University of Chicago Committee on African Studies Conference
Bodies, Landscapes, Memory in and Beyond the Continent
April 12th, 2019 at Wilder House, University of Chicago
9:30am: Breakfast
10:15-10:30am: Opening Remarks. Jennifer Cole (Comparative Human Development)
10:30-12pm: Panel 1, Memories and Landscapes
- John Cropper (University of Chicago): Dream of the Future? Renewable Energy in Colonial Senegal
- Matthew Knisley (University of Chicago): Indigenous Archaeologies of Colonial Memory
- Zoë Berman (University of Chicago): On Memory Work and Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Generation
- Discussant: François Richard (Anthropology)
12pm: Lunch (Wilder House)
2:00pm: Keynote. Zoë Crossland (Columbia University): The Bodies of the State: Rice, Cattle and Statecraft in Highland Madagascar
3:15: Coffee Break
3:30-5:00pm: Panel 3, Bodies
- Zebulon Dingley (University of Rochester): Burying People and Burying Things in South Coast, Kenya
- Angela Epifano (University of Chicago): The Curious Case of Doctor Maclaud: Baga Art in Paris
- Discussant: Damien Droney (Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge)
5:00pm: Closing Remarks. Jennifer Cole (Comparative Human Development)