WARA - West African Research Association

WARA ASA Participation
(2003-2007)

	African Studies Association 2007 Annual Meeting (New York, NY - Oct. 18-21) 21st Century Africa: Evolving Conceptions of Human Rights (X-L77) Rountable: Researching and Responding to the NYC African Immigrant Community [Empire Ballroom West] [Sponsored by the West African Research Association] Chair: Linda Beck, U of Maine-Farmington Awa Ba, Uppsala U Bakary Thandia, ASA Member Zain Abdullah, Temple U Neinab Eyega, ASA Member Natasha Johnson-Lashley, ASA Member Beth Buggenhagen, Indiana U
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	African Studies Association 2006 Annual Meeting (San Francisco, CA - Nov. 16-19) (Re) Thinking Africa and the World: Internal Reflections, External Responses (III-B18) Challenges to Democracy in West Africa Chair: Jeanne Maddox Toungara, Howard U Jeanne Maddox Toungara, Howard U, Reversing Multiparty Antagonism in Cote d’Ivoire Thomas Kelley, UNC-Chapel Hill, Contemporary Slavery as an Impediment to Democracy in Niger Ngozi Ojiakor, A Case Study of Nigeria:Nigerian Democratic Experience Jose Garcia-Rojas, U de La Laguna, FromRevolution to Evolution: The Democratic Experiments of Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau Boubacar N'Diaye, The College of Wooster, and Boubacar N'Diaye, The College of Wooster, The Colonels, 'Justice, and Democracy':Explaining the August 3, 2005 Coup inMauritania (VIII-I1) Justice in Africa: Legal and Cultural Considerations [Hampton Room] [Sponsored by the West Africa Research Association] Chair: Leigh Swigart, Brandeis U Leigh Swigart, Brandeis U, Justice in Africa:Balancing International Norms and Local Notions Lyn Graybill, Georgia Institute of Technology, Religion and Reconciliation in Sierra Leone Lars Waldorf, The New School, ComparingRwandan Genocide Narratives in Local and International Tribunals Linda Carter, U of the Paci, McGeorge, The Interrelationship of Local, National, and International Responses in Rwanda Omar Dajani, U of the Paci, Legal Responses toEthnic Differences: Rwanda and Burundi Tim Allen, London School of Economics, Justice and Healing
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	African Studies Association 2005 Annual Meeting (Washington, DC - November 17-20) Health, Knowledge, and the Body/Politic in Africa and the African Diaspora Marriott Wardman Park Hotel (X-A10) Gender Relations, Healthcare, and Education (Sponsored by the West Africa Research Association) [Park Tower Small Conference 8206] Chair: Beverly Mack, U of Kansas Beverly Mack, U of Kansas, Medicines in the Harem: Gender-specific Healthcare in Muslim Kano, Nigeria Solange Bandiaky, Clark U, Gender Relations, Sexual Negotiations and HIV/AIDS Prevention in Senegal University Campuses Angela Bratton, Augusta State U, Intersections of Teenage Pregnancy and Sex Education in Ghana (XI-N5) Roundtable: Le Long Voyage de la Femme du Fleuve: Adrian Adams and the Kungani Archive (Sponsored by the West Africa Research Association) [Nathan Hale] Chair: Brett O'Bannon, DePauw U Allison Davis, U of Arizona Papa Meissa Dieng, U Gaston Berger Ellen Foley, U of PA Scott Pennington, Michigan State U – MATRIX
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	African Studies Association 2004 Annual Meeting (New Orleans, LA - November 11-14) The Power of Expression: Identity, Language, and Memory in Africa and the Diaspora (I-K1) Migration, Identity, and Collaboration: West African Musicians in the US (Sponsored by the West African Research Association) [Galvez] Chair: Timothy Mangin, St. Lawrence U Patricia Tang, M.I.T, Migration, Musicianship, and the Making of New Lives, Part II Timothy Mangin, St. Lawrence U, Senegalese and African American Musicians in the New York City Jazz Scene Vera Viditz-Ward, Blomsburg U, Identity and Imagery: Photographs of West African Immigrant Musicians Discussant: Ingrid Monson, Harvard U (X-F1) Roundtable: West African Migration to North America: Fostering New Research (Sponsored by the West African Research Association) [Studio 4] Chair: Beth Buggenhagen, U of Rochester Emmanuel Nnadozie, Truman State U Linda Beck, Barnard College Allen Roberts, UCLA Rachel Reynolds, Drexel U Awa Ba, Uppsala U
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	African Studies Association 2003 Annual Meeting (Boston, MA - October 30 - Nov. 2) Youthful Africa in the 21st Century Sheraton Boston Hotel Boston, Massachusetts Session V: Friday, 1:00-3:00 P.M. (V-Z1) The Noise in the Market: Social Meaning of African Commerce in Refugee, Transnational and National Perspectives Chairs: Beth Anne Buggenhagen, University of Rochester and Rachel R. Reynolds, Drexel University Beth Anne Buggenhagen, University of Rochester, Beauty and Baraka: Female Portraiture, Adorning the Female Body and Value in th Senegalese Murid Trade Diaspora Akosua Keseboa Darkwah, University of Ghana, Makola Globalized: Changed Calculations of 'Last Price' and 'Bargaining Chips' in the Sale of Global Consumer Items Kristina Dziedzic, University of Illinois at Chicago, Culture as Commodity: Jua Kali Art in Lamu, Kenya Dana Rush, University of Illinois, The Idea of "India' in West African Markets and Voduu Practice Stephen Mwachofi Singo, Moi University, Eldoret, Kenya,Dynamics of Socio-Economic Change and Adjustment byWomen in Kenyan Refugee Camps Discussant: Allen F. Roberts, University of California-Los Angeles

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