PROGRAM
FRIDAY 1 MAY
8:30-9:00 REGISTRATION & CONTINENTAL BREAKFAST
9:00-9:15 Welcome
Associate Dean Susan M. Zaeske
College of Letters & Science
9:15-9:30 Introduction
Aliko Songolo, Chair
Department of African Languages & Literature
9:30-11:00 Session 1. Cultural Studies: Localities and Commodities
Matthew H. Brown, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Seeing the Field for the Particles: On the Relations between Producers, Texts, and Audiences in Nollywood.”
Subha Xavier, Emory University. “Migrant Modes: Mobility and the Market in Contemporary African Cultural Production”
Emily Callaci, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Dar After Dark: Dance, Desire and Conspicuous Consumption in Dar es Salaam’s Nightlife.”
Moderator: Jo Ellen Fair, University of Wisconsin-Madison
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15-12:45 Session 2. The Languages of Cultural Studies
Katrina Daly Thompson, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Contextualizing Popobawa: Multivocality and the Shifting Meanings of a Swahili Text.”
Shani Omari, University of Dar es Salaam. “Revive the Past, Live the Present: The Case of (Self)Praise Lyrics in Hip Hop and Bongo Fleva Music in Tanzania.”
Sinfree Bullock Makoni, Pennsylvania State University. “Ageing in Africa as a Prism to African Cultural Studies.”
Moderator: Dustin Cowell, University of Wisconsin-Madison
12:45-2:00 Lunch Break
2:00-2:45 Jazz Mama. Film by Petna Ndaliko Katondolo
Introduction by Chérie Rivers Ndaliko
2:50-4:20 Session 3. Sights and Sounds of Cultural Studies
Chérie Rivers Ndaliko, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. “Jazz Mama: Re-framing Congolese Women through Film and Song.”
John Nimis, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Reading Across Media: ‘Musical Readings’ in Congolese Literature and Cinema”
Ziad Bentahar, Towson University. “Africaphilia or Arabophobia? When Moroccan youth sang ‘Africa!’”
Moderator: Michael Schatzberg, University of Wisconsin-Madison
4:20-4:35 Coffee Break
4:35-4:45 Introduction of Karin Barber: Tejumola Olaniyan
4:45-6:00 Keynote Presentation
Karin Barber, University of Birmingham, UK. “Language, Text and Popular Culture in African Studies.”
Saturday 2 May
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Session 4. Cultural Studies and Politics
Luís Madureira, University of Wisconsin-Madison. “Adrift Between Neoliberalism and the Revolution: Cape Verde and the South Atlantic in Germano Almeida’s Eva”
Damon Sajnani, Northwestern University & Harvard University. “The Meaning of African Diaspora: Foregrounding the Political”
Nirvana Tanoukhi, University of Wisconsin-Madison.“Writing With(out) a Purpose: Two Manuals for Students of Writing from Southern Africa (1979, 1981)”
Moderator: Ellen Sapega, University of Wisconsin-Madison
10:30-10:45 Coffee Break
10:45-10:55 Introduction of Manthia Diawara: Ronald Radano
10:55-12:10 Keynote Presentation.
Manthia Diawara, New York University. “Présence Africaine and the Origins of African Cultural Studies.”
12:10-1:30 Lunch Break
1:30-3:00 Concluding Roundtable. The Significance of Cultural Studies
Samuel England, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Chérie Rivers Ndaliko, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John Nimis, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ronald Radano, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Subha Xavier, Emory University
Chair: Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
7:00-9:00 An Evening with Djo Tunda wa Munga, Film Director
(preceded by the projection of Viva Riva!)
Moderator: Matthew Brown