New Directions in African Humanities: Graduate and Early Career Researcher Conference
Part of the African Languages, Literatures and Cultures Network events
Tuesday 20 June -Wednesday 21 June 2023
The event is free and open to all in Oxford, but registration is mandatory.
Registration for Day 1, Tuesday 20th of June 2023
Registration for Day 2, Wednesday 21st of June 2023
Programme
Seminar Room – Radcliffe Humanities Building - Woodstock Road
Oxford - OX2 6GG
Tuesday 20th June
11am Welcome – tea and coffee
11.30am Opening remarques
11.45am PANEL 1 : Story-telling – chair : Dorothée Boulanger
Rachel Taylor
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“Mother, I have killed Shingwengwe!” Narrating and becoming heroes in eighteenth-century East Africa.
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Clare Ní Cheallaigh
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The Storyteller as Professor: Amos Tutuola at the University of Palermo.
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Raga Makawi
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Language as Agency: New Womanhood Narratives in Sudan.
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1.15pm Lunch
2.15pm PANEL 2: Modernities/modernisms – Chair: Rachel Taylor
Andrew Marshall
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Fragments of Kenya’s 1970s Kiswahilisation campaign.
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Alexandra Grieve
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The ‘Afro-look’: Alternative modernisms in African fashion and visual culture of the 1960 and 1970s.
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Monique Kwachou
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The Melting Pot’s Broken Furnace: Exploring the Sustenance of socio-cultural divisions through Cameroonian [Higher] Education.
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Carlos G. Spalding Araujo
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Afonso I & The Kingdom of Kongo (c.1509-1542).
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4.30pm – 5.30pm Keynote address by Dr Terri Ochiagha
“The Bhabhian Flex: African Self-Fashioning and the Production of Colonial Knowledge.”
6.30pm Dinner (venue TBC)
Wednesday 21st June
9am Welcome – coffee
9.30 am PANEL 3 New methodologies – Chair: Alexandra Grieve
Milo Gough
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Rain and Urban Ecologies in Colonial Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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André Gaga
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Analysis of creativity in the university space of Abomey-Calavi in Benin: empirical elements for the drafting of a socio-anthropological methodology of decolonisation.
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Oluwatoyin Mbachu
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Digital Diasporas and Participant Authority: A case study on the Lagosian Aguda.
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11.00am Coffee break
11.15am PANEL 4 African Arts
Kathleen Rawlings
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New methods for African art history: a view from South Africa.
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Enid Guene
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Artistic Movements – Congolese Migration to Eastern and Southern African through the Prism of Popular Art (1960-1990).
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Nana Oforiatta Ayim
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Ayan Technology – Drum Poetries and their Epistemological Value.
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1pm Lunch Break
2pm peer-review/writing workshop session
4pm Closing Remarks
For any question, please contact the organisers:
dorothee.boulanger@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk ;
Rachel.taylor@africa.ox.ac.uk ;
Tinashe.mushakavanhu@st-annes.ox.ac.uk
and/or afculturesox@torch.ox.ac.uk
Part of the African Languages, Literatures and Cultures Network events