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ECAS 2009
3rd European Conference on African Studies
Leipzig, 4 to 7 June 2009
The conference is organised by the European network AEGIS and supported by the Ministry of Science and the Fine Arts (State of Saxony), the University of Leipzig, the European Network in Universal and Global History, and the Small Enterprise Promotion and Training Program.

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Approved Panels for ECAS 3

folder icon Round Table 5: The impact of APRM on good governance in Africa
folder icon Round Table 4: Global Trade and Regional Integration Challenges and Perspectives for Africa
folder icon Round Table 3: AEGIS Round Table: European-African dialogue on research cooperation
folder icon Round Table 2: The Occult
folder icon Round Table 1: Sudan at the Crossroads: Perspectives and Visions beyond Fragmentation
folder icon Panel 158: Modes of Message: Lives narrated, Memories performed, Bodies in speech and Women in action (Annekie Joubert)
folder icon Panel 157: Respacing the Local / Trade (Frederick Ahriweng-Obeng)
folder icon Panel 156: Regionalism and Borderlands in Africa: Challenging the Security and Integrity of the State (Nikolas Emmanuel)
folder icon Panel 154: Building places, reconfiguring spaces: exploring new forms of economic, social, and political life in Africa (Karel Arnaut)
folder icon Panel 153: Darfur, Chad and CAR - Spaces of war versus regionalisation and history (Roland Marchal)
folder icon Panel 151: Local Strategies of Adaptation to Climate Change in Africa (Irit Eguavoen)
folder icon Panel 150: New perspectives on urban studies in Africa (Laurent Fourchard / Scarlett Cornelissen)
folder icon Panel 149: Cross-border Trade in Africa: Indigenous Development or Criminality? (Kristof Titeca, Kate Meagher)
folder icon Panel 148: Reflections on Africa's Integration project (AISA / Matlotleng Matlou)
folder icon Panel 147: Transitions in Central and Southern Africa (2/3): Conflict and Identity in late 20th Century Central and Southern Africa (Miles Larmer / Ian Phimister)
folder icon Panel 146: Transitions in Central and Southern Africa (1): Democratisation, populism and power politics in Southern Africa (Henning Melber)
folder icon Panel 145: Disciplining Nature. Continuity and Change in Land and Environment Conservation Policies in sub-Saharan Africa (Mario Zamponi)
folder icon Panel 144: Social and Cultural Elements in Conflict Formation in the Sahel (Aleksi Ylönen)
folder icon Panel 143: Sports hunting in southern Africa: from colonial imagery to modern-day industry (Harry Wels / Marja Spierenburg / Chris Boonzaaier)
folder icon Panel 142: African waters - water in Africa, barriers, paths, and resources: their impact on language, literature and history of people (Manfred von Roncador)
folder icon Panel 140: Navigating Urban Space (Henrik Vigh / Mats Utas)
folder icon Panel 139: African Studies on the web - new possibilities and new services for academic research (Ulf Vierke / Hartmut Bergenthum)
folder icon Panel 138: Text, subtext and context: Considering the relation between text work and field work in research on African literary texts (Clarissa Vierke)
folder icon Panel 137: Ten Years into the African Union: Many Changes, No Breakthrough? (Klaas van Walraven / Ulf Engel)
folder icon Panel 136: African and Asian development paths (Jan Kees van Donge)
folder icon Panel 135: Poverty and Peace in the African Countries: debate on the possible correlations (Cristina Rodrigues Udelsmann)
folder icon Panel 134: India as Rising Power in Africa (Kumar Suresh)
folder icon Panel 133: Beyond "going native": challenges of empirical social science research in rural Africa (Till Stellmacher)
folder icon Panel 132: Contested Space in the Horn of Africa: regional and spatial conflicts in their economical, political and cultural contexts (Monika Maria Sommer / Alexander Meckelburg)
folder icon Panel 131: Transnational Influences on South African Resistance Politics (Thula Simpson)
folder icon Panel 130: New Directions in East African Legal History (Brett Shadle)
folder icon Panel 129: Transnational African Migrations, Inequality and Remittances (Ulrike Schuerkens)
folder icon Panel 128: States, diasporas, citizenship: New forms of political subjectivity in Africa (Katharina Schramm / Kristine Krause)
folder icon Panel 127: The Zimabwean Crisis beyond the first steps of political settlement (Beatrice Schlee)
