THURSDAY, APRIL 1
10:30 am: Opening Remarks by James Masschaele (Executive Vice Dean, SAS)
10:40 am: Poetry Performance by Conceição Lima
11:00: Panel III – Translation and African Indigenous Knowledge
1:00 pm: Panel IV – Translating Africa In/For the World
2:45 pm: Reading and Conversation with Fatoumata Adelle Barry and Barbara Cooper
4:00 pm: Photography and Conversation with Beryl Goldberg and Dena Seidel
THURSDAY, APRIL 1 FULL PROGRAM
10:30 am – 10:40 am: Opening Remarks by James Masschaele (Executive Vice Dean, SAS)
10:40 am – 11:00 am: Poetry Performance by Conceição Lima
11:00 am – 12:30 pm: Panel III
Translation and African Indigenous Knowledge
Moderator: Tajudeen Mamadou Yacoubou
Keith Phetlhe: Decolonization Nightmare?: Revisiting Anthropological and Missionary Colonial Translations of African Literature in Southern Africa
Wunpini F. Mohammed: Mediated Translations: Theorizing African Languages and Indigenous Knowledge Systems
Fallou Ngom: African Ajami Manuscripts: New Sources of Global and Humanistic Perspectives
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm: Panel IV
Translating Africa In/For the World
Moderator: Paulina Maria Barrios
Elena Razlogova: The Liberation Politics of Live Translation: African Cinema in Soviet Tashkent
Tarik Lagnaoui: Souleymane Bachir Diagne's Reflections on the Implications of Translation on Philosophy and Religion in Northwestern Africa
Kathryn Batchelor: Translating Africa for China
2:45 pm – 3:45 pm: Reading and Conversation
Les Déchues: Dire tout ce qui ne se dit pas: Fatoumata Adelle Barry in conversation with Barbara Cooper
4:00 pm – 5:00 pm: Photography and Conversation
Burkina-Faso Portraits: Three Families from 1972 to the Present: Beryl Goldberg in conversation with Dena Seidel
Rutgers Academic Building