Society of Research on African Cultures : SORAC 98: Conference Program & Schedule

SORAC 98: Conference Program & Schedule

By SORAC • October 23, 1998

SORAC 98 International Conference
Program & Schedule
“Images of Africa: Stereotypes & Realities”

October 22, 23 & 24, 1998

Keynote Speaker
Professor Martin Bernal, Internationally-Acclaimed Author of Black Athena

Keynote Speech: “European Images of Africa: Tale of Two Names, Ethiop and N—-“

Professor Martin Bernal will speak on Friday 23, at 6:00pm

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Important information for SORAC 98 attendees staying at hotels. Here

THURSDAY 22 PROGRAM
Including opening ceremony’s plenary session. Topic: “Assessing Africa’s Third Millennium: Political, Cultural and Socio-Economic Prospects”
THURSDAY 22: SESSION 1: “Africa at the Crossroad: Issues of Development”
THURSDAY 22: SESSION 2: “Religions, Traditionalism and the West”
THURSDAY 22: SESSION 3: “Africa, Orientalism and the West”
THURSDAY 22: SESSION 4: “Africa in the Americas: A Question of Identities”
THURSDAY 22: SESSION 5: “Inventions of Africa: Reflections from the Dark Mirror”
FRIDAY 23 PROGRAM
FRIDAY 23: SESSION 1: “Africa and the Ancient World”
FRIDAY 23: SESSION 2 “Southern Africa: A State of Emergence”
FRIDAY 23: SESSION 3: “African Literatures: Text and Pre-Text”
FRIDAY 23: SESSION 4: “Western Imperial Ideology: Conquest and Appropriation”
FRIDAY 23: SESSION 5: “Africa in the Americas: A Question of Identities” (Continued)
FRIDAY 23: SESSION 6: “Inventions of Africa: Reflections from the Dark Mirror” (Continued)
FRIDAY 23: SESSION 7: “Special Pedagogical Session: Teaching African Cultures: Themes, Principles, Approaches”
Note: Keynote address by Martin Bernal, Student Center, Ballroom A, Friday 23, at 6:15pm
SATURDAY 24 PROGRAM
SATURDAY 24: SESSION 1: “Southern Africa: A State of Emergence” (continued)
SATURDAY 24: SESSION 2: “African Literatures: Text and Pre-Text” (Continued)
SATURDAY 24: SESSION 3: “Western Imperial Ideology: Conquest and Appropriation” (Continued)
SATURDAY 24: SESSION 4: “Media—ting Africa in Cinema and Music”
SATURDAY 24: SESSION 5: “African Women: Stereotypes and Realities”

NOTE: Rooms, events and schedule subject to change. Keep checking the SORAC Web site for updates on the program. Special Thanks to our Abstracts Selection Committee.

THURSDAY 22 PROGRAM

SORAC 98 Opening Ceremony
Room: Ballroom A

9:00-9:30 Coffee and Donuts
9: 30-11:30 Welcoming Notes by Dr. Susan Cole, President of Montclair State University, and by
conference organizers, followed by a Plenary Session

TITLE OF PLENARY SESSION: “Assessing Africa’s Third Millennium: Political, Cultural and Socio-Economic Prospects” “Assessing Africa’s Third Millennium: Political, Cultural and Socio-Economic Prospects”

Moderator: Dr. Leslie Wilson, History Department, Montclair State University

SPEAKERS

Special Guest: Congressman Donald M. Payne, “When Black America Encounters Africa: Impressions from my Meeting with Africa”

James Harris, Associate Dean of Students, Montclair State University, “How can Black America Help Africa Develop?”

Dr. Philip Lebel, Montclair State University, “What Type of Development for Africa?”

