Friday, 30 November 2007
Session A: Natural Sciences and Cartography (09:00 – 11:00)
1) Patrick Harries, Basel University, Switzerland
“Metropolitan intellectuals and missionary fieldworkers: the case of the natural sciences”.
2) Guy Thomas, Mission21, Basel University, Switzerland
“Faith in Maps: Exploring Horizons of Missionary Cartography in West Africa”.
Session B: Missionary Ethnography (11:15-12:15; 14:00-17:40)
3) John Cinnamon, Miami University Hamilton, USA
“Fetishism and Totemism among West African Missionaries: Missionary Ethnology and Academic Social Sciences in early 20th Century Gabon”.
4) David Maxwell, University of Keele, United Kingdom
"’The Soul of the Luba': The Work of W.F.P. Burton, Evangelist and Ethnographer for the Congo Evangelistic Mission”.
5) Dmitri van den Bersselaar, University of Liverpool, United Kingdom:
“Missionary anthropology: the case of G. T. Basden”.
6) Deborah Gaitskell, London University, United Kingdom:
“Dora Earthy & the early years of professional anthropology in South Africa”.
7) Veit Arlt, Basel University:
"'A pure scholar and only in part of importance to the mission’. Johannes Zimmermann and the Basel Mission in Krobo, Eastern Ghana 1851-1872”.
Special Session (18:00 - 18:45)
8) Paul Jenkins, Basel
“Science publishing by the Basel Mission in Kannada”.
Saturday, 1st December 2007
Session C: Linguistics (9:00-12:15)
1) Sara Pugach, California State University Los Angeles, USA
“Missionary linguists in West and Southern Africa”.
2) John Stuart, King’s College London, United Kingdom
“Dorothea Lehmann: German missionary and linguist in British colonial Africa, 1949-64”.
3) Erika Eichholzer, Germany/Switzerland
“Missionary linguists: The Basel diaspora”.
Session D: ‘Catholic’ Missionary Organisations and Research (14:00 – 16:00)
4) Natasha Erlank, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
“Transcultural and Catholic Renditions of Conjugality: The International Missionary Council and Research into African Marriage and Family”.
5) Honoré Vinck, Centrum voor Historische Pedagogiek, KULeuven, Belgium:
“Aequatoria, a 'Centre de recherches africanistes' at the Mission Station of Bamanya, (R.D.C.) 1937 – today. Ideology in missionary linguistics and ethnology”.
Session E: Missionary Medicine (16:30 – 18:30)
6) John Manton, University of Ulster, UK
“Mission, Clinic and Laboratory: Curing Leprosy in Nigeria, 1945-67”.
7) Walima Kalusa, University of Zambia
“Christian Medical Discourse and Praxis on the Imperial Frontier: Explaining the Popularity of Missionary Medicine in Mwinilunga District, Zambia, 1906-1935”.
18:45 Closing session (30 minutes).