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Archive
Spring
2009
7 April: Ccile Vigouroux (Visiting Professor, Human Development, Simon Frasier University)
From Africa to Africa: Globalization, Migration and Language Vitality
RED LION SEMINAR with Northwestern University's Program of African Studies
21 April: Patrick Collins (History, University of Chicago)
Un affaire aussi dlicat: Competition over Religious Space in Constantine (1947-54)
12 May: Lindsay Weiss (Graduate Student Fellow, Anthropology, Columbia University)
Circulation, Speculation and Contra-banditry: Illicit diamond trade in the 19thcentury
Diamond fields of southern Africa
19 May: Kathryn McHarry (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Growing the Nation: Childhood, Medicine and Development in Senegal
21 May (Thursday):
Ccile Fromont (Department of Art, University of Michigan)
Kongo Warriors and Christian Knights: Defining and performing Power in Early
Modern Central Africa
co-sponsored with Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop
26 May: Mark Gevisser
The Future of the South African Dream
co-sponsored with the Center for International
Studies (CIS), Chicago Center for Contemporary
Theory (3CT), the
Political Science Department, and the Human Rights Program
2 June: Robert Blunt (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Kenyatta's Lamentation: Gluckman's Magic of Despair Revisited
Winter 2009
13 January: Erik Wimbley-Brodnax (PhD Candidate, Department of Anthropology)
La Reunion: Consultation and Other
Performances of Professionalism
27
January: Franois G. Richard (Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago)
The Incertitude of Customs: Colonial
subjectivities, material experiences,
and ambiguous power in Siin (Senegal) 1850s-1930s
24
February: Film Screening
26 February (Thursday): Adam Ashforth (Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan)
Co-sponsored event with Comparative Politics Workshop
Reflections on Bloodsuckers: Spiritual
Insecurity, 'Human Security' and
Development in Rural Malawi
10
March: Sarah Stein
(Department of History, University of California-Los Angeles)
Plumes: Jews, Ostrich Feathers, and a
Lost World of Global Commerce
2008
Autumn Quarter
7 October: Neville Hoad
(Department of English, University of TexasAustin)
The Poetics of PEPFAR (President's
Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief)
21 October: Graduate Student Panel: Major Grant Applications
30 October (Thursday): Jean Allman
(History, Washington University in St. Louis)
The Disappearing of Hannah Kudjoe: Nationalism, Feminism, and the Tyrannies of History
Co-Sponsored by ASW and Gender and Sexuality Studies
Workshop
11 November: Ramon Sarr
(Institute of Social Sciences, University of Lisbon)
Prophecies of suffering, forget\fulness and recognition: The Kimbanguist Church in Angola and Lisbon
25
November: Margaret Mass
(PhD Student, Comparative Human Development)
Bodies in Development: Medicine,
Selfhood, and the Senses in Ghana's
Changing Ecology
2
December: Bianca Dahl (PhD
Candidate, Department of Comparative Human Development)
The Limits of Culture: Christianity
and Changing Moral Discourses During
Botswana's HIV/AIDS Crisis
2008
Spring Quarter
8 April: Robert Blunt (PhD Candidate, Department of
Anthropology)
Corruptus Interruptus: The Limits of Transactional Imaginaries in Moi's
Kenya
14 April (Mon): Aly Drame (History Department, Dominican University)
Migration, Marriage and Ethnic
Identity Transformation:
The Early Development of Islam in Pre-colonial Casamance,
Senegal
*Co-Sponsored with
Northwestern University's
Institute
for the Study of
Islamic Thought in Africa and the
University of
Chicago's Middle
Eastern History and Theory Workshop
22 April: Cherif
Keita (Department of
Romance Languages and Literatures, Carleton College)
Film Screening and Roundtable Discussion
Film:
Oberlin-Inanda: The Life and Times of John L. Dube
1 May (Thur): Nick Smith (PhD Student, Department of Political
Science)
Neo-Liberal Democracy: Freedom, Economy, and Governmentality
in Post-Apartheid South Africa
*Co-Sponsored with the Human
Rights Workshop
6 May: Karen
Morris (Anthropology, Art
Institute of Chicago)
Placing
Cte d'Ivoire: Transnational Families, Crisis, and
the Imagining of a National
Geography
14 May (Wed): Souleymane
Bachir Diagne (Department
of Philosophy, Northwestern University)
Special Event- Red Lion Seminar
Title: African Intellectuals React to Sarkozy's
Speech in Dakar: Presenting "L'Afrique Repond Sarkozy"
*Co-Sponsored
with Northwestern University's Program in African
Studies
20 May: Jonny
Steinberg
Sizwe's
Test: A Young Man's Journey Through Africa's AIDS Epidemic
27 May: Dorothea Schulz (Department
of Religious Studies, Indiana University)
From a Glorious Past to the Lands of Origin: Media Consumption and Changing Narratives of Cultural Belonging in Mali
3 June: Bianca Dahl (PhD Candidate, Comparative Human Development)
Singing with 'Sad Faces': Orphaned Children and the Performance of Grief in Botswana
2008
Winter Quarter
15 January: Paul Ocobock (PhD Candidate, History Department,
Princeton
University)
Children of Mau Mau: Youth and State
During the
Kenya
Emergency 1952-60
29 January: Rosa Williams (PhD
Candidate, History Department)
Creating a Healthy Workforce
and Limiting Contagion? British and
Portuguese
Concerns for Migrant Labourers in the Transvaal
,
1885-1915
12 February: Kathleen
McDougall (PhD Candidate,
Department of Anthropology)
Isolated Population?
