The Center for African Studies invites UF faculty, students, alumni, and friends to join us at Duke’s Counter (3000 Connecticut Ave NW) on Friday December 2nd from 9pm – midnight. We will have some tables reserved but still plan on taking over the place Gator style!See you there!
Thurs. Dec. 1:
Session I- 8:30-10:15am
Session II- 10:30-12:15pm
Session III- 2:00-3:45pm
Session IV- 4:00-5:45pmFri. Dec 2:
Session V- 8:30-10:15am
Session VI- 10:30am-12:15pm
Session VII- 2:00-3:45pm
Session VIII- 4:00-5:45pm
Sat. Dec 3:
Session IX- 8:30-10:15am
Session X- 10:30-12:15pm
Session XI- 2:00-3:45pm
Session XII- 4:00-5:45pm
Current students & faculty
Ba, Oumar VI-N-1. Kenya and the ICC: The Limits of State Compliance
Burgen, Benjamin I-Q-1. Concrete Commitments: The Migrant-Funded Housing Boom in the Rural Senegal River Valley
Bwenge, Charles VI-Q-1. Roundtable: African Languages & African Studies Programs in the US: the making of the 21st century Africanists
Carey, Netty II-H-4. Land Reform in Ghana: Discursive Formations and Their Gendered Consequences
Edgell, Amanda I-H-2. Super-Districts, Constituency Magnitude, and Women’s Electoral Performance – the Case of Uganda
Eizenga, Dan XII-H-2. Surviving Democratization: Dominant Party Strategies in the Multi-Party Systems of Burkina Faso and Chad
Elischer, Sebastian XI-H-2. Informal Institutions and Religious Steering in Francophone and Anglophone Africa
Good, Ryan III-L-3. Landscapes of Violence in the Virtual Diasporas of Africa-Set Video Games
Hames, John I-H-5. Language Activism’s ‘Profit of Distinction’: Pulaar Militancy as a Path to Prestige and the Means of Survival
Hunt, Nancy V-F-1, X-G-6. Roundtables
Kane, Abdoulaye X-B-1. Adapting to Uncertainty in the Sahel: The Role of Migrants and Remittances
Lake, Eric IV-N-4. Peacekeepers as Agents of Stability and Instability: The Role of Peacekeeping on Coups and Competitive Elections
Leedy, Todd XI-G-5, XII-Q-1. Racing for Gold: Bicycles and the Mining Industry in South Africa, 1930-60
McKune, Sarah X-B-1. Food Security and Nutrition Among Livestock Holders
McOmber, Chesney I-I-1. The Gendered Politics of Demographic Change: Exploring Male Absence and Political Engagement in Morocco and Kenya
Ostebo, Marit IV-E-2. Scrutinizing Development Models in Ethiopia
Ostebo, Terje IX-J-1. Panel chair
Pukuma, Emily VII-H-1. Democratic Breakdown and Survival: A Tale of Two Transitions in Ghana
Ravary, Riley II-C-1, VII-C-1. Community-Based Conservation in Colonial Kenya: Implications of the Galana Game Management Scheme
Seago, Jessie-Leigh IV-I-2. Constituting Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Serra, Renata X-B-1. Panel chair
Soares, Benjamin XII-G-5. Roundtable
Sow, Alioune III-K-1. The Hero in Massa Makan Diabaté’s Plays
Yahya Ibrahim, Ibrahim V-G-4, VII-H-3. Jihadism in the North, Islamism in the South: The New Dynamics of Islam and Politics in Mali
Alumni
Adeeko, Adeleke V-K-1. Conviviality and Loss in Contemporary Fiction of African Immigration
Fridy, Kevin II-H-4, X-H-4. Personality and Political Participation in Ghana
Gennaro, Michael XI-G-5. “The Father of Boxing”: Douglas J. Collister, the United Africa Company, and Boxing in Colonial Nigeria
Hanson, Holly IX-G-1. Discussant
Hoon, Parakh VI-E-3. Roundtable
Kirkwood, Meghan II-A-3. Landscape in Mining Images: An Examination of Works by Ilan Godfrey, Thabiso Sekgala, and Jerry Obakeng Gaegane
LeBas, Adrienne IV-E-1, VIII-H-1. Why Persistent Violence? Elite Strategy and the Organizational Roots of Electoral Violence in Africa
Leinweber, Ashley IX-H-1. Maniema’s Muslim Borderland: Interaction and Isolation within and Beyond Eastern Congo
M’Cormack-Hale, Fredline II-E-2. Ebola Interventions: Repeating the Mistakes of the Past in Sierra Leone
Marcus, Richard IV-N-4, XII-N-1. Ungoverned Microspaces and the Art of Violence
Marr, Stephen VIII-M-1. Urban Space and Climate Citizenship in Lagos and Kinshasa: Sustainability, Inequality and the New Contours of Exclusion in Urban Africa
Meier, Prita III-O-2. Panel chair
Moyd, Michelle III-Q-2, VI-H-1. Roundtables
Odera, Levy I-E-2. Social Innovation in Kenya: An Examination of Policy Environments and Incentive Structures that Support the Social Innovation Space
Schwartzott, Amy IV-A-1. Estamos Juntos: Associação Núcleo De Arte/We are Together: Association of the Center of Art
Stewart, Kearsley VIII-F-1. Towards an Ethics of the Global Health Image: Images of Hiv/Aids in Africa
Von Doepp, Peter V-H-2, VIII-L-1. Media Collective Action and the Protection of Media Freedoms in Africa