2022

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Public Lecture: Bangui’s Everyday Statehood: Citizens and public authority in a context of chronic political crisis, Speaker: Lotje de Vries (Wageningen University)

Abstract:

While the state in the Central African Republic is characterized by what can be called chronic political instability, everyday life and administration in the capital Bangui seems quite steady. In this lecture, I analyze the various relations between citizens and public authorities in mundane interactions to investigate what I call ‘everyday statehood’. Drawing on ethnographic observations and interviews, I will elaborate on how public authorities and citizens build relations and manage expectations in urban Bangui, despite a rather absent central state.

Policy Conference “Policies for a sustainable rural transformation in Africa”

Organized by: Merian Institute for Advanced Studies in Africa (MIASA), at the University of Ghana, Legon/Accra, Ghana

In collaboration with: Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana; German Institute for Global and Area Studies (GIGA), Germany

 

Keynote speeches by:

Prof. Awudu Abdulai, University of Kiel, Germany

Prof. Eva-Marie Meemken, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland

 

Program Committee:

Dr. Fred Dzanku, ISSER

Symposium "Restitution and Reparation Issues in Ghana. Experiences from the Past - Perspectives for the Present and Future"

Keynote: Professor Bénédicte Savoy (Technical University Berlin), author (with Felwine Sarr) of The Restitution of African Cultural Heritage: Toward a New Relational Ethics, known as the Sarr-Savoy Report (2018) and Africa’s Struggle for Its Art: History of a Postcolonial Defeat (2022).

Chair: Professor Wazi Apoh (University of Ghana)

Public Lecture: Narrative, identity, and ethics: Theoretical considerations informed by decolonial feminisms, Speaker: Eleanor Tiplady Higgs

Abstract:

In this lecture I will outline the theoretical background of my MIASA project about ‘Christianity’, ‘feminism’, and associated terms, in the English-speaking YWCA movement on the continent. I aim to outline the epistemological basis for taking a narrative approach to researching ethics and identity in African contexts referring to African/a, Black, and decolonial feminist theory. I will then explain how this relates to identity, and why identity is significant for thinking about ethics, taking ‘Christianity’ and ‘feminism’ as illustrations.

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