Dr. Mary Ann Rogers-Wright, Montclair State University, “African Women and the Third Millennium”

Professor Gbolahan Akinsanya, Montclair State University, “The Future of Religion in Africa”

Dr. Georges Agbango, Bloomsburg University, “From Wars to Peace: Conditions for Democracy and Political Stability in Africa”

Questions and Discussion

11:30-1:00 LUNCH BREAK

THURSDAY 22: SESSION 1: “Africa at the Crossroad: Issues of Development”
CHAIR: Duke Ophori, Montclair State University ROOM: Student Center 413

Kritilolu	Yomi	Ogun State University, Nigeria	“The Tail is Wagging the Dog: Africa and its Military”	1:00-1:30pm
Bewayo	Edward	Montclair State University	“African Cultures and Entrepreneurship”	1:30-2:00pm
Bailey	Kermit L.	North Carolina State University	“Interactive Multimedia Design as Social Practice: the Social Role of Asante Women, an Interface Demonstration Project”	2:00-2:30pm
Williams	Jennifer D.	Clark Atlanta University	“Rwanda’s Civil War and Genocide: Tribal Barbarism or Postcolonial Nightmare?”	2:30-3:00pm
Nesbitt	F. Nick	Miami University	“Guinée Indépendante!”: Remembering Utopia Forty Years Later.	3:00-3:30pm
Mhina	Amos	Montclair State University	“Tanzania: the Governing Elite, the Citizens and the Challenges of Modernity at the Turn of the Century”	3:30-4:00pm
Ogundowole	E.K	University of Lagos, Nigeria	“Unconscious Negation of the African Self in Senghor’s Philosophy of Negritude”	4:00-4:30pm

THURSDAY 22: SESSION 2: “Religions, Traditionalism and the West”
CHAIR: Adele McCollum, Montclair State University ROOM: Student Center, Ballroom B

Müller	Hans	University of Stellenbosch, South Africa	“What is the Study of African Religion About?”	1:00-1:30pm
Holmes	J. Teresa	York University, Canada	“Discovering Kinship: the Cultural Production of Otherness in Colonial Western Kenya”	1:30-2:00pm
Van Rinsum	Henk	Utrecht University, The Netherlands	“The Invention of African Traditional Religion & Ethnographic Authority”	2:00-2:30pm
Corley	Scott		“Neither East nor West: the Importance of Ethiopian Christianity”	2:30-3:00pm
Guthrie	Patricia	California State University at Hayward	“Glossolalia/Speaking in Tongues: its Unique Function in a Ghanaian Pentecostal Church”	3:00-3:30pm
Nwaezeigwe	Nwanko	University of Nigeria at Nsukka	“Traditionalism and the Concept of Democracy in Pre-Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa: Origins, Stereotypes, and Realities.”	3:30-4:00pm
Akinsanya	Gbolahan	Montclair State University	“Christianity in African Culture: From the Dark Continent to the Continent of Light”	4:00-4:30pm

THURSDAY 22: SESSION 3: “Africa, Orientalism and the West”
CHAIR: Mongi Bahloul, University of Sfax, Tunisia ROOM: Student Center, 419

Manopoulos	Monique	University of Memphis	“Subversion of Stereotypical Identity Parameters in Attilah Fakir by Ahmed Zitouni”	1:00-1:30pm
Bernstein	George	Montclair State University	“Ambivalence and Ambiguity in Algerian Francophone Fiction: Characters’ Attitudes Towards Using French.”	1:30-2:00pm
Orlando	Valerie	Purdue University	“Transposing the Political & the Aesthetical: Eugene Fromentin’s Contributions to Oriental Stereotypes”	2:00-2:30pm
Ben Rejeb	Lofti	The University of Tunis, Tunisia	“When North Africa was Called Barbary: Of Toponymy and Historiography”	2:30-3:00pm
Zachernuk	Philip	Dalhousie University, Canada	“Colonial Orientalism: West African Images of Islam, 1860-1930”	3:00-3:30pm
Bahloul	Mongi	University of Sfax, Tunisia	“The North-African Motif in Early American Fiction”	3:30-4:00pm

THURSDAY 22: SESSION 4: “Africa in the Americas: A Question of Identities”
CHAIR: Kristof Haavik, University of Botswana ROOM: Student Center, Ballroom A

Young Boyer	Doris	The Legacy School	“An African Identification as a Prerequisite to Wellness in Africans of the Diaspora”	1:00-1:30pm
Adkins Irby	Jocelyn		“The Rhetoric of Subtext: a Rhetorical (Re)Vision of African American English”	1:30-2:00pm
Alaya ———–and Van Rensalier	Flavia ———– Dolores	Ramapo College	“How We Met Ourselves at the Station: African Identities and the Public History of the Underground Railroad in Paterson”	2:00-2:30pm/ 2:30-3:00pm
Ayuninjam	Funwi	Kentucky State University	“Ethnocentrism and Stereotyping: African and African-American Mutual Perceptions”	3:00-3:30pm
Ramirez	Victoria	Binghamton University	“The Herero in the Harz: Pynchon’s Representation of Race Relations in Gravity’s Rainbow“	3:30-4:00pm

Note: Continues on Friday 23 as Session 5, Student Center, Ballroom A.

