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Twelve ODID academics and DPhils to present at ECAS 2023
ODID will be making a strong showing at the 2023 European Conference on African Studies, which takes place in Cologne on 31 May to 3 June.
Five academics and seven DPhils will be presenting papers and convening panels at the conference, which this year takes the theme African Futures.
They include:
- Professor Jocelyn Alexander, who is convening a panel on ‘The politics of the past as future making in Zimbabwe’ and presenting a paper on ‘Youth dreams and the origins of ZAPU’s armed wing in 1960s Zimbabwe’
- Dr Maxim Bolt, who is convening a panel on ‘The state and its economic futures in Africa: work, wealth, welfare’ and presenting a paper on ‘Sustaining the state in economic futures: the legal field of Johannesburg property inheritance’
- DPhil Julia Hampton, who is presenting a paper on Attaching People to Paper: An ethnography of ‘skills development’ in the Western Cape of South Africa
- Dr Dan Hodgkinson, who is presenting a paper on ‘The Politics of Past Visions: Decolonization, historical praxis and Ghana’s celluloid film archive’
- DPhil Leonie Hoffman who is presenting a paper on ‘“Every day, there is useful work in the country”: negotiating incorporation in a South African public work programme’
- Dr Myfanwy James, who is presenting a paper on ‘The Circle of Security: Everyday Congolese Humanitarianism’
- Professor Loren Landau, who is convening a panel on ‘You have no future here: on speculative place-making, future-making, and migration’
- DPhil Clinarete Munguambe, who is presenting a paper on ‘Liberation Movements and Military Exchanges: Frelimo and ZANU Soldiers fighting Side-by-Side in Rhodesia, 1975-1980’
- DPhil Lena Reim, who is presenting a paper on ‘The Politics of Remembering Gukurahundi: Between State Silencing and Second-Generation Activism’
- DPhil Leila Strelitz, who is presenting a paper on ‘“The Constitution doesn’t realise itself”: South Africa’s Public Interest Litigation Organisations (PILOs) and the negotiations of state-led development’
- DPhil Biruk Terrefe, who is convening a panel on ‘Future borders in the Horn of Africa’, for which he is also a discussant, and is presenting a paper on (Dis)integrating Mandates – the Politics of Infrastructural Interdependence in Dire Dawa, Ethiopia
- DPhil Johanna Wetzel, who is presenting a paper on ‘“Juventude, Avante!” - Youth Perspectives on the Creation of the Organizaçao da Juventude Mocambicana at Independence (1975-1978)’