WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31
10:30 am: Opening Remarks by Rebecca Walkowitz (Dean of Humanities, SAS)
10:40 am: Poetry Performance by Tariro Ndoro
10:55 am: Welcoming Remarks by Ousseina Alidou (Convenor)
11:00 am: Panel I – Contagion In/As Translation
1:15 pm: Panel II – Feminist Translations
3:00 pm: Poetry and Conversation with Ọládùnńkẹ́ Ayọ̀ọlá Àránsí and Olúyẹ́misí Adébọ̀wálé
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31 FULL PROGRAM
10:30 am – 10:40 am: Opening Remarks by Rebecca Walkowitz (Dean of Humanities, SAS)
10:40 am – 10:55 am: Poetry Performance by Tariro Ndoro
10:55 am – 11:00 am: Welcoming Remarks by Ousseina Alidou (Convenor)
In Memoriam: Dedication of the program to the memory and celebration of the life of Professor Cheryl Wall
In Memoriam: Dedication of the program to the memory and celebration of the life of Museum Leader and Art Historian Thomas Sokolowski
11:00 am – 1:00 pm: Panel I
Contagion In/As Translation
Moderator: Genese Sodikoff
Véronique Tadjo: Viruses are our New Enemies: Interpreting the Ebola Epidemic and its Many Narratives
Tamba M’bayo: When Public Health and Politics Converge: The Ebola Epidemic and Coronavirus Pandemic in Sierra Leone
Kiasha Naidoo: The Analogy of Contagion in Race and Neoliberalism: A Tale from South Africa
Paul Wenzel Geissler and Ruth Prince: Covid-19, HIV and the Layers of African Epidemy
1:15 pm – 2:45 pm: Panel II
Feminist Translations
Moderator: RaShelle Peck
Alessandra Williams: Horidraa: Golden Healing: Black Lives Matter Movements in the Indian Dance Practice of Ananya Dance Theatre
Msia Clark: Hashtags and Feminism: African Women and Activism in Social Media Spaces
Tariro Ndoro: Disobedient Poetics: The Making of Agringada: Like a Gringa, Like a Foreigner
3:00 pm – 4:30 pm: Poetry and Conversation
Yorùbá Women’s Poetic Imagination: Olúyẹ́misí Adébọ̀wálé in conversation with Ọládùnńkẹ́ Ayọ̀ọlá Àránsí
Moderator: Gabriel Bámgbóṣé