C12: The Substance of African and Middle Eastern Literatures

Seminar Leader: Rebecca Lorins, University of Texas - Austin

Friday, April 16, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Bangor

Matthew J. Christensen, University of Texas – Pan American: “Diamonds, Slavery, and the Uses of History in Sierra Leonean Drama and Visual Art”

Rebecca Lorins, University of Texas at Austin: “Em-power-ment: Oil and the Engineering of Modern Sensibilities”

Jennifer Wenzel, University of Michigan: “What Tapsters See in Nigerian Fiction: Palm, Petroleum, and Publishing”

Laura Murphy, Harvard University: “Human Resources: Reconstructing the Life of the African Slave Trader in the Diary of Antera Duke”

Saturday, April 17, 2:00 – 4:00 PM, Bangor

Peter Carravetta, CUNY/Queens College: “Geography, Translation, Colonization: The Italians in the Horn of Africa 1860-1900”

Laura Beny, University of Michigan: “Natural (and Human) Resources, Indigenous People, and International Law: A Sudan Case Study”

Oliver Tchouaffe, University of Texas – Austin: “Natural Resources, Filmmakers, and the Recover of Indigenous Property Rights in Cameroon”