Friday April 6th 2018, Daytime Session
Room L140, Conrad A. Elvehjem Building, 800 University Avenue
9.30am-12.00pm – Introduction and Morning Presentations:
Henry John Drewal – Welcome
Olusegun Soetan – Ijuba/Invocation
Bolaji Campbell – Consecrating Egungun Costumes
Kim Miller – “First and Foremost, We Need to Feel”: Women as Breakers of Silence at the Johannesburg Women’s Jail
Interlude – visit Chazen Gallery and Eric Adjete Anang talk about Design Coffin (30-mins)
Sauda Smith – Odu and Pataki Talk about Ancestors
Moyosore Okediji – Can’t Kant Count? Ifa Divines for African Art History
Marguerite E. Heckscher – Dancing Bodies: Movement, Mimesis, and Medicine in Shambaa Ancestral Arts
12.00-1.30pm – Lunch Break
1:30-3:15pm – Afternoon Presentations:
Cheryl Sterling – Monuments, Memorials and Ancestry: Material Culture under the aegis of Black Lives Matter
Shannen Hill – Fall They Must: Black Consciousness in South African Art & Activism Today
Matthew Francis Rarey – Dirt, Concrete, and the Substance of Memory in Slavery’s Dungeon
Friday April 6th 2018, Afternoon Session
Lathrop Hall, University Avenue, Madison
3.30-4.30 Friday Dance Forum
Egungun Masquerade Performance by Oyotunji African Village, SC
4.30-5.30 Reception in The Parlor
Saturday April 7th 2018, Daytime Session
Collaborative Learning Hall (Room 2235/2255), School of Human Ecology, Nancy Nicholas Hall, 1300 Linden Drive
9.30am-12.30pm – Morning Presentations:
Daniel Kodzo Avorgbedor – Liminality, Copresence, and Pneumareisis: Pathways to Knowing Ancestors in Anlo-Ewe
Michelle H. Craig – Moved by the Ancestors: Processions and Festivals in the Mellah of Fez, Morocco
Eric Robertson – Egungun Power, Hidden Glory: Cloth, Memories and Connections in the African Diaspora
Oladipupo Oyeleye – Lágbájá: Reinventing the Ancestral Return and Sensiotics in Bisade Ologunde’s Afropolitan Music
12.30-2.30pm – Lunch Break
2.30-4.30pm – Afternoon Presentations
Paulette Young – Egungun Masquerade Traditions: Modern Artists Respond
Janine Sytsma – Moyo Ogundipe’s Multisensorial Aesthetic
Dr. S. Ama Wray – Mami Wata/Wata Mami, featuring Jonathan Greenstein, Saxophone; John Christensen, Bass; and video art work designed by Colin Ying and Bre’ Annah Stampley.
Saturday April 7th 2018, Evening Session
The Sett, Union South, 1308 W Dayton Street, Madison
9.00pm-late – Dance Party!
Featuring Chicago Afrobeat Project and Golpe Tierra