Kellogg at ASA 2024
Thursday, December 12, 8:00am to 9:45am
Panel: Christianity and Indigeneity
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, William Ikhianosimhe Orbih
Paper: Decolonizing the Gospel of Love in Africa
Thursday, December 12, 8:00am to 9:45am
Panel: Collective Action and Violence in Contemporary Africa
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Ivoline Budji Kefen (chair, presenter)
Paper: The Body as Memory and Voice: Anglophone Cameroonian Women’s Online Corporeal Activism within Armed Conflict
Thursday, December 12, 10:15am to 12:00pm
Panel: International Relations in Africa
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Jaimie Bleck
Paper: Youth Views of Foreign Powers in Côte d’Ivoire
Thursday, December 12, 1:00pm to 3:15pm
Panel: Political and Military Histories of Racism and Ethnicity
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Esteban Salas
Paper: Identifying with “Blackness” for Freedom: Color Labels Before Portuguese Colonial Rule in the Interior of Benguela, Angola, 1770- 1830
Thursday, December 12, 1:00pm to 3:15pm
Panel: Emerging Perspectives on Arts, Music, and Literature in Nigeria and the Diaspora Part II
Former Kellogg Visiting Fellow, Sebastian Elischer
Paper: Regime Protectors, Counter-Terrorism Forces, or Coup Plotters? Understanding Africa's Special Operation Forces
Friday, December 13, 8:00am to 9:45am
Panel: Gender and Indigenous Legal Norms in Colonial Africa
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Paul Friesen
Paper: The benefits of democratic informal and formal leaders across SubSaharan Africa
Friday, December 13, 8:00am to 9:45am
Panel: Accountability, Trust, and Citizen Engagement in African Democracies
Kellogg PhD Fellow, Rasheed Ibrahim
Paper: Accountability in Competitive Elections: Citizen-Elite Dynamics in Incumbency Disadvantage
Friday, December 13, 8:00am to 9:45am
Panel: New Histories of Global Health in Africa
Former Kellogg Visiting Fellow, Betsey Brada (Discussant)
Friday, December 13, 10:15am to 12:00pm
Panel: Shifting Alliances and Dynamic Threats in the Sahel, Part I
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Jaimie Bleck
Paper: “We sit here, but we all come from different places”: Malian Grinw Discussions and Generational Viewpoints Contextualizing the Sahelian Polycrisis
Friday, December 13, 1:30pm to 3:15pm
Panel: Examining Social Cohesion in Africa and America
Kellogg ISP Alumnus Bright Gyamfi (Chair)
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Kalin McKenzie Bennett
Paper: The Causes and Consequences of White Allyship
Discussants: Kellogg Faculty Fellow Bernard Forjwuor, and Kellogg PhD Alumnus Paul Friesen
Friday, December 13, 3:45pm to 5:30pm
Panel: Beyond Profit – Extracting and Assessing the Scope of Violence in West Africa's Mining Industry Part III: Labor and Globalization in African Mines
Kellogg Doctoral Student Affiliate, Sarah Pollnow
Paper: Extraction in the name of Development: Racialized Labor and Liberianization in an American-Managed Mining Concession, 1958- 1978
Saturday, December 14, 8:00am to 9:45pm
Panel: Democracy and Dictatorship in Africa and Latin America, Part I
Kellogg Institute Director, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (chair)
Saturday, December 14, 10:15am to 12:00pm
Panel: Democracy and Dictatorship in Africa and Latin America, Part II
Kellogg Institute Director, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (chair)
Kellogg Faculty Fellow, Bernard Forjwuor
Paper: On the Crisis of Democracy: A Colonial Critique
Kellogg Faculty, Magdalena Lopez
Paper: Angola and Cuba: A Post-Liberationist Critique of 'Latin African' Identity
Saturday, December 14, 10:15am to 12:00pm
Panel: Neoliberalism and Economic History across Twentieth-century Africa
Former Kellogg Visiting Fellow, Alice Wiemers (chair, presenter)
Paper: Revolution, Neoliberalism, and Expert Worlds in 1980s Ghana
Saturday, December 14, 3:45pm to 5:30pm
Panel: Civic Engagement and Democratization in Africa
Kellogg PhD Alumnus, Paul Friesen
Paper: Democratic Policymaking in Community: Deliberation, Consensus and Collective Action
Saturday, December 14, 8:00am to 9:45am
Panel: The Political Economy of Development Trajectories
Former Kellogg Visiting Fellow and PhD Alumnus, Olukunle Owolabi
Paper: The Historical Roots of Cape Verde's Democratic Development: Colonial state legacies and postcolonial outcomes in Portuguese Africa