56th Annual Congress of the African Studies Association, Baltimore, November 21-23 2013 : panels
| I-O-3 Cross-National Studies of Violence and War in Africa Chair: Anne Bartlett, University of San Francisco |
| Postwar Violence and the Regional Neighborhood: Angola and Congo Compared Ingrid Samset, Christian Michelsen Institute |
| Democratization and Armed Conflicts in Post-Cold War Africa Adrien Ratsimbaharison, Benedict College |
| The Evolution of a Red Horse: Development and Decay of African Rebel Organizations 1990 – 2012 Mike Marshall, no affiliation provided |
| States Make Youth: Youth Identity, Violence and the State in Kenya and Tanzania Jonathan Luke Melchiorre, University of Toronto |
| II-M-5 Mobility and Authority in Africa Panel I: Settling Mobility, Moving Authority Chair: Jeffrey Fleisher, no affiliation provided |
| Authority and the East-Central African Caravan Trade: A Congolese Warlord and His Followers at the End of the Nineteenth Century David Gordon, Bowdoin College |
| Muslim Founders and Matrimonial Politics in West African Precolonial History – A Critical Reading Jan Jansen, Leiden University |
| Reconstituting an Empire: Royal Itinerancy and Political Hegemony in Early Solomonic Ethiopia Brian Clark, Rice University |
| The Mobility and Rootedness of Authority in Ancient South Central Africa |
| Kathryn de Luna, Georgetown University |
| Discussants: Jeffrey Fleisher, no affiliation provided |
| V-A-1 African Popular Music: Politics, Economy, IdentityChair: Asligul Berktay, Tulane University |
| Cultural Anxieties in Perspective: Congo Music and Kenyan Hip Hop RaShelle Peck, Ohio State University (OSU) |
| Musical Contortions and Commodity: Objectifying Woman’s Body, Exploiting Sexuality and Female Identity in Contemporary Nigerian Music Oty Agbajoh-Laoye, Monmouth University |
| Senegal’s Hip Hop Youth Says Y’ En a Marre and Asks for Social Change Asligul Berktay, Tulane University |
| Following the Money: Cultural Impacts of State Support for Creative Industries in Senegal and Burkina Faso Juan Carlos Melendez-Torres, University of Pennsylvania |
| Discussants: Ryan Skinner, Ohio State University (OSU)
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| VI-O-1 D.R. Congo: Focus on Kivu Chair: Aliko Songolo, University of Wisconsin – Madison |
| Kivu’s Armed Groups: By-Product of an Ill-Conceived and Misconducted Peace Process |
| Kris Berwouts, Independent |
| Peacebuilding in Africa’s Great Lakes Region: Christian Churches in the City of Goma Roger Alfani, University of Montreal |
| Power that ‘Jumps the Lake’: Prophets, Politicians and Political Legitimacy in South Kivu Nicole Neggers, University of Wisconsin – Madison |
| Solutions in the Kivus: The Long-Term Versus the Quick Fix Patience Kabamba, Marymount Manhattan College |
| VI-M-5 Many Africas: Images, Art, and Material Culture in the Museum – PART 2 Chair: Ana Lucia Araujo, Howard University |
| ‘Looking for the Congo in the Congo Style’: The 1897 Congo Pavilion and Art Nouveau Ruth Sacks, University of the Witwatersrand |
| African Girls’ Needlework Samplers from Christian Mission Schools in Sierra Leone Silke Strickrodt, Independent |
| Museographic Strategies of an African Art Court in the National Museums in Paris from 1895 to the Present Day Gaelle Beaujean-Baltzer, Musee du Quai Branly
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| VI-K-1 Particular Christianities: Improvisation and Meaning in African Localities Chair: Holger Hansen, University of Copenhagen – Centre of African Studies |
| Local Identities vs National and Global Policies: Pentecostalism in Northern Cameroon Tomas Sundnes Drønen, School of Mission and Theology |
| Nous Sommes Branches’ Fashion, Connectivity, and Muslimhood in Niger Adeline Masquelier, Tulane University |
| Pentecostal Developments in Rural Uganda Ben Jones, University of East Anglia (UEA) |
| The Making and Meaning of Pentecostal Congolese Refugee Churches in Uganda Karen Lauterbach, University of Copenhagen |
| VI-A-2 Insistent Fragments: ‘Amateur,’ ‘Vernacular,’ and other found photographsChair: Isabelle de Rezende, Central Washington University |
| Affective Archives, ‘Derives,’ and Family Photographs in Kinshasa Pedro Monaville, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor |
| From Legible Victims to Collective Photographic Autobiographies: Zanele Muholi’s Visual Activism Gabeba Baderoon, Pennsylvania State University |
