Programme
Friday, 7th June 2013
Venues: University of Bayreuth, Main Campus, S111 (AI Building) & Iwalewa House, Münzgasse 9, Bayreuth
9.00 Opening Session (Chair: Achim von Oppen)
Welcome (Main Campus)
Introduction by Achim von Oppen (University of Bayreuth)
Keynote Address by Helmut Bley (Leibniz Universität Hannover): Central Africa’s changing regional orientations from 17th-20 Century
10.30 Panel 1: Bridging Borders (Chair: Henri Médard - Discussant: Aidan Russell)
Jonathan Shaw (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor): Blood Customs: Sanguinary Kinship, Secret Associations and Illicit Trade on the Uganda-Congo Border: 1885-1928
Kathleen Vongsathorn (MPI History of Science, Berlin): ‘In Spite of Opposition’: Crossing Borders with the Ruanda Mission, 1921-1958
Katharina Zöller (University of Bayreuth): Crossing multiple borders: the ‘Manyema’ in colonial East Central Africa
Aloys Tegera (POLE Institute, Goma): Nature protection and community survival: the case of Virunga National Park in the albertine Graben
13.30 Panel 2a: Shifting Delineations of East / Central Africa (Chair: Ashley Leinweber - Discussant: Marcia Wright)
Matthew Unangst (Temple University, Philadelphia): Bordering between East and Central Africa: German Accounts of the Bushiri Rebellion and the Emin Pascha Expedition of 1888-1890
Julia Verne (Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main): Where does the Indian Ocean end? Tracing coastlines in the Tanzanian hinterland
14.45 Panel 2b: Shifting Orientations towards East / Central Africa (Chair: Abdul Sheriff - Discussant: Geert Castryck)
Maarten Couttenier (RMCA, Tervuren): The Representation of East and Central Africa in the History Rooms of the (Belgian) Congo Museum (Royal Museum for Central Africa)
Aidan Russell (University of Cambridge): Turning Eastwards, Turning Inwards: Transnational Politics and Burundi at Independence
15.45 Transfer to Iwalewa House
16.30 Conference Discussion 1: Research Traditions and Sources in East / Central Africa (Chair: Achim von Oppen)
Round Table:
Maarten Couttenier (RMCA, Tervuren)
Henri Médard (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne)
Abdul Sheriff (ZIORI, Zanzibar)
Marcia Wright (Columbia University, New York)
Saturday, 8th June 2013
Venue: Iwalewa House, Münzgasse 9, Bayreuth
9.00 Panel 3: Swahili, Islam & Identity (Chair: Stephen Rockel - Discussant: Katharina Zöller)
Sheryl McCurdy (University of Texas, Houston): Storm in a Teacup: Islam and Identity Politics in Western Tanganyika, 1908-1933
Geert Castryck (University of Leipzig): Submission of the Subjugated: Living Islam in Colonial Bujumbura
Ashley Leinweber (Missouri State University, Springfield): A History of the Survival of Islam in the D.R. Congo: From Swahili-Arab Roots to Colonial Repression and Beyond
10.45 Panel 4: Migration and Host Societies (Chair: Sheryl McCurdy - Discussant: Aloys Tegera)
Stephen Rockel (University of Toronto, Scarborough): The Tutsi and the Nyamwezi: Immigrants and Hosts in 19th and 20th Century Western Tanzania
Jill Rosental (Emory University, Atlanta): From Migrants to Refugees: Identity Formation in Ngara District, Tanzania, 1959-1965
Julia Seibert (American University in Cairo): Cultural Brokers, Revolutionaries or Outsiders? The impact of Rwandan migrant workers on Katanga’s working cultures since the 1920s
13.30 Conference Discussion 2: Final Discussion & Conclusions (Chair: Geert Castryck)
Conference Discussants:
Miles Larmer (University of Sheffield)
Helmut Bley (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
15.00 Guided City Tour of Bayreuth (optional): “Making Space in a Small Early Modern German Principality” (Achim von Oppen)
For further information please contact: geschichte.afrikas@uni-bayreuth.de