MAGICAL MODERNITIES IN AFRICA
FRIDAY APRIL 6, 2001
Mezzanine
A/B, 2d floor, Red Gym:
MORNING
SESSION
9:00 - 11:00 Moderator: Mariama Ross,
Art Education
BIRGIT MEYER (University of
Amsterdam):
"Pentecostalite Culture on Screen. Magic and Modernity
in Ghana's New Mediascape"
Discussant: Sharon Hutchinson, Anthropology, University
of Wisconsin-Madison
11:00-
11:15 Break
11:15
-12:45 Moderator: Rob Nixon, English
JEAN COMAROFF (University of Chicago):
"Zombies,
Migrants, and Millenial Capitalism in South Africa"
Discussant:
M. S. S. Pandian, Subaltern Studies & Madras Institute
of
Development Studies
AFTERNOON
SESSION
2:00-
3-30 Moderator:
Chucho Alvarado, History of Science
FLORENCE BERNAULT (University of
Wisconsin-Madison):
"Magical
Politics in Equatorial Africa"
Discussant: Neil
Whitehead, Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison
3:30-3:45 Break
3:45-
5:15 Moderator:
Florencia Mallon, Latin American History
LUISE WHITE (University of
Florida-Gainesville):
"On Unpacking the Occult: Why We Need to Return
to Friuli (or Transylvania for that matter)"
Discussant: Michele Goodwin, Law, De Paul University
5:15-5:30 Break
5:30-6:15
GENERAL
DISCUSSION
Moderator: Patrick Harries, History, University Of Cape Town
This conference is sponsored by the African Studies Program and the
Center for the Humanities, with a generous grant from the Mellon
Foundation.
Additional information available on line at: http//www.history.wisc.edu/bernault/