The Rutgers University History Department, Center for African Studies, and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies Proudly Present Uif!:ui!Hsfbufs!Ofx!Zpsl!Bgsjdbo!Ijtupsz!Xpsltipq! Friday, March 27, 2015 Alexander Library – Teleconference Lecture Hall, 4th Floor 169 College Avenue, New Brunswick, NJ PROGRAM 8:15‐9:00 Light Breakfast 9:00 Welcome 9:00 –10:15 Panel I Chair, Allen Howard (Rutgers University) Youth and Seniority: Historical and Contemporary Expressions  Louis Audet Gosselin (Rutgers University) Young Catholic Students in Burkina Faso: From Elite Certain es to Uncertain Futures (1948‐2015)  Laura Phillips (New York University) Principals, Chiefs and School Commi ees: The Localisa on of Rural School Administra on in Lebowa, South Africa, 1972 – 1990  Morgan Robinson (Princeton University) Msimulizi: 'The Narrator' and the Stu‐ dents of the Universi es' Mission to Central Africa, 1864‐1900  Ca Coe (Rutgers University) Old Age Care in Southern Ghana in the 1860s 10‐15‐10:45 Coﬀee Break 10:45‐12:00 Panel II Chair, Laura Ann Twagira (Wesleyan University) Na onalism – Cons tu ng the ‘Na on’  Moyagaye Bedward (Rutgers University) A History of Absence: On Former Slave Communi es in the Struggle for Moroccan Na onalism and State Forma on  Ma Swagler (Columbia University) Decoloniza on’s Discontents: The African Independence Party and the Origins of Post‐colonial Opposi on in Senegal  Keren Weitzber (University of Pennsylvania) Self‐Determina on or Separa sm?: Interna onalizing the Struggle for Pan‐Somali Na onalism in Northern Kenya (1960‐63)  Jeremy Aaron Dell (University of Pennsylvania) “The Eternal Agitator”: Cheikh Anta Mbacké’s Exile to Segu and the Early Years of the Post‐Bamba Muridiyya 12:00‐1:45 Lunch 1:45‐3:00 Panel III Chair, Carolyn Brown (Rutgers University) Popular Struggles Within and Against the Post Colonial State  Samuel Fury Childs Daly (Columbia University) Fraud and Forgery Cases from the Special Tribunal of Biafra  Rachel Kantrowitz, (New York University) Between Church, State and the Post colony: Catholic Educa on in Senegal and Benin  Geoﬀrey Traugh (New York University) Incen vizing Peasants: Planners, Farmers, and Markets in Postcolonial Malawi 3:00‐3: 30 Coﬀee Break 3:30‐4:45 Panel IV Chair, Abosede George (Barnard College) Reflec ons on Violence and Dispossession: Iden ty, Gender and Sexuality  Efeoghene J. Igor (Yale University ) Rethinking the Egalitarian Poten al of Post‐ Apartheid South Africa: Zanele Muholi’s Interven on  Meredeth Turshen, Marc D. Weiner, and Orin T. Puniello (E.J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy, Rutgers University) Fer lity under Assault: Natality in Eastern Democra c Republic of the Congo in a Time of Conflict  Benjamin Twagira (Boston University) Women Protec ng Urban Homes: Gender and Militariza on in the City of Kampala, ca. 1966‐1986  Sarah Lorya (The New School) Examining South Sudanese Iden ty in America