THURSDAY: SESSION 5: “Inventions of Africa: Reflections from the Dark Mirror”
CHAIR: Alice Deck, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ROOM: Student Center 411

PANEL: “Historical and Literary Inventions of Africa” (Director: Alice Deck)
Deck	Alice A.	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	“’What is Africa to Me?’ Narrative Constructions of Africa in African American Travel Writing.”	1:00-1:30pm
Dagbovie	Sika	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	“Whose People?: False Realities in Nadine Gordimer’s ‘July’s People’”	1:30-2:00pm
Korang	Kwaku	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	“Reinventing Africa: Empire, Nationalist History, and ‘Ghana’”	2:00-2:30pm
Murdoch	Adlai	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	Respondent	2:30-3:00pm
END OF PANEL
Van Deventer	Susan	Union College	“States of Dis-ease: Representations of Africans in Arabic and French Versions of A Tale from the Arabian Nights“	3:00-3:30pm
Gecau	Kimani	University of Zimbabwe	“Stereotypes, Popular Representations and Social Struggles”	3:30-4:00pm

Note: Continues on Friday 23 as Session 6, Student Center 411.

FRIDAY 23 PROGRAM

FRIDAY 23: SESSION 1: “Africa and the Ancient World”
CHAIR: David Kelly, Montclair State University ROOM: Student Center 413

Winsor Sage	Paula		Hobart and William Smith Colleges	“The Power of the Word: Rhetorical Subjugation in Early Accounts of West Africa”	9:00-9:30am
Ochwada	Hannington		University of Florida	“Oral Tradition and Historical Reconstruction in Africa: Ancient Egypt and Early Christianity”	9:30-10:00
Alvares	Jean		Montclair State University	“The Greco-Roman Idealization of Ethiopia”	10:00-10:30
Mengara	Daniel		Montclair State University	“Battle of Histories: Bernal’s Afrocentrism, Lefkowitz’s Aryanism and the Controversy over the African Roots of Western Civilization”	10:30-11:00
Dow	Miriam		The George Washington University	“Menelaos, the Cyclopes, and Eurybates: aPost-Colonial Reading of Homer”	11:00-11:30
Moore	David Chioni		Macalester College	“From Sodom to Saddam: Black Athena’s Critics and the Rhetoric of Retrospective Linear Descent.”	11:30-12:00
LUNCH BREAK
Allen	Troy D.	Southern University		“Ancient Egyptian Kinship, Family and Social Organization”	1:00-1:30pm
Kabemba	E. Kayembe	Université de Lubumbashi, Democ. Rep. of Congo		“The Image of Africa in the “Chronicon Societatis Jesu”: A Look at Some Recurring Ancient Stereotypes”	1:30-2:00pm

FRIDAY 23: SESSION 2 “Southern Africa: A State of Emergence”
CHAIR: David Taylor, University of South Africa ROOM: Student Center 413

Taylor	David	University of South Africa	“The Evaluation of Indigenous Norms by Western Norms in the Social and Legal Context of modern South Africa.”	2:00-2:30pm
Hewitt ———–and Matlhako	Cynthia M. ————- Mamadi	University of Georgia ———————– Emory University	“The Portrayal of African History in South Africa’s New Curriculum”	2:30-3:00pm ——— 3:00-3:30pm
Nyeko	Balam	National University of Lesotho	“Lesotho and Swaziland: Contrasting Images of Two Southern African Kingdoms in Colonial Historiography”	3:30-4:00pm

Note: Continues on Saturday 24 as Session 1, Student Center, Ballroom A.

