C12: The Substance of African and Middle Eastern Literatures

Seminar Leader: Rebecca Lorins, University of Texas - Austin

Friday, April 16, 2:00 � 4:00 PM, Bangor

Matthew J. Christensen, University of Texas � Pan American: �Diamonds, Slavery, and the Uses of History in Sierra Leonean Drama and Visual Art�

Rebecca Lorins, University of Texas at Austin: �Em-power-ment: Oil and the Engineering of Modern Sensibilities�

Jennifer Wenzel, University of Michigan: �What Tapsters See in Nigerian Fiction: Palm, Petroleum, and Publishing�

Laura Murphy, Harvard University: �Human Resources: Reconstructing the Life of the African Slave Trader in the Diary of Antera Duke�

Saturday, April 17, 2:00 � 4:00 PM, Bangor

Peter Carravetta, CUNY/Queens College: �Geography, Translation, Colonization: The Italians in the Horn of Africa 1860-1900�

Laura Beny, University of Michigan: �Natural (and Human) Resources, Indigenous People, and International Law: A Sudan Case Study�

Oliver Tchouaffe, University of Texas � Austin: �Natural Resources, Filmmakers, and the Recover of Indigenous Property Rights in Cameroon