Women and Gender Studies Institute


	program Gender, Material Culture, & Culture Diplomacy Conference October 7-9, 2010 University of Toronto, St George Campus Program ( minor changes to follow) - Download as word doc Thursday, October 7th 2010 Venue: William Doo Auditorium, 45 Willcocks Street, New College 3: 00 pm- 3: 30 pm Welcome remarks Welcome Professor Yves Roberge, Principal, New College Dr. Thomas Thieku, Director, African Studies Professor Bonnie McElhinny, Director, Women & Gender Studies Institute Conference theme presentation: Marieme Lo, PhD., conference organizer 3: 30 PM - 4: 30 PM Imagining, Embodying & Embracing Africa inside -out Chair: Silvia Forni, PhD., Associate Curator of Anthropology in the Royal Ontario Museum Mary Hark, Studio Artist, Assistant Professor of Textile Design, Design Studies Department, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA SEAM: Mixed Media Textile Paintings a visual consideration of place through the lens of a textile aesthetic Keli Massud, BFA, Visual Artist, Toronto A question of Origin 4: 30 PM- 5: 30 PM Re-interpreting culture: the art & possibilities of cultural diplomacy Chair: Ato Quayson, Professor, University of Toronto Speakers Paula Heinonen, PhD., International Gender Studies Centre, University of Oxford Defining African Culture in the context of a Globalized World with examples from Ethiopia Patricia Stamp, Professor Emerita of African Studies and Women’s Studies, York University Kenya, Kiondos and Cultural Diplomacy: Reviving Kamba Women’s Autonomy 5: 30 PM- 6:30PM Exhibition & Curated event “Embodiment & Visualization of Material Culture Across Time and Space” Marieme Lo PhD., Netta Kornberg & Sarah Nesib, University of Toronto 6 :30 PM-7:30 PM Cocktail Friday, October 8th 2010 Conference Venue: Hart House, the Music Room, 7 Hart House Circle 9: 00 AM-- 10:00 AM Keynote: Beyond Gendercentric Models: Historicizing Identities in Discourses of African Art and Aesthetics Oyeronke Oyewumi, PhD., Associate Professor of Sociology and Women & Gender Studies, SUNY at Stony Brook, USA 10: 00 AM -- 11:00 AM Semiotics & deconstruction of material culture Chair: Professor Eric Jennings, University of Toronto Speakers Ato Quayson, Professor of English and Director Center for Diaspora and Transnational Studies, University of Toronto Political Semiotics of Dress in West Africa Soelve Curdts, PhD., Princeton University & Fritz Thyssen Stiftung für Wissenschaftsförderung, Germany The Girl 11:00 AM -- 12:00 PM Material culture: Embodying belonging, resistance & empowerment Chair: Professor Thembela Kepe, University of Toronto Speakers Gary van Wyk PhD., Curator Axis Gallery, New York Flying the Flag: Beadwork and Dress Articulating Belonging and Resistance in South Africa Samba Gadjigo, PhD., Professor, Mount Holyoke College The rope and the belt as symbols of rebellion and empowerment in Ousmane Sembene's films and prose fiction 12: 00 PM -- 1: 00 PM Student Luncheon Panel: Fashion’s many faces: Aesthetics, representation & African spaces Organized and chaired by: Netta Kornberg & Sarah Nesib, University of Toronto 1: 00 PM -- 2:00 PM Material culture: Engaging history & negotiation change across different temporalities Chair: Professor Melanie Newton, University of Toronto Speakers Ferdinand de Jong, PhD., University of East Anglia, UK The Material Culture of Slave Trade Commemoration: Dress and Nudity in the Performance of Reconciliation at Gorée Island, Senegal Suzanne Gott, PhD., the University of British Columbia Okanagan Cloth and Beads in Southern Ghana as Sites of Intercultural Engagement and Strategic Interaction 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM Gendered technologies & labor: indigenous production & marketing of material culture Chair: D. Soyini Madison, Professor, Northwestern University Speakers Silvia Forni, PhD., Associate Curator of Anthropology in the Royal Ontario Museum, Department of World Cultures Gendered technologies: Continuity and innovation in a Cameroonian pottery tradition Marieme Lo, PhD.,University of Toronto Senegalese women traders: embodying a gendered economics of aesthetics & consumption Laura L. Cochrane, PhD., Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Department of Sociology, Anthropology, and Social Work, Central Michigan University Embodying heritage & contemporary community: Weaving in Ndem, Senegal Coffee Break 3: 00 PM -- 4:00 PM Space, culture and praxis Chair: Shahrzad Mojab, Professor,University of Toronto Speakers D. Soyini Madison, Professor, Northwestern University Women's Spaces: Tradition, the Body, and Performance as Social Action Amal Mohammed Hassan Jamal, PhD., McGill University Kel Azjer Tuareg Culture: Public and Private Space in Ghat 4: 00 PM - 5:00 PM Reclaiming identity, performing citizenship& negotiating belonging Chair: Professor Alissa Trotz, University of Toronto Speakers Maimuna Mohamud, M.A. Global Gender Studies, SUNY at Buffalo New Diasporic Interpretations of the Guntiino: Re-defining Clothing, Re-affirming Identities. Exploring Memory, Homelands & the Generational Gap among Somali Women in the Diaspora Angela Washington-Thibodeaux, PhD (ABD), Capella University In Search of the Black Victorian: Black & the Transnational Phenomena of Skin Bleaching Jean Mbaga, Lecturer, Dept of History, University of Douala Cameroon & Georges Djatsa Maffo, Lecturer Dept of Anthropology University of Douala , Cameroon ‘Cloths’ for social distinction in nowadays Bamun Empire Saturday October 9th 2010 Conference Venue: Hart House, the Music Room 9:00 AM-10:30 AM Symbolism, material expression of piety, & religiosity Chair: Professor Michael Lambek, University of Toronto Speakers Patricia Bentley, Senior Curator at the Textile Museum of Canada Magic Squares: An Examination of Their Metaphoric Significance in Muslim West African Visual Cultures Beth A. Buggenhagen, PhD., Assistant Professor of Anthropology Indiana University Money Takes Care of Shame: Exchange and Value in an Era of Global Volatility in Global Senegal Elisha P. Renne, Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Veils, Gender, and Material Expressions of Piety in Northern Nigeria 10: 30 AM- 11: 30 AM Fashioning Citizenship, selves & identities Chair: Professor Dickson Eyoh Speakers Jude Fokwang, PhD., Trent University Fabrics of Identity: Modernity, Women’s Uniforms and Associational Life in Bamenda Emmanuel Nuesiri, PhD., & Orock Tanye Besong, Cameroon The Ubiquitous ‘Classless’ CICAM of Cameroon 11: 30 AM Closing Keynote Elisha P. Renne, Professor, Department of Anthropology and the Center for Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor Discussion 12:00 - 1PM Lunch Download Conference Poster in Word Doc here




	CONTACTS Marieme Lo, PhD: marieme.lo@utoronto.ca or call (416) 946 3218 Netta Kornberg: kornberg.netta@gmail.com Sarah Nesib: sara.nesib@utoronto.ca ORGANIZERS Marieme Lo, New College, African Studies, and Women and Gender Studies Institute Organizing committee: Netta Kornberg, Sarah Nesib, Dr. Dickson Ejoh, Angela Fleury, Dr. Sarah Fee, and Dr. Silvia Forni All events are free and open to the public - Registration at: gmccd.ut@gmail.com