Programme de la 4e Conférence Internationale de l'Institut de Dakar/The Dakar Institute 4th International Conference Program
“Bridging the Gap: Black Studies Across Social, Geographical, Epistemic, and Linguistic Lines”
“Combler le Gap: Les Black Studies sous l’angle social, géographique, épistémologique et linguistique”
6-7 juillet 2018/July 6-7, 2018
Dakar, Sénégal
Centre de Recherche Ouest Africain (CROA)/West African Research Center (WARC)
Rue E x Léon Gontran Damas, Dakar, Sénégal
PARTENAIRES/PARTNERS
Université Cheikh Anta Diop
Centre de Recherche Ouest Africain
Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work, University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica
FRIDAY, JULY 6th
8:30-8:50 | Opening Ceremony
Ousmane Sene
Directeur, The West African Research Center
Ibra Sene
President, The Dakar Institute of African Studies
Organizing Committee
Cheikh Thiam, The Ohio State University/The Dakar Institute of African Studies
Moji Anderson, University of the West Indies
Amadou Ba, Université Cheikh Anta Diop
Saliou Dione, Université Cheikh Anta Diop
Ibrahima Niang, Université Cheikh Anta Diop
8:50-10:20 | Panel 1: New Perspectives on Negritude
Chair: Ibra Sene, The College of Wooster/The Dakar Institute of African Studies, isene@thedakarinstitute.com
Time for a Philology of World Literature- Negrismo, Harlem Renaissance and Négritude(s) revisited
Lucia Weiß, Freie Universität Berlin, luciaweiss@posteo.de
Is Negritude Dead? Reflections on Black Panther and Maryse Condé
Jonathon Repinecz, George Mason University, jrepinec@gmu.edu
Negritude is not Dead! For an Africentered Renaissance of Senghor’s Philosophy Cheikh Thiam, The Ohio State University/ The Dakar Institute of African Studies, cthiam@thedakarinstitute.com
10:20-10:30 | Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 | Panel 2: Blurring Borders: Academia, Academic Discourse, and Knowledge Production in Black Studies
Chair: Oumar Sarr, Pace University/The Dakar Institute of African Studies, osarr@thedakarinstitute.com
The Role of the Diaspora in the Revitalization of Senegalese Higher Education
Ibra Sene, The College of Wooster/The Dakar Institute of African Studies, isene@thedakarinstitute.com
The Géwël Tradition Project- A Dialogue Between Two Ways of Knowing At the Intersection of the Academy and an African Community
Robert Bellinger, Suffolk University, rbellinger@suffolk.edu
The Ontological Status of Blackhood as a Socio-philosophical Category in Contemporary Academic Discourse
Malesela John Lamola, University of Fort Hare, jlamola@mweb.co.za
12:00-12:10| Coffee Break
12:10-13:40 | Panel 3: Decolonial Epistemologies and Black Presence in a Pluriversal World
Chair: Saliou Dione, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, salioudione@hotmail.com
Engaging Non-Europhone Intellectuals in African Studies- The Case of Ajami Scholars
Fallou Ngom, Boston University, fngom@bu.edu
Entre Europe, Afrique et Amérique - des saviors connectés. Construction et circulation des savoirs biomédicaux sous la colonisation (Sénégal, 1870-1945)
Mor Ndao, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, morndao@gmail.com
The ethical Imperative to Rethink the Problem of Representation of Epistemologies in Universities
Mogobe B. Ramose, University of South Africa, tanella@mweb.co.za
13:40-15:00 | Lunch Break
15:00-17:00 | Panel 4: Coloniality, Post-coloniality, and Decolonial Imperatives
Chair: Cheikh Thiam, The Ohio State University/The Dakar Institute of African Studies, cthiam@thedakarinstitute.com
A Postcolonial ‘Tale of Two Cities’- Urban Politics and Literature in Algiers and Dakar
Imane Terhmina, Yale University, imane.terhmina@yale.edu
Construct Translation, Humanomics and Livelihood Options in Colonial Lagos
Tunde Decker, Osun State University, tundedecker@gmail.com
De-colonizing ‘Mariage Mixte’
Luz Colpa, Columbia University, tinic1108@aol.com
Teaching Black Studies outside of the Classroom- Exploring Walter Rodney’s Pedagogic Approach to Popularizing Black Studies in Jamaica Fifty years ago
Michael Barnett, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus, michael.barnett@uwimona.edu.jm
17:00-18:30 | Panel 5: Django Praxis: Black Students' Resistance, Reclamation, and Revelations at a Midwest Jesuit Institution
Chair: Kyra Shahid, Xavier University, shahidk@xavier.edu
Eseoghene Obrimah
Adrian T. Parker Jr.
