67th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association
Global Africa
Chicago, IL December 12-14, 2024
There is a special session for Congo Research Network scheduled for Thursday, December 12, 6:00-7:00 pm in Iowa (6th floor).
Below are the panels/sessions/individual presentations in relation to research on Congo:
Thursday 12 December, 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM ((UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Fight of the Century: The Rumble in the Jungle 50 Years On [Pre-Constituted Panel]
Session Co-Chair: Ruth Sacks, University of Johannesburg
The “Rumble in the Jungle” in 21st century Congolese painting
Elaine Sullivan, University of Johannesburg
Pan-African Festivals, Experimental Theater, and the Creation of an “Authentic” National Ballet of Zaire, 1972-1975
Emily Hardick, Ohio State University
“Zaire’s 1974: Authenticité, Political Culture, and the Limits of Authoritarian Legitimacy”
Joshua Castillo, Boston University
(Mis)remembering Mobutu: Contemporary Paintings from We Are Congo
Kristen Laciste, State University of New York
Discussant:
Yasmina Martin, Yale University
Thursday 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ((UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Conservation Partnerships and Tourism in Africa [Individual Paper, Created Panel]
Eco-opportunism and the Digital Anthropocene: Eco-Saviorism in DR Congo
Katrien Pype, KU Leuven University
Thursday 12 December, 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ((UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Political and Military Histories of Racism and Ethnicity [Individual Paper, Created Panel]
Race, Sovereignty, and Scandal in the Congo Crises: The 1962 Murder of Hulen Stogner
Jeremy Rich, Marywood Universiy
Thursday 12 December, 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM ((UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Conflict in the Great Lakes. Problems, Perspectives, New Research [Pre-Constituted Panel]
Rwandan involvement in perpetuating the conflict in the DRC
Brian Endless, Loyola University Chicago
Decolonial letters, Part II [Pre-Constituted Panel]
The letter “C” or the letter “K”?: Reading Tchicaya U Tam’si’s poetry & Kolinga’s Kongo Through Sony Labou Tansi’s Postcolonial Thought
Alexis Finet, Vanderbilt University
Friday 13 December, 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM ((UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Decolonization and Development in African History [Pre-Constituted Panel]
Congolese Copper Smelters in the Postcolonial State
Peter Vale, Pitzer College
Friday 13 December, 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ((UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Artisanal Mineral Extraction and World-(re)making on African Frontiers: Knowledge, Labor, Subjectivities, and Agency under (and against) Capitalism [Pre-Constituted Panel]
Anti-capitalist “Direct Action” from a Hole: Theorizing Work, “Conflict Minerals” Regulation, and the Insurgent Transformation of Capitalism from the Bottom of a Mineral Supply Chain in DR Congo
James Smith, University of California, Davis
Security Activities of Foreign Powers in Africa [Individual Paper, Created Panel]
Transnational urban warscapes: Migration, violent conflict and the urban space across Eastern DRC and Belgium
Karen Buscher, Ghent University
African Histories of the Holocaust: Part 1, Movements and Relocations [Pre-Constituted Panel]
Jewish Populations in the Congo and Dichotomies of Perception
Catherine Porter, Hampton University
New Directions in Africa-China Studies, Part IV: From Intimate Partners to Digital Engagements, Development Collaborators, and Party-to-Party Ties [Pre-Constituted Panel]
Boundary Dissolution? The (Un)Making of Individual Boundaries within Sino-Congolese Couples Residing in Congo (DRC)
Cai Chen, Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Friday 13 December, 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ((UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Beyond Profit: Extracting and Assessing the Scope of Violence in West Africa’s Mining Industry Part II: Gender, Sustainability, and Environmental Factors in West African Mines [Pre-Constituted Panel]
Beyond the Battery: Informing of the Unethical Labor Surrounding, the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Cobalt Mines
Magaret, Asho, Indiana University, Bloomington
Saturday 14 December, 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ((UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Seeing Violence, History, and Resilience in Congo [Roundtable]
Sponsored by: Congo Research Network
Christopher Davey, Binghamton University
Presenters:
Nicole Eggers, University of Tennessee-Knoxville
Gillian Mathys, Ghent University
Rachel Marie Niehuus, Emory University
Saturday 14 December, 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM ((UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Navigating Africa’s Development Landscape: Challenges, Strategies, and Pathways to Human Security [Pre-Constituted Panel]
Wealth and Human Insecurity in the Democratic Republic of Congo
John Akoeda, Gladys W. and David H. Patton College of Education, Ohio University
The Political Economy of Development Trajectories [Individual Paper, Created Panel]
How ‘Just’ are Critical Mineral Supply Chains in the Just Energy Transition? Insights from the Democratic Republic of Congo
J. Andrew Grant, Queen’s University
Saturday 14 December, 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM ((UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Neoliberalism and Economic History across Twentieth-century Africa [Individual Paper, Created Panel]
Intellectual and Industrial Properties in Colonial History: The cases of Congo, Burundi, and Rwanda under the Belgian rule (1885-1960s)
Veronique Pouillard, University of Oslo
Saturday 14 December, 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM ((UTC-05:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
The Perennial Fulani Complexities in Contemporary Africa: Which Way Forward? [Pre-Constituted Panel]
The Impossibility of Cohabitation? Congolese Refusals amid Mbororo-Fulani Settlement
Professor Scott Ross, Washington University in St. Louis
Congo Global Perspectives: Establishing Truth and Agendas from the Eye of the Beholder [Pre-Constituted Panel]
Sponsored by: Congolese Studies Association
Congo Foreign Policies, Leadership, and Global Impacts: The Case of Patrice Lumumba
Roger Alfani, Seton Hall University
When the Global is Antithetic to the Local: Congolese Literary Texts of the 21st-Century
Kasongo Kapanga, University of Richmond
Beyond Competing Narratives: Imagining Peace and Justice in the DR Congo’s Protracted Conflict
Aime Cesaire Atchom, National Center for State Courts
Strengthening Youth Movements to Mitigate Climate Change: A Congolese Perspective in Global Context (Presented In French)
Alain Edinkom, University of Kinshasa
Discussant:
Muadi Mukenge, Congolese Studies Association
Saturday 14 December, 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM ((UTC-06:00) Central Time (US & Canada))
Dynamics of Migration and Urbanization in Policy and Practice [Individual Paper, Created Panel]
Contested identities and local governance in border-boomtown urbanisation in Kasumbalesa, DR Congo
koba Fazili Christian, Gent University
Examining Social and Political Determinants of Disease [Individual Paper, Created Panel]
Insectologies: Tracing Vectors of Infection and Inequality in the Congo River Basin
Stephanie Rupp, City University of New York, Lehman College
For more information on this conference: https://africanstudies.org/annual-meetings/
congo research network 
I would like to participate please
Posted by Mwesigwa Nuha Akiiki | August 14, 2024, 11:38 am