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Archive
2008
Winter Quarter:
Tue January 15
Paul Ocobock (PhD Candidate, History Department, Princeton University)
Title: “Children of Mau Mau: Youth and State
During the Kenya
Emergency 1952-60”
Discussant: George Paul Meiu (PhD Student, Anthropology)
Tue January 29
Rosa Williams (PhD Candidate, History Department)
Title: “Creating a Healthy Workforce and
Limiting Contagion? British and
Portuguese Concerns for Migrant Labourers in the Transvaal, 1885-1915”
Discussant: Claudia Gastrow (PhD Student, Anthropology)
Tue February 12
Kathleen
McDougall (PhD
Candidate, Department of Anthropology)
Title: “Isolated Population? Afrikaner Genealogy in Post-Apartheid
South Africa”
Discussant: Kathryn Goldfarb (PhD Student, Department of
Anthropology)
Tue February 19
Cancelled
Tue March 4
Sanyu
Mojola (PhD
Candidate, Sociology)
Title: “Employment and HIV
Risk: Fishing in Dangerous Waters”
Discussant:
Elizabeth Brummel (PhD Student, Department of Anthropology)
2007 Fall Quarter:
Tue October 2 **
FALL
WELCOME EVENT
Jennifer Cole (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago)
Title:
“Rethinking Love in Africa/ Rethinking
Love From Africa”
**Location: Prof. Cole’s Home
Tue October 16
João de Pina
Cabral (Instituto de Ciências Sociais,
Universidade de Lisboa)
Title: “Albinos Don’t Die: Belief and
Ethnicity in Mozambique”
Discussant: Rosa Williams (PhD
Candidate, History)
Tue October 30
Sasha
Newell (Anthropology,
University
of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign)
Title: “Gender Scams and the
Bluff:
Sex
and Second Economy in Abidjan,
Côte d'Ivoire”
Discussant:
Karen Morris (Anthropology, Art Institute of Chicago)
Tue November 13**
RED
LION SEMINAR
Birgit Meyer (Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam)
Title: “‘There is a Spirit in that Image.’
Protestantism and Mass-produced Pictures of Jesus in Ghana”
Discussant:
Robert Blunt (PhD Candidate, Anthropology)
**Time: 7pm
**Location:
Matilda, 3101 North
Sheffield Ave.
Co-sponsored
with Northwestern
University’s Program in African Studies
Tue November 27
Filipe
Calvão (Ph.D. Student,
Anthropology)
Title: The Rough
and the Cut: Extracting Value, Dealing with the State in a
Neoliberal Mining Enclave
Discussant:
Lashandra Sullivan (Ph.D. Student, Anthropology)
Tue December 4
Toussaint
Losier (Ph.D.
Student, History)
Title: “People
will be making their own bread: The Anti-Eviction Campaign,
Capitalist Democracy and South Africa's politics of
non-participation”
Discussant:
Kharnita Mohamed (PhD Student, Anthropology)
2007 Spring
Quarter:
Tue March 27
Katharina Schramm (Institute of Social
Anthropology and GSAA, Martin-Luther University Halle-Wittenberg)
Title: Negotiating
Race: Blackness and Whiteness in the Context of
Homecoming to Africa
Tue April 3
Rosalind
Morris
(Anthropology, Columbia University)
Title:
Rush/Panic/Rush:
Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in the Age of AIDS
Discussant: Kerry Chance (Anthropology, University
of Chicago)
THUR* April 12
Paul Stoller
(Anthropology, West Chester University)
Title: Remissioning Life:
West
African Wisdom and the Power of the Between
Discussant:
Raymond Fogelson (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
**Time:
4:30-6pm
**Location: Haskell Hall,
Room 315
Co-sponsored
with the Medicine, Practice,
and Body Workshop
Tue April 17
Aurelien
Mauxion (Anthropology,
Northwestern University)
Title: Rice
Farming Intensification and Political Enterprise
in Boya, Northern Mali
Discussant:
Duff Morton (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Tue May 1
Kerry
Chance
(Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Title:
"The Cut-Off: Water and Electricity Disconnections in South Africa"
Discussant:
Kharnita Mohammed (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Tue May 15
Duana Fullwiley (School
of Public Health, Harvard
University)
Title: The
Enculturated Gene: Making Sense of Sickle Cell Difference
in West Africa
Discussant:
Kathryn McHarry (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Tue May 29
Robert Wyrod (Sociology, University of Chicago)
Title:
From Denial to Fatalism: AIDS and the Contours of
Masculinity in Urban Uganda
Discussant: Sanyu Mojola (Sociology,
University
of Chicago)
2007 Winter
Quarter:
Tue January 9**
Jennifer
Cole (Comparative
Human Development, University of Chicago)