Taylor Zachary
Diamond S. Brown
SATURDAY, JULY 7th
8:30-10:30 | Panel 6: Black Studies, Blackness, and the Question of “Race” in Africa
Chair: Jemima Pierre, University of California Los Angeles, pierrej@ucla.edu
Becoming Diasporically African: Capoeira and Racial Self-Making in West Africa
Celina de Sá, Dartmouth College, celina.a.de.sa.gr@dartmouth.edu
Between Black and White Africa: Mapping a New Nation in South Sudan
Zachary Mondesire, University of California Los Angeles, zcpmondesire@ucla.edu
The African Origines of Racial Capitalism
Peter James Hudson, University of California Los Angeles, pjhudson@ucla.edu
Colonialism’s Returns: On Racial Capitalism and Resource Extraction in Ghana
Jemima Pierre, University of California Los Angeles, pierrej@ucla.edu
10:30-10:40 | Coffee Break
10:40-12:40 | Panel 7: Teaching and Reconnecting Africa to its Diaspora…
Africa and its Diaspora: Being, Be-Coming and Be-Longing
Saliou Dione, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, salioudione@hotmail.com
Remixing Black Studies, Engaging Narratives of the New Global African Diaspora
Emilie N. Diouf, Brandeis University, diouf@brandeis.edu
Towards a Periodization of Pan-Africanism
Bamba Ndiaye, University of Louisville, cheikh.ndiaye@louisville.edu
Migration and the Black Diaspora
Maik Nwosu, University of Denver, Colorado, maik.nwosu@du.edu
12:40-13:40 | Lunch Break
13:40-15:40 | Panel 8: Language, Literature, and Resistance in Africa and its Diasporas
Chair: Barrel Gueye, Université Cheikh Anta Diop/The Dakar Institute of African Studies, bgueye@thedakarinstitute.com
The Crisis of Language- CEDDO and the Politics of Orthography in Post-Independence Senegal
Anish Gawande, Columbia University, anish.gawande@columbia.edu
Africanism, Oral, and Aural Aesthetics in Toni Morrison and Ralph Ellison’s narratives.
Ousseynou Sy, CESAG, ousseynousy2002@yahoo.fr
Connections in Color- Aminata Sow Fall the blended resistance
Korka Sall, University of Massachusetts Amherst, ksall@english.umass.edu
Sublime Blackness: Africa and Narratives of Liberation in Rider Haggard and W.E.B. Du Bois
S. N. Nyeck, University of Amsterdam, sngonye1@g.ucla.edu
15:40-17:40 | Panel 9: Africa, the African Diaspora, and their Glocal Connections
Chair: Mamadou Moustapha Ly, University of Denver, mamadou.ly@du.edu
Testing the Efficacy of Ali Al'amin Mazrui's Complete Humanity Gender Theory through a Qualitative Analysis of the Ongoing Quest for Gender Mainstreaming in Senegalese Politics
Anta Sane, Independent Scholar, antasane@yahoo.com
Recalibrating Criminology- A Critical Engagement with Western Corporate Offenses in Nigeria
Ifeanyi Ezeonu, Brock University, iezeonu@brocku.ca
Les études africaines dans les universités chinoises et la question raciale : Comment dépasser les clichés et stéréotypes sur les noirs
Ibrahima Niang, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, xalilniang@gmail.com
Framing Black Studies in the African World: The Field, Praxis, and the Future
Jemadari Kamara, University of Massachusetts Boston, adjarra@yahoo.com
17:40-18:50 | Special Session and Performance
A Reading of Antigone in Creole by Félix Morisseau-Leroy J. Pierre
Chair: Tom Hawkins, The Ohio State University, hawkins.312@osu.edu
18:50-19:30 | Closing Ceremony
The Dakar Institute of African Studies
The Local Organizing Committee
The West African Research Center
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