Workshop on ‘The Cultural Politics of Dirt in Africa’

Thursday, November 3, 2016 - 12:00am to Friday, November 4, 2016 - 12:00am
Luce Hall (LUCE) See map
34 Hillhouse Ave.
New Haven, CT 06511
(Location is wheelchair accessible)
Event description: 

08:30-09:15 – Registration, Luce Hall Common Room (2nd floor)

Presentations, Luce Hall, Room 203:

09:15-09:30 – Welcome and Introductory Remarks –

Steph Newell

09:30-11:00 – Panel I: Surplus/Disposable People and Spaces. Chair/discussant: Steph Newell

i. Rosemary Jolly, The Pennsylvania State University, ‘Communities of Effluence: Arguing against the Terminology of African Humanism’

ii. Jennifer Wenzel, Columbia University, ‘“We Have Been Thrown Away”: Surplus People Projects in South Africa’

iii. Discussion of papers

11:30-13:00 – Panel II: Histories of Race.

Chair/discussant: Rosemary Jolly

iv. Gabeba Baderoon, The Pennsylvania State University, ‘Surplus, Plural, Lack - Slavery, Prison and Escape in South Africa’

v. Véronique Bragard, Université de Louvain, ‘Dirt and Colonial Boundaries in Sammi Baloji’s Photomontages’

vi. Discussion of papers

14:00-15:30 – Panel III: Economies of Waste and Excess.

Chair/discussant: Gabeba Baderoon

vii. Patrick Oloko, University of Lagos, ‘Human Wastes or Wasting Humans? Garbage and its Other in Print Media Reports and Poetry’

viii. Moulay Driss El Maarouf, University of Bayreuth & Mohammed V University, ‘Joutia in Morocco: Between Trash and Treasure’

ix. Discussion of papers

16:00-17:30 – Panel IV: Urban Spaces of Waste.

Chair/discussant: Patrick Oloko

x. Connie Smith, University College London, ‘Dirty Matters: Mud, Remains and Decay in Nairobi, Kenya’

xi. John Uwa, University of Lagos, ‘Transcultural Tensions and Politics of Sewage Management in (Post)Colonial Lagos (Nigeria)’

xii. Discussion of papers

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