State University of West Georgia
1600 Maple Street
Carrollton, GA, USA 30118
Directions from town/area of the motels: Go south on Route 27 (also called South Park Street) down past the new McDonalds, Applebees and Publix supermarket complex on your right. Go over the overpass, and get in the left turn lane to go left onto the 'Bypass', route 166/61 going toward I-20 and Atlanta. Take 166/61 past one set of lights for approximately 3 miles. Turn right/south on Route 16/Alt 27 (also called Newnan Road) going toward Whitesburg and Newnan. You will see a large white octagonal building (country jail) on one corner and West Central Tech on the other. Go south on 16/Alt 27 for approximately 2 miles to the first set of lights. Turn left at the set of lights onto Oak Mountain Road. Go approximately one quarter mile, and look for mailbox #149 on the right side. Our driveway is a long, gravel drive going down to the right just past a split rail fence which encloses a large pasture. The house is beige with stone and is set down from the road. Please call if you have any difficulty.
Directions to SERSAS Conference, Room 312, University Center: Please
see http://www.westga.edu/maps/ for a
selection of campus maps. All session papers will be presented in Room 312 of
the University Center
8:30 - 9:00: Coffee and donuts
9:00 - 10:45: Panel 1: Africa and Development: The Human, Fiscal and
Political Dimensions
'The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its Rules or Origin: Generosity Undermined?' IMF Working Paper
'Good Governance and Development in Africa: An analysis for the partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD)'
'Refugees and Risk of Conflict in Host Countries: Case Studies of Cote D'Ivoire and Gunea'
'The Broken Golden Bowl: predominant 'presidentialism', mismanagement, institutional collapse and economic crisis in Zimbabwe'
Panel Chair and discussant: Kenneth Wilburn, East Carolina University
10:45 - 11:00: Break
11:00 - 12:30: Panel 2: South African identities and challenges in the
changing spiritual, spatial and political transformation of a country
'The Reagan Administration, South Africa and Nuclear Cooperation'
'Whose Nazareth Baptist Church?: Prophecy, Power and Schism in South Africa'
Program: 8:30 - 3:45, Saturday, 12 April 2003
Devesh Roy, University of Maryland (Unable to Attend)
Rawia Mohamaed Tawfic, Cairo University (Unable to Attend)
Walarington Coulibaly, University of Abidjan in Ivory Coast
Teedzani Thapelo, University of Botswana (Unable to Attend)
Javan Frazier, Auburn University
Joel Tishken, Columbus State University
'Building, Occupying and Invading Land alongside Tafelberg Road Mitchell's Plain, Cape Town: Observations of a Mediator'
Mary Simons, University of Cape Town and East Carolina University
Panel chair and discussant: Aran MacKinnon, State University of West Georgia
12:30 - 1:30: Lunch and Address by Prof. Tim Hynes, Vice President for Academic Affairs, State University of West Georgia
1:30 - 2:00: SERSAS Business meeting
2:00 - 3:45: Panel 3: Land Labor, Capital and Science: Regional forces in African and colonial history
'Unfinished Business: Land Reform in Coastal Kenya, 1908-1920s'
Hamidin Bin Abd Hamid, University of Malaya (Unable to Attend)
'Kinder Gentler Colonialism?: African Servility and Colonial Forced Labor in French West Africa'
Tim Cleaveland, University of Georgia
'Contested Identities: The History of Science in Africa, The Dogon and the Implications for the Teaching of World History'
Arletha D. Livingston, Georgia State University (Unable to Attend)
'The Integration Of Nile Valley Diaspora Merchants Within Kordofan, ca. 1750
David Decker, University of South Carolina at Sumter
'The History of Botswana and the Kalahari as Seen Through Films'
Neil Parsons, University of Botswana
Chair and discussant: Nonso Okereafoezeke, Western Carolina University
3:45: Concluding remarks and end of the conference
Suggested Accommodations:
A. Maple Street Inn -- a nice B&B close to the University; nightly room rate is approx. $75 plus tax; 338 Maple St., Carrollton, GA, Tel (770) 214-8950
B. The Jameson Inn -- chain motel near the university; nightly room rate is approx. $65 plus tax; 700 South Park St., Tel (770) 834-2600
C. Holiday Inn Express -- chain hotel/motel about 5 miles to campus; nightly room rate is approx. $70 plus tax; 104 Cottage Hill Road, Carrollton, tel (770) 838-0508
D. Days Inn -- chain motel about 5 miles from campus; nightly room rate is approx. $60 plus tax; 180 Centenial Rd., Carrollton Crossroads Center, tel (770) 214-0037
SERSAS takes great pride in providing a friendly and collegial atmosphere which facilitates the open exchange of scholarly perspectives. Faculty are encouraged to bring graduate and undergraduate students as a means of introducing them to the workings of an academic conference.
Join SERSAS/Renew Dues
Email James W. Brown, Treasurer or see him at the conference.
First Online Edition: 23 February 2003
Last Revised: 11 May 2005