Program
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9
10.00–10.30 Welcome and Introduction
Issa Fofana (Bamako) and the Workshop Organizers
10.30–12.00 Opening Keynote
Chair: Edwina Dei Ashie-Nikoi (Legon)
- Miranda Mims (Rochester): Archival-Futurism. Archiving without Borders
12.00–1.30 Lunch Break
1.30–3.30 Panel I: Decolonizing the Archive, Decolonizing History
Chair: Riley Linebaugh (Mainz)
- Haydee Bangerezako (Dakar): History and the Postcolonial State. Decolonizing the Past Through Burundi‘s Centre of Civilisation
- David M Anderson (Warwick): Claim-Making and Truth-Seeking in the Colonial Archive. Reparative Histories from Europe’s Imperial Past
- Jamila Ghaddar (Lebanon/Canada): Provenance in Place. From Archival Fictions in France and Canada to Archival Decolonization in the Global South
Comment: Akosua Adomako Ampofo (Legon)
3.30–4.00 Coffee Break
4.00–6.00 Panel II: African Archives. Epistemological and Material Issues
Chair: Katharina Stornig (Giessen)
- Rose Miyonga (Warwick): Show and Tell. Personal Archives, Oral Sources and the Production of History of Kenya
- Chimwemwe Phiri (Durham): Archival Returns. Possibilities and "Repair". An Analysis of the Afterlives of Medical Collections from Malawi and Sudan
Comment: Vincent Hiribarren (London)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10
9.30–11.00 Perspectives from the Field: In Conversation with Likpe Community Archives
Chair: Edwina Dei Ashie-Nikoi (Legon)
- Conducted by Killian Onai (Lipke Community Archives)
11.00–12.15 Lunch Break
12.30–3.00 Excursion: The National Archives
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 11
9.00–11.00 Panel III: Archival Practices in Past and Present
Chair: Samuël Coghe (Berlin)
- Nathan Mnjama (Gaborone): Migrated Archives in East and Southern African Region
- Arouna Mefire Nsangou (Dschang): Classification des archives dans les Chefferies africaines. Entre épistémologies dites universelle, décolonisation et logiques du terroir. Cas des archives du royaume Bamoun au Cameroun
- Fabienne Chamelot (Portsmouth): “Colonial Archives are not Your Typical Archives”. A Discussion About Provenance and Archival Integrity in the French Colonial Archives in 1958
Comment: Francis Garaba (KwaZulu-Natal)
11.00–11.30 Coffee Break
11.30–1.30 UG Students Speak
Chair: Kwame Ose-Poku (Legon)
- Isaac Amos Abanyie (Legon): Reflecting on the Needed Archival Renaissance in Africa
- Ruth Karehina Bodua-Mango (Legon): Names as a Linguistic Archive of the Safaliba People
- Charles Gakpada (Legon): Exhibiting our Past: The Special Funeral of the Ve Traditional Area
1.30–3.00 Lunch & Coffee Break
3.00–5.00 Panel IV: Archives on the Move. Archival (Dis)Placement and Diaspora
Chair: Bettina Severin-Barboutie (Clermont-Ferrand)
- Jonathan M. Jackson (Cologne): Dispatched and Displaced. Reconstructing a Material and Social Archive through Early Photographic Postcards of Zanzibar
- James Lowry (New York) and Forget Chaterera-Zambuko (Abu Dhabi): Lost Unities. The Materiality of the Migrated Archive
Comment: Todd Shepard (Baltimore)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 12
9.30–11.30 Panel V: Alternative Archives in Africa and the World
Chair: Beatriz Valverde Contreras (Coimbra)
- Caio Simões De Araújo (Johannesburg): “The Archive is the Future”. Queering African Pasts Through Archival Intervention
- Paul Lennart Sprute (Berlin): The Dispersed Archive of Bong Mining and Historiographical Silences between Liberia and Germany
Comment: Chao Tayiana (Nairobi)
11.30–1.30 Lunch Break
1.30–3.30 Roundtable Discussion: Archival Pasts and Futures
Chair: Edwina Dei Ashie-Nikoi (Leogon)
Participants: Judith Opoku-Boateng (Legon), Miranda Mims (Rochester), Edgar Taylor (Kampala), Alexander Keese (Geneva), Brice I. Owabira (Brazzaville)
Please register for digital participation with archivalpastsandfutures@gmail.com.