FINAL SYMPOSIUM SCHEDULE
Thursday, October 8 - Saturday, October 10
Thursday || Friday || Saturday
Symposium Sessions will be held in Room 0106 of Francis Scott Key Hall.
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6:30 pm-9:30 pm
- Welcome and Reception (Quality Inn, Participants Only)
9:30 am-11:45 am
Session 1: Prophecy and Divination as Interpretation of Intercultural Tensions?
- "Atlantic Seizure: Spirits as History in Sierra Leone"
- Rosalind Shaw, Tufts University
"The Agora of the Suriname Maroons"
- Bonno Thoden van Velzen, Amsterdam School of Social Research
"The Spirit of God, Pigs, and Demons: The 'Samuelites' of Southern Africa"
- Paul Landau, Yale University
Comments
- Luise White, University of Florida, Gainesville
Discussion
11:45 am-1:15 pm
LUNCH
Afternoon
1:15 pm-3:30 pm
Session 2: The Perils of Trans-Atlantic Translations
- "From Igbo Israeli to African Christian: The Emergence of Racial Identity in Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative"
- James Sidbury, University of Texas
"Race, Language, and Performing Kinship: The Re-routing of Yoruba Ancestry"
- Kamari Clarke, University of California, Berkeley
"Afro-Athlians: Robert Athlyi Rogers and the Holy Piby in the Afro-Atlantic World"
- Robert Hill, University of California, Los Angeles
Comments
- John Peel, School of Oriental and African Studies
Discussion
3:30 pm-3:45 pm
COFFEE
3:45 pm-6:00 pm
Session 3: Political Economies of Vision and Charisma
- "Alinsitoue and Resistance to the Vichy French"
- Robert Baum, Iowa State University
"The English Professors of Brazil: On the Diasporic Roots of the Yoruba Nation"
- Randy Matory, Harvard University
"The Bridge Over the River Nyakambiri: Munhuwepayi Mangwende, Indirect Rule and the Making of a Rural Modernity"
- Timothy Burke, Swarthmore College
Comments
- Bill Bravman,University of Maryland
Discussion
7:00 pm
DINNER
9:30 am-11:45 am
Session 4: Discourses of Divinity and Claims Upon Cultures
- "Without a Vision the People Perish: Prophesying the Millenium in Rastafari"
- John Homiak, Smithsonian Institution
"Oduduwa Reinvented, or the Christian Agenda of 'Cultural Nationalism' in Yorubaland"
- John Peel, School of Oriental and African Studies
"Blood, Sex and Money: Visionary Knowledge in Popular Ghanaian Cinema"
- Birgit Meyer, University of Amsterdam
Comments
- Rosalind Shaw, Tufts University
Discussion
11:45 am-1:00 pm
LUNCH
1:00 pm-2:45 pm
Session 5: Reconsidering Bodily Possessions
- "White souls, black bodies: The New Samaritan and Puerto Rico's Spiritists"
- Reinaldo Roman, University of California, Los Angeles
"A Tale of Two Visionaries: Father Ede, Sister Kate, and Visions of the Everyday in Southeastern Nigeria"
- Misty Bastian, Franklin and Marshall College
Comments
- Kamari Clarke, University of California, Berkeley
Discussion
2:45 pm-3:00 pm
COFFEE
3:00 pm-5:15 pm
Session 6: The Problematic Emblematics of Prophetic Biography
- "Rosa Egipciaca: An African Saint in Colonial Brazil"
- Luiz Mott, Federal University of Bahia
"D. Beatriz Kimpa Vita: A Prophet and the Slave Trade"
- John Thornton, Millersville University
"Peripheral Vision: Jose Antonio Aponté and His 'Libro de Pinturas'"
- Stephan Palmié, University of Maryland
Comments
- Bonno Thoden van Velzen, Amsterdam School of Social Research
Discussion
5:15 pm
Session 7: Summary Discussion
- Featured Comments
- Frederick Cooper, University of Michigan
- Ivan Karp, Emory University
8:00 pm
DINNER
(Catered by The Hibiscus Cafe in the Quality Inn Banquet Room, for Participants and Invited Guests)
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