FRIDAY 23: SESSION 3: “African Literatures: Text and Pre-Text”.
CHAIR: K. P. Asamani, William Paterson University ROOM: Student Center 411

Bayers	Peter	Fairfield University	“J. Nozipo Maraire’s Zenzele: a Letter to My Daughter and Postcolonial Identity”	9:00-9:30am
Tripathi	Prayag D.	University of Texas at Austin	“Diversity as Unity: African Literary Components”	9:30-10:00
Spencer	Sharon	Montclair State University	“English as an African Language: Strategies for adapting English to Ancestral Languages”	10:00-10:30
Morea	Rachelle	Norfolk State University	“The Western Eyes of Léopold Sédar Senghor: the Self Viewed as the Other.”	10:30-11:00
Oyesoro	Segun Oyeleke	University of Ilorin, Nigeria	“The Theatre in Nigeria’s Cultural Diplomacy: the Problem of Dialogue”	11:00-11:30
LUNCH BREAK
Earley	Samantha	Millikin University	“Dismantling Stereotypes & Constructing Self: Olaudah Equiano’s Interesting Life.“	1:00-1:30pm
Okereke	Augustine	University of Bielefeld, Germany	“Once upon a time … Representations, Misrepresentations and Rehabilitations in African Oral and Modern Literature.”	1:30-2:00pm
Lebdai	Benaouda	University of Angers, France	“Ayi Kwei Armah: A Ghanaian Vision of Western Perception of Africa”	2:00-2:30pm
Sen	Sharmila	Yale University	“Playing Africa: The Fictions of Ferdinand Oyono”	2:30-3:00pm
Rabbitt	Kara	William Paterson University	“Nos ancêtres les Gaulois/leurs ancêtres africains: Légitime Défense and the (Re)Appropriation of Difference in French Texts”	3:00-3:30pm
Munatamba	Parnwell	University of Zambia	“Under African Eyes: a Study in Shattered Innocence”	3:30-4:00pm

Note: Continues on Saturday 24 as Session 2, Student Center 419.

FRIDAY 23: SESSION 4: “Western Imperial Ideology: Conquest and Appropriation”
CHAIR: Tim Watson, Montclair State University ROOM: Student Center, Ballroom B

BRITISH IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY				TIME
Groberman	Michael	University of British Columbia, Canada	“Controlling Caliban: the Efforts of Prospero, Said, and their Books”	9:00-9:30am
Logan	Mawuena	Ohio University	“The British Empire, the Cult of Gentle/manliness, and the Image of Africa”	9:30-10:00
Jennings	Christian	University of Texas at Austin	“Making up Maasailand: Victorian Imagery and Experience in East Africa”	10:00-10:30
Jok	Jok Madut	Loyola Marymount University	“The Legacy of Race as the Foundation for the Slave Trade in Sudan”	10:30-11:00
Itandala	Buluda	University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania	“European Images of Africa from Early Times to the 18th Century”	11:00-11:30
LUNCH BREAK
Larson	Victoria	Montclair State University	“British Imperialism in Africa: Cecil Rhodes and The New Roman Empire “	1:00-1:30pm
Hacker	Paulette	University of Miami	“The Domestication of Savage Africa: W. Winwood Reade’s Excursion of ‘Enlightenment’”	1:30-2:00pm
FRENCH IMPERIAL IDEOLOGY
PANEL: “Colonialist Discourse in Francophone Africa” (Director: Walter Putnam)
Putnam	Walter	University of New Mexico	“Raging against the Night: Céline’s African Episode”	2:00-2:30pm
Higginson	Francis	Simon’s Rock College	“Africa in the Mystery Novel”	2:30-3:00pm
Mudimbe-Boyi	Elizabeth	Stanford University	“Subverting Nature and Culture: Pierre Loti and Colonial Discourse.”	3:00-3:30pm
Kemedjio	Cilas	University of Rochester	“The French Anticolonialist of the Postcolonial Age: the Case of Gide.”	3:30-4:00pm

Note: Continues on Saturday 24 as Session 3, Student Center, Ballroom C.

FRIDAY 23: SESSION 5: “Africa in the Americas: A Question of Identities” (Continued)
CHAIR: Georges Agbango, Bloomsburg University ROOM: Student Center, Ballroom A

