09:00 - 11:00
Start Registration
REG:
Great Hall, Aston Webb Building
11:00 - 11:30
Coffee break
11:30 - 13:00
Representations and Silence: Violence in Nigeria
Room: Poynting – Lecture Theatre S02
Stream: Open Stream
11:30 - 13:00
The Timbuktu Chronicle Tradition
Oral session
Room: Arts - Lecture Room 1
Stream: Muslim Written Intellectual Tradition in Africa
Chair/s:
Bruce Hall
11:30 - 13:00
Making Sense of ‘Crisis’ in South Sudan
Oral session
Room: Aston Webb Theatre – G33
Stream: Open Stream
11:30 - 13:00
Roundtable on George Ogola's Monograph: Popular Media in Kenyan History
Oral session
Room: Arts – Main Lecture Theatre
Stream: Africa Reads
Chair/s:
Carli Coetzee
11:30 - 13:00
Gender inequality, Sustainable Development and the African Reality
Oral session
Room: Aston Webb – WG12
Stream: Gender and Sustainable Development in Africa
Chair/s:
Ezinwanyi Adam
11:30 - 13:00
State Capacity and the Political Economy of development in Africa: ‘Pockets of Effectiveness’ as Windows onto the Politics of Survival and State-Building
Oral session
Room: Aston Webb – C-Block Lecture Theatre
Stream: The Political Economy of Development in Africa: The Politics of Economic and Social Transformation
Chair/s:
Sam Hickey
11:30 - 13:00
Legal Bureaucracies: States, Citizens, and Publics
Oral session
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 8
Stream: Legal Bureaucracies
Chair/s:
George Karekwaivanane
11:30 - 13:00
Auto-Biographies, Self-Representation and Testimonies of War and Oppression
Oral session
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 5
Stream: Text, Paratext and Context in African Autobiographical Narratives
Chair/s:
Godwin Siundu
11:30 - 13:00
When Marriage is Slavery: The Marriage-Slavery Nexus and its Political Consequences in Uganda
Oral session
Room: Muirhead – Room 121
Stream: Slavery and Marriage in African Societies
Chair/s:
Boniface Ojok
11:30 - 13:00
Entrepreneurship and Education
Oral session
Room: Muirhead - Room 122
Stream: Open Stream
11:30 - 13:00
Rethinking Violence: Discourse, Representations, and Meanings
Oral session
Room: Muirhead Room 109
Stream: Open Stream
11:30 - 13:00
New Perspectives on African Regions and Regionalisms
Oral session
Room: Muirhead - Room 113
Stream: New Perspectives on African Regions and Regionalisms
Chair/s:
Oluwabamidele Kogbe
11:30 - 13:00
Print Cultures in West Africa: Publics, Authority, Praise, and Concealment
Oral session
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 6
Stream: Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber
Chair/s:
Moses Ochonu
11:30 - 13:00
Contemporary and Historical Studies of Law in Ghana
Oral session
Room: Poynting – Lecture Theatre S06
Stream: African Law in Historical, Comparative and International Perspective
11:30 - 13:00
Agrarian Transformations and Rural Politics
Oral session
Room: Aston Webb – Senate Chamber
Stream: Honouring Abdul Raufu Mustapha
Chair/s:
Lindsay Whitfield
11:30 - 13:00
Panel 1
Oral session
Room: Muirhead – Room 118
Stream: The Social Fabric of Whites in Southern Africa: A Historical Perspective of White Society
Chair/s:
Abraham Mlombo
11:30 - 13:00
External Interventions and their impact
Oral session
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 4
Stream: International Security in Africa in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Chair/s:
Anna Konieczna
11:30 - 13:00
Comparative Perspectives on the Central African Copperbelt
Oral session
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 3
Stream: Unearthing New Scholarship on the Central African Copperbelt
Chair/s:
Miles Larmer
11:30 - 13:00
Panel 1
Oral session
Room: Muirhead – Room 112
Stream: Raising Children in Times of Hardship
Chair/s:
Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Claver Irakoze
11:30 - 13:00
The Return of Authoritarian Developmentalists? Emerging Strategies, Ideologies and International Enablers II: Ideology and Political Ideas
Oral session
Room: Muirhead – Lecture Theatre – G15
Stream: The Politics of Development in Africa
Chair/s:
Barnaby Dye
Discussant/s:
Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
11:30 - 13:00
'Masculinities in Africa during War and its Wake'
Oral session
Room: Aston Webb – Lecture Theatre WG5
Stream: Gender and Sexuality
11:30 - 13:00
Rural Labour Systems: Workers, Markets and Mobilization from Colonial to Contemporary Times
Oral session
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 2
Stream: Concepts, Classes and Workers. Revisiting the Making of a Working Class, African Case Studies
Chair/s:
Stefano Bellucci
11:30 - 13:00
African Feminist Judgements 1
Oral session
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 7
Stream: African Feminist Judgements
13:00 - 14:00
Lunch
14:00 - 15:30
Rethinking the Postcolony: 25 Years After
Room: Poynting – Lecture Theatre S02
Stream: Africa 90 years on
Chair/s:
Wale Adebanwi
14:00 - 15:30
Written tracts of Three Luminaries of Spirituality and Politics from Sokoto, Timbuktu, and Itrarazah
