K.1 – Venue: 212 York, Room 106
African Films: Channels of Distribution
FVM: Film and Visual Media Caucus Roundtable
Ken Harrow, Michigan State University & MaryEllen (Ellie) Higgins, Pennsylvania State University (Chairs)
Reinaldo Barroso-Spech, Co-founder and President of ArtMattan Productions
Olivia Bloom, Vice President, Icarus Films
Jean-Marie Teno, Filmmaker
Diarah N’daw-Spech, ArtMattan Productions & African Diaspora Film Festival
Boukary Sawadogo, City College of New York
K.2 – Venue: LC 210
Review of Books on West African Performance and Popular Culture
EC-sponsored Panel
Carmela Garritano, Texas A&M University (Chair)
Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California, Davis
Review of Jonathan Haynes’ Nollywood: The Creation of Nigerian Film Genres
Carmela Garritano, Texas A&M University
Review of David Donkor’s Spiders in the Market: Ghanaian Trickster Performance in a Web of Neoliberalism
David Donkor, Texas A&M University (respondent)
K.3 – Venue: 212 York, Room 04
Peter Kimani’s Historical Fictions
Roundtable
Dan Magaziner (Chair)
Grace Musila, Stellenbosch University
Peter Kimani, Aga Khan University
Tomi Adeaga, University of Vienna
Dan Magaziner, Yale University
Book launch, Weds 14 June, 8:30pm
Peter Kimani, Dance of the Jakaranda (Akashic Books), at the Yale University Bookstore table
K.4 – Venue: Loria 351
The State of African Literary Studies
GSCALA: Graduate Caucus Keynote
Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin
Matthew Omelsky, Duke University (Chair)
K.5 – Venue: Loria 250
Meet Imraan Coovadia, South African novelist, essayist and Director of the Creative Writing Program at the University of Cape Town.
Roundtable (sponsored by the Traphagen Alumni Speakers Series, Yale College Office of Student Affairs)
Author of a multigenerational novel, Tales of the Metric System (2014) traversing apartheid and post-apartheid, and other award-winning fiction, and incisive essays on culture and politics
Ketu Katrak, University of California, Irvine (Chair)
K.6 – Venue: Loria B51
Congo to Burundi
Matuku Ngame, Yale University (Chair)
Hugo Bujon, Emory University
Encore obscurément à naitre : le Congo dans Le Ventre de Tchicaya U Tam’si
Michael Dodzi Kudi, University of Calgary
Habiter le vide: le “Moi” francophone en quête d’un destin chez Henri Lopes et Franketienne
Carolin Herzog, University of Bayreuth
Littérature francophone du Burundi: une littérature nationale?
Andre Djiffack, University of Oregon
Et si le Zaïre de Mobutu Sese Seko vous était conté?
K.7 – Venue: Loria B50
Creative Writing: Immigrant Voices in Short Stories: Transnational, Transformative Encounters and Spaces
Panel 2 of 2
Arthur Onipede Hollist, University of Tampa (Chair)
Ada Uzoamaka Azodo, Indiana University Northwest
And So Said Mighty Birdie
Tomi Adeaga, University of Vienna
Speaking Different Tongues
H. Oby Okolocha, University of Benin
As it was, So it is…
Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi (President of ALA), North Carolina State University
An Open Letter To…
Arthur Onipede Hollist, University of Tampa
The Story of a Scar
K.8 – Venue: LC 317
The Worlds of African Literature
Roundtable for Seminar
Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton & Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol (Chairs)
Jeanne-Marie Jackson, Johns Hopkins University
African Literature, Epistemological Decolonization and Intellectual History
Billy Kahora, Managing Editor, Kwani?
Where is African Literature Constructed?: Arguments for an East-Africa Based MFA Programme
Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol
African Literature and the Production of Space: Preliminary Considerations
Eileen Julien, Indiana University, Bloomington (respondent)
K.9 – Venue: LC 211
Boris Diop and “Que dit Cheikh Anta Diop aux ecrivains africains?”
