Program
Re-evaluating Africa and World War II
ORGANIZERS: Judith Byfield (Cornell University), Carolyn A. Brown (Rutgers University), Gregory Mann (Columbia University), Ahmad Sikainga (Ohio State University).
SPONSORS: (List In Formation) Cornell University –Africana Studies And Research Center; The Carl Becker House; De Bary Mellon Interdisciplinary Writing Group; John Henrik Clarke Library; Cornell Cinema; Cornell Society For The Humanities; Departments of Anthropology, Government, Sociology; European Studies; Mario Einaudi Center For International Studies; Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies; Institute for Comparative Modernities; Institute For Social Sciences.
LOCATION: Africana Studies and Research Center Multi-Purpose Room,
310 Triphammer Road, Ithaca NY 14850
September 17– THURSDAY
1:00 pmINTRODUCTION
Salah Hassan, Director, Africana Studies And Research Center
Judith Byfield, Conference co-organizer
1:30 – 4:00 pm Mobilizing For the Army
Catherine Ash, Wayne State University
“Free to Coerce: Forced labor during the Vichy years in French West Africa”
Louis Grundlingh, University Of Johannesburg (South Africa)
“Efforts to recruit Black South African men during the Second World War.”
Timothy Parsons, Washington University - St. Louis
“No Country Fit for Heroes: The Plight of Disabled Kenyan Veterans”
4:30- 6:00 pmROUNDTABLE: THE PHOTOGRAPHIC GAZE– The Abraham Collection
Salah Hassan Cornell University
Carina Ray, Fordham University
Stacey Langwick, Cornell University
SEPTEMBER 18, 2009 FRIDAY
9:30 – 11:30 am Mobilizing Communities and Resources for the War Effort
Judith Byfield, Cornell University
“Feeding the Troops: Abeokuta and World War II”
Allen M. Howard, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
“The Spatiality of Economic and Social Impacts of World War II on
Freetown and Sierra Leone
1:00 – 3:30 pmWar, Gender and Social Change
Giulia Barrera, Italian Archives Directorate (Italy)
“INTERRACIAL SEXUAL RELATIONS IN ERITREA DURING WW II”
Suryakanthie Chetty, University Of Kwazulu-Natal (South Africa)
“Masculinity in the (South African) Union Defense Force”
Carina Ray, Fordham University
“The Racial Politics of Anti-Prostitution Legislation: World War II and the Sex Trade in British West Africa”
4:00 – 6:00 pm Film “ FDR’s Secret Air Force”
With Film Maker John F. Schwally
September 19 – SATURDAY
9:00 am – 12:00 pmEXPERIENCING WAR IN AFRICA AND EUROPE
Ruth Ginio, Ben Gurion University Of The Negev (Israel)
Freeing France: The Experiences Of Senegalese Soldiers In France
Hailu Habtu, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia)
“ETHIOPIAN WOMEN COMBATANTS AND THE LIBERATION OF ETHIOPIA”
Raffael Scheck, Colby College
“FRENCH AFRICAN POW’s IN GERMANY, 1940 – 1945”
Barbara M. Cooper, Rutgers University – New Burnswick
“American Missions in Wartime French West Africa”
1:00-3:00 pm Interrogating War-time Colonial Policies
Driss Maghraoui, Al Akhawayn University (Morocco)
“World War II and the “Saligan” in Morocco”
Carolyn Brown, Rutgers University– New Brunswick
“African Working men, Racial Consciousness and the Imperial State during World War II: A history of labor in the British colonies.”
Driss Maghraoui
“The Moroccan ‘Effort de Guerre’ in World War II”
3:30-6:00 pmWorld War II & Anti-Colonialism
Elizabeth Schmidt, Department Of History, Loyola College in Maryland
“Resistance & Mobilization: Guinea and World War II”
Ahmad Sikainga, Ohio State University
Sudanese Responses to World War II
Carol Summers, University Of Richmond
“Uganda after World War II”
