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8:30-9:00 Registration & Refreshments

9:00-9:15 Osita Afoaku (SPEA/African Studies): Introduction and Orientation

9:15-9:30 Sam Obeng (Director, African Studies Program): Welcome

9:30-11:00 Austin Okigbo (Ethnomusicology): Colonial Conquest and Colonial Rule
Reading: Ambrose Moyo, “Religion in Africa,” in Understanding Contemporary Africa, April A. and Donald L. Gordon, Eds.; Jeffrey Herbst, “The Creation and maintenance of National Boundaries in Africa,” International Organization 43:4, 1989.

11:00-12:30 Baqie Muhammad (Folklore): African Epics and Praise Poetry (Oral Literature)
Reading: Selections from Son-Jara: The Mande Epic by John W. Johnson

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 Alwiya Omar (African Studies/Linguistics): Ancient African States and Long-Distance Trade
Reading: Sheriff, A. (2001) “Afro-Arab interaction in the Indian Ocean: Social consequences of the Dhow trade,” Cape Town, South Africa: Center for Advanced Studies of African Society”; Video: Caravans of Gold

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:00 Break-Out Session

9:00-9:10 Introduction

9:10-10:40 Beth Buggenhagen (Anthropology): Islam and African Societies
Reading: John Hanson, “Islam and African Societies” in Africa (3rd ed.), Martin & O’Meara, Eds.

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Marion Frank-Wilson (Africana Library): Resources for teaching about Africa

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30 -2:45 Diane Pelrine (Curator, Arts of Africa and Oceania)
An Introduction to the African Collection
***this session will meet in the lobby of the IU Art Museum, directly across 7th St. from Woodburn Hall***

2:45-3:00 Break

3:00-4:00 Break-Out Session

9:00-9:10 Introduction

9:10-10:45 Baqie Muhammad (Art History): African Art
Reading: “African Art,” in Africa (3rd ed.), by Phyllis Martin & Patrick O'Meara, Eds., 1995.

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Osita Afoaku (African Studies & SPEA): Nationalism, Independence, and Challenges of State Building
Reading: “African Politics,” in Africa (2nd Ed.) by April A. Gordon and Donald L. Gordon, Eds., 1996.

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00pm Kunle Oyerinde (Political Science, Indiana Wesleyan University): Globalization and the Challenges of Economic Development
Readings: Hubert Gatignon & John Kimberly, Eds., “Globalization and Its Challenges,” in The INSEAD-Wharton Alliance on Globalization: Strategies for Building Successful Global Business, Cambridge University Press, (excerpt)
Stanley Fischer, “Globalization and Its Challenges,” (Richard T. Ely Lecture)
Audrey G. McFarlane, “Local Economic Development Incentives in an Era of Globalization: Exploitation of Decentralization and Mobility,” Urban Lawyer, Spring 2003, pp. 1-12.

3:00- 3:15 Break

3:15 – 4:00 Break-Out Session

9:00-9:10 Introduction

9:10-10:45 Ann Marie Thomson (SPEA): African Women and Development
Reading: “Mothering, Work, and Gender in Urban Asante Ideology and Practice,” American Anthropologist, 101(4), 2000.

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Samuel Obeng (African Studies/Linguistics): An Introduction to the Languages of Africa

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30-3:00 A.B. Assensoh (AAADS): Africa and the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Readings: The Atlantic World, 1450-2000 by Toyin Falola and K.D. Roberts (Chapter 1)
The Struggle for Freedom, A History of African Americans, Vol. 1, To 1877 by C. Carson, et al. (Chapter 2).

3:00-3:15 Break

3:15-4:00 Break-Out Session

9:00-9:10am Introduction

9:10:-11:45 Adrien Pouille (Comparative Literature): African Literature and Film
Reading: “African Literature” in Africa (3rd ed.), Martin & O’Meara, Eds.
Med Hondo, “What Is Cinema for Us?”
Mweze Ngangura, “African Cinema – Militancy or Entertainment?” in African Experiences of Cinema, Imruh Bakari and Mbye Cham, Editors, 1996.

10:45-11:00 Break

11:00-12:30 Heather Akou (Textile/Apparel Merchandising): African Fashion
Reading: Christopher B. Steiner, “Another Image of Africa: Toward an Ethnohistory of European Cloth Marketed in West Africa, 1873-1960,” Ethnohistory, 32 (2): 91-110.

12:30-1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 3:00 Austin Okigbo (Ethnomusicology): African Music

3:00-4:00 Institute Wrap-up and Evaluation