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The Conflict of Re-Presentation: Re-Presenting Conflict In Africa Conference (5th Annual AAA Conference)

The African Activist Association at UCLA presented their fifth annual conference on May 14-15, 2010 and we have posted podcasts from various presentations at the conference.

Conference Goal

The goal of this conference is to gather new scholarship on the continent of Africa that challenges the frames of reference as to how Africa is viewed both at home and abroad. Tribulations on the continent of Africa are often posed in generic and static terms that do not fully appreciate the complexity of the historical roots that underlie them. As a continent continuously misrepresented in both popular and non-popular mediums of communication, this conference will function as a space of re-presentation of the voices and histories of the seldom heard. This is a space of creative scholarship that will bring together a wide-range of topics that proffer new vision and resolution.

Podcasts

Keynote Address

• African Conflict and the Paradox of Change
  Myralyn O. A. Nartey, Doctoral Student, UCLA School of Public Health
  

Panel I: Violence, Immigration and the State

• Concept Analysis: Exploring Health Consideration for Aging Nigerian Immigrants in the United States
  Ann Anaebere, UCLA School of Nursing
   
• Interrogating the Interstices of Race, Religion and Health in a Transnational Context
  Diana Burnett, Yale Divinity School
   
• The New Progress Philosophy: Addressing Development and Psychology from the Traditional Perspective
  Marvin Boateng, California Lutheran University, Department of Public Policy

Panel II: Gender, Violence and Sexuality

• A Myth of Benign Humanitarianism, Militarism and Womens Rights: A Case Study of the ChadCameroon Oil Pipeline
  Amber Murrey-Ndewa, Syracuse University, Pan-African Studies
  
  
• Relating Modernity, Conflict and Sexual Violence: Discourses of Violence against Women in Post-war Sierra Leone
  Dayo Spencer, UCLA School of Public Health
  
  
• North African Women in Madrid: Intersections of Race, Religion and Gender and the 2004 Law Against Gender Violence
  Kristina Benson, UCLA Islamic Studies
  
  
• The Colonial Hauntings of Contemporary Gender- based Violence in Conflict Zones
  Tina Beyene, UCLA Department of Women's Studies
   
• Tracing the Development of the Code of Personal Status: The Tunisian Case
  Rayed Khedher, UCLA Department of Anthropology
  
  

Panel III: Art, Activism and Music

• The State and the Performing Arts in ZimbabweFriends or Foe?
  Christopher Mlalazi, Villa Aurora Writer in Exile Feuchtwanger Fellow
  
  
• Creating New Leaders: Youth Involvement in Community Activism in South Africa
  Amber Reed, UCLA Department of Anthropology
  
  
• Hating the Postcolony Properly: Hip Hop Aesthetics in Kenya
  Natasha Himmelman, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town

Panel IV: Navigating Space, Culture and Nationalism

• Space and Time in Socialist Tanzania: The Dodoma Capital Project
  Duncan Yoon, UCLA Department of Comparative Literature
  
  
• A Conflicted Curriculum: Student Perceptions of Gender in Kenyan Social Studies Textbooks
  Kim Foulds, UCLA Department of Education
  
  
• Chinese Presence in Africa: Trade, Investment, Diplomatic and Cultural Ties
  Tiffany Man, UCLA International Development Studies
  
  
• Human-Wildlife Conflicts and Maasai Group Ranches in Kenya
  Willis Oyugi, UCLA Department of History
  
  

Published: Monday, June 14, 2010