folder icon Panel 126: Dynamics of disintegration and collapse: African Societies facing hunger, violence and migration (Ulrich Schiefer)
folder icon Panel 125: Imagining Islamic Centers : Reshaping Locality through Shifting Affiliations (Tabea Scharrer / Britta Frede)
folder icon Panel 124: Taxation in Tropical Africa – the colonial disrupting mark (Maciel Santos / Alexander Keese)
folder icon Panel 122: Reviewing the African frontier: XXI century new and old 'citizenries' (Albert Roca)
folder icon Panel 121: Textwork / fieldwork : on swahili and other horizons (Alain Ricard)
folder icon Panel 120: The Significance of Model United Nations (MUNs) for Respacing Africa (Conrad Rein)
folder icon Panel 119: The impact of 'Space' on Culture and Politics in Southern Africa (Monika Reif-Huelser)
folder icon Panel 118: Children and migration in Africa: an interdisciplinary perspective (Elodie Razy / Marie Rodet)
folder icon Panel 117: Philosophical Perspectives on Re-scaling and Re-shaping Africa (Gail Presbey)
folder icon Panel 116: "Beijing-Cosensus" versus "Post-Washington Consensus"? China's Impact on Africa's socio-economic spaces (Christian Post / Benita Krebs)
folder icon Panel 115: Towards an African Peace and Security Regime: Institutionalisation, norm promotion and Continental embeddedness of the AU’s Peace and Security Architecture (Joao Gomes Porto)
folder icon Panel 113: Place, scale and reward: Africa’s role in the global economy (Stefano Ponte)
folder icon Panel 112: Reshaping Africa-exhibits (Barbara Plankensteiner)
folder icon Panel 110: Fighting poverty at the urban local level in Southern Africa: experiences from below (Antonio Pezzano)
folder icon Panel 109: Post-war rehabilitation processes in Sub-Saharan Africa: challenges and learned lessons (Karlos Pérez de Armiño)
folder icon Panel 108: The conflict in Darfur: destruction or re-struction? (Regine Penitsch / Karin Willemse)
folder icon Panel 107: Absence as space of emergence. Day-to-day coping with social exclusion, transnationalism and globalization (Cristiana Panella / Clemens Zobel)
folder icon Panel 106: Writing the oral: The building of history and the notions of 'past' and 'present' (Manuela Palmeirim / Manuel JOÃO RAMOS)
folder icon Panel 105: Conflicts and Conceptions of African Identities (Oyeniyi Okunoye)
folder icon Panel 104: Sex, silence, gender, power (Signe Arnfred / Elina Oinas)
folder icon Panel 103: Globalization and African Self Determination (Severus Ifeanyi Odoziobodo)
folder icon Panel 102: The link between development and indigenous knowledge: An African rebirth (Francis Ondit Odari)
folder icon Panel 101: Peace Building in Africa: National, Regional and Global Perspectives (Cyril Obi / Kwesi Aning)
folder icon Panel 99: Connecting technologies and social change: empirical findings and theoretical analysis (Dieter Neubert / Rijk van Dijk)
folder icon Panel 98: Violent Respacing in Kenya? History, Dynamics and Future Implications of the 2007-08 Post-Election Crisis (Dieter Neubert / Axel Harneit-Sievers)
folder icon Panel 97: Contesting Global Hegemony, Popular Culture and Citizenship in Africa (Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni)
folder icon Panel 96: Towards a harmonization of urban statistical indicators in Western Africa (Francois Moriconi-Ebrard)
folder icon Panel 95: A critical appraisal of Lusofonia as seen through cultural practices in Portuguese-speaking Africa (Marissa Moorman)
folder icon Panel 94: Testing for and Treating HIV/AIDS: Social and Cultural Explanations for Failure (Fraser McNeill)
folder icon Panel 93: A Continent Transformed?: The Utility of the “Neo-Liberal” Explanation in African Studies (Jason Sumich)
folder icon Panel 92: African Migration to Europe (Robert McKenzie / Alessandro Triulzi)
folder icon Panel 91: Spatialities of Hip Hop Music in Africa (Jenny F. Mbaye)
folder icon Panel 90: (Re-)mapping Eritrea in the Cultural Imagination: narratives of the nation in literature, theatre, film, and the new media (Christine Matzke)
folder icon Panel 89: Africa’s Interregional South-South Relations (Frank Mattheis)
folder icon Panel 88: Patrimonial Issues and Territorial Recompositions (Jean-Luc Martineau / Laurent Manière)
folder icon Panel 87: The transformation of power relations in the social, religious and economic recompositions of North- and West-African societies (Laurence Marfaing)
folder icon Panel 85: Risk awareness, discourses and the constitution of new social spaces (Elisio Macamo / Lena Bloemertz)