Collins-Sibley	Michelle	Mount Union College	“What is Africa to Us? Myths and Metaphors of the Continent in the Poetry and Prose of Alice Walker”	9:00-9:30am
Kramer	Liza	University of California, Berkeley	“Land of the Free and Home of the Brave?” Ida B. Wells Re-Views the Case of Robert Charles”	9:30-10:00
Holt	Elvin	Southwest Texas State University	“Imagining Africa in the Harlem Renaissance: a Study of Selected Poems by Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and Langston Hughes”	10:00-10:30
Lewis	Leslie W.	Emporia State University	“’The Land of Romance and Magic and Mystery’: Martin and Osa Johnson’s African Adventures”	10:30-11:00
Tyrrasch Ok	Diana	Marymount University	“Toni Morrison’s Beloved: Unveiling Unspoken Realities”	11:00-11:30
LUNCH BREAK
Splawn	P. Jane	Beaver College	“African Memory/African Imagery: Africa in the Imagination of Two Pre-Harlem Renaissance Writers: Carrie Law Morgan Figgs and Carrie Williams Clifford”	1:00-1:30pm
Jackson	Edward	Delaware State University	“The Images of Africa in African American Letters from Phillis Wheatley to Keith Richburg”	1:30-2:00pm
Jones	Jeannette Eileen	SUNY at Buffalo	“’In Brightest Africa’: Naturalistic Constructions of Africa in the American Museum of Natural History, 1910-1936”	2:00-2:30pm
Brooks	Joanna	University of California	“Prince Hall, Freemasonry, and the Idea of Africa”	2:30-3:00pm
Gruesser	John	Kean University	“From Race to Class: the African American Literary Response to the Italo-Ethiopian War”	3:00-3:30pm
Hickey	Dennis	Edinboro University of Pennsylvania	“Beyond Kwanzaa and Kemet: History, Identity, and the African-American Critique of the Homeland”	3:30-4:00pm

FRIDAY 23: SESSION 6: “Inventions of Africa: Reflections from the Dark Mirror” (Continued)
CHAIR: Mark Korlie, Montclair State University ROOM: Student Center 419

Twagilimana	Aimable	SUNY Buffalo State College	“Africa and the Postcolonial Condition”	9:00-9:30am
Canton	David	Temple University	“The Origins of the ‘Curse of Ham’ Myth, Scientific Racism and Its Impact on African History”	9:30-10:00
Unigwe	Chika	KU Leuven, Belgium	“Let No Two Calabashes Strike Each Other”	10:00-10:30
Levin	Jessica	Harvard University	“Dr. Albert Schweitzer in Black and White: the Life Portraits”	10:30-11:00
Arianda	Owiti J.	McGill University, Canada	“Ethnopsychiatry and the Colonial Encounter: The Pathologization of the African Psychopersonality”	11:00-11:30
LUNCH BREAK
Sarkodie-Mensah	Elizabeth	Harvard University	“The Politics of Language in Africa: an Examination of the Logics of Power and Control”	1:00-1:30pm
Hassan	Wail	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign	“Gender (and) Imperialism: Africa in Oriental and Racial Discourses”	1:30-2:00pm
Djata	Sundiata	Northern Illinois State University	“Reflections in the Wrong Mirror:A History of Black Sexuality as an ‘Other’ Construction”	2:00-2:30pm
Wagner	Michele	Indiana University of Pennsylvania	“Manipulated Histories, Tragic Realities: the Legacy of the Hamitic Hypothesis in Great Lakes Africa”	2:30-3:00pm
Quist-Adade	Charles	Wayne State University	“Russia’s Version of Africa’s Tarzan Image”	3:00-3:30pm
Falaiye	Muyiwa	University of Lagos, Nigeria	“Africa vs. West: in the Court of Reparations”	3:30-4:00pm
Gomez	Vanessa	Illinois State University	“An Eye Open on the Commercial Recycling of Used Materials in Ouahigouya (Burkina Faso): What Will Remain of the Notion of ‘Informal Sector’?”	4:00-4:30pm

FRIDAY 23: SESSION 7: “Special Pedagogical Session: Teaching African Cultures: Themes, Principles, Approaches”. For more details on Pedagogical Session, GO HERE.
CHAIR: Robert Koenig, The African Art Museum of the SMA Fathers
ROOM: Student Center, Ballroom C
This session is sponsored by The African Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers, NJ

