60th African Studies Association Annual Meeting
Chicago, IL, USA
November 16 - 18, 2017
The 2017 annual meeting of the African Studies Association took place on November 16 - 18, 2017 in Chicago. The objective of the conference was to examine how institutions are sites of dynamism, contestation, and continuity. As the organizations or associations that foster or constrain society, economy, culture, and politics - or as the practices and customs that contour them - institutions bind and render, build and destroy. Members of the SHADD project took part in two panel discussions entitled “Africa Remembered at 50: New Perspectives on Biography and the Middle Passage” that took place on November 17 2017. Richard Anderson and Suzanne Schwartz served as chairs for these panel discussions.
Panels
Africa Remembered at 50: New Perspectives on Biography and the Middle Passage Part 1
Chair | Suzanne Schwarz, University of Worcester
11/17/2017
Paul Lovejoy, York University
The Problem of Gustavus Vassa's Birth: 50 Years after G.I. Jones's Account of Olaudah Equiano in Africa Remembered
Ty Reese, University of North Dakota
Philip Quaque Remembered: The Opportunities of a Conflicted Identity
Margaret Crosby-Arnold, Columbia University
Hidden Legacy of Mixed Relations: Pascal d’Avezac-Macaya’s Fascination with Osifekunde Reconsidered
Richard Anderson, York University
Samuel Crowther, Ali Eisami, and Joseph Wright: Nineteenth-Century Nigerians
Discussant: James Sweet, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Africa Remembered at 50: New Perspectives on Biography and the Middle Passage Part 2
Chair | Richard Anderson, York University
11/17/17
Bruno Veras, York University
Reassessing the Life History of M. G. Baquaqua
Suzanne Schwarz, University of Worcester
Biographical Fragments: Tracing the First Cohorts of "Recaptive"Africans in Sierra Leone
Sean Kelley, University of Essex
Enslavement on the Upper Guinea Coast in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Biographical Approach
Katrina Keefer, York University
"Under the Influence of Divine Grace": Femininity, Achievement, and the CMS Schools of Early Sierra Leone
Discussant: Walter Hawthorne, Michigan State University
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