folder icon Panel 84: Itineraries and the constitution of spaces: Cross-disciplinary perspectives on mobilities in Africa and beyond (Alexandra Lübcke)
folder icon Panel 83: Regionalizing Africa. Developing Theory and Empiricism on Region-Building (Ulrike Lorenz / Fredrik Söderbaum)
folder icon Panel 82: Trans-local entanglements and local disputes Muslims in contemporary Africa (Roman Loimeier)
folder icon Panel 80: Religious NGOs as new agents of change in African societies (Marie Nathalie LeBlanc / Muriel Gomez-Perez)
folder icon Panel 79: African Health Worker Migration to Europe: Problems, Prospects, Policies (Andrew Lawrence )
folder icon Panel 78: New Research in Ghanaian Colonial History (Dennis Laumann)
folder icon Panel 76: Visualising Migration, Exclusion, and Representation in South Africa (Loren Landau)
folder icon Panel 75: Refiguring Mobility, Space, and Sovereignty in Southern Africa (Loren Landau)
folder icon Panel 74: Restructuring and re-inventing the public in Africa: translocal and transnational gendered spaces (Gudrun Lachenmann / Dorothea Schulz)
folder icon Panel 72: ‘Respacing Zimbabwe: the Zimbabwean diaspora and its transnational activities in the United Kingdom’ (Jenny Kuhlmann)
folder icon Panel 71: The worlds missionaries made? (Silke Strickrodt)
folder icon Panel 70: Re-imagining and re-configuring the nation (Reinhart Kössler)
folder icon Panel 69: Revisiting the African frontier (Benedikt Korf / Tobias Hagmann)
folder icon Panel 68: Death, deceit and other personal disasters: When connections backfire (Gabriel Klaeger / Julie Soleil Archambault)
folder icon Panel 67: Spaces of (In)Security (Thomas Kirsch)
folder icon Panel 66: Locating and re-locating the poor: spatial dimensions of economic interaction (Robert Kappel)
folder icon Panel 65: Reclaiming religious space: the Africanization of Christianity in West-Africa (Werner Kahl)
folder icon Panel 64: African literacies (Kasper Juffermans / Yonas M. Asfaha)
folder icon Panel 63: European and African Spatial Knowledge: Cartography of Africa 1850-1914 (Adam Jones)
folder icon Panel 62: Historical Roots of Poverty and Well-Being in African Countries (Morten Jerven)
folder icon Panel 61: African Studies and Perspectives on Comparative Literature (Matthew Iwuchukwu)
folder icon Panel 60: Topographies of Rule (Jana Hönke)
folder icon Panel 58: Diasporic political engagement in Africa Social and economic remittances and their roles in ‘development’, ‘democratization’, and ‘peace building’ (Markus Höhne)
folder icon Panel 57: Engendering respaced Africa, respacing gender in Africa - how do we articulate gender and spatial perspectives? (Elisabeth Hofmann)
folder icon Panel 56: Fragmented and fluid urbanities (Christine Hentschel)
folder icon Panel 55: Pasting the Landscape: Posters, archives and visualities (Dag Henrichsen)
folder icon Panel 54: The location of Africa : historicity of the localities on the move (Benoit Hazard)
folder icon Panel 53: News, Networks and Nationalism: Print Cultures in West Africa 1860-1960 (Charlotte Hastings)
folder icon Panel 52: Africa and the Indian Ocean (Patrick Harries / Preben Kaarsholm)
folder icon Panel 51: Spatial transformations in African towns (Holly Hanson / Alessandro Gusman)
folder icon Panel 50: Chiefs as Politicians and Developers: Postcolonial Transformations in Local Arenas in West Africa (Sten Hagberg)
folder icon Panel 49: Changing mediascapes and new media entrepreneurs in Africa (Tilo Grätz / Birgit Meyer)
folder icon Panel 48: Waterscapes in Africa. The respacing of basins, markets and networks (Olivier Graefe / Detlef Mueller-Mahn)
folder icon Panel 47: Reinventing the International in Africa? (Marie Gibert / Julia Gallagher)
folder icon Panel 46: From Porters and Canoe-men to Busboys and Railwaymen, towards a social history of Labour and Transport in Africa (Jan-Bart Gewald)
folder icon Panel 45: From Nation-building to The Politics of Belonging : Citizenship, Governmentalities and Biopolitics (Richard Banegas / Armando Cutolo / Peter Geschiere)
folder icon Panel 44: On Biomedicine, Governance and Experimentation (3): Experimental subjectivity: emerging forms of citizenship in African contexts (Wenzel Geissler)
folder icon Panel 43: On Biomedicine, Governance and Experimentation (2): Africa as a laboratory: questioning implementation research and humanitarian innovation (Virginie Tallio)
folder icon Panel 42: On Biomedicine, Governance and Experimentation (1): Biomedicine and governance: theorizing the relations between science and administration (Babette Mueller-Rockstroh)
