Georgetown Global Cities EventbritePlease join the Georgetown Global Cities Initiative for a graduate student conference exploring African history titled "Towards Africa's Urban Landscape."
Conference Program
9am: Registration, Breakfast, Welcome
9:30am - 11am: Panel One
A City of Orphans: Children, Catholicism, and the Civilizing Mission in Twentieth-Century Saint-Louis, Senegal
Speaker: Abbey Warchol, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Engaging Repression: The CLO, Grassroots Activism, and Urban Life in Babangida's Lagos.
Speaker: Emmanuel Osayande, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
11am- 11:15am: Break
11:15am - 1:15pm: Panel Two
Producing Urbanisms While Imagining? A Spatial Reflection on How Mechanized Mining Shaped Housing and Health in Gold Coast’s Urban Peripheries
Speaker: E. Sasu Kwame Sewordor, University of Basel
Materiality and Real Estate: Evolving Cultural Practices of Security on the Urban Gold Coast in the Nineteenth Century
Speaker: Hermann W. von Hesse, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Compromised Tradition: Negotiating the Reconstruction of an African Palace
Speaker: Tony Yeboah, Yale University
1:15pm - 2:15pm: Lunch
2:15pm - 3:30pm: Keynote by Dr. Waseem Bin-Kasim
3:30pm - 4:00pm: Networking & Closing Remarks
Please see the Georgetown Global Cities Eventbrite for more information and to RSVP.