Title: Making Love: Attachment and Reciprocity in Tamatave,
Madagascar
**Location: Center for Gender
Studies (5733 S. University Avenue)
**Time: 4:30 PM
- 6:00 PM
Co-sponsored
with the Gender and Sexuality
Studies Workshop
Tue January 23**
FILM
& BOOK DISCUSSION
Mahir Saul (Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)
Title: Black
and White in Colour (selected chapters)
Films: Gaston Kabore’s
“Wend Kuuni” and “Buud Yam” (selections)
**Time:
4:00pm-6:30pm
Tue February 6
Sanyu
Mojola (Sociology,
University
of Chicago)
Title: Dangerous
Transitions: HIV, School, and Young African Women
Discussant:
Robert Wyrod (Sociology, University of Chicago)
Tue February 20
Mike
McGovern
(Anthropology, Yale University)
Title: Making War in Cote d'Ivoire: The
Politics of Ressentiment
Discussant: Theodore Rose (Anthropology, University
of Chicago)
Tue March 6
Rosa
Williams (History,
University
of Chicago)
Title: Sickness, Settlement, and Statistics:
The
Colonial Health Service in Mozambique,
1885-1915
Discussant:
Filipe Calvão (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Tue March 13
José-María
Muñoz (Anthropology,
Northwestern University)
Title: "Coping with Success in Times of Crisis:
The
Economy and the Politics of Visibility in Northern
Cameroon"
Discussant: Caroline Schuster (Anthropology, University
of Chicago)
2006 Fall Quarter:
Tue October 3 **
Jean and John Comaroff
(Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Title:
Ethnicity, Inc.
**Location:
Prof. Austen’s Home
Tue October 17
Jennifer Spruill
(Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Title:
When the Rainbow is Not Enough:
Sexual Citizenship in Post-Apartheid
South
Africa: Chapter Three:
Sovereign Subjects
Discussant:
Neil Roos (Social Studies Education, University of Pretoria)
Tue October 31**
RED
LION SEMINAR
Bayo
Holsey (African
and African American Studies, Duke
University)
Title:
Imagined Geographies of Atlantic Africa
Discussant:
Ralph Austen (History, University of Chicago)
**Location: Mercury Cafe, 1505 W. Chicago Avenue
Co-sponsored
with Northwestern
University’s Program in African Studies
Tue November 7**
A.G. Hopkins (History, University of Texas-Austin)
Title:
Rethinking Decolonisation in the Age of Globalization
**Time: 12pm-1:30pm
Co-sponsored
with the Comparing Colonialisms
Workshop
Tue November 28
Neil
Roos (Social
Studies Education, University of Pretoria)
Title: Education / sex /
leisure:
Whiteness and Social Control among South African Servicemen
during the Second
World War
Discussant:
Kathleen McDougall (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Tue December 5
Fuambai
Ahmadu
(Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago)
Title: No One Wants to be a Solimaa:
Women's Voices on Female Circumcision
2006
Spring Quarter
Thursday March 30*
"OUR STRUGGLE IS THOUGHT ON THE
GROUND RUNNING": THE UNIVERSITY
OF ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO
by
Richard Pithouse
Centre for Civil Society
University
of KwaZulu-Natal
Discussant: Kerry Chance (PhD student,
Anthropology)
*Co-hosted with the Human Rights Workshop.
Tuesday April 4
THE MODERN GIRL AND RACIAL RESPECTABILITY IN 1930s SOUTH AFRICA
by
LYNN THOMAS
History, University
of Washington
Discussant: Loren Kruger (Professor of English,
Comparative Literature, African Studies, and Theatre and Performance
Studies)
Tuesday April 18
LES LIONNES REVENT DU MONDE: BASKETBALL AND POST-NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
IN POSTCOLONIAL SENEGAL
by
MICHAEL RALPH
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Kathryn McHarry (Ph.D. student,
Anthropology)
Tuesday May 2
BOYS AND BIRDS: FAMILY AND CHARITY IN SUFI MUSLIM
PRACTICE IN DAKAR, SENEGAL
by
GRETCHEN PFEIL
Ph.D. student, Anthropology & Linguistics
University of Chicago
Discussant: Jeffrey Kahn (Ph.D. student,
Anthropology)
Tuesday May 16
VIOLENCE AND
VISUAL DEBRIS, DREAM IMAGES AND LAUGHTER: A RETHINKING OF BELGIAN
COLONIAL HISTORY
by
NANCY ROSE HUNT
History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Discussant: Robert Wyrod (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology)
Tuesday May 23
A RED LION SEMINAR*
MEDIATING THE QUR'AN. THE ELECTRIFICATION OF
RELIGION IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
by
BRIAN LARKIN
Anthropology, Barnard
College
Discussant: Gretchen Pfeil (Ph.D. student, Anthropology &
Linguistics)
Location: Uncommon Ground, 3800 N. Clark St., Chicago, IL
60613.
