May 3 mai

III. A.1.  Changements Ruraux en Afrique

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Chair / Présidence: Mebometa Ndongo – Carleton University
Le monde rural en Afrique: au coeur du changement social et à numérique
Wilfried Armel Mabondzo – Université de Montréal
III. A.2.   Symposium – Towards the Angolan Past (1): Daily Life in a Slaving Port Town:
Marrying, Living and Dying in Benguela

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Organizer / Organisatrice: Vanessa S. Oliveira – York University

Chair / Présidence: Frank Luce – York University
Marriage in Benguela, 1798-1828
José C. Curto – York University

Voices of the Dead: Ecclesiastical Burial Records as Social History in 18th Century Benguela
Maryann Buri – York University

From Slave to Slave Trader: The trajectory of Feliciano José de Barros between Rio de Janeiro and Benguela (c.1775-1818)
Estevam Thompson – Universidade de Brasilia

III. A.3.  Round-table: Land Governance, Food Insecurity, and Climate Change (cross-listed with the CALACS annual conference)

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Organizer / Organisatrice: Chris Huggins – Carleton University
Chair / Présidence: Chris Huggins – Carleton University

Discussant / Rapporteur: Jean Daudelin – Carleton University

Albert Berry – University of Toronto
Kevin Perkins – Farm Radio International
Getachew Mequanent – Independent Researcher
Santiago Alba Corral – CARE/C4D
John Galaty – McGill University
III. A. 4. Frontiers of History in Africa

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Chair / Présidence: Stephen Rockel – University of Toronto, Scarborough

Rivers and Roads: Policing the Sierra Leone Frontier, 1880-1896
Trina Leah Hogg – New York University

The Remarkable Story of Adrian Atiman: Freed Slave to Medical Missionary
Stephen Rockel – University of Toronto, Scarborough

‘Orphaned’ Children and ‘Unruly’ Girls: technologies of trusteeship in Tamale, Northern Ghana, 1965-1972
Jessica Cammaert – Queen’s University

The land and the news – White press, African press and the debates about territorial separation – South Africa, 1903-1913
Raquel Gryszczenko Alves Gomes – Universidade Estadual de Campinas (Unicamp)
III. A. 5.  Building capacity for radio convergence and second generation technology
integration

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Organizer / Organisatrice: Sheila Rao – Farm Radio International
Chair / Présidence: Doug Ward  – Farm Radio International

The Changing Role of Radio for Development in sub-Saharan Africa
Heather Gilberds  – Carleton University / Farm Radio International

Communication Technology Integration for Agricultural Development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sheila Rao – Farm Radio International

ICTs in the agricultural sector in Ethiopia
Frey Nadeu – Farm Radio International Ethiopia (via skype)

III. A. 7. African Tremors in the Age of Contemporary Empire: Communicating and
Debating Power and Agency

Chair / Présidence: Zubairu Wai – Lakehead University                           

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SMS Revolution and its Implications for Discursive Power Relations in Africa
Rotimi Taiwo – Obafemi Awolowo University

Africa Communicating: From “la malediction du silence” to Speaking Back
Emmanuel Yewah – Albion College

New Media, Africa and the Production of Contemporary Empire
Zubairu Wai – Lakehead University

III. A. 8. History of the Writing of African History in Canada since 1970; cross-listed with the
               CALACS annual conference / jumelée avec la conférence annuelle de
l’ACÉLAC (sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association)
Organizer / Organisatrice: Dominique Marshall – Carleton University

Chair / Présidence: E. Ann McDougall – University of Alberta

Discussant / Rapporteur:  Chris Youé – Memorial University of Newfoundland
Room/Pièce: Tory Building 204

Africanists and historians: a small “histoire croisée” of the Canadian Association of African Studies and of the Canadian Historical Association
Dominique Marshall – Carleton University

III. B. 1.  Questions écologiques et discours postcolonial

Organizer / Organisateur: Étienne-Marie Lassi – University of Manitoba
Chair / Présidence: Mebometa Ndongo – Carleton University

Room/Pièce: Tory Building 213

Discours colonial/istes et stratégies environementales de l’hégémonie dans les écritures africaines

Jean-Blaise Samou – University of Alberta (Camrose)

Migrations, Environnement et mimesis africaine chez Zakes Mda

Hervé Tchumkam – Southern Methodist University

L’environnementalisme local dans Petroleum de Bessora

Étienne-Marie Lassi – University of Manitoba

III. B. 2.  Symposium – Towards the Angolan Past (2): Women, Criminals and Soldiers in
Angola

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Organizer / Organisatrice: Vanessa S. Oliveira – York University

Chair / Présidence: Didier Peclard – University of Michigan

Room/Pièce: Tory Building 208
Free and Enslaved Women in the Public Market of Luanda (19th century)
Vanessa S. Oliveira – York University

