Preliminary Timetable VAD 2020/21 16.04.

2021

Time Zoom Room 1 Zoom Room 2 Zoom Room 3 Zoom Room 4

Monday 7 June 10:30 - 12:00 FID Afrikastudien, Goethe- P 08: Challenging the Rule of P 27 (I): Governing African P 06 (I): Africa Plays: Leisure in
Universität: Research Data Law (I): The African Laboratory mobility: actors, institutions Africa (Tom Michael Mboya,
Day / (Jonas Bens & Leonie Benker, and practices (Johara Berriane, Eldoret & Florian Stoll,
Forschungsdatentag (in Berlin) Berlin & Elieth Eyebiyi, Paris) Bayreuth)
German)
12:30 - 14:00 FID Afrikastudien, Goethe- P 08: Challenging the Rule of P 27 (II): Governing African P 06 (II): Africa Plays: Leisure in
Universität: Research Data Law (II): The African Laboratory mobility: actors, institutions Africa (Tom Michael Mboya,
Day / (Jonas Bens & Leonie Benker, and practices (Johara Berriane, Eldoret & Florian Stoll,
Forschungsdatentag (in Berlin) Berlin & Elieth Eyebiyi, Paris) Bayreuth)
14:30 - 16:00 FID Afrikastudien, Goethe- P 13: Utopia(n) Challenges in P 50: Writing a novel, or writing
Universität: Research Data Africa? Grinding Practices, Africa? Recent fiction by
Day / Ethical Controversies writers from Africa and the
Forschungsdatentag (in (Antje Daniel, Wien & Melina C. challenge of addressing
German) Kalfelis, Bayreuth) problems in African societies
without reproducing
hegemonic stereotypes about
the continent (Anja Oed;
Mainz)
16:30 - 19:00 Optional slot for Opening
ceremony / keynote (tbc,
decision pending)
Tuesday 8 June 10:30 - 12.00 Plenary Panel P 51(I): Critical
Reflections on Knowledge
Production and Representation
in African Studies (Alzbeta
Sváblová, Bayreuth, Diana B.
Kisakye, Bayreuth & Serawit B.
Debele Göttingen)
12:30 - 14:00 Panel P 51 (II): Critical
Reflections on Knowledge
Production and Representation
in African Studies (Alzbeta
Sváblová, Bayreuth, Diana B.
Kisakye, Bayreuth & Serawit B.
Debele, Göttingen)
14:30 - 16:00 P 35 (I): Challenges of the
revolution: Making, living and
keeping the Sudanese
revolution
(Valerie Hänsch, München &
Mai Azzam, Bayreuth)
16:30 - 18:00 P 35 (II): Challenges of the
revolution: Making, living and
keeping the Sudanese
revolution (Valerie Hänsch,
München & Mai Azzam,
Bayreuth)
20.00 - 22.00 Film screening Arsenal
Filmverleih
P 11: Challenging the
institutional bias in research on
education - multiplicities of
learning processes in Africa (Iris
Clemens & Erdmute Alber,
Bayreuth)
P 16 (I): Dying, death and burial
– the ‘challenging’ functions of
end-of-life rituals on the
African continent (Isabel
Bredenbröker, Frankfurt (Main)
& Joh Sarre, Bayreuth)
P 16 (II): Dying, death and
burial – the ‘challenging’
functions of end-of-life rituals
on the African continent (Isabel
Bredenbröker, Frankfurt (Main)
& Johanna Sarre, Bayreuth)
RT 02:Providing Nuanced, Yet
Coherent Assessments?
Challenges for Social Science
Research on Africa
P 09: Beyond the Nobel Prize
for Peace - Turmoil and uneasy
transformation in the Horn of
Africa (Magnus Treiber,
München & Sabine Mohamed,
Göttingen)
P 45 (I): The challenge of
misunderstandings in long-
distance interconnections:
Encounters, exchange and
disparities in African history
(Susann Baller & Amadou
Dramé, Dakar)
P 45 (II): The challenge of
misunderstandings in long-
distance interconnections:
Encounters, exchange and
disparities in African history
(Susann Baller & Amadou
Dramé, Dakar)
RT 01: Germany and the
Rwandan genocide: New
evidence from the German
Foreign Office’s archives
P 44: An African perspective on
associations and the
bureaucratization process
(Laure Carbonnel, Dakar &
Kamina Diallo, Paris)
P 26 (I): Lands of the Future -
Futuremaking with Pastoralists
in Africa (Echi Christina
Gabbert, Göttingen & Günther
Schlee, Halle (Saale))
P 26 (II): Lands of the Future -
Futuremaking with Pastoralists
in Africa (Echi Christian
Gabbert, Göttingen & Günther
Schlee, Halle (Saale))
Book Launch Berghahn
Wednesday 9 Ju 10:30 - 12.00 P 01 (I): Political participation
and micro-politics in African
states (Tareq Sydig, Marburg)
12:30 - 14:00 P 01 (II): Political participation
and micro-politics in African
states (Tareq Sydiq, Marburg)
14:30 - 16:00 RT 03 (01): Futures Lost, Found,
and Restituted: Archives,
Curatorship and the Politics of
Audiovisual Heritage
in Africa
16:30 - 18:00 RT 03 (02): Futures Lost, Found,
and Restituted: Archives,
Curatorship and the Politics of
Audiovisual Heritage
in Africa
18.00 - 22.00 Film screening Arsenal
Filmverleih
P 21 (I): In the shadows of
autonomy: Decentralized state
structures and local contexts in
Africa (Matthew Sabbi,
Bayreuth & Lamine Doumbia,
Dakar)
P 21 (II): In the shadows of
autonomy: Decentralized state
structures and local contexts in
Africa (Matthew Sabbi,
Bayreuth & Lamine Doumbia,
Dakar)
P 30: Questioning the
Coloniality of Territory: the
Case of Nineteenth Century
Ethiopia (Felix Scürmann, Erfurt
& Woldemariam Ambo Zegeye
, Mekelle)
RT 05: Social Security Coverage
and Informal Employment -
Implications of new Survey
Data from
four African Countries
P 24 (I): The ‘Anglophone’
Conflict in Cameroon: Causes,
Consequences and Conflict
Resolution? (James Kewir
Kiven, London & Gordon
Crawford, Freiburg)
P 24 (II): The ‘Anglophone’
Conflict in Cameroon: Causes,
Consequences and Conflict
Resolution? (James Kewir
Kiven, London & Gordon
Crawford, Freiburg)
P 39: Seeing like a space: A
methodological challenge for
African Studies (Susann Ludwig,
Leipzig & Julia Büchele, Basel)
P 41: The marketization of
African wildlife encounter in
safari tourism, conservation
volunteering and trophy
hunting (Antje Schlottmann,
Frankfurt (Main) & Olivier
Graefe, Fribourg)
P 31: Sustainable investments
in Africa: creating synergies of
profits, people and planet
(Karin Wedig, Bonn & Matthias
Rompel, Eschborn)
P 42: Challenging Notions of
Education and Knowing: Islamic
Practices of Teaching and
Learning across Africa (Anna
Madeleine Ayeh, Bayreuth)
Thursday 10 Jun 10:30 - 12.00 P 10 (I): Unpacking EU-West
African migration governance:
stakes, actors and colonial
continuities (Leonie Jegen &
Franzisca Zanker, Freiburg)
P 14 (I): Protests in Africa and
their outcomes (Julian
Friesinger, Bremen & Lisa
Mueller, St. Paul)
P 12: Moralities in an entangled
world: On studying moral
configurations and questions of
change (Martina Drescher,
Eberhard Rothfuß & Eva Spies,
Bayreuth)
P 18: The impact of mobile
technologies on social
structures in Africa (Tamara
Gupper, Frankfurt (Main) &
Roos Keja, Utrecht)