*Co-hosted with the Program of African Studies, Northwestern
University.
Tuesday May 30
NEWS, CRISIS, AND 'LA CLASSE POLITIQUE': (RE)PRODUCING PUBLIC CULTURE
IN CONTEMPORARY CÔTE D’IVOIRE
by
KAREN MORRIS
School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Discussant: Maureen Anderson (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)
2006
Winter Quarter
Tuesday
January 10
FASHIONING DISTINCTION IN URBAN MADAGASCAR: YOUTH, CONSUMERISM AND CLASS
IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION
by
JENNIFER COLE
Committee on Human Development
University of Chicago
Discussant: Marina Mikhaylova (Ph.D.
student, Anthropology)
Tuesday January 24
VOICES FROM THE SOUTH: THE
INTERSECTION OF GLOBALIZATION AND LA FRANCOPHONIE IN THE AFRICAN
DIASPORA
by
CÉCILE VIGOUROUX
Linguistics, University of Chicago
University of Paris X-Nanterre
Discussant: Matthew Rich (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
Tuesday January 31
Special Event: Contemporary Art and Politics in
Africa: A Discussion with William
Kentridge
Tuesday February 7*
FOGO OLORUN HAN (SHOW THE GLORY OF
GOD): PRODUCING PARADISE THROUGH CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM WORSHIP
by
VICKI BRENNAN
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Will Garriott (Ph.D. student,
Anthropology, Princeton
University)
*Co-hosted with the Interdisciplinary
Christianities Workshop.
Tuesday February 21
FLESH AND
BONES: FANG RELIQUARY ART AND VIEWER RESPONSE
by
JESSICA LEVIN
Postdoctoral Fellow, Art History
University of Chicago
Discussant: Filipe Calvao (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
Tuesday February 28
ELECTORAL WARS IN AFRICA: PERSPECTIVES
FROM CONGO-BRAZAVILLE
by
RÉMY BAZENGUISSA-GANGA
Centre d'études africaines, France
Discussant: Lisa Simeone (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
Tuesday March 7
MORALIZING SECURITY: ‘CORRECTIONS’ AND
THE POST-APARTHEID PRISON
by
KELLY GILLESPIE
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Kathleen McDougall (Ph.D.
student, Anthropology)
2005
Fall Quarter
Tuesday October 4
MERMAIDS AND OTHER HOT COMMODITIES:
TRAFFICKING SPIRITS ON THE BIGHT OF BENIN
by
JEFFREY KAHN
Ph.D. student, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Kelly Gillespie (Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology)
Location:
Home of Professor Ralph Austen (please email the coordinator for
directions)
Tuesday October 18*
A RED LION SEMINAR:
CONFLICT, MILITIA FORMATION AND YOUTH IN EASTERN CONGO
by
KOEN VLASSENROOT
University of Ghent, Belgium
Discussant: Mark Geraghty (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
Location:
Uncommon Ground, 3800 N. Clark St.,
Chicago, IL 60613.
*Co-hosted with the Program of African Studies,
Northwestern University.
Tuesday October 25*
COMPOSING HYBRIDITY: UGANDAN
SUBJECTIVITY AND WESTERN ART-STYLE MUSIC
by
SUZANNE WINT
Ph.D. student, Ethnomusicology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Brian Horne (Ph.D. student,
Anthropology)
*Co-hosted with the EthNoise! workshop.
Tuesday November 15
"FUTURELESS YOUTH": THE
EVERYDAY CONSTRUCTIONS OF TEMPORALITY IN A ZIMBABWEAN TOWNSHIP
by
JEREMY JONES
Ph.D. student, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Gretchen Pfeil (Ph.D. student, Anthropology &
Linguistics)
Tuesday November 22
DEONTIC PRISONS AND ELEPHANTINE
OPTIMISM
by
KELLY GILLESPIE
Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Bernard Dubbeld (Ph.D. student, Anthropology &
History)
Tuesday November 29*
THE RIGHT DRUGS IN THE RIGHT BODIES:
CITIZENSHIP, NATIONAL SECURITY AND AIDS TREATMENT IN BOTSWANA
by
BETSEY BRADA
Ph.D. student, Anthropology
University of Chicago
Discussant: Erik Brodnax (Ph.D. student, Anthropology)
*Co-hosted with the Science, Technology, Society,
and the State Workshop.