“Where Portugal Purges Her Scum:” Crime, Punishment, and the Rise of a Police State in 19^th Century Angola

Tracy Lopes – York University
“There is no Brazil Without Angola”: Brazilian Soldiers in Angola, c. 1580-1700

Kara D. Schultz – Vanderbilt University

III. B. 3. Transatlantic childhoods: Africa and Latin America / Enfances
transatlantiques: Afrique et Amérique latine (cross-listed with the
               CALACS annual conference / jumelée avec la conférence annuelle de
l’ACÉLAC; (sponsored by the Canadian Historical Association / sponsorisé par
Société historique du Canada)

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Organizer / Organisatrice: Canadian Historical Association / la Société historique du Canada
Chair / Présidence: Dominique Marshall – Carleton University & Canadian Historical
Association

Nation Building with Care: Bringing Child Health to Africa

Marie-Luise Ermisch – McGill University

Le travail infantile en Équateur au milieu du 19^e siècle
Hélène Rompré.– Carleton University

Defining Juvenile Offenders in Colonial Kenya: An Investigation into the Incarceration of Kikuyu girls during the Mau Mau Uprising, c. 1952-1960
Erin Bell – McGill University

Enfants déracinés et identification ethnique : Le cas des immigrants amérindiens de deuxième génération à San Luis Potosí au début du dix-septième siècle
Laurent Corbeil – Chercheur indépendant

Honor and the Social World of Children and Youths in Yucatan, Mexico 1885-1920
Carlos Zuniga-Nieto – CUNY

III. B. 4. Of Stories, Homelands, and Diasporas: Africa in a Transnational Frame: A roundtable with  Banting Postdoctoral Fellows

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Organizer / Organisateur: Nduka Otiono – Carleton University

Room/Pièce: Tory Building 240

Slavery and African Diaspora in Brazil through Biographies: Mahomman Gardo Baquaqua`s case
Nielson Rosa Bezerra – York University

Of Flows, Fences and Fruits – African Migration, EU Migration Control in Morocco and Almería’s Agricultural Industry
Martin Geiger – Carleton University

Street Stories: Representations in Nollywood and Popular Music in an Age of Globalization
Nduka Otiono – Carleton University

III. B. 5. Roundtable – Canadian Foreign Policy and Radicalization in the Sahel: Interests,
Responsibilities, Responses?

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Organizer / Organisateur: Chris W. J. Roberts – University of Alberta
Chair / Présidence: Martin Klein – University of Toronto
Ambassador Robert Fowler – University of Ottawa
Edward Akuffo – University of Fraser Valley
Chris B. Dyck – University of Alberta
Chris W. J. Roberts – University of Alberta

III. B. 6.   Social Cohesion in Kenya: Changes in the State, Markets and Communication

Organizer / Organisateur: Motoki Takahashi – Kobe University
Chair / Présidence: Motoki Takahashi – Kobe University

Discussant / Rapporteur: John Galaty – McGill University
Overview: Why Social Cohesion in Kenya?
Motoki Takahashi – Kobe University & Othieno Nyanjom – Kenyan Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis

Improving Public Service Delivery in Kenya: Enabling Performance Contracting through ICT
Othieno Nyanjom – Kenyan Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis

“Mobile Phone in Turkana, Kenya: Deepening Individualization or Reformulating Complexity of Human Relations?”
Ichiyo Habuchi – Hirosaki University

Digital Media, Market and Trust: the Socioeconomic Relationships between Somali Refugees and Host Communities in Kenya
Naoki Naito – University of Tokushima

Stephen Baranyi – University of Ottawa
Denyse Côté – Université du Québec en Outaouais & ORÉGAND
Daniel Holly – Université du  Québec à Montréal

III. D. 2. Symposium – Towards the Angolan Past (3): Towards the Angolan Nation-State

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Organizer / Organisatrice: Vanessa S. Oliveira – York University

Chair / Présidence: José C. Curto – York University
Discussant / Rapporteur:  Éric Allina – University of Ottawa
Canadian missionaries in Angola: extending the Kingdom through labour
Frank Luce – York University

Competing “Nation Views”, War and the Quest for (State) Hegemony in 20th-Century Angola
Didier Peclard – University of Michigan

Angola as a Developmental State
Jesse Ovadia– York University

III. D. 4.   Health Interventions and Ambivalent Solidarities in Africa

Chair / Présidence: Susanne Klausen – Carleton University

Room/Pièce: Tory Building 202
Religious responses to HIV&AIDS in South Africa
Deborah Simpson – University of Regina

Militias, Maladies and Medicine: towards a history of health in Umkhonto weSizwe cadre camps
Melissa Armstrong – University of Oxford

Communicating Vaccine Safety: the Meningitis Vaccine Project
Janice E. Graham – Dalhousie University