13:30 - 15:00
Public Writing, Print Cultures, Mobility and Empowerment in West Africa
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 6
Stream: Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber
Chair/s:
Alessandro Jedlowski
13:30 - 13:45
Th-A09 Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber 1-P-001
Pilgrimage in Nigeria during the Oil Boom: Petrocapital, Spiritual Insecurity, and the Figure of the “Corrupt Pilgrim.”
Sara Katz
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States
13:45 - 14:00
Th-A09 Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber 1-P-002
Importing Fleet Street? Editorship, journalistic practice, and a West African ‘pressman’
Leslie James
Queen Mary University of London, London, United Kingdom
14:00 - 14:15
Th-A09 Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber 1-P-003
Metropolitan Travel, Literacy, and Modernity in Colonial Northern Nigeria
Moses Ochonu
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, United States
14:15 - 14:30
Th-A09 Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber 1-P-004
’As the Natives of this Country Always Do’: Flogging, Mobility, and a Diasporic Public Sphere in Northern Nigeria, 1912-1933
Steven Pierce
University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom