The IASG will sponsor the following panels at the 67th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association in Chicago, IL:
Thursday, December 12
Author Meets Critic. Faith-based Student Activism in Togo and Benin: Muslims and Christians on University Campuses
Session Time: 12/12/2024, 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Session Room: Purdue (6th floor)
Chair: Katrina Daly Thompson, UW-Madison
Author: Frédérick Madore, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
- Ebenezer Obadare, Council on Foreign Relations
- Benjamin Lawrance, University of Arizona
- Leonardo Villalón, University of Florida
- Marius Kothor, Harvard University
Roundtable: The History of Islam and Muslim Societies in Africa in Question, Part I
Session Time: 12/12/2024, 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM
Session Room: Houston (5th floor)
Chair: Benjamin Soares, University of Florida
- Wendell Marsh, Rutgers University-Newark
- Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Rabiat Akande, York University
- Felicitas Becker, University of Ghent
Roundtable: The History of Islam and Muslim Societies in Africa in Question, Part II
Session Time: 12/12/2024, 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Session Room: Houston (5th floor)
Chair: Wendell Marsh, Rutgers University
- Britta Frede, Bayreuth University
- Shobana Shankar, Stony Brook University
- Kimberly Wortmann, Wake Forest University
- Ngala Chome, University of Ghent
Friday, December 13
Historical Narrative Construction in Two West African Kingdoms
Session Time: 12/13/2024, 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Session Room: Ohio State (6th floor)
Chair: Rebecca Shereikis, Northwestern University
- Another look at the Second Appendix of the Chronique du Chercheur (Ali Diakité, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library)
- Scholars and Sultans in the Seventeenth-Century Tārīkh Ibn al- Mukhtār (Zachary Wright, Northwestern University in Qatar)
- Vassals and Slaves in the Nineteenth-Century Tārīkh al-fattāsh (Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Author Meets Critic. Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria
Session Time: 12/13/2024, 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Session Room: Watertower (10th floor)
Chair: Noah Salomon, University of Virginia
Book Title: Entangled Domains: Empire, Law and Religion in Northern Nigeria
Author: Rabiat Akande, Osgoode Hall Law School, York University
- Oludamini Ogunnaike, University of Virginia
- Alexander Thurston, University of Cincinnati
- Kimberly Wortmann, Wake Forest University
- Wendell Marsh, Rutgers University-Newark
Mediating Islam: Voices, Visions, and Journeys in Africa and Beyond
Session Time: 12/13/2024, 1:30 PM – 3:15 PM
Session Room: Minnesota (6th floor)
Chair: Frédérick Madore, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
- Muslim Women on the Air and in the Workplace: Insights from Ethnographic Work at a Tanzanian Radio Station (Katrina Daly Thompson, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- The circulation of print press between Cairo and West Africa at the turn of the 20th century (Siga Maguiraga, European University Institute)
- Mobility, Migration, Genealogy, and Religious Authority: The Qadiri Branches of Ndankh and Ndiassane, Senegal (Maria Grosz-Ngaté, Indiana University)
- Spiritual Counterclaims and Contested Sovereignty: Religion and Politics in the Nineteenth-Century World of ʿUmar Tall and Ahmad al-Bakkay (Amir Syed, University of Virginia)
Islamic Poetry of West Africa
Session Time: 12/13/2024, 3:45 PM – 5:30 PM
Session Room: Minnesota (6th floor)
Chair: Oludamini Ogunnaike, University of Virginia
- Reimagining West African Arabic Poetry: Politics, Satire, and Global Citizenship in Malik Siwār’s “Anīn al-Waṭan” (Jibril Gabid, University of Wisconsin)
- “If They Depicted Me in Reality”: Sheikh Ibrahim Niasse’s Islamic Love Poem Ṭabībī (Nicholas Judt, Harvard University)
- Love for the Sandals: Ibn Razikah’s Qasidah and its legacy (Abubakar Abdulkadir, University of Alberta)
Saturday, December 14
Cross-border Dynamics and Local Responses in the Sahel: Security, Religion and Diplomacy
Session Time: 12/14/2024, 8:00 AM – 9:45 AM
Session Room: Northwestern (6th floor)
Chair: Frédérick Madore, Leibniz-Zentrum Moderner Orient
- Borders, faith and security: understanding resilience strategies in the Sahel (Fousseyni Touré, Faculté des Sciences Administratives et Politiques de Bamako and Mohamed Lamine Diakité, Faculté des Sciences Administratives et Politiques de Bamako)
- Between jihadism and religious diplomacy: navigating the security crisis in the Sahel Bakary (Fouraba Traore, Faculté des Sciences Administratives et Politiques de Bamako)
- Religion, Radicalisation and Resilience: Perspectives on Cross-Border Security in the Sahel (Seyni Mamoudou Ibrahim, University of Bayreuth)
- Gender and the Just-War Tradition of al-Hajj Umar Tal (Joseph M. Bradshaw, Augusta University)
Roundtable. Building Maktaba: Reflections on a West African Arabic Manuscript Translation and Access Project
Session Time: 12/14/2024, 10:15 AM – 12:00 PM
Session Room: Minnesota (6th floor)
Chair: Zekeria Ahmed Salem, Northwestern University
- Paul Naylor, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library
- Ragy Mikhaeel, Northwestern University
- Rebecca Shereikis, Northwestern University
- Mauro Nobili, University of Illinois