12:30 - 14:00 P 10 (II): Unpacking EU-West
African migration governance:
stakes, actors and colonial
continuities (Leonie Jegen &
Franzisca Zanker, Freiburg)
P 14 (II): Protests in Africa and Meet the Editors: P 05 (I): Lifeworlds in Crisis:
their outcomes (Julian Julia Grauvogel (Africa challenging notions of
Friesinger, Bremen & Lisa Spectrum) difference (Andrea Behrends &
Mueller, St. Paul) Tylor Zoanni, Bayreuth)

14:30 - 16:00 P 36: Adaptation to climate
change and demographic
Change in Africa: exposure and
vulnerability assessments
across different scales (Gabriel
Tati, Cape Town)
P 54: Opportunities and
Challenges of Cooperative
Provenance Research (Lars
Müller, Hannover)
P 33I : Challenges of the future - P 05 (II): Lifeworlds in Crisis:
care for the afterlife in Africa challenging notions of
and its diaspora difference (Andrea Behrends &
(Sophia Thubauville, Frankfurt Tylor Zoanni, Bayreuth)
(Main) & Sabine Klocke-Daffa,
Tübingen)

16:30 - 18:00 RT 07: La Crise Etatique au
Burkina Faso et au Mali (VAD
Ausschuss Sahel)
P 47: Transnational anticolonial P 33 II : Challenges of the
spaces: challenges to future - care for the afterlife in
nationalism (Dmitri van den Africa and its diaspora
Bersselaar, Leipzig & Ngozi
Edeagu, Bayreuth)

18.00 - 22.00 Film screening Arsenal

Filmverleih
Friday 11 June 10:30 - 12.00 P 15: Conceptualising religious P 46: “Post-truth” politics: P 52: African Universities or
infrastructures in Africa (Yanti Potentials and challenges for Universities in Africa? (Akiiki
Hölzchen, Frankfurt (Main) & African studies (Joschka Babyesiza, Berlin & Susanne
Benjamin Kirby, Leeds) Philipps, Basel) Ress, Bamberg)

12:30 - 14:00 RT 04: Forschungsfinanzierung P 37: Between Annexation and

in Afrika:Förderorganisationen Appropriation or the
und VAD - Ein neuer Dialog ? Production of the Colonial
(Stefan Skupien, WZB) Space (Ute Hasenöhrl,
Innsbruck & Nicole Wiederroth,
Duisburg-Essen)
14:30 - 16:00 P 53: What does it take to
decolonize the VAD
(Association for African Studies
in Germany)?
(Hans Peter Hahn, Frankfurt
(Main) & Abimbola O. Adesoji,
Ile-Ife)