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23-24 March 2013 / Khalili Lecture Theatre / SOAS, University of London
SATURDAY 23 MARCH 2013 8:45-9:15
Registration and Coffee
9:15-11:15
PANEL 1 ‘ESTABLISHING ORTHODOXIES’ • • •
Scott Reese, Northern Arizona: ‘Media, Marginality and the Moral Community in Colonial Aden: Why Zar failed when Tamburra Succeeded’ Katrien Pype, Leuven: ‘The Rise and Downfall of a Marial Cult: Media and Religious Competition in Postcolonial Kinshasa’ David Gordon, Bowdoin College: ‘Tin-Trunk Bibles: Sacred Texts of the Lumpa Church in Zambia’
11:15-11:30
Tea & Coffee Break
11:30-1:30
PANEL 2 ‘DIVERSITY OF RELIGIOUS OBSERVANCE IN MALI’ • • •
Bruce S. Hall, Duke: ‘Publishing Nawazil on Slavery: New Debates about Islam and slavery in the Sahel’ Dorothea Schulz, University of Cologne: ‘Fostering ‘moral community from the margins: Muslim activism, mass media and the making of religious attachment in southern Mali’ Andre Chappatte, SOAS, University of London: ‘When “old” things meet “new” things: The popularity of cassette-zikiris among young Muslims in contemporary Mali’
1:30-2:30
Lunch
2:30-5:00
PANEL 3 ‘ETHNICITY, ORALITY AND LITERACY’ • • • •
5:30-6:30
PROGRAMME
Religion, Media and Marginality in Africa since 1800
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David Maxwell, Cambridge University: ‘Missionary Science and Christian Literacy in the Making of Luba Ethnicity’ Nkosinathi Sithole, University of Zululand: ‘Beyond African Nationalism: Isaiah Shembe and the hymns in Ibandla lamaNazaretha’ Derek Peterson, University of Michigan: ‘Paperwork and the Millennium’ Emma Wild-Wood, Henry Martyn Centre, Cambridge University: ‘Bible translation and the politics of national identity in Western Uganda, 1900-1930’
Film Screening, Room G50 (Richard Werbner , ‘Counterpoint Botswana’ and Annalisa Butticci ‘Enlarging the Kingdom: African Pentecostals in Italy’)
SUNDAY 24 MARCH 2013 9:30-11:30
PANEL 4: ‘DIASPORAS WITHIN AND BEYOND AFRICA’ • • •
Sean Hanretta, Stanford: ‘Formal Care: Religion and Written Genres in the Gold Coast/Ghana’ Robert Trent Vinson, College of William and Mary: “Princes Shall Out of Egypt and Ethiopia Shall Stretch Forth Her Hands to God”: Marcus Garvey, the Negro World and 1920s South African Prophetic Politics’ Mara Leichtman, Michigan State University: ‘Islamic Preaching in the Diaspora: The Dakar Sermons of Lebanese Shaykh al-Zayn’
11:30-11:45
Tea & Coffee Break
11:45-1:45
PANEL 5: ‘RELIGIOUS REPRESENTATIONS IN THE NEWS MEDIA’ • • •
Gabeba Baderoon, Penn State: ‘Oscillating Figures: Muslims in the Mainstream and Muslim Media in South Africa’ Liz Gunner, University of Johannesburg: ‘The Angel of the Sabbath is the greatest angel of all: media, rhetoric and marginality in a South African church’ Halkano Abdi Wario, Moi University: ‘Framing “Terror” in Muslim Newsletters: Alternative Faith-based Media and Dissemination of National News in Kenya’
1:45-3:00
Lunch
3:00-5:30
PANEL 6: ‘VISUAL MEDIA, BODIES AND GENDER’ (there will be a ten-minute coffee break half way through) • • • •
Annalisa Butticci, Harvard: ‘The Body as Media: An African Fabrication of Spiritual and Social Power’ Abdoulaye Sounaye, Northwestern University: ‘Mallama Ta Ce: Women’s TV fatwa practices in contemporary Niger’ Richard Werbner, University of Manchester: ‘Feedback, Reception and Ethnographic Film-making’ Heike Behrend, University of Cologne: “Photography as Unveiling”: Muslim Discourses and Practices along the East African Coast’
www.soas.ac.uk/religions/events Co-conveners: Felicitas Becker (Cambridge University), Joel Cabrita (Cambridge University), Marie Rodet (SOAS, University of London) The conference is grateful for funding received from the ARHC, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, SOAS University of London and Cambridge University. Design: RB, Centres & Programmes Office (REO) & Printed by: SOAS Print Team