Kellogg Featured Session
Thursday, November 30, 10:15am to 12:00pm
II-D-2 Governance in Africa: Contemporary and Historical Trends
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Jaimie Bleck (Chair)
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Rasheed Ibrahim (Presenter)
Paper: The Impact of Institutional Quality on Citizen Compliance: Evidence from Africa
Kellogg International Scholar, Lughano Kabaghe (Presenter)
Paper: Increasing Women’s Political Representation in the Zambian National Assembly
Kellogg Faculty Fellow Bernard Forjwuor (Presenter)
Paper: Decolonizing Self-Determination
Former Visiting Fellow Vladimir Chlouba (Presenter)
Paper: African Traditional Institutions and Support for Democracy
Former Visiting Fellow Leonardo Arriola (Discussant)
Ford Program Session
Friday, December 1, 1:15pm to 3:00pm
Panel: What Can an Integral Human Development Lens Offer for Research, Knowledge Production, and Partnerships between the Global North and Africa?
Assistant Director of the Ford Program, Maurice Sikenyi (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Integral Human Development in Practice: The Centrality of Human Dignity in Research Partnerships and Knowledge Production between the Global North and Africa
Friends of Kellogg ASA Social
Thursday, November 30, 5:30-7:30pm
The Harlequin, 68 4th Street, San Francisco, CA
Join us for Cocktails & Hors D'oeuvres
ASA Congress Highlights
More than 20 Kellogg-affiliated scholars are participating in ASA events this year, listed below in date order.
(Dates based on the preliminary schedule.)
Thursday, November 30, 10:15am to 12:00pm
Panel: Ritual Imaginations
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Fr. Kenneth Amadi (Presenter)
Paper: Thanksgiving, Ritual Development, and Socioeconomic Precarity in Nigeria
Thursday, November 30, 1:15pm to 3:00pm
Panel: Democracy and Statehood in Nigeria After the 2023 Elections, Part I
Former Visiting Fellow, Sebastian Elischer (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Reshaping the Political Arena? Informal Elite Pacts and the 2023 Nigerian General Elections
Thursday, November 30, 3:30pm to 5:15pm
Panel: Democracy and Statehood in Nigeria After the 2023 Elections, Part II
Former Visiting Fellow, Sebastian Elischer (Chair and Discussant)
Thursday, November 30, 3:30pm to 5:15pm
Panel: The Intersectionality of Social and Political Identities
Former Visiting Fellow, Elizabeth Sperber (Presenter)
Paper: How Religious Messaging Affects Young Adult Civic Education Outcomes in Africa: Evidence from a WhatsApp-based Experiment
Former Visiting Fellow, Leonardo Arriola (Discussant)
Paper: Political Effects of Caste in Senegal
Friday, December 1, 10:15am to 12:00pm
Author Meets Critic: Ruling Emancipated Slaves and Indigenous Subjects: The Divergent Legacies of Forced Settlement and Colonial Occupation in the Global South
Former Visiting Fellow, Olukunle Owolabi (Author and Chair)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Paul Ocobock (Panelist)
Friday, December 1, 1:15pm to 3:00pm
Roundtable: Looking into the Future: Cameroon From a Regional and International Perspective
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Ivoline Budji Kefen (Chair)
Friday, December 1, 3:30pm to 5:15pm
Panel: Worlds in Flux: Archaeological Approaches to Globalization in West Africa
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Elizabeth Adeyemo (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Legacies of Craft Production and Shifting Economies in the Igbo Ukwu (9th-12th Century CE) Ceramic Industry
Saturday, December 2, 8:00am to 9:45am
Panel: Women and Children: Slave and Free - Conceptualizing Agency in African History
Notre Dame PhD alum; Former Kellogg Doctoral Affiliate, Esteban Salas
Paper: Forced Labor Before Abolition: The Transformation of a Tribute System Against Portuguese Colonial Expansion in Benguela, 1775- 1875
Saturday, December 2, 10:15am to 12:00pm
Panel: African Human Rights Activism under Political Uncertainty
Former Visiting Fellow, Leonardo Arriola (Chair)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Jaimie Bleck (Presenter)
Paper: Activism Across Political Oscillations: Comparing Activist Strategies in Mali and Côte d’Ivoire
Former Visiting Fellow, Moumouni Soumano (Presenter)
Paper: Rights Rhetoric: How Political Realignments Trigger Linguistic Adaptation
Saturday, December 2, 10:15am to 12:00pm
Panel: AfricaNow! Democratic Backsliding and Strategies of Democratic Resilience
Former Visiting Fellow and Advisory Board member, Rachel Beatty Riedl (Chair)
Kellogg PhD Fellow Alum, Paul Friesen (Presenter)
Saturday, December 2, 1:15pm to 3:00pm
Panel: Mis- and Dis-Information in African Politics and Security
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Rachel Sweet (Presenter)
Paper: Creating Terror: The Politics of (Mis)Information in Civil War Violence, with Evidence from Congo’s Allied Democratic Forces Territory
Saturday, December 2, 1:15pm to 3:00pm
Panel: Virtual Mobilizations
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Ivoline Budji Kefen (Presenter)
Paper: Gendering the Mediatization of Armed Conflict: How Cameroonian Women Utilize Online/Virtual Presences to Intervene in the Anglophone Crisis in Cameroon
Saturday, December 2, 1:15pm to 3:00pm
Panel: Kenya, Decolonization, and US Imperialism
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Paul Ocobock (Chair and Presenter)
Paper: Kenya and the International Coffee Agreement in the Era of Decolonization
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Debora Rogo (Presenter)
Paper: Tom Mboya, Democracy and the Women of the East African Airlift, 1959-1964
Saturday, December 2, 3:30pm to 5:15pm
Author Meets Critic: Parties, Political Finance, and Governance in Africa by Rachel Sigman
Former Visiting Fellow, Leonardo Arriola (Panelist)
Former Visiting Fellow, Sebastian Elischer (Panelist)