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Writing and Publishing KarinBarber, editor of Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
EmmanuelAkyeampong, editor of the Journal of African History
10:30 Break
11:00 to 12:30 WorkshopsII (concurrent sessions)
Documenting and Preserving Language Chair: JudyIrvine, University of Michigan
JeffHeath, University of Michigan
KofiAgyekum, University of Ghana Community Initiatives Chair: RaySilverman, University of Michigan
RaySilverman, University of Michigan
NanaBaffourAsareTwi BrempongII, Adontenhene of Techiman
CirajRassool, University of Western Cape
GyanApenteng, Cultural Initiatives Project, Ghana
12:30: Break
2:00 to 3:30 WorkshopsIII(concurrent sessions)
Digitizing Heritage Chair:AmaDadson, University of Ghana
TomBray, University of Michigan
AmaDadson, University of Ghana
DianeThram, Rhodes University
Heritage and Tourism Chair: EsiSutherland-Addy, University of Ghana
AlexAsiedu, University of Ghana
KwakuBoakye, University of Cape Coast
KofiAkpabli, Travel and tourism writer
AdelaideKastner, University of Ghana
3:30: Break
4:00 to 5:30 WorkshopsIV(concurrent sessions)
Media and Heritage Chair:MarkHorton, Bristol University
MarkHorton, Bristol University
JacquelineMaingard, Bristol University
Writing and Publishing KarinBarber, editor of Africa: Journal of the International African Institute
EmmanuelAkyeampong, editor of the Journal of African History 5:30 Break
The conference is free of charge and open to the public.
Organized and funded by the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana; the International African Institute; and the African Studies Center, University of Michigan.
Tuesday15December
9:00 Opening session
DrKwesiYankah, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana
DrBrigidSackey, Acting Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana
DrKellyAskew, Director of the African Studies Center, University of Michigan
9:30 Opening address
Hon.JohnMahama, VicePresidentoftheRepublic ofGhana
11:00 Panel One: ContestedHeritage Chair: TakyiwaaManuh, University of Ghana
Discussant: CirajRassool, University of Western Cape
Chiefs,PriestsandPowerin EarlyAkanSocieties EmmanuelAkyeampong, Harvard University
Contestingtheproductionand meaningofhistoryandheritage intheAlexandraUrbanRenewal Programme NoorNieftagodien, University of the Witwatersrand
ChieftaincyInGhana:Whose ChiefsAndWhoseCultural Heritage? KodzoSenah, University of Ghana
ContestsofTime:Secessionists andMilleniariansinUganda DerekPeterson, University of Michigan
1:00 Break
2:30 Panel Two: Whatis‘National’Heritage? Chair: EsiSutherland-Addy, University of Ghana
Discussant: CynthiaKros, University of the Witwatersrand
OfChiefs,TouristsandCulture: TheMakingofLocaland NationalHeritagesinGhana RaySilverman, University of Michigan
NanaBaffourAsareTwi BrempongII, Community Development Officer and the Adontenhene of Techiman Changeandcontradictionsin thetransformationagendaof museumsinSouthAfrica: thecaseofMuseumAfrica AliKhangelaHlongwane, Chief Curator, Museum Africa
TheParadoxofChieftaincyin Ghana:AHeritagethat Identifies,UnitesandDivides AlbertAwedoba, University of Ghana
TitleTBA CirajRassool, University of the Western Cape 5:30 Break Wednesday16December
9:00 Opening lecture
Wearetheoneswhocare:the useandreuseofheritagein Africatoday DrGeorgeAbungu, CEO, Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants, & Representative (Kenya), UNESCO World Heritage Committee
10:00 Panel Three: RecontextualizingTradition Chair: FriedaEkotto, University of Michigan
Discussant: DanielHerwitz, University of Michigan
Theappearanceofareluctant tradition:Changingmuseums inpost-apartheidSouthAfrica LeslieWitz, University of the Western Cape
Heritage,EconomyandPolitical Control:FinancingaModern MonarchyThroughReinvention ofTraditionalMeasuresin Asante WilhelminaDonkoh, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
ContinuingGhanaianTraditions: Variationsonatheme AttaKwami, visual artist
Naturalresourceconflicts, alienationandtheframingof traditioninGhana KojoAmanor, University of Ghana
12:30 Break
1:30 Panel Four: Archaeologyandthe PoliticsofHeritage Chair:KellyAskew, University of Michigan
Discussant: KodzoGavua, University of Ghana
Developmentversus ArchaeologicalHeritage Preservation:TrendsinGhana BenKankpeyeng, University of Ghana
BeyondGhana:thearchaeology ofGhanabeyondAfrica MarkHorton, Bristol University
Monumentalizationsand Reappropriations:Sahelian ArabicInscriptions (11th-15thcentury) PauloFernandodeMoraesFarias, University of Birmingham
ArchaeologyofMaroon communities:Uncovering AfricanCulturalLegacyin theNewWorld KofiAgorsah, Portland State University
4:00 Panel Five: LanguageandthePolitics ofHeritage Chair: KarinBarber, University of Birmingham
Discussant: DerekPeterson, University of Michigan
Theroleoflanguageinforging newidentities:counteringa heritageofservitude MaryEstherDakubu, University of Ghana
Preservingthepreviously marginalisedlanguages (PMLs)aspartofretainingthe linguisticheritage:thecaseof SouthAfricanindigenous languages ThembaMoyo, University of KwaZulu-Natal
Afrikaansandtheheritageof (post)apartheid SarahSlabbert, University of the Witwatersrand
Visionsofethnicityin nineteenth-centuryAfrican linguistics JudithIrvine, University of Michigan
6:30 Break Thursday,17December
9:00 to 10:30 WorkshopsI(concurrent sessions)
Documenting Heritage: Identifying and Securing Collections Chair: DavidWallace, University of Michigan, & WilhelminaDonkoh, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
ThomasAning, U. Ghana, Manhyia Archives, University of Ghana
SelloHatang, Nelson Mandela Foundation
HenriettaSarpong, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology