African Mobilities: the Means and Modalities of Movement(s)
Within and Beyond Africa
SERSAS/SEAN 2021 Virtual Spring Conference
Friday, March 12 – Saturday, March 13, 2021
Register for the Conference
Friday, March 12, 2021
3:00-4:30 PM
Emerging Scholars Workshop
5:00-6:00 PM
Keynote Address, Dr. Omar Ali
Saturday, March 13, 2021
Panel 1A 9:00-10:30
Pandemic (im)mobilities
Ampson Hagan UNC-Chapel Hill
Enduring Temporalities of Material Non-Movement: Waithood and waiting for Covid-19 vaccines in Africa
Kristen McLean College of Charleston
Exploring mobility and movement in pandemic times: the case of Sierra Leone
Francis Musoni University of Kentucky
The Covid-19 Pandemic and the History of Illegal[ized] Mobilities across the Zimbabwe-South Africa Border
Matthew Pflaum University of Florida
Immobilization among the mobile: Coerced sedentarization of pastoralists through securitization, pandemic, and post-colonial policies
Panel 1B 9:00-10:30
Extraction, Development, and Environmentalism
Cathy Skidmore-Hess Georgia Southern University
In the Grasp of the Lion: Twentieth Century Hunting, Economic Mobility and Development in Northern Botswana
Hye-Sung Kim Winthrop University
Consequences of Oil Extraction and Competition over Resources: Conjoint Experiment in Turkana, Kenya
Cropper John College of Charleston
Great Green Wall Initiative (GGWI)
Panel 2A 10:45-12:15
Borders, Migration and Mapping
Beth Whitaker UNC Charlotte
Border Proximity and Support for Free Movement: Evidence from Africa
Wycliffe Njororai Simiyu University of Texas at Tyler
Migration destination patterns for East African Association Football Players
Matthew Unangst Jacksonville University
Mapping Mobilities in Precolonial and Colonial Africa
Panel 2B 10:45-12:15
Political and Legal Movements
Adrien Ratsimbaharison Benedict College
Political Stability: What Is It and Why Does It Matter?
Holly Dunn University of South Florida
The Logic of Popular Justice in Response to Witchcraft in the Eastern DRC: The Unanticipated Outcomes of Disconnected Legality
Chris Ippolito Georgia Institute of Technology
Protest Movements in Today’s Africa: Towards an African Spring?
Panel 3A 1:45-3:15
Material Culture, Memory, and Mobility
Elizabeth Fretwell Old Dominion University
Seamstresses, artisan workshops, and mobility in central Benin, West Africa, 1960s-1980s
Molly McCullers University of West Georgia
Paradise Drive-In: Cars, Safari, and Imperial Imaginaries in 20th Century Southern Africa
Ashley Parcells Jacksonville University
‘Our Language and Customs are Swazi, but we are Zulu’: Chieftaincy, Ethnicity, and Sovereignty in Ingwavuma
Victoria Rovine UNC-Chapel Hill
The Mobility of the Pith Helmet: A Colonial Accessory in France and French West Africa
Panel 3B 1:45-3:15
Africa and COVID Pandemic: Bail or Bane
Yvette Essounga Njan Tuskegee University
Africans Moving And Thriving Despite the Pandemic
Bill Ndi Tuskegee University
Politics and COVID Pandemic Blend: A Recipe for Committed Literature
Benjamin Fishkin Tuskegee University
Moving in the Wrong Direction: Francis B. Nyamnjoh’s A Nose for Money
Waswa Denis Louisiana State University
Reconstructing Black Humanism: “The Becoming Black of the World”
Panel 4 Plenary Session 3:30-5:00
African responses to COVID-19
Danielle Boaz UNC Charlotte
Religious Freedom vs. Public Health: East African Responses to Religious Gatherings and Ceremonies during the Covid-19 Pandemic
Chris Paul North Carolina Central University
Capacity and Complications: Understanding how the Ebola Crisis Affected the Function of Civil Service in Liberia
Seth Palmer Christopher Newport University
Pan-Africanism and Malagasy Nationalism in the Marketing of Covid Organics
Moses Khisa North Carolina State University
Countering Covid: Militarism, Securitization, and Regime Politics in Uganda