Afrikaner Genealogy in Post-Apartheid South Africa
4 March: Sanyu
Mojola (PhD Candidate,
Sociology)
Employment and HIV Risk: Fishing in Dangerous Waters
2007 Fall Quarter
2
October: Jennifer Cole (Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago)
FALL WELCOME EVENT
Title:
"Rethinking Love in
Africa/ Rethinking
Love From Africa"
16 October: Joo de Pina Cabral (Instituto
de Cincias Sociais, Universidade de Lisboa)
Albinos Don't Die: Belief and Ethnicity in Mozambique
30 October: Sasha
Newell (Anthropology,
University
of
Illinois
Urbana-Champaign)
Gender Scams and the Bluff:
Sex and Second Economy in
Abidjan
,
Cte d'Ivoire
13 November: Birgit Meyer (Anthropology, Vrije Universiteit
Amsterdam)
RED LION SEMINAR
"There is a Spirit in
that Image":
Protestantism and Mass-Produced Pictures of Jesus in
Ghana"
Co-sponsored
with Northwestern
University's Program in African Studies
27 November: Filipe
Calvo (Ph.D. Student,
Anthropology)
The Rough and the Cut: Extracting Value, Dealing with the State in
a
Neoliberal Mining Enclave
4 December: Toussaint
Losier (Ph.D. Student,
History)
"People will be making their own bread": The Western Cape Anti-Eviction
Campaign,
Capitalist Democracy, and
South
Africa
's Politics of
Non-Participation
2007 Spring Quarter
27 March: Katharina Schramm (Institute of Social Anthropology and GSAA,
Martin-Luther-niversitt,
Halle-Wittenberg/Germany)
Negotiating Race:
Blackness and Whiteness in the Context of
Homecoming
to Africa
3 April: Rosalind
Morris (Anthropology,
Columbia
University)
Rush/Panic/Rush:
Speculations on the Value of Life and Death in the Age of AIDS
12 April (Thurs): Paul Stoller (Anthropology,
West
Chester
University
)
Remissioning Life:
West African Wisdom and the Power of the Between
Co-sponsored
with the Medicine, Practice,
and Body Workshop
17 April: Aurelien
Mauxion (Anthropology,
Northwestern University)
Rice Farming Intensification and Political
Enterprise
in Boya, Northern Mali
18-19 May (Fri-Sat): On Fetishes and Fakes: History, Authenticity and Counterfeit Modernities in Postcolonial Africa
A Conference in Honor of Ralph Austen
1 May: Kerry
Chance (Anthropology,
University
of Chicago)
The Cut-Off: Electricity and Water Politics
in
the "New"
South
Africa
15 May: Duana Fullwiley (
School
of
Public Health
,
Harvard
University
)
Title: The Enculturated Gene: Making Sense of Sickle Cell Difference
in West Africa
29
May: Robert Wyrod (Sociology,
University
of
Chicago
)
From Denial to Fatalism: AIDS and the Contours of
Masculinity in Bwaise
(Uganda)
2007 Winter Quarter
9 January: Jennifer
Cole (Comparative Human
Development,
University
of Chicago)
Making Love: Attachment and
Reciprocity in Tamatave,
Madagascar
Co-sponsored
with the Gender
and Sexuality Studies Workshop
23
January: Mahir Saul
(Anthropology,
University
of
Illinois
Urbana-Champaign)
and Ralph Austen (History, University of Chicago)
FILM & BOOK DISCUSSION
Black and White in Colour: Africa's History on Screen (selected chapters)
Gaston Kabore's "Wend Kuuni" and "Buud Yam" (selections)
6
February: Sanyu
Mojola (Sociology,
University
of
Chicago
)
Dangerous Transitions: HIV, School, and Young African Women
20 February: Michael
McGovern (Anthropology,
Yale
University)
Making War in
Cote
d'Ivoire: The Politics of Ressentiment
6 March: Rosa
Williams (History,
University
of
Chicago
)
Sickness, Settlement, and
Statistics:
The Colonial Health Service in Mozambique,
1885-1915
13 March: Jos-Mara Muoz (Anthropology,
Northwestern University)
Coping with Success in Times of Crisis:
The Economy and the Politics of Visibility in Northern
Cameroon"
2006 Fall Quarter
3 October: Jean and John Comaroff (Anthropology,
University
of Chicago)
Ethnicity, INC.