2004
Winter Quarter
January
13th
Ralph
Austen (University
of Chicago, History)
January
27th
Stephen
Hill (Northwestern University, Ethnomusicology)
February
17th
Julien
Bonhomme (Visiting Scholar, Anthropology)
February
24th
Habu
Mohammed (Fullbright Visiting Scholar at Northwestern University,
Political Science)
Paper
Title: Transition from Civilian rule and the Reemergence of Traditional
Politics in Nigeria
March 3rd
Salikoko
Mufwene (University
of Chicago, Linguistics)
2003
Winter Quarter
Jan. 21st
Michael Ralph
Paper title: Pastime Paradise: The work of play for
youth in Dakar
today
Feb.
4th
Solofo
Randrianja
Paper
Title: Ethnicité à Madagascar:
Les Marofotsy à la conquete de la liberté
Vers 1820
Feb. 11th
Jesse Shipley
Paper Title: You Will Receive Your Miracle Today:
New ‘Charismatic’ Christianity and Ideologies of the Free Market
Feb. 25th
Stephen Ellis
Paper title: The historical study of witchcraft in
Africa and Europe:
problems and promises of method
March 11th
Jan Blommaert
Paper title: TBA
March 13th
Francis Nyamnjoh
Paper title: TBA
2001
Spring Quarter
March 27: Thomas Blom Hansen, University
of Edinburgh
Title: In Search of the Diasporic Self: Bollywood in
South Africa
April 17: Gaurav Desai, Tulane
University
Title: Subject to Colonialism: African
Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library
(RED LION SEMINAR: 6pm, 2446 North Lincoln Avenue)
April 24: Benoit de l'Estoile, University
of Paris
Title: From the Colonial Exposition to the Museum of Man
May 15: Lee Skjon, University of Chicago
(Anthropology, Linguistics)
Title: The Vanguardist Imperative, State-ment of
Nation, and Language Question in Mozambique's
Sociedade Nova, 1975-1985
2001
Winter Quarter
January 16: Hylton White, University of Chicago
(Anthropology)
Title: Times and Mores: Family Values and the
Possessions of a Post-Apartheid Countryside
January 30: Loren Kruger, University
of Chicago (English)
Title: Black Atlantics, white Indians, and Jews:
locations, locutions, and syncretic identities in the fiction of
Achmat Dangor and others
February 20: Andrew Apter, University
of Chicago (Anthropology)
Title: On Imperial Spectacle: the Dialectics of
Seeing in Colonial Nigeria
March 6: Gracia Clark, Indiana
University
Title: Market Association Leaders' Strategic Use of
Language and Narrative in Market Disputes and
Negotiations in Kumasi,
Ghana
2000
Autumn Quarter
3 October: Mikael Karlstrom, University of Chicago
(Anthropology, College)
Title: The Imaginary of the State and the Politics
of Indigestion: Rethinking Mbembe’s ‘Banality of Power’
12 October: Poetry Reading by Ingrid de Kok, University of Capetown
(co-sponsored with the Millennium Poetry Series,
Classics 10, 5:30 pm)
17 October: Jesse Shipley, University
of Chicago (Anthropology)
Title: Notes on The National Theatre of Ghana
and the Neoliberal Moment
24 October: Solomon Nkiwane, University
of Zimbabwe
Title: The 2000 Parliamentary Election in Zimbabwe and Democracy in Africa (no pre-circulated paper)
7 November: Brett O'Bannon, Indiana University
Title: Power and Resources in Herder-Farmer
Conflict: Problems for Governance under Neo-liberal
Reform in Rural Senegal
28 November: Alcinda Honwana, United Nations/University of
Capetown
Title: Children of War: Understanding War and War
Cleansing in Mozambique
and Angola
4 December: Gerald West, University
of Natal
Title: Negotiating with 'the White
Man's Book': early foundations for liberation hermeneutics
in Southern Africa
2000
Spring Quarter
4 April: David Dargie, University of Fort
Hare (South Africa)
Title: Performance/Discussion of Thembu-Xhosa Music
11 April: Buchi Emecheta (Respondent: Misty Bastian)
(RED LION
SEMINAR with the Program of African Studies at Northwestern University)
18 April: Steffen Jensen, University
of Roskilde and the Center for
Development Research (Denmark)
Title: The Impossibility of Community: Township
Politics on the Cape Flats
25 April: Nicole Castor, Anthropology, University
of Chicago
Title: Orisha Online: Identity and Communication in
the Black Atlantic
9 May: Michael Dietler, Anthropology, University of Chicago
Title: Digesting the Feast: Rituals of Consumption,
Commensal Politics, and Power in African Contexts
23 May: Kathryn Geurts, Human Development, University of Chicago
Title: Cultural Categories and the Anthropology of
the Senses: Notes on an Anlo-Ewe Theory of Inner States
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