Room: Arts - Lecture Room 1
Stream: Muslim Written Intellectual Tradition in Africa
Chair/s:
Charles Stewart
14:00 - 15:30
Worker and Community Welfare in the Copper Mines of Zambia and DR Congo
Room: Aston Webb Theatre – G33
Stream: Unearthing New Scholarship on the Central African Copperbelt
Chair/s:
Emma Lochery
14:00 - 15:30
Roundtable: Chick Lit: Reboot
Room: Arts – Main Lecture Theatre
Stream: Africa Reads
Chair/s:
Carli Coetzee
14:00 - 15:30
Women’s Health and Sustainable Development in Africa
Room: Aston Webb – WG12
Stream: Gender and Sustainable Development in Africa
14:00 - 15:30
The Politics of Housing in Africa 1: Housing and Precarity
Room: Aston Webb – C-Block Lecture Theatre
Stream: The Political Economy of Development in Africa: The Politics of Economic and Social Transformation
Chair/s:
Tom Goodfellow
14:00 - 15:30
Grievance, Violence and Power in Contemporary Zimbabwe
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 8
Stream: Open Stream
14:00 - 15:30
Family, The Household And The Self: Visuals, Ritual And Material Culture
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 5
Stream: Text, Paratext and Context in African Autobiographical Narratives
Chair/s:
Tom Odhiambo
14:00 - 15:30
Making Sense of ‘Crisis’ in South Sudan
Room: Muirhead – Room 121
Stream: Open Stream
14:00 - 15:30
Religion and Cross-Cultural Transformations in West- Africa, 16th-19th centuries
Room: Muirhead - Room 122
Stream: Open Stream
14:00 - 15:30
Doing Fieldwork from and about Africa: Bureaucratic and Ethical Challenges
Room: Muirhead Room 109
Stream: Doing Fieldwork in the Bureaucratic Academia
Chair/s:
Nic Cheeseman
14:00 - 15:30
Governance and Security in the Horn of Africa
Room: Muirhead - Room 113
Stream: Open Stream - II
14:00 - 15:30
African Feminist Judgements 2
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 6
Stream: African Feminist Judgements
14:00 - 15:30
Urban Scripts and Everyday Life in East Africa
Room: Poynting – Lecture Theatre S06
Stream: The Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies stream
14:00 - 15:30
Divergent Models of Political Legitimacy in the Longue Durée
Room: Aston Webb – Senate Chamber
Stream: Political Legitimacy and 'Customary' Rule in Local African Contexts
Chair/s:
Reuben Loffman
14:00 - 15:30
Panel 2
Room: Muirhead – Room 118
Stream: Raising Children in Times of Hardship
Chair/s:
Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Claver Irakoze
14:00 - 15:30
Post-colonial Security Arrangements
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 4
Stream: International Security in Africa in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Chair/s:
Anna Konieczna
14:00 - 15:30
Oil & Gas
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 3
Stream: Natural Resource Governance and Sustainable Human Development in Africa
Chair/s:
Adaeze Okoye
14:00 - 15:30
Beyond Cultural Spaces: Negotiating Livelihoods Across Boundaries
Room: Physics – Seminar Room
Stream: Space, Pace, Ace: Navigating Creative Rooms For Productivity in Africa
Chair/s:
Tom Penfold
14:00 - 15:30
The Role of the State, NGOs, International Institutions, and Global Players in New Forms of Welfare and Social Protection
Room: Muirhead – Room 112
Stream: Addressing Inequality: New Forms of Welfare, Social Protection and Citizenship in Africa
Chair/s:
Ruth Prince
14:00 - 15:30
Histories of Lagos II
Room: Physics – Lecture Theatre 117
Stream: Lagos Studies Association
Discussant/s:
Lise Rakner
14:00 - 15:30
Patronage, Politics and the Moral Economy of Electoral Politics
Room: Muirhead – Lecture Theatre – G15
Stream: The Politics of Development in Africa
Chair/s:
Rebecca Tapscott
Discussant/s:
Jonathan Fisher
14:00 - 15:30
Articulations of Generation, Gender and Sexuality 1
Room: Aston Webb – Lecture Theatre WG5
Stream: Gender and Sexuality
Chair/s:
Juliet Gilbert
14:00 - 15:30
Concepts, Classes and Workers: shaping the questions
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 2
Stream: Concepts, Classes and Workers. Revisiting the Making of a Working Class, African Case Studies
Chair/s:
Alice Bellagamba
14:00 - 15:30
Legal Pluralism and African Customary Law
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 7
Stream: African Law in Historical, Comparative and International Perspective
15:30 - 16:00
Coffee break
16:00 - 17:30
Book Launch: Quranic Schools in Northern Nigeria, Hannah Hoechner
Room: Poynting – Lecture Theatre S02
Stream: Africa 90 years on
16:00 - 17:30
Polemics, Rhetoric, and Power
Room: Arts - Lecture Room 1
Stream: Muslim Written Intellectual Tradition in Africa
Chair/s:
Mauro Nobili
16:00 - 17:30
The Regulation of Labour in the Copper Mines of Zambia and DR Congo
Room: Aston Webb Theatre – G33
Stream: Unearthing New Scholarship on the Central African Copperbelt
Chair/s:
Jennifer Chibamba Chansa
16:00 - 17:30
Roundtable: What Are The Challenges in Supporting and Mentoring Early Career Researchers in the Global South?
