SERSAS/SEAN 2012 Program
Border Crossings, Migrations, and Interventions
Please click on a presenter's name in the program below to read an abstract of each presentation and for the presenter's contact information.
Friday, February 3, 2012
Opening Reception, 6:00 PM, Fedex Global Education Center Atrium, UNC-Chapel Hill
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Welcome, 8:30 AM
Panel 1: Contesting and Controlling Contemporary Borders 8:45 AM-10:15 AM, Room 1005
Chair: Eunice Sahle, UNC-Chapel Hill Email panel chair
(1) Timothy Carmichael College of Charleston Reflections on Patterns in Ethiopian Asylum Applications (1999-2011): What are Some of the Larger Implications for the U.S. and for Ethiopia?
(2) John Pickles University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Remapping the Border: Externalization, Migration Routes Management, and the Global Approach to Migration in North and West Africa
(3) Beth Whitaker University of North Carolina, Charlotte Citizens vs. Foreigners: The Politics of Immigration Control in Africa
Break, 10:15 AM-10:30 AM
Panel 2: Emerging Scholars Forum 10:30 AM-12:15 PM, Room 1005
Chair: Aran MacKinnon, University of West Georgia Email panel chair
(1) Timothy D. Baird UNC-Chapel Hill Migration of diverse financial resources to communities bordering Tarangire National Park in northern Tanzania
(2) Jatin Dua Duke University The work of Piracy: Rethinking Economies of Circulation and Exchange along the East African Coast
(3) Anta Sane Howard University African Women’s Movements and the push for Democracy and Good Governance: A Test of the Efficacy of Multicultural Feminist Theory
(4) Laura West Virginia Tech Behind the Masks: Perception and Black Modernity in Liberia, 1904-1912
Lunch, 12:15 PM
Lunch Continues, and SERSAS Business Meeting, 12:30-1:30 PM, Room 1005
Panel 3: Concurrent Panels 1:30 PM - 3:30 PM
Panel 3A: South African Movements, Moments, and Memories Room 1005
Chair: Kenneth Wilburn, East Carolina University Email panel chair
(1) Derek Catsam University of Texas of the Permian Basin Tired Feet and Empty Pockets: The Montgomery and Alexandra Bus Boycotts in Comparative Perspective
(2) Karen Flint University of North Carolina, Charlotte Making Cents of History: Adding Value to Oral History of the New South Africa
(3) Poppy Fry Saint Anselm College Violence and Boundary – Making on South Africa’s Eastern Cape Frontier, 1806-1857
(4) John Edwin Mason University of Virginia The Black Problem: Life Magazine, Margaret Bourke-White, and Apartheid South Africa
Panel 3B: Migration, Liberation, and the State Room 1009
Chair: Joseph Njoroge, Abraham Baldwin College Email panel chair
(1) Abou Bamba Gettysburg College Whiteness, Coopération, and the Production of Knowledge: The French in Ivory Coast, 1962-1984
(2) Francis Musoni University of Kentucky Border Jumping and State Building in Zimbabwe and South Africa, 1890s to 1920s
(3) Munene Mwaniki, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign "The Great Barrier Trench": Spatialization in Colonial Kenya
(4) Ezekiel Walker University of Central Florida Cocoa Farmers, State Marketing, and Politics in Southwestern Nigeria, 1950s-1960s
Break, 3:30 PM-3:45 PM
Panel 4: Migratory Peoples and Ideas 3:45 PM-5:30 PM, Room 1005
Chair: Todd Leedy, University of Florida Email panel chair
(1) Abraham Goldman University of Florida Frontier settlement around a forest park in Uganda and its implications: Frontier vs expulsion narratives in assessing the history, impacts of, and options for protected areas
(2) Marame Gueye East Carolina University Home Matters: The Language of Migration Through Fatou Diome’s le ventre de l’Atlantique
(3) Babacar Mboup Valdosta State University France and Its Former Colonies’ Dilemma from Pasqua to Guéant: The Urgency of Border Monitoring and the Need to Attract Professional Immigrants
(4) Ernesto Silva and Neysa Figueroa Kennesaw State University Immigration Issues across the Atlantic: Filmic Representations of Latin American and African Immigration to Spain
