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Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Klosterberg 23, Basel
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ZASB and Basler Afrika Bibliographien
5th Namibia Research Day
The Namibia Research Day is organised jointly by the Centre for African Studies and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. Participation is free of charge. The Namibia Research Day brings together graduate students and scholars of all levels and from all disciplines to share their research, experiences and expectations. It offers the possibility to discuss ongoing or recently completed research on Namibia in an interdisciplinary context. The Day also offers the possibility for common reflections on a variety of (practical) issues with which researchers in Namibia are faced with, such as archival and institutional opportunities and challenges or questions regarding academic cooperation. The Namibia Research Day explicitly addresses all disciplines, themes and topics. Interested participants are requested to send a research abstract/project summary (not more than one page) and let us know if you are interested in giving a brief presentation. The final format and programme of the Day will be communicated at a later stage, depending on the number of participants and the disciplines represented.
Kindly register by 6 August 2018 for the 5th Namibia Research Day on Friday 5 October 2018 - with either Lena Bloemertz, Geography, University of Basel; or Dag Henrichsen, Basler Afrika Bibliographien; or Giorgio Miescher, Centre for African Studies, University of Basel
Programme:
| 9.00-9.15 | Registration – Refreshments – Welcome |
| 9.15-10.15 | Keynote Martin Hipondoka (University of Namibia): "The Cuvelai-Etosha Basin: environmental and climatic linkages to the operations of the warring parties in the 1966-1989 war for Namibian independence" |
| 10.15-10.45 | Refreshments |
| 10.45-11.45 | Session I: Water and Conservation Histories Meredith McKittrick (Georgetown University, US): "Liquid histories: imaginaries and exploitation of water in Namibia, 1870s-present" Oliver Graefe (University of Fribourg) & Antje Schlottmann (University of Frankfurt, Germany): "Contested construction of wildlife in Namibian conservation practices - a conceptual framework" |
| 11.45-12.45 | Open forum: Research in Namibia – sharing experiences |
| Until 14.00 | Lunch Break |
| 14.00-15.30 | Session II: Resistance, Mobility and Language Histories Andrea Rosengarten (Northwestern University, Evanston, US): “A subversive ethnogenesis: resistance, racial mobility and Nama intellectual history in colonial Namibia, ca. 1820-1980s” Sylvanus Job (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany): “Gender and number resolutions in Khoekhoegowab. Conjunctive noun phrases” Amber Gayle Thalmayer (University of Lausanne): “ǂŪsigu: the structure of character description in Khoekhoegowab” |
| 15.30-16.00 | Refreshments |
| 16.00-17.30 | Session III: Post-colonialities Josué Castro Tomaselli (University of Campinas, Brazil): “’Untying tradition’: post-colonial politics and rhetorical strategies in Namibia” Elise Pape (University of Strasbourg, France): “Ovaherero activists in the United States – transnational legacies of the Ovaherero and Nama genocide” Julia Rensing (University of Freiburg i.B., Germany): “Namibia- Germany – a post-colonial heterotopia? Narratives and negotiations of colonial legacies in Namibia and Germany” |
| 18.30-19.45 | Ethnographic Film Archives Gertrud Boden (University of Frankfurt, Germany): “The ethnographic films by Oswin Köhler and their collaborative editing by Khwe in Namibia – an experiment” |
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