17 October: Jennifer Spruill
(Anthropology,
University
of Chicago)
When the Rainbow is Not Enough:
Sexual Citizenship in Post-Apartheid South
Africa
Chapter Three:
Sovereign Subjects
31 October: Bayo Holsey (African and
African American Studies,
Duke
University
)
RED LION SEMINAR
Imagined Geographies of Atlantic
Africa
Co-sponsored
with Northwestern
University's Program in African Studies
7
November: A.G. Hopkins (History,
University
of Texas-Austin)
Rethinking Decolonisation in the Age of Globalization
Co-sponsored
with The Nicholson Center for British Studies and the Compative
Colonialisms Workshop
28 November: Neil
Roos (Social Studies
Education,
University
of Pretoria)
Education / sex / leisure:
Whiteness and social control among South African servicemen
during the Second World War
5 December: Fuambai
Ahmadu (Comparative Human
Development,
University
of
Chicago
)
No One Wants to be a Solimaa: Women's Voices on Female Circumcision
2006 Spring Quarter
30 March (Thursday): Richard Pithouse (Centre for Civil Society, University of KwaZulu-Natal)
"OUR STRUGGLE IS THOUGHT
ON THE GROUND RUNNING": THE UNIVERSITY
OF ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO
Co-hosted with the Human Rights Workshop.
4 April: Lynn Thomas (History, University of Washington)
THE MODERN GIRL AND RACIAL RESPECTABILITY IN 1930s SOUTH
AFRICA
18 April: Michael Ralph (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
LES LIONNES REVENT DU MONDE: BASKETBALL AND POST-NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS
IN POSTCOLONIAL SENEGAL
2 May: Gretchen Pfeil (Anthropology and Linguistics, University of Chicago)
BOYS AND BIRDS: FAMILY AND CHARITY IN SUFI
MUSLIM PRACTICE IN DAKAR, SENEGAL
16 May: Nancy Rose Hunt (History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
VIOLENCE AND VISUAL
DEBRIS, DREAM IMAGES AND LAUGHTER: A RETHINKING OF BELGIAN COLONIAL
HISTORY
23 May: Brian Larkin (Anthropology, Barnard College)
A RED LION SEMINAR*
MEDIATING THE QUR'AN. THE ELECTRIFICATION
OF RELIGION IN NORTHERN NIGERIA
*Co-hosted with the Program of African Studies, Northwestern
University.
30 May: Karen Morris (School of the Art Institute of Chicago)
NEWS, CRISIS, AND 'LA CLASSE POLITIQUE': (RE)PRODUCING PUBLIC CULTURE
IN CONTEMPORARY COTE D'IVOIRE
2006
Winter Quarter
10 January: Jennifer Cole (Committee on Human Development, University of Chicago)
FASHIONING DISTINCTION IN URBAN MADAGASCAR:
YOUTH, CONSUMERISM AND CLASS IN THE CONTEXT OF GLOBALIZATION
24 January: Ccile Vigouroux (Linguistics, University of Chicago/Universit de Paris X/Nanterre)
VOICES FROM THE SOUTH: THE
INTERSECTION OF GLOBALIZATION AND LA FRANCOPHONIE IN THE AFRICAN
DIASPORA
31 January: William Kentridge
Special Event: Contemporary Art and Politics in Africa:
A Discussion with William Kentridge
7 February: Vicki Brennan (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
FOGO OLORUN HAN (SHOW THE
GLORY OF GOD): PRODUCING PARADISE THROUGH CHERUBIM AND SERAPHIM WORSHIP
*Co-hosted with the Interdisciplinary
Christianities Workshop.
