1 pm

Opening Remarks, Toll Room, Alumni House

Leo Cabranes-Grant, University of California, Santa Barbara and Catherine M. Cole, University of California, Berkeley

Welcome: Percy Hintzen, Director, Center for African Studies, University of California, Berkeley

1:40

Keynote: Gerard Aching, New York University, At the Threshold of Visibility: Liberalism and Populism in Trinidad Carnival

Location: Toll Room, Alumni House

Chair: Leo Cabranes-Grant

3-3:30

Coffee

3:30-5:30

Parallel Sessions

A. Global and Intercultural Transactions

Location: Dwinelle Annex 126

Chair: Jocelyn Guilbault, University of California, Berkeley*

-Bisi Adigun, Trinity College, Dublin, Arambe Productions’ New Version of The Playboy of the Western World: Iconoclasm or Interculturalism?

-Bakare Babatunde Allen, Center for Ibsen Studies, University of Oslo, Norway; University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, Ritual, Mythology and Supernatural Power Display in Africa and Afro-Caribbean Theatre: A case Study of Death and King’s Horseman by Soyinka, The gods are Not to Blame by Rotimi and Shang de Ima by Pepe Carril

-Ariel Osterweis Scott, University of California, Berkeley, To Choreograph Fagaala: International Representation of Intra-African Genocide

-Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Loyola Marymount University, Soyinka’s Samarkand and Other Markets I Have Known: Globalization and Nigerian Theatre in Other Markets I Have Known

B. Theatres of Intervention

Location: Toll Room, Alumni House

Chair: Moradewun Adejunmobi, University of California, Davis

-Christopher Connelly, Grinnell College, How Does the Show Go On? Theatre for Development in Post-Election Nairobi

-David Donkor, Texas A&M University, Theatre Housing in Ghana: Architecture, Performance, and African Post-Coloniality

-Mbala D. Nkanga, University of Michigan, Mvett Performance: Retention, Reinvention, and Exaggeration in Remembering the Past

-Praise Zenenga, University of Arizona, Hit and Run Theatre: The Rise of a New Dramatic Form in Zimbabwe

C. Local vs. Global Shifts: Narratives of Culture, Identity and Gender

**Panel Sponsored by the African Theatre and Performance Working Group of the International Federation for Theatre Research (IFTR)

Location: Bechtel Room, Alumni House

Chair: Kene Igweonu, Swansea Metropolitan University

-Awo Mana Asiedu, University of Ghana, Legon, Accra, Masculine Women, Feminist Men: Assertions and Contradictions in Mawugbe’s In the Chest of a Woman

-Kene Igweonu, Swansea Metropolitan University, Wales, A Ritual for Survival: Identity, Politics and Contemporary African Performance in the UK

-Ola Johansson, University of Lancaster and Stockholm University, Applied Theatre, AIDS, and the Developmental Fallacy of White Liars

-Christina McMahon, University of California, Santa Barbara, Choreographic Transmissions of Emigration and Circulation: Dancing the Cape Verdean Woman on the Festival Stage

-Torsten Sannar, University of California, Santa Barbara, I Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City!: Sanctions and Opportunities at a South African Mega-Resort

5:30

Dinner break

Saturday, September 27

9

Coffee and Pastries

9:30-11:30

Plenary Panel: Diasporic Intersections

Location: Toll Room, Alumni House

Chair: Frank Wilderson, University of California, Irvine

-Wonderful Godwin Bere, Metropolitan State College of Denver, Deception, Deception, Deception: Performance of Resistance in Urban Grooves, Zimbabwe’s Hip Hop Music

-Sandra L.Richards, Northwestern University, What is African Diaspora Drama?

-Sabine S’rgel, Aberystwyth University, Wales, Deconstructing Diaspora: Transnationalism and Performative Knowledge in the African/Caribbean Context

12-1:30

Lunch Break

12-1:30

Special Lunch Session: Funding the Vision: Graduate Field Research in African and Afro-Caribbean Studies

(pre-registration required in order to receive a lunch)

Location: Toll Room

Introductions: April Sizemore-Barber, University of California, Berkeley

Chair: Stephan Miescher, University of California, Santa Barbara, Co-Director of the UC-wide Multi-Campus Research Group in African Studies

-Andrew Apter, University of California, Los Angeles, Director of the Center for African Studies

-Percy Hintzen, University of California, Berkeley, Director of the Center for African Studies, and Professor, African American Studies

-Osita Okagbue, Goldsmiths College, London, Director of new MA in Contemporary African Theatre & Performance

1:45-3:45

Parallel Sessions

E. Sponsoring the Community

Location: Dwinelle Annex, Room 126

Chair: Brandi Wilkins Catanese, University of California, Berkeley

-Jenna Burrell, University of California, Berkeley, Persuading a Foreign Audience: Internet Scamming Strategies in Ghana and the West African Region

- Rosamond S. King, Brooklyn College, When the Public is the Art: Performance, Power, and African Carnival

-Segun Oyeleke Oyewo, Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria, The Traditional in the Contemporary: Cultural Festivals and Cultural Revival in Nigeria

-Allen F. Roberts, University of California, Los Angeles, Performing the City: Transformative Arts of Urban Senegal

F. Bodies in Motion

Location: Bechtel Room, Alumni House

Chair: Scott Wallin, University of California, Berkeley*

-Valerie Kim-Thuy Larsen, University of California, Davis, Congo-Memories: Encounters on and off the Dance Floor

-Pabalelo Mmila, University of Minnesota, Centering Women’s Roles in Martha Lempadi’s Ngwanaka O Tla Nkgopola (1992)

-Shannon Rose Riley, San José State University, Crossing the Windward Passage: Afro-Haitian-Cuban Performance Forms in el Oriente

-April Sizemore-Barber, University of California, Berkeley, Tangoing in Front of a Firing Squad: the Pas-de-Deux Satire of Pieter-Dirk Uys and Evita Bezuidenhout

G. Diasporic Consumptions of Blackness: A Roundtable Discussion

Location: Toll Room, Alumni House

Chair: Nicole Caster, Texas A&M University *

-Nicole Castor, Texas A&M University, Spirits Travel: Celebrating Blackness Online and Across the Diaspora

-Chanzo Greenidge, UWI St. Augustine, Consuming Capoeira- The Cultural Politics of Resistance Movement

-Meida Teresa McNeal, Brown University, Dialoguing Blackness: Digital Scholarship, Transnational Collaboration, and Vernacular Performance

-Patricia Moonsammy, University of Michigan, Midnight Robbers, Chantwells and Griots: Diaspora, Lineage, and Trinidian Rapso Performativity

3:45-4

Coffee Break

4-5:20

Keynote: Tejumola Olaniyan, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Contingencies of Performance

Location: Toll Room, Alumni House

Chair: Catherine M. Cole

5:20

5:30-7

Closing Remarks: Catherine M. Cole and

Leo Cabranes-Grant

Reception, Patio, Alumni House

7-9:30

Dinner Break