folder icon Panel 41: African cities: urban and social transformation (Sonia Frias)
folder icon Panel 40: Circuits of Success: Figures of Political and Cultural Innovation, I and II (Bodil Folke Frederiksen)
folder icon Panel 39: Urban Visual Culture (Till Förster)
folder icon Panel 38: Re(-)Placing Theory in African Studies: Ifa Divination Corpus, Origins, Universality and the Integration of Epistemology (Nelson Fashina)
folder icon Panel 37: The coming back to power of divine kingship in Africa (Albert Farrè Ventura)
folder icon Panel 36: Africa in the Emerging Space of Globalism: Rethinking the Philosophy of Globalization (Muyiwa Falaiye)
folder icon Panel 35: Transformations, Continuities and Dilemmas for the Capeverdean Contemporary Society. Some issues for the social sciences (Iolanda Maria Alves Évora)
folder icon Panel 34: Youth as a political factor in post-colonial Africa (Birgit Englert)
folder icon Panel 33: Art scenes in Africa and the global art world (Ficquet Eloi)
folder icon Panel 31: ‘Indigenous’ African borders: empirical examples and theoretical interpretations (Gregor Dobler)
folder icon Panel 30: Aid (in)efficiency and challenges to state rehabilitation (Tom De Herdt)
folder icon Panel 28: Negotiating distances, reshaping immediacy. FulBe communities in emerging translocal settings (Riccardo Ciavolella / Lotte Pelckmans)
folder icon Panel 27: CREATING FP7 Project on East african territorial integration (Bernard Charlery de la Masselière)
folder icon Panel 26: Doing research in African spaces as young researchers (Fanny Chabrol / Edrich-Nathanaël Tsotsa)
folder icon Panel 25: Re-locating Africa in the Indian Ocean World (Gwyn Campbell)
folder icon Panel 24: Counselling Africa: Speech and Contestations over Family, Sexuality, Health and the Body (Marian Burchardt / Rijk Van Dijk)
folder icon Panel 23: In Between War and Peace – Spaces of Transition in Africa (Anna-Maria Brandstetter / Susanne Buckley-Zistel)
folder icon Panel 22: The ‘deviant’ children of Africa: Youth, crime and the juridical/penitentiary system in Africa (Lorenzo Bordonaro)
folder icon Panel 20: States, public bureaucracies and civil servants: Organisational fields and actors' practices (Thomas Bierschenk)
folder icon Panel 19: Translating Conflict (Andrea Behrends)
folder icon Panel 18: Political parties and the space in Africa (Anika Moroff / Sebastian Elischer)
folder icon Panel 17: Violent actors and the re-shaping of political orders in Africa (Kerstin Bauer)
folder icon Panel 16: Medicine, Science, and the Location of Africa (Manuela Bauche / Stefan Hoffmann / Mari K. Webel)
folder icon Panel 15: Conflict and Space: Secessionist and autonomy conflicts in sub-Saharan Africa (Matthias Basedau)
folder icon Panel 13: Space and Place in African Sports (Susann Baller)
folder icon Panel 12: The role of schools in the reconfiguration of territories (Céline Badiane-Labrune)
folder icon Panel 11: ‘We Tried but they Failed’ - Critical Perspectives on Interventionism in Africa (Jan Bachmann)
folder icon Panel 10: Africa And Neoliberal Conduct - Reexamining Governmentality (Jan Bachmann)
folder icon Panel 9: A Bitter Neoliberal Pill: Land Titling and Conflict in Africa (Kelly Askew)
folder icon Panel 8: Preserving Economic Policy Space in Africa (Helmut Asche)
folder icon Panel 6: Representation e self-representation in lusophone african space (Livia Apa)
folder icon Panel 5: Natural resources and livelihoods of the poor in the Great Lakes Region: Orphans of the quest for growth in the era of globalisation? (An Ansoms)
folder icon Panel 4: Children's Rights in Ghana: Rhetoric or Reality? (Robert Ame / Agbenyiga DeBrenna)
folder icon Panel 3: Globalisation and African mode of Revisiting Traditional ‘Science’ (Adebisi Ademakinwa)
folder icon Panel 2: Alternative Economic Spaces: Africa's Emerging Markets (Caryn Abrahams)
folder icon Panel 1: Contested Public Spaces: Politics and religious movements in contemporary Northeast Africa (Jon Abbink / Alexandra M. Dias)
Africa-Europe Group for Interdisciplinary Studies  ENIUGH  Sächisches Staatsministerium für Wissenschaft und Kunst  SEPT  Hanns Seidel Stiftung
Universität Leipzig  Lufthansa  Heinrich Böll Stiftung
Friedrich Ebert Stiftung   Deutsche Gesellschaft für Technische Zusammenarbeit   Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

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