7:00 pm - 10:00 pm: Armstrong Atlantic Faculty Dining Room--Reception and Good Cheer (provided by SERSAS)

8:30 am - 9:00 am: Coffee and donuts (Provided by Armstrong Atlantic)

9:00 am - 10:45 am: Of Conversion, Coercion, and Disease: Colonial Societies in Comparison

• Dr. John Mason, University of Virginia: "Some Religion He Must Have": Slaves, Sufis and Conversion to Islam at the Cape."
• Dr. Annette Laing, Georgia Southern University: "Heathens and Infidels: African Christianization and the Anglican Mission in the Low Country, 1700-1750."
• Dr. Aran S. MacKinnon, State University of West Georgia: "'Of Oxford Bags and Twirling Canes': Native Anti-Malarial Assistants, the State and Popular Responses to Malaria Epidemics in Early Twentieth Century Zululand."

• Discussant and MC: Dr. Jonathan Reynolds, Northern Kentucky University

10:45 am - 11:15 am: Coffee Break and Fieldwork Discussion

11:15 am - 12:30 am: Morality and the State

• Dr. Nonso Okereafoezeke, Western Carolina University: "Analysis of the Criminalizing Policies, Programs, and Idiosyncrasies of the Nigerian Governments in the Country's Darkest Age, 1985 - 1999."
• Dr. Kate Luongo, University of Iowa: "The Clitorectiomy Controversy in Kenya: the 'Woman's Affair' that Wasn't."

• Discussant and MC: Dr. Nyaga Mwaniki, Western Carolina University

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm: Lunch provided by Armstrong Atlantic State -- Faculty Dining Hall

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm: History, Society, and Multimedia in Africa

• Dr. Jean Kidula, University of Georgia: Where is Your Tradition? On the Problematics of an African Ethnomusicologist Research on Christian Musics."
• Dr. Mustapha Dhada, Clark Atlanta: "The Blue Eyes of Yonji: Flora Gomes as Critique of Guinea-Bisau Society"
• Dr. James Burns, Clemson University: "Cowboys and Colonizers: The American Western in Southern Africa, 1945-1961.

• Discussant and MC: Dr. Cathy Skidmore-Hess, Georgia Southern University

3:00 pm: Conference Closes

For directions to the conference (including a map for visual navigators) and information relating to accommodations, visit the links on our SERSAS web page.

For Savannah and Armstrong Atlantic State University specific information, contact Dan Skidmore-Hess.

Contact the coordinators:

• Nyaga Mwaniki
• Jonathan Reynolds
• Cathy Skidmore-Hess
• or SERSAS@hotmail.com

Join SERSAS/Renew Dues: Email James W. Brown, Treasurer or see him at the conference.