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A ‘d’ in the panel name signifies a double panel.

The subject categories are listed where supplied - convenors/organisers please send these as soon as possible.

 

PANEL NO. PANEL TITLE CATEGORIES

01t

Social thinking about politics in Africa: social representations, values and attitudes

PS

02d

Traditions of reform, reforms of tradition: African Muslim societies in contemporary times

SP

03d

Expertise and the transmission of knowledge

S

04d

WORKSHOP: Reconfiguring the contemporary: dialogues in African art

A

05

Sudan’s peace agreement – its implications to Africa

PR

06

Getting published, getting heard:  debate and democracy in Africa

A

07 Media, power and change in Zimbabwe APS

08

Public policy analysis in Africa: getting to the flesh of the Ghost state

PE

09d

Trente ans d’indépendance en Afrique de langue officielle portugaise (1975-2005)

HPS

10

The electronic governance in Africa, real hope or real hype?

P

12

The mobilisation of 'tradition' in the resolution of conflicts in Africa

P

14d

African elites in the era of globalisation

PE

15t

Generations: connections and contrasts

SA

17d

Trajectories of the modern in Africa

SHPEA

18

The public role of Christianity in contemporary Africa

S

21

African manuscripts and museum collections in Europe

A

24

Governance beyond the State: legitimate authority in major cities and refugee camps

PES

25d

Of drivers, mechanics, traders and prostitutes: a social history of motor-vehicles in Africa in the 20th Century

H

26d

Images of Africa

SH

27

Braudel in the Sahel?

H

31

Relevant modernities

A

32d

Photographic mediations

HS

33d

Aesthetic practice in urban Africa

AS

34d

Dialogues between African verbal and visual arts

A

36d

New roles for traditional leaders in resource mobilisation and rural development: expectations, obstacles and conflicts

SP

37d

Contemporary issues in Malagasy societies (Session A & B)

SR

40t

Africa<>Europe: Transnational linkages

ESG

41d

Political ecology perspectives on environmental management in Africa

SE

42

The African city, the nation-state and beyond

ESP

43d

Ethnographies of Sexualities in Africa

SM

44

Post liberation politics: comparative perspectives

P

45

The Horn of Africa in the new world order

PR

46d

Rural economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa: issues and prospects

ES

48

Comparative research on rice farming societies of the Upper Guinea coast

RSE

49d

IR and Africa: new agendas and representations P

50

New research on pre-colonial economic history

HE

51

Manufacturing and mining in 20th century Africa

EH

53

Land governance in Africa and the social embeddedness of property

SEP

54

Social and environmental litigation against transnational firms in Africa

EP

55d

Memory and the public sphere

AHPS

56

The impact of the Cold War on Southern Africa

PHR

57t

Documentary Film on and from Africa

 

58

Understanding and supporting local governance processes in East Africa

ERP

60

Ethnicity, corruption, personality and parochialism in Kenya politics, 1957 – present

PR

62d

African feminisms:  extending the boundaries of African social science

AS

64

FGM in Africa and Europe as represented in creative writing

AMS

65

Trajectoires et formes du militantisme en Afrique

PS

66d

African cinemas today

A

67

SADC development

EPRS

68d

Islam, globalisation and gender in Africa

RS

69d

Collecting the Congo

AHS

70

Acknowledging knowledge: dissemination and reception of expertise in colonial Africa

AHPS

71

Foregrounding cultural production In Africa

AS

72

The sub-Saharan francophone novel by African women writers: interpreting unconventional styles and narrative forms

A

73

HIV/AIDS as a threat to human security in Africa?

MEP

75

The Casamance in its regional context

RP

77

Globalization, educational issues and challenges in Africa

S

78

Africa writing Europe

A

79

Credit creating behaviour

EH

80

The ebb and flow of African diasporas

A

81

Imagining African alternatives:  beyond the tyranny of rights

SAP

82d

The military and the social: themes in the history of colonial and post-colonial Northeast Africa

HAS

83d

Trajectories of citizenship: Christian missions as agencies of empowerment in 20th century Africa

H

85

European administration and local systems of power: leadership and Islamic orders in colonial Africa (1880-1960)

H

87d

Transnational networks and globalization in Africa

ES

88

Transafrican trends in Islam

SH

89d

Dynamics of social change and intangible cultures – a paradoxical dialogue

SR

90

Gender and development in the 21st century Africa:  mainstream or backwater?

E

91

Africa and the aid program: saviour or sacrifice

ES

92

West African photography: Art? Archives? Anthropology?

AS

93d

Africana librarians in partnership

RG

94t

WORKSHOP: Manufacturing descent: genealogy and race in the political making of Eastern Africa, 1800-2000

RHS

95

Space, architecture and identity formation

AS

96

The role of private enterprises in socio-cultural change processes

SE

97a Postgraduate research: Nationalism/local politics G
97b Postgraduate research: Politics and society G
98 Postgraduate research: Social and economic history in colonial era G
99a Postgraduate research: Issues in development - humanitarian aid, health care and epidemics G
99b Postgraduate research: Issues in development - new social actors and themes in Eastern Africa G