LSA-Sponsored Panels at the African Studies Association Conference
Boston, Massachusetts
November 21-23, 2019
Panel 1
Roundtable:
Conducting Research in Nigeria: Reflections on Archive and Fieldwork Experience
Chair: Andrew Apter (University of California-Los Angeles)
Co-Chair: Oluwakemi Balogun (University of Oregon)
James Blackwell (Michigan State University)
Augustine Farinola (Dominican University)
Bukola Gbadegesin (Saint Louis University)
Kathryn Rhine (University of Kansas)
Halimat Titilola Somotan (Columbia University)
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Panel 2
Lagos History in Transition (Part I)
Discussant: Abosede George (Barnard College-Columbia University)
Chair: Sara Katz (University of Michigan)
Localised Knowledge: African Participation in the Control of Malaria in Rural Southwestern Nigeria, c. 1900–1940 by Adedamola Seun Adetiba (Rhodes University)
The 1944 King’s College Rebellion in Lagos by Oliver Coates (University of Cambridge)
Being Expedient? Human Rights Activism and State Power in Authoritarian Nigeria, 1987-1998 by Emmanuel Osayande (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Creating Family ‘By the Sweat of Her Face’: The Legacy of Brazilian Slavery on Emigrants’ Relationships and Identities in Lagos and the Atlantic World by Susan Rosenfeld (UCLA)
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Panel 3
Lagos History in Transition (Part II)
Chair: David Hurlbut (Boston University)
Discussant: Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (University of California-Riverside)
“What People think of Our Electric Light”: Indigenous Agency and Colonial Infrastructure in Lagos, c.1895-1960 by Damilola Adebayo (University of Cambridge)
“I Left This Country Unnoticed but Now…”: Olabisi Ajala’s 1957 World Tour in Late Colonial Nigerian History by Michael Gennaro (Bossier Parish Community College)
“Panti” and Politics: Waste, Mass Mobilization, and Intra-Party Politics in Contemporary Lagos by Ayodeji Olukoju (University of Lagos)
“Ojowu 'Binrin” (The Jealous Woman): Gender and Traditional Music in Colonial Lagos, 1930s to 1950s by Edet Thomas (Western New England School of Law)
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Panel 4
Gender, Power, and Expressivity
Chair: Rosemary Popoola (Covenant University)
Discussant: Mojúbàolú Olufúnké Okome (Brooklyn College, CUNY)
Traditional Title in a Modern World: A Case Study of Iyalodes in Yorubaland by Abiola Victoria Ayodokun (University of Ibadan)
Warring Scriptures: The Intersections of Gender and Witchcraft in Africa’s Scriptural Economy by David Olali (Claremont Graduate University)
Reordering Tradition: The Female Body and Resistance in the Works of Julie Okoh by Omotola Okunlola (Universiy of Wisconsin-Madison)
Gender and Higher Education at the University of Lagos by Odunayo Adeojo (West Virginia University).
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Panel 5
Film, Digital Culture, and Musicality (Part I)
Chair: Gabriel Bámgbóṣé (Rutgers University)
Discussant: Olúṣẹ́gun Ṣóẹ̀tán (University of Wisconsin–Madison)
Creating, Documenting, and Redefining Political Satire in Nigerian Virtual Spaces by Mosunmola Adeojo (University of Florida)
From Tangible Restrictions to Virtual Independence: Digital Cartooning and Geopolitics in the 21st Century Africa by Ganiyu A. Jimoh (University of Lagos)
Jangbajùgbú and other Songs of Remembrance: Intertextuality and Cultural Memory in Nigerian Musical Culture by Theophilus Okunlola (Mississippi State University)
Performing Feminism: Gender and Performative Art in Nigerian Popular Music by Rosemary O. Popoola (Covenant University)
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Panel 6
Film, Digital Culture, and Musicality (Part II)
Chair: Mosun Adeojo (University of Florida)
Discussant: Tosin Gbogi (Marquette University)
The Sacred, the Profane, and Nollywood: Witchcraft and the Constructions of Popular Religion in Nigerian Cinema by Chijioke Azuawusiefe (University of Pennsylvania)
Lasgidi: Filming a Lagos State of Mind by Jonathan Haynes (Long Island University)
Becoming: Femininity and Sexuality in the Films of Tunde Kelani by Olúṣẹ́gun Ṣóẹ̀tán (University of Wisconsin – Madison)
The I-Rep Film Festival as Cultural Performance in the Age of Globalism by Paul Ugor (Illinois State University)
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Panel 7
Literature, Textuality, and Encounter
Chair: Cajetan Iheka (Yale University)
Discussant: Oliver Coates (University of Cambridge)
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But the World is No Longer a Circus: Ifi Amadiume’s Poetry and the Cosmopolitanism of the M/Other by Gabriel Bámgbóṣé (Rutgers University)
Poetry, Spectacle, and the 2019 Nigerian General Election by Tosin Gbogi (Marquette University)
Tensions of Belonging: Being an Americanah in Afropolitan Lagos by Kayode Odumboni (Ohio State University)
Lagos in life: Unscaling Cities in Migrant Experiences by Allen Xiao (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
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