21 February: Jessica Levin (Postdoctoral Fellow in Art History, University of Chicago)
FLESH AND BONES: FANG
RELIQUARY ART AND VIEWER RESPONSE
28 February: Rmy Bazenguissa-Ganga (Centre d'tudes Africaines/France)
ELECTORAL WARS IN AFRICA:
PERSPECTIVES FROM CONGO-BRAZAVILLE
7 March: Kelly Gillespie (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
MORALIZING SECURITY:
'CORRECTIONS' AND THE POST-APARTHEID PRISON
2005 Fall Quarter
4 October: Jeffrey Kahn (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
MERMAIDS AND OTHER HOT
COMMODITIES: TRAFFICKING SPIRITS ON THE BIGHT OF
BENIN
Location: Home of Professor Ralph Austen (please
email the coordinator for directions)
18 October: Koen Vlassenroot (University of Ghent/Belgium)
A RED LION SEMINAR:
CONFLICT, MILITIA FORMATION AND YOUTH IN EASTERN
CONGO
Location: Uncommon Ground,
3800
N. Clark St.
,
Chicago
,
IL
60613
.
*Co-hosted with the Program of African
Studies, Northwestern University.
25 October: Suzanne Wint (Music, University of Chicago)
Composing Hybridity: Ugandan
Subjectivity and Western Art-Style Music
Co-hosted with EthNoise! The Ethnomusicology Workshop
15 November: Jeremy Jones (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
"Futureless Youth":
The Everyday Constructions of Temporality in a Zimbabwean Township
Discussant: Gretchen Pfeil (Ph.D. student,
Anthropology & Linguistics)
22 November: Kelly Gillespie (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Deontic Prisons and Elephantine Optimism
29 November: Betsey Brada (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
The Right Drugs in the Right
Bodies: Citizenship, National Security and AIDS Treatment in
Botswana
Co-hosted with the Science, Technology,
Society, and the State Workshop.
2004
Winter Quarter
13 January: Ralph Austen (
University
of Chicago, History)
17 January: Stephen Hill (Music, Northwestern University)
17 February:
Julien Bonhomme (Anthropology, Visiting Scholar)
24 February: Habu Mohammed (Political Science, Fulbright Visiting Scholar
at Northwestern University)
Transition from Civilian Rule and the Reemergence of Traditional Politics in
Nigeria
3 March: Salikoko Mufwene (Linguistics, University of Chicago)
2003
Winter Quarter
21 January: Michael
Ralph
Pastime Paradise: The work of play for youth in Dakar
today
4 February: Solofo Randrianja
Ethnicit Madagascar:
Les Marofotsy la conquete de la libert
vers 1820
11 February: Jesse
Shipley
You Will Receive Your Miracle Today: New 'Charismatic'
Christianity and Ideologies of the Free Market
25 February: Stephen Ellis
The historical study of witchcraft in Africa and Europe
: problems and promises of method
11 March: Jan Blommaert
TBA
13 March: Francis Nyamnjoh
TBA
2001 Spring
Quarter
27 March: Thomas Blom Hansen,
University of Edinburgh
In Search of the Diasporic Self: Bollywood in
South Africa
17 April: Gaurav Desai,
Tulane
University
Subject to Colonialism: African
Self-fashioning and the Colonial Library
(RED LION SEMINAR: 6pm, 2446
North Lincoln Avenue)
24 April: Benoit de l'Estoile,
University of Paris
From the Colonial Exposition to the Museum
of Man
15 May: Lee Skjon,
University of Chicago
(Anthropology, Linguistics)
The Vanguardist Imperative, State-ment of
Nation, and Language Question in Mozambique's
Sociedade Nova, 1975-1985
2001
Winter Quarter
16 January: Hylton White,
University
of Chicago (Anthropology)
Times and Mores: Family Values and the
Possessions of a Post-Apartheid Countryside
30 January: Loren Kruger,
University of Chicago
(English)
Black Atlantics, white Indians, and Jews:
locations, locutions, and syncretic identities in the fiction of
Achmat Dangor and others
20 February: Andrew Apter,
University
of Chicago (Anthropology)
On Imperial Spectacle: the Dialectics of
Seeing in Colonial Nigeria
6 March:
Gracia Clark, Indiana
University
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)
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)
Notes on The National Theatre of Ghana
and the Neoliberal Moment
24
October: Solomon Nkiwane, University of Zimbabwe
The 2000 Parliamentary Election in Zimbabwe
and Democracy in Africa (no
pre-circulated paper)
7
November: Brett O'Bannon, Indiana University
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
Children of War: Understanding War and War
Cleansing in Mozambique
and Angola
4
December: Gerald West, University of Natal
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)
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)
The Impossibility of Community: Township
