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Dear colleagues: A conference on 'The Production of Knowledge in Africa' will be convened on 11 and 12 December at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The conference honours David William Cohen on the occasion of his retirement. It is an occasion to celebrate Prof Cohen's work, to look into the unlikely corners were knowledge about Africa is made and recast, and to work toward a more democratic approach to the study of African history and anthropology. The conference is open to all. If you do wish to attend, please contact Edgar Taylor at <edgarjac@umich.edu>. ‘The production of knowledge’, 11 and 12 December 2009 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 1. Being Reflective About History, Friday 1:00 to 3:00 Discussant: Keith Shear The Un-covering of African Histories Tim Burke Debating a biographical narrative of an African intellectual: contexts, material, and representation Bodil Folke Frederiksen Between History and Anthropology: Readjusting the Historian’s Role in the Millennium D. A. Masolo Theorizing Gap through Narratives of Childhood Monica Patterson 2. Layered Histories, Friday 3:30 to 5:30 Discussant: Ivan Karp AFH 6905 Luise White Debating Colonial History in the French Legislature: African Deputies and the Constitution of 1946. Fred Cooper The intersubjectivity of faith: S.M. Dzivhani and the challenging of the Lutheran theology of the Berlin Mission Society in the Soutpansberg of the 1930s Caroline Jeannerat Remembering to Forget: The Production of Written and Oral Memories about South Africa’s First Black Medical School Vanessa Noble 3. Confections of Knowledge, Saturday, 9:00 to 11:30 Discussant: Jane Burbank Intangible Cultural Property, Semiotic Ideology, and the Vagaries of Ethnoculinary Recognition Stephan Palmie Better not to know: Indirect rule and the virtues of administrative ignorance in 20th Century South Africa Keith Breckenridge In and Out of Focus Corinne A. Kratz The Racial and Gender Politics of Intimate Knowledge: Anthropologists, Newspaper Writers, and the Modern Girl in 1930s Southern Africa Lynn M. Thomas The Volta River Authority and the Production of Knowledge in Ghana Stephan F. Miescher 4. The Stakes of Knowledge, Saturday, 1:00 to 3:00 Discussant: Grace Davie Title TBA T.C. McCaskie The production of knowledge about culture and sex in southern Africa, in the midst of the HIV pandemic Catherine Burns In the Jungle of the City!: notes toward a cultural biography of urban African “garrison architecture” Tejumola Olaniyan One or two things I learned from David: trans-regional recollections of a Europeanist Alf Luedtke 5. Fates of Indigenous Knowledge, Saturday, 3:30 to 6:00 Discussant: Nancy Rose Hunt Amadou Hampâté Bâ and the Production of Knowledge in Francophone West Africa Ralph Austen The Ethics of Ethnicity Gaurav Desai, Tulane University Who Fought for Freedom and at the Expense of Whose Memory? The Production of Historical Knowledge in Kenya John Lonsdale Entangled Inheritances The Pressure for Archive and the Production of Indigenous Knowledge Carolyn Hamilton Sponsored by the Department of History, the Eisenberg Institute of Historical Studies, the African Studies Center, Rackham Graduate School, the Office of the Provost, the Center for Afro-American and African Studies, the Department of Anthropology, the South African Initiatives Office, the Center of European Studies, the Humanities Institute, the International Institute, the College of Literature, Arts and Science, and the Office of the Vice President for Research. --- Dr Derek R. Peterson Associate Professor of History & Associate Director of the African Studies Center University of Michigan
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