Globalisation and changing questions of ownership in culture and society

stocktaking and defining new research priorities

programme of an international conference to be held at Leiden, April 2002

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Provisional programme

(as per 14 March, 2002)

 

time

Titles of sessions and papers

Speakers / chairs/ discussants

 

FRIDAY 26 APRIL, 2002

 

9.30

Session I: Registration and opening

(Poortgebouw building)

Chair: Wim van Binsbergen & Rijk van Dijk

9.30

Coffee

 

10.00

Official welcome to the conference by Dr Gerti Hesseling, director of the African Studies Centre

 

10.15

Opening remarks by the convenors

Rijk van Dijk & Wim van Binsbergen

 

 

 

10.30

Session II: Globalisation and conflict: Whose violence is it anyway?

(Poortgebouw building)

Chair: [ pending]

Discussant:  [ pending]

10.30

The occult in the new cult: Towards a post-globalisation conceptualisation of the emerging world order

Adebayo Williams

11.00

Coffee

 

11.15

From the anecdotal to the empirical: Globalisation, armed conflict, and questions of ownership

Jan-Bart Gewald

11.45

Entitlement, ownership, inequality and the Southern African Crisis

Owen Sichone

12.15

Disscussant’s remark

 

12.30

General discussion

 

 

 

 

13.15

Lunch

(African Studies Centre building)

 

 

 

 

14.15

Session III: Globalisation of apparently secluded peripheral domains: Whose identity is it anyway?

(Poortgebouw building)

Chair: [pending]

Discussant: [ pending]

14.15

Women's value, wealth, and domesticity in Niger

Adeline Masquelier

14.45

Localising the secrets of ethnography

Ferdinand de Jong

15.15

Tea

 

15.30

Content in the ghetto: The politics of death and survival in postcolonial spaces

Sanya Osha

16.00

Discussant’s remarks

 

16.15

General discussion

 

17.00

Drinks

(Poortgebouw building)

 

 

 

 

19.00

Conference dinner (invited)

(location to be announced)

 

                               

time

Titles of sessions and papers

Speakers / chairs/ discussants

 

SATURDAY 27 APRIL, 2002

 

9.30

Session IV: Globalisation and religion: Whose ideology is it anyway?

(Poortgebouw building)

Chair: Wim van Binsbergen

Discussant: [ pending]

9.30

Coffee

 

10.00

Female initiation rites: the quest for ownership of the creation of women and sisters

Thera Rasing

10.30

Spirit possessions of modernity in everyday life

Judy Rosenthal 

11.00

Coffee

 

11.15

Pentecostal Pan-Africanism and Ghanaian identities in the transnational domain

Rijk van Dijk

11.45

Discussant’s remarks

 

12.00

General discussion

 

 

 

 

13.00

Lunch

(Poortgebouw building)

 

 

 

 

14.00

Session V: Globalisation, technology and creativity: Whose invention is it anyway?

(Poortgebouw building)

Chair: Rijk van Dijk

Discussant: [ pending]

14.00

Globalisation and the material production of culture [ provisional title ]

Roy Dilley

14.30

Implications for cultural creativity

Francis B. Nyamnjoh

15.00

Tea

 

15.15

ICT and Africa: Issues of ownership and appropriation of globally circulating modern technology

Wim van Binsbergen

15.45

Discussant’s remarks

 

16.00

General discussion

 

 

 

 

16.45

Session VI. Closure

(Poortgebouw building)

Chair: Rijk van Dijk & Wim van Binsbergen

16.45

Concluding remarks by the convenors

Wim van Binsbergen & Rijk van Dijk

17.00

Farewell

 

To get an impression of the contents of the papers, see the list of abstracts.

 

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