B.1 – Venue: 212 York, Room 004A
Tropes of Urbanity: Imagining African Urban Spaces Across Media
Roundtable
Deborah Nyangulu, University of Muenster & Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt (Chairs)
Deborah Nyangulu, University of Muenster & Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt
Introducing the Roundtable Tropes of Urbanity: Questions and Conceptions
Aurore Bonardin-Cadet, Université de La Réunion
Experiencing Streets and Reaching a Capetonian Cultural Democracy
Deborah Nyangulu, University of Muenster & Magdalena Pfalzgraf, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt
Summing Up the Discussion: Directions in Studying the Urban
B.2 – Venue: Loria B50
Gender Performance and Performativity on the African Stage
Panel
Heather Denyer, The Graduate Center, CUNY (Chair)
Julia Goldstein, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Desperate to Fight: Twenty-First Century Women Protagonists in East African Drama by Female Playwrights
Jaouad Radouani, Mohamed I University
Women in North African Present Day Theatre: From Tradition to Revolution
Heather Denyer, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Subversive Acts: Writing Gender and Sexuality in the Contemporary Theatre of Benin, Togo, and Burkina Faso
B.3 – Venue: Loria B51
Narratives of Fictional Black Women in the Political Arena
Roundtable
P. Jane Splawn, Livingstone College (Chair)
M. J. Simms-Maddox, Livingstone College (Guest Author)
Virginia Phiri, Zimbabwe Women Writers (discussant)
Marie Umeh, The City University of New York (discussant)
B.4 – Venue: Loria 360
The Evolution and Development of the Novel in African Languages
Roundtable
Ernest Emenyonu, University of Michigan, Flint (Chair)
Ernest Emenyonu, University of Michigan
Anthonia Kalu, University of California, Riverside
Chimalum Nwankwo, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
B.5 – Venue: LC 211
A Roundtable on Publishing for Graduate Students and Junior Faculty Members
GSCALA: Graduate Caucus
Matthew Omelsky, Duke University (Chair)
Lindsey Green-Simms, American University
Abioseh Porter, Drexel University
Kerry Manzo, Texas Tech University
Anne Adams, SUNY Cortland/Cornell University
B.6 – Venue: Loria 351
The Worlds of African Literature: Popular Culture, Literary Systems and Vernacular Approaches to Worlding African Literature
Panel I of Seminar
Ranka Primorac, University of Southampton & Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol (Chairs)
Kate Haines Wallis, University of Bristol
Re-Mapping World Systems Through Nairobi’s Literary Networks from Joe to Kwani?
Christopher Ouma, University of Cape Town & Madhu Krishnan, University of Bristol
Corridors of Storytelling: Kwani?’s Genealogies of Cultural Production
Ruth Bush, University of Bristol & Claire Ducournau, Université Paul Valéry
Reading Cultures in Francophone African Magazines
B.7 – Venue: Robert L. McNeil, Jr. Lecture Hall, Yale University Art Gallery, 1111 Chapel Street
Launch of Imagine Africa, Vol. 3: Readings by Authors
Roundtable
Bhakti Shringarpure, University of Connecticut (Chair)
Emmanuel Dongala, Bard College at Simon’s Rock
Akin Adesokan, Indiana University, Bloomington
Charles Cantalupo, Pennsylvania State University
Kai Krienke, Bard High School Early College
Sara Hanaburgh, St. John’s University
Jill Schoolman, Publisher, Archipelago Books
Followed by book launch at 8:00pm
Archipelago Books bookstall, Booksellers’ Area, Afro-American Cultural Center
B.8 – Venue: 212 York, Room 004
Native Life in South Africa in its Time and Ours
Roundtable
Bhekizizwe Peterson, University of Witswatersrand (Chair)
Khwezi Mkhize, University of Cape Town
Bhekizizwe Peterson, University of Witswatersrand
Janet Remmington, University of York
Tsitsi E. Jaji, Duke University
Andrew van der Vlies, Queen Mary University of London
Followed by book launch, 7:30pm
Bheki Peterson, Brian Willan & Janet Remmington, Sol Plaatje’s Native Life in South Africa: Past and Present, at the Yale University Bookstall in the Booksellers’ Area, Afro-American Cultural Center
B.9 – Venue: LC 104
Chimamanda Ngozie Adichie
Panel 1 of 2
Kate Harlin, University of Missouri (Chair)
Ijeoma Ann Ngwaba (nee Ibeku), Federal University Oye-Ekiti
Discovery of Self in Alice Walker’s Now is the Time to Open Your Heart and Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah
Pauline Ada Uwakweh, North Carolina A&T State University
Stereotypes and the African Writer: Chimamanda Adichie’s Literatures of Immigration
Darina Pugacheva, Louisiana State University
Deterritorialized Hair: Hair Narrative and Diaspora in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah
Daria Tunca, University of Liège
Portrait of the Artist as a Global Fashion Icon: How Postcolonial is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s “Lip Gloss Friendly” Feminism?
B.10 – Venue: 220 York, 002
Reviving the Voice and Rights of African Children in Literature
Panel
Chielozona Eze, Northeastern Illinois University (Chair)
Rev. Loretta Opara, Alvan Ikoku Federal College of Education
Cultural Integration and Identity Formation through Children’s Folklore: The Case of Nsukka Traditional Community
Rose A. Sackeyfio, Winston Salem State University
Coming of Age to War: The Making of a Child Soldier in Beasts of No Nation by Uzodinma Iweala
B.11 – Venue: LC 205
Homecomings, Homegoings: Yaa Gyasi’s Diasporic Consciousness
Sue Houchins, Bates College (Chair)
Jocelyn Taylor, Mount Royal University
Familial Divisiveness and the Construction of History: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Two Sisters and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Joseph McLaren, Hofstra University
Global Trajectories: Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing and the Challenges of the Diasporic Novel
Reshmi Hebbar, Oglethorpe University
Diasporic Slavery: Transnational Labor Exploitation in Afro-American Slave Narratives by Jacobs, Wilson, and Yaa Gyasi’s Homegoing
Sue Houchins, Bates College
“The Journey is Home:” Re-thinking and Re-defining Diasporic Identity in Whitehead and Gyasi
B.12 – Venue: 220 York, Room 001
Apartheid’s Worlds
Panel
Daniel Mengara, Montclair State University (Chair)
Deena Dinat, University of British Columbia
Reading from Fire: South African Literature, Violent Histories
Jess Lundy, Mount Royal University
Stranger than Fiction: Forms of Eugenics in South Africa’s Apartheid-Era
Shaun Viljoen, Stellenbosch University
Peter Abrahams at the Cape and in the World
Daniel Mengara, Montclair State University
From Villain to Messiah: The “Jesusfication” of King Chaka in Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka
B.13 – Venue: 212 York, Room 106
Migration and Diaspora in West African Literatures
William Spurlin, Brunel University London (Chair)
Toure Fatoumata Epse Cisse, Université Félix Houphouët-Boigny
Stratégies, audience et lectorat de la littérature diasporique ouest-africaine
Patricia Seuchie, Christopher Newport University
L’écriture de l’immigration dans le roman francophone: images et discours par et sur les étrangers africains en France
Mathias Gohy Irié Bi, Université Alassane Ouattara
Consruction d’une identite des litteratures Africaines et de la diaspora Africaine dans un context non-Africain/mondial
Micheline Rice-Maximin, Swarthmore College
Histoire, non-histoire et mémoire collective dans la Diaspora africaine