Room: Arts – Main Lecture Theatre
Stream: Africa Reads
Chair/s:
Carli Coetzee
16:00 - 17:30
Political Economy of Viewing Spaces, Exhibition Platforms, and Regulation
Room: Aston Webb – WG12
Stream: African Cinema Audiences
Chair/s:
Winston Mano
16:00 - 17:30
The Politics of Housing in Africa 2: Housing, Aspiration and Emulation
Room: Aston Webb – C-Block Lecture Theatre
Stream: The Political Economy of Development in Africa: The Politics of Economic and Social Transformation
Chair/s:
Tom Goodfellow
16:00 - 17:30
Legal Bureaucracies: Managing Materiality and Governing Space
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 8
Stream: Legal Bureaucracies
Chair/s:
Maxim Bolt
16:00 - 17:30
History, Power and Staging the Self
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 5
Stream: Text, Paratext and Context in African Autobiographical Narratives
Chair/s:
Louisa Uchum Egbunike
16:00 - 17:30
Intersecting Legal and Social Definitions of Slavery and Marriage in Africa
Room: Muirhead – Room 121
Stream: Slavery and Marriage in African Societies
Chair/s:
Marco Gardini
16:00 - 17:30
Crisis, State Power and Health in Post-Conflict Societies
Room: Muirhead - Room 122
Stream: Open Stream
16:00 - 17:30
Coping Strategies of Africa grassroots people: experiences from Sub-saharan Africa
Room: Muirhead Room 109
Stream: Challenges and Survival Strategies within the Neoliberal Context for a Civilized Africa
Chair/s:
Rasel Madaha
16:00 - 17:30
'Immoral' Women in Popular African Imaginaries 1
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 6
Stream: Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber
Chair/s:
Ceri Whatley
16:00 - 17:30
Youth, Identity and Language
Room: Poynting – Lecture Theatre S06
Stream: The Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies stream
16:00 - 17:30
Keynote
Room: Aston Webb – Senate Chamber
Stream: Political Legitimacy and 'Customary' Rule in Local African Contexts
16:00 - 17:30
Panel 3
Room: Muirhead – Room 118
Stream: Raising Children in Times of Hardship
Chair/s:
Caroline Williamson Sinalo, Claver Irakoze
16:00 - 17:30
Civil wars and their aftermath
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 4
Stream: International Security in Africa in the 20th and 21st Centuries
Chair/s:
Nathaniel Powell
16:00 - 17:30
Mining
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 3
Stream: Natural Resource Governance and Sustainable Human Development in Africa
Chair/s:
Emmanuel Osuteye
16:00 - 17:30
Along Geographic Lines: Parsing Regional City Spaces in Africa
Room: Physics – Seminar Room
Stream: Space, Pace, Ace: Navigating Creative Rooms For Productivity in Africa
Chair/s:
Florian Carl
16:00 - 17:30
Affect, Emotion and the Political Imagination: Emergent Approaches to Studying the African State
Room: Muirhead – Room 112
Stream: Open Stream
16:00 - 17:30
Contemporary Lagos - Politcs II
Room: Physics – Lecture Theatre 117
Stream: Lagos Studies Association
16:00 - 17:30
Donors, Aid and the International Politics of Development
Room: Muirhead – Lecture Theatre – G15
Stream: The Politics of Development in Africa
16:00 - 17:30
Articulations of Generation, Gender and Sexuality 2
Room: Aston Webb – Lecture Theatre WG5
Stream: Gender and Sexuality
Chair/s:
Juliet Gilbert
16:00 - 17:30
African Anti-Colonial Writing: the literary and the political
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 2
Stream: Open Stream
16:00 - 17:30
Panel 1
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 7
Stream: African Historiography, Vernacular Epistemology, and the Invention of An Archive in Toyin Falola’s Scholarship
Chair/s:
Abikal Borah
17:30 - 18:00
Coffee break
18:00 - 18:30
Address by the Vice-Chancellor, Professor Sir David Eastwood
VC:
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building
18:30 - 19:30
Keynote by Professor Grace Musila: Makhumalo's Spaza Shop || Lena Moi's Dance
KEY:
Elgar Concert Hall, Bramall Music Building
20:00 - 22:00
BBQ at the Duck and Scholar
BBQ:
Duck and Scholar, The Vale