| Re-Inserting into the Frame: The Photographic Practices and Archives of Immigrant Settler Communities in Colonial Mozambique Drew A. Thompson, University of Minnesota |
| VII-K-1 Pentecostal Responses to Urbanization in Africa Chair: Adedamola Osinulu, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor |
| Between River and Road: Circular Migrations and Reversible Conversions in Northern Mozambique Devaka Premawardhana, Harvard University |
| Cursing the Mobile Phone: Pentecostal Understandings of Urban Sociality, Sexuality and Social Media in Contemporary Kinshasa Katrien Pype, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
Lagos Redemption: Dread, Crowd, and Charisma Annalisa Butticci, Harvard University
| The Miraculous City: Pentecostal Appropriations of Lagos’s Urbanism Adedamola Osinulu, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor |
| Discussants: Ruth Marshall, no affiliation provided |
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| VII-M-1 Histories of Refugees and Forced Migration in Eastern Africa (1) Chair: Brett Shadle, no affiliation provided |
| Coping Strategies in Sudanese Refugee Women in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya Jessica Gladden, Grand Valley State University, Michigan State University |
| An Uncertain Order of Things: Governing Banyarwanda Mobility in Southwestern Uganda, 1945-1966 Ashley Rockenbach, no affiliation provided |
| Decolonization & European Refugees in Africa: The Mobilization of Kenya’s Settlers for ‘Operation Congo’ Brooks Marmon, American Council on Education |
| Creating the Camp: Ethiopian Refugees in Colonial Kenya Brett Shadle, no affiliation provided |
| VII-M-4 Investigating Foreign Aid in Early Independent Africa, ca. 1950-1980, Part I Chair: Jeremy Rich, Marywood University |
| A ‘Pathetic Contentment?’ Rhetoric and Realities of Development in Lesotho, 1966-70 John Aerni-Flessner, SUNY Cortland |
| Converting Dollars into Zaires: Struggles Over Leadership and Money in a US-Congolese Aid NGO, 1966-1972 Jeremy Rich, Marywood University |
| Denying New States to Communism: The United States and the Decolonization of Nigeria in the 1950s and 1960s Olakaunle Lawal, University of Ibadan |
| Transnational Boundaries: Humanitarian Aid, Development and Refugees in Ngara District, Tanzania, |
| 1959-1965 Jill Rosenthal, Emory University |
| VII-O-1 The Lord’s Resistance Army Conflict, Intervention and its Effects Chair: Kristof Titeca, University of Antwerp |
| Expectations of Peace: Documentation, Memorialization, and the Construction of the Archive in Northern Uganda Matthew R. Sebastian, DePaul University |
| The Bigger Picture: Gauging the Consequences of Military Intervention Against the Lord’s Resistance Army Mareike Schomerus, no affiliation provided |
| The Lord’s Resistance Army in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Diverging Interest and Actions Kristof Titeca, University of Antwerp |
| The Lord’s Resistance Army: An Architecture Ledio Cakaj, World Bank |
| VIII-M-5 Histories of Refugees and Forced Migration in Eastern Africa (2) Chair: Brett Shadle, no affiliation provided |
| The Paradox of National Identity and Independence: Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia Tekle Woldemikael, Chapman University |
| A View of Conflict and Displacement in Eastern Congo Through a Genealogy of Rape Galya Ruffer, Northwestern University |
| Caught between the Land and Sky: Citizenship for Nubian Kenyans Andrea Martrese Slater, African Studies |
| Ethiopian Refugees Along the Sudanese Border, 1935-41 Tsehai Berhane-Selassie, Independent |
| IX-P-4 Without or Despite the State Chair: Milli Lake, University of Washington |
| The Politics of Punishment: Building Rule of Law in the Shadow of the State in Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo Milli Lake, University of Washington |
| Business and State-Making in Somaliland’s Utility Sector Emma Lochery, University of Oxford |
| State-Like Rebels and Rebellious States: The RPF, and the FDLR, in the Great Lakes (In)Security Complex Will Jones, University of Oxford – Balliol College Patrjcya Stys, University of Oxford |
| A Different Kind of War Story?: Habitus Amidst Cyclical Violence in Eastern Congo Rachel Niehuus, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) |
| Discussants: Kate Meagher, London School of Economics |
| IX-F-1 Perspectives on Disability in Ghana and the Democratic Republic of Congo Chair: Jeff Grischow, Wilfrid Laurier University |