Gaudelli	Bill	Hunterdon Central Regional HS, NJ	“African Art and Spirituality”	9:00-9:30am
Icolari	Ellen		“South Africa, a Major Power in Transition: Designing and Implementing Curricular Material for the Classroom”	9:30-10:00
Haavik	Kristof	University of Botswana	“Decolonializing French 101: Teaching French as an African Language”	10:00-10:30
PANEL: ” Universalist and Comparative Art: Historical Approaches to African Art” (Director: Robert Koenig)
Koenig	Robert	The African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers, NJ	Opening Remarks	10:30-10:40
Johnson	Harmer		“Let the Buyer Beware: Collecting African Art”	10:40-11:30
Waite	Joan		“A World Within: Values in African Art”	11:30-12:20
LUNCH BREAK
Wright	William		“The Art of Ethiopia”	1:20-2:10pm
Spencer	Ann	Newark Museum, NJ	“From Fiber to Fabric: Textiles in Sub-Saharan Africa”	2:10-3:00
Koenig	Robert	The African Art Museum of the S.M.A. Fathers, NJ	“Open Eyes and Minds: Universalist and Comparative Approaches to the Study of African Art”	3:00-3:50pm

Friday 23: Student Center, Ballroom A, 6:15pm, Banquet and Keynote Address
Professor Martin Bernal: “European Images of Africa: Tales of Two Names, Ethiop and N…“

SATURDAY 24 PROGRAM

SATURDAY 24: SESSION 1: “Southern Africa: A State of Emergence” (continued)
CHAIR: David Pattison, University of Hull, England ROOM: Student Center, Ballroom A

Icolari	Ellen		“Language Learning and Democracy in the New South Africa”	9:00-9:30am
Kuehnle	Karen	Truman State University	“The Lives of Ruth First and Emma Mashinini: Race, Class, and Gender within a South African Discourse”	9:30-10:00
Mathers	Kathryn and Charisse Levitz	University of California/ Berkeley	“Images of the New South Africa: Museums, Tourism and Audiences”	10:00-10:30
Seidel	Linda	Truman State University	“The Gender Equality Movement in South Africa”	10:30-11:00
Zinyemba	Ranga	University of Zimbabwe	“The Changing Face of Africa as Seen Through Literature: the Case of Zimbabwe”	11:00-11:30
LUNCH BREAK
Pattison	David	University of Hull, England	“The Rouge and Lipstick of the Struggle”	1:00-1:30pm
McCorkle	James		“Zakes Mda and J.M. Coetzee: Configuring the Spaces of Apartheid”	1:30-2:00pm
Magubane	Zine	University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign	“Barbarous Working Classes and the Savage Poor: The Intersection of Race and Class Imagery in the Cape Colony, 1830-1870”	2:00-2:30pm
Diala	Isidore	Imo State University, Nigeria	“Biblical Mythology in André Brink’s Anti-Apartheid Fiction”	2:30-3:00

SATURDAY 24: SESSION 2: “African Literatures: Text and Pre-Text” (Continued)
CHAIR: Augustine Okereke, University of Bielefeld, Germany ROOM: Student Center 419

Khan	Zafar	Bayero University, Kano, Nigeria	“Children’s Literature in Africa with Special Reference to Cyprian Ekwensi.”	9:00-9:30am
Wodajo	Tsegaye	Bronx Community College (CUNY)	“Wrestling with Western Preconceptions of Africa: A Consideration of Resistance in an African Narrative.”	9:30-10:00
Banks	Kimberly	Rutgers University	“Ama Ata Aidoo’s Storytelling Acts: the Process of Communal Integration and Fragmentation”	10:00-10:30
Holley	Mary	Montclair State University	“A Sociological Examination of African Women’s Conceptions of Peace in Four Novels”	10:30-11:00
Buma	Pascal	University of Akron	“The Bildungsroman and African American Selfhood in Post-Colonial Literature: the Case of Emecheta’s The Joys of Motherhood“	11:00-11:30
Simeon	Kersuze	Rutgers University	“On the Identity of the African: Constructed and Assigned”	11:30-12:00

SATURDAY 24: SESSION 3: “Western Imperial Ideology: Conquest and Appropriation” (Continued)
CHAIR: Grover Furr, Montclair State University ROOM: Student Center, Ballroom C