Roundtable
Jonathon Repinecz, George Mason University (Chair)
Boris Diop, Writer
Cullen Goldblatt, Brown University
Ivy Mills, University of California, Berkeley
Jonathon Repinecz, George Mason University
Fatoumata Seck, College of Staten Island, CUNY
Bhakti Shringarpure, University of Connecticut
K.10 – Venue: LC 105
Social Media and Literary Discourse
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, West Virginia University (Chair)
Ainehi Edoro, Marquette University
Social Media Technology and African Literary Discourse
Kwabena Opoku-Agyemang, West Virginia University
From Facebook through Fufu, Jollof, and Nkrumah, to Obama: Satire in Nana Awere Damoah’s My Book of #GHCoats
Brenna Munro, University of Miami
Digitality and Contemporary Nigerian Writing
K.11 – Venue: LC 104
The Worlds of African Feminisms
Ruby Magosvongew, University of Zimbabwe (Chair)
Rachel Rubin, University of Massachusetts, Boston
Diaspora on the Page: The Organization of Women Writers of Africa
Eyiwumi Bolutito Olayinka, University of Ibadan
Globalising and Deglobalising African Feminisms
Fidelis Balogun, Delaware State University
The Self and Narrative Strategies in The Novels of Helen Oyeyemi, Sefi Atta and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Ruby Magosvongwe, University of Zimbabwe
Gendered Land Travesties on Southern Africa: Sustainable Futures for All
K.12 – Venue: 220 York, Room 001
New Frames for African Literature
Panel 2 of 2
Aghogho Akpome, University of Zululand (Chair)
Aghogho Akpome, University of Zululand
Conceptualizing Modern African Literatures as Literatures of Transition
Akin Olaniyi, The Polytechnic Ibadan and Moses Osunkunle Oluseyi, The Polytechnic Ibadan
Modern African Literature and the Implementation of a Sustainable Canon for African Literary Interpretation
David Mba’Tambu, University of Yaoundé 1
The Journey Motif in Bole Butake’s Dramaturgy: Lessons for the Developing World
K.13 – Venue: LC 206
Chris Abani in Transnational Settings
Van Kelly, University of Kansas (Chair)
Pim Higginson, University of New Mexico
Eating at the Margins: Foodways in a Postcolonial State
Joshua Dunn, University of South Carolina
Performing Resistance: Reinterpreting the Demolition of Maroko in Chris Abani’s Graceland
James McCorkle, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Chris Abani: A Poetics at the Crossroads of Topography and Gender
Van Kelly, University of Kansas
“To Cut Ichi:” Transnational Geography of Faces in Chris Abani and J-M G. Le Clézio
K.14 – Venue: LC 318
Memory and Migration
Gloria Onyeoziri-Miller, University of British Columbia (Chair)
Mingqing Yuan, University of Bayreuth
Hidden and Intertwined Memories and Spaces: The Global South in Nairobi to Shenzhen
Célia Machado, Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
Jewish Characters in Diaspora in Africa and Europe: Pepetela’s Fiction
Japheth Muindu, University of Kabianga
Diasporic Subjectivities in Dinaw Mengestu’s Children of the Revolution
Gloria Onyeoziri-Miller, University of British Columbia
Léonora Miano’s Critique of Forgetting
K.15 – Venue: Loria 360
Semiotic and Linguistic Approaches to African Literature
Oumar Cherif Diop, Kennesaw State University (Chair)
Asabe Kabir Usman, Usmanu Danfodiyo University, Sokoto
The Politics of Attack through Gendered Hausa Proverbs
Viktorija Bezbradica, Kennesaw State University
Nuruddin Farah’s Sweet and Sour Milk: A Semiotic Approach to Change
Safiya Ismaila, University of Abuja and Cecilia Kato, University of Abuja
Names as Conversation in African Literature: Chinua Achebe’s There Was a Country, Mnguember Vicky Sylvester’s Long Shadows, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o’s Devil on the Cross, and Garricks Chimeka’s Tomorrow Died Yesterday
Oumar Cherif Diop, Kennesaw State University
“Rape of Semantism” and “Rape of Silence” in Sony Labou Tansi’s La Vie et Demie and Ahmadou Kourouma’s Waiting for the Vote of Wild Beasts