| Claiming the City: Mobility of People with a Disability in Kinshasa, D.R. Congo, and the Reterritorialization of City Space Jori De Coster, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Disability Politics and Community at the Accra Rehabilitation Centre Kathryn Geurtz, Hamline University |
| Education of Children with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities in Kinshasa, DRC: Raising Expectations Heather Aldersey, University of Kansas |
| Welfare and Disability in Late Colonial Ghana Jeff Grischow, Wilfrid Laurier University |
| X-N-1 ICT in Motion: Social Biographies of Information and Communications Technologies in Africa Chair: Richard Vokes, University of Adelaide |
| ‘To Repair or Not to Repair’: Unusable Communication Objects and the Experience of the ‘(Once) Modern’ Katrien Pype, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
| Intersecting Biographies: Houses, Persons and Phones in South-Western Uganda Richard Vokes, University of Adelaide |
| Mobile Remittances, Networks and Mutuality in East Africa Daivi Rodima-Taylor, Boston University |
| Radio, Mobile Phones, Elite Formation and Sociability: The Case of Uganda’s ‘Serial Callers’ Florence Brisset-Foucault, University of Cambridge |
| X-P-4 Group Dynamics in Democratic Election: Exploring Minorities, Bloc Voting and Coalitions in Africa Chair: Jennifer Brass, Indiana University Bloomington – School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) |
| A Place for the Muslim Minority of D.R. Congo in Democratic Elections? Ashley Leinweber, Missouri State University |
| Beyond Ethnic Politics: The Limits of Bloc-Voting in Kenya Jennifer N. Brass, Indiana University Bloomington – School of Public & Environmental Affairs (SPEA) |
| Can Clientelism Yield Accountability? Bloc Voting and Public Goods Provision in Senegal Jessica Gottlieb, Stanford University – Department of Political Science |
| Vote-Mobilizing Potential, Opposition Party Strategies, and Coalition-Building in Senegal Catherine Kelly, Harvard University |
| X-P-5 Extraction on the Margins: The Dynamics of Artisanal Mining in Fragile States Chair: Laura Seay, Morehouse College |
| A Farmer’s Best Friend? Diamond Mining in Rural Liberia and the Challenges of Regulating the Artisanal Exploitation and Trade in High-Value Natural Resources Steven Van Bockstael, Ghent University |
| Diamonds and Decline: Post-Boom Extraction in Mbujimayi, Democratic Republic of Congo |
| Joshua D. Walker, University of Chicago |
| Good Intentions, Harmful Results: Advocacy, Minerals, and the Congo Crisis Laura Seay, Morehouse College |
| The Ethics of Excess: Consumption, Destruction, and Their Limits in Artisanal Mines in Katanga Province, Democratic Republic of Congo Timothy Makori, University of Toronto |
| XI-M-4 The Church and Social Life in Angola before 1900 Chair: Jelmer Vos, Old Dominion University |
| Beyond the Donas: Recovering the Role of Farmers, Petty Traders, and Enslaved Women in Benguela in the 19th Century Mariana Candido, Princeton University |
| Catholic Revival in Mbanza Kongo, 1876-1909 Jelmer Vos, Old Dominion University |
| No Church in the Wild: Political Resistance, Ideology, and Local Anthropologies of Religion in Kisama, Angola Jessica Krug, George Washington University |
| The Nossa Senhora Da Nazare Parish Death Certificates: New Light on the Social and Religious Landscapes of a Slave Port City (Luanda, Angola) Roquinaldo A Ferreira, University of Virginia (UVA) |
| XII-G-1 International Justice Systems: Impacts and Standards Chair: Nnabuike Malu, University of New England (Australia) |
| Deterrent or Instigator? The International Criminal Court and Conflict in the Kivus, Democratic Republic of Congo Michael Broache, Columbia University Dept. of Political Science |
| The International Criminal Court in West Africa: Issues and Implications for Conflict Transformation in Mali and Cote D’Ivoire Nnabuike Malu, University of New England (Australia) |
| The ICC and Amnesty in Uganda Scott Ross, Yale University |
| Re-Appropriation of Transitional Justice or a Developing Parallelism in Africa? Ismael Muvingi, University of Winnipeg |
| XII-L-1 Roundtable: The New Generation of the Congo: Migration, Social Change, and Innovation Chair: Muadi Mukenge, Global Fund for Women |
| The New Generation of the Congo: Migration, Social Change, and Innovation Muadi Mukenge, Global Fund for Women Aliko Songolo, University of Wisconsin – Madison Ngwarsungu Chiwengo, Creighton University Kasongo Kapenga, University of Richmond |
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