Politics on the Cape Flats
25
April: Nicole Castor, Anthropology, University
of Chicago
Orisha Online: Identity and Communication in
the Black Atlantic
9
May: Michael Dietler, Anthropology, University
of Chicago
Digesting the Feast: Rituals of Consumption,
Commensal Politics, and Power in African Contexts
23
May: Kathryn Geurts, Human Development, University
of Chicago
Cultural Categories and the Anthropology of
the Senses: Notes on an Anlo-Ewe Theory of Inner States
30
May: Cosmis Magaya and Paul Berliner (Northwestern
University)
(Concert and discussion; joint meeting with
EthNoise! in Goodspeed 402 at 5-7pm)
2000
Winter Quarter
11
January: Ralph Austen, History, University
of Chicago
Reading Colonial
Autobiography: Amadou Hampate Ba, Amkoullel: l'enfant peule, from a colonial to a
postcolonial voice
25
January: Alma Gottlieb, University
of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Stranger Anxiety or Stranger Love? Sociable
Beng Babies (Cote
d'Ivoire)
8
February: Simon Hawkins, Anthropology, University of Chicago
The Ideology of Foreign Language Learning in Tunisia
22
February: William Reno, Northwestern University
Stealing Like a Bandit, Stealing Like a State
29
February: Jennifer Spruill, Anthropology, University
of Chicago
Street Rituals: Pride and Matrimony in the
Post-Apartheid Nation
14
March: Steven Pierce, Yale University/University of Michigan
Traditional Politics and the Politics of
Tradition: The Search for Signs of "Modernity" in Nationalist
Northern Nigeria
1999 Autumn
Quarter
5
October: Mamadou Diouf, Codesria and University
of Michigan
Urban Youth and Urban Culture in Contemporary
Senegal (no pre-circulated paper)
19
October: Kelly Gillespie, Anthropology, University
of Chicago
Video Presentation: Thick Skins: A Conversation with
Two Young South African Prisoners
2
November: Anne-Maria Makhulu, Anthropology, University
of Chicago
Landscapes of Repression and Revolution:
South African Town Planning and its Legacy
16
November: Richard Werbner, University of
Manchester
Bringing Back the Dead in
Botswana:
Patriarchy and Elderhood Revisited
1999
Spring Quarter
6
April: Jeremy Rich, Indiana University
Bewitching Boycotts: Mpongwe Clan Chiefs, Sorcery and Political Power
in Colonial Libreville,
1869-1920
13
April: Neil Roos, University of the Northwest (South
Africa)
Homes Fit for (White) Heroes: Servicemen, Social Justice and the
Making of Apartheid, 1939-1948
27
April: Bill Murphy, Northwestern University
Stylistics of Power among Child Soldiers in the Liberian
and Sierra Leonean Civil Wars
11
May: Paul Kollman, University of Chicago
Comparing Civilizing Processes: Slave Evangelization in
19th Century East Africa
18
May: Souleymane Bachir Diagne, Cheik Anta
Diop University
and Northwestern University
The Right to Judge: The Debate on Excision in France
and Senegal
RED
LION SEMINAR with Northwestern University's Program of African Studies
25
May: Beth Anne Buggenhagen,
University
of Chicago
Body into Soul, Soul into Spirit: The Commodification of Religious
Value in the Mouride
Tariqa
of
Senegal
.
The Case of Da'ira-Tuba
Chicago
.
1999
Winter Quarter
19
January: Neville Hoad, University
of Chicago
Representing "African"
"Sodomy" in the Missionary Position: Corporeal Intimacies and
their
Signifying Regimes
2
February: Roderick Coover, Art Institute of Chicago
The Rhetorics of Montage
in the Representation of Cultures: Notes on an
Ethnography of Performance in Ghana
of the 1990s
16
February: Kirk Hoppe, University of Illinois
(Chicago)
Lords of the Fly: Constructions of Knowledge
and Landscape during Sleeping Sickness
Resettlement in British Colonial Tanganyika
2
March: Jean-Herve Jezequel, EHESS (University of Chicago, 1999)
Producing an 'Aristocratic Discourse of the
Nation' in Colonial French
Sudan: Study of a
Historical Non-Object?
1998
Autumn Quarter
13
October: Jean and John Comaroff (Anthropology,
University
of
Chicago)
Policing the Occult in the Post-Colony
27
October: Lesley Stern (Getty Museum)
Great Zimbabwe: Metaphors of Stone
3
November: Bruce Berman (Political Studies,
Queens
University)
Moral Ethnicity, Political Tribalism and
State-Society Relations in
Africa
17 November: Hylton White (Anthropology, University of Chicago)
Ritual Hegemonies: A Moral Politics in the Zulu Countryside
8 December: David Bunn (English, University of the Western Cape)
Waterhole Work: Drought, Photography, and Politics in the Kruger National Park, 1926-1950
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