Haavik	Kristof	University of Botswana	“From Crusades to Colonies: Africa in French Literature”	9:00-9:30am
Laroussi	Farid	University of Richmond	“Heart of Whiteness in Roussel’s Impressions d’Afrique“	9:30-10:00
Gosnell	Jonathan	Smith College	“Mediterranean Waterways, Extended Boundaries and Colonial Mappings: French Images of North Africa.”	10:00-10:30
Mullen-Hohl	Anne	Seton Hall University	“Images of Africa in Gide’s Voyage au Congo and Retour du Tchad“	10:30-11:00
Pears	Pamela	University of Pittsburgh	“The Sleep of the Just and Everything it Awakens: the Totalitarianism of the Colonial System in Algeria”	11:00-11:30
LUNCH BREAK
ITALIAN IMPERIALISM
Quinn	John	Hope College	“Whose Ancient Past? Italian Colonialism in Eritrea and Ethiopia”	1:00-1:30pm
Scott Jones	Richard	University of Connecticut	“When They Disembarked in Sicily, They Found Themselves in Africa: the Limits of Italy and the Ambiguity of Africa”	1:30-2:00
HISTORIOGRAPHY & GEOGRAPHY
McIntosh	Janet S., and Omar A. Lali	University of Michigan / Fort Jesus Museum, Mombasa (Kenya)	“Versions of Vasco da Gama on the Kenya Coast: Contesting the Past in Understanding the Present.”	2:00-2:30
Wittenberg	Herman	University of Western Cape, South Africa	“African Alpinism & the Shaping of an Imperial Landscape”	2:30-3:00pm

SATURDAY 24: SESSION 4: “Media—ting Africa in Cinema and Music”
CHAIR: Janet Cutler, Montclair State University ROOM: Dickson Hall, Brantl Auditorium

CINEMATIC REPRESENTATIONS
Rahier	Jean	Florida International University		“Representations of Africa in Two African-American Films: L.H. Clegg’s When Black Men Ruled the World, and Eddie Murphy’s Coming to America“	9:00-9:30am
Dikobe	Maude	University of California at Berkeley		“Under African Eyes: Interrogating the reel world order in The Gods Must Be Crazy and Touki Bouki“	9:30-10:00
Taylor	Steven	Marquette University		“The Interplay of Egos: Albert Schweitzer in the Cinema of Bassek be Kobhio”	10:00-10:30
Grayson	Sandra	Bentley College		“The African Subtext in Haile Gerima’s Sankofa“	10:30-11:00
Brucher	Marco	State University of New York at Albany		“Colonial Discourse and the Representation of the Native in Pepe le Moko, a film by Julien Duvivier”	11:00-11-30
Dugga	Victor	University of Jos, Nigeria		“Africa from the American Lens: A Comparative View of the Films Sheena and Coming to America“.	11:30-12:00
LUNCH BREAK
Goodman	R. David		New School for Social Research	“Gnawa Music in New York City: the Commoditization and Africanness of a North African Musical Form”	1:00-1:30pm
Turner	Diane D.		University of South Florida	“Image of Africa in Film”	1:30-2:00
Ali	Yusef A.		William Paterson University	“New Perspectives on African Music”	2:00-2:30

SATURDAY 24: SESSION 5: “African Women: Stereotypes and Realities”
CHAIR: Sally McWilliams, Montclair State University ROOM: Student Center 413

Kiah	Rosalie B.	Norfolk State University		“The Significance of the ‘Bride Price’ as a Sociocultural Institution in some African Countries with Special Reference to Botswana”	9:00-9:30am
Bavibidila	Teresa	Wayne State University		“Sweet Rock and Hives: the Politics of AIDS and African Women of Color”	9:30-10:00
Sibanda	Sabelo	School of African Awareness		“African Women in Politics”	10:00-10:30
Tsuruta	Dorothy Randall	San Francisco State University		“Womanish on the Continent”	10:30-11:00
Gaudelli	Bill	Hunterdon Central Regional HS, NJ		“Kenyan Women: Educational Opportunities and the Dynamics of Change”	11:00-11:30
LUNCH BREAK
Simpkins	Tiffany	Blair Academy		“Ghanaian Market Women: Keepers of Tradition”	1:00-1:30pm
Dunn	Stephane	University of Notre Dame		“Speaking the Primitive: Images of Black Femininity in Modernist Literature”	1:30-2:00pm
Grise	Martha	Eastern Kentucky University		“Scarred for Life? The Image of Africa and Female Genital Excision on American Network News Programs”	2:00-2:30pm
Okome ———-and Yinka	Onookome ——- Badewa		University of Calabar, Nigeria	“The Mythified Gaze: Women and Myth in Post-Colonial Video Production”	2:30-3:00pm ———- 3:00-3:30pm