land of Diamonds’: Smugglers, Agitators, and Kamanguistas in Angola”
Discussant: Anita Hannig, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
May 27 – May 28:
African Studies Workshop spring conference, “Time, Place, and the Problem of Uncertainty in Africa”
Keynote addresses by:
Jane Guyer, Professor and Chair, Department of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University,
Adeline Masquelier, Professor, Department of Anthropology, Tulane University, and
Derek Peterson, Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan
All are welcome, and no registration is required. Please visit our conference website for the schedule and further information.
This conference is generously sponsored by the Center for International Studies, theNorman Wait Harris Memorial Foundation Fund, the Marion R. and Adolph J. Lichtstern Fund of the Department of Anthropology, the Council on Advanced Studies, the Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture, and the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory (3CT) at the University of Chicago.
May 31:
Molly Cunningham, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: “Surviving ‘Africa Lite’: The Politics of Intervention and American Humanitarianism in Botswana”
Discussant: Mary Robertson, Ph.D. Student, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
This session is co-sponsored with the U.S. Locations Workshop.