| Thursday April 21st | |
| 8:00-8:45 | Registration and Check-In (12th Floor Heller Hall) |
| 9:00-11:00 | Welcome Address and Open Discussion (1210 Heller Hall)
Delivered by: Dr. Helena Pohlandt-McCormick, Department of History, University of Minnesota and Dr. Gary Minkley, SARChI Chair in Social Change, University of Fort Hare, and Paul Vig, PhD Candidate, Department of History, University of Minnesota Recommended Reading: Luis de Miranda, “Is A New Life Possible? Deleuze and the Lines,” Deleuze Studies No. 7, Vol. 1(2013): 106–152. |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break (1210 Heller Hall) |
| 11:15-12:25 | Queer African Studies Roundtable (1210 Heller Hall)
Elliot James, Danai S. Mupotsa, Taiwo Adetunji Osinubi, Jigna Desai Recommended Reading: Keguro Macharia, “African Queer Studies,” Gukira With(Out) Predicates (blog), August 24th 2014, https://gukira.wordpress.com/2014/08/24/african-queer-studies/ and “On Being Area-Studied: A Litany of Complaint,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies No. 2, Vol. 2 (2016): 183-189. |
| 12:30-2:00 | Lunch (Provided by AHGSC for all Conference Participants in 1210 Heller Hall) |
| 2:00-3:00 | “Usakos: Photographs Beyond Ruins,” curated by Paul Grendon, Giorgio Meischer, Lorena Rizzo and Tina Smith (Regis West Gallery, 1st Floor)
Introductory comments from exhibition curators, Dr. Giorgio Miescher and Dr. Lorena Rizzo, followed by a brief Q&A session. |
| 4:00-6:00 | “Newes from the Dead”: an unnatural moment in the history of Natural Philosophy,” as part of the Institute for Advanced Study (IAS) Thursdays at Four Lecture Series (Crosby Seminar Room, 240 Northrop)
Delivered by: Dr. Jane Taylor, Wole Soyinka Chair of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds Recommended Reading: Laura Gowing, “Secret Births and Infanticide in Seventeenth-Century England,” Past & Present, No. 156(1997): 87-115. |
| Friday April 22nd | ||
| 8:00-8:45 | Registration and Check-In (12th Floor Heller Hall) | |
| 9:00-11:00 | Panel 1A: 1210 Heller Hall
Panel Chair: Paul Vig (Post)Colonial Presents and the Reproduction of Racialized Space Melanie Boehi, Sarah Godsell, Alicia Lazzarini, Danai S. Mupotsa, Nqobile Zulu |
Panel 1B: 537 Heller Hall (ICGC)
Panel Chair: Jessica Farrell Archival Disruptions: Exploring the Temporalities of Medical and Ethnographic Archives in Africa Sinazo Mtshemla, Julia Cummiskey, Marissa Mika |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break (1210 Heller Hall) | |
| 11:15-12:45 | Panel 2A: 1210 Heller Hall
Panel Chair: Gabriale Payne Disciplinary Cartographies: Interrogating the Imperatives of World History and Area Studies Leslie Witz, Jessica Farrell, Thomas Wolfe |
Panel 2B: 537 Heller Hall (ICGC)
Panel Chair: Janeke Thumbran Experiencing Race: (Re)Deployments of Racial Constructions, Depictions, and Registers Ana Cláudia dos Santos São Bernardo, Bryan Schmidt, Elizabeth Williams |
| 12:45-2:00 | Lunch (Provided by AHGSC for all Conference Participants in 1210 Heller Hall) | |
| 2:00-3:30 | Panel 3A: 1210 Heller Hall
Panel Chair: Virgil Slade Ethnography to Sociology: African Grids of Intelligibility and Social Thought Jonathan Schoots, Louisa Rice, Christopher Kirchgasler |
Panel 3B: 537 Heller Hall (ICGC)
Panel Chair: Elliot James After the Event: Power, Memory and Violence Ahmed Sh. Ibrahim, Lidwien Kapteijns, George Agbo |
| 4:00-6:00 | Keynote Address, delivered by Dr. Jane Taylor, with reception to follow (West Bank Union Auditorium aka West Bank 20, Wiley Hall) | |
| Saturday April 23rd | ||
| 9:00-11:00 | Panel 4A: 1210 Heller Hall
Panel Chair: Janeke Thumbran Thinking with Space in Historical Analysis Julia Büchele, Noah Gasser & Dominic Westhoff, Giorgio Miescher |
Panel 4B: 537 Heller Hall (ICGC)
Panel Chair: Paul Vig Multimodal Mixing: Interdisciplinary Methods to Exploring Identity, Orality and Power for Black/African diasporas Hawa Y. Mire, Suban Nur Cooley, Shewonda Leger |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break (1210 Heller Hall) | |
| 11:15-12:45 | Panel 5A: 1210 Heller Hall
Panel Chair: Jessica Farrell Archival Disruptions: Interrogating the Mnemotechnics of Conventional Historical Imaginaries Heather Wares, Helena Pohlandt-McCormick & Gary Minkley, Adam Blackler |
Panel 5B: 537 Heller Hall (ICGC)
Panel Chair: Virgil Slade Making ‘Space’ for Gender: Alternate Narratives and the Pursuit of New Theories and Praxis Tasoulla Hadjiyanni, Tunji Osinubi, Tara Reyelts |
| 12:45-2:00 | Lunch (Provided by AHGSC for all Conference Participants in 1210 Heller Hall) | |
| 2:00-3:30 | Panel 6A: 1210 Heller Hall
Panel Chair: Gabriale Payne Orality and the Geography of Texts Kevin Huselid, Xavier Guégan, Satty Flaherty-Echeverría & Denise Malauene |
6B – Roundtable: 537 Heller Hall (ICGC)
An “Ethical Pedagogy”: Exploring the Fault Lines of ‘Best Practice’ Teaching Wesley Lummus, Virgil Slade, Elliot James, Tracey Deutsch |
| 4:00-5:30 | ICGC Final Reflections Roundtable (1210 Heller Hall)
Paul Vig, Gabriale Payne, Virgil Slade, Janeke Thumbran |
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| 6:00 | Conference Dinner (1210 Heller Hall) | |
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