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Mobility in the Greater Senegambian Region: Migrations, Politics, and Popular Culture
October 2, 2021
Mobility in the Greater Senegambian Region: Migrations, Politics, and Popular Culture
A Senegambian Studies Group Virtual Conference
Saturday, October 2, via Zoom (all times EST)
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8: 50 am – 9: 00 am: Introduction and Welcome (Bamba Ndiaye, Cornell University)
Session I: 9:00 am – 10:05 am: The Fluctuating Meaning of Senegambia
Chair: Amadou Fofana (Willamette University)
County, Brandon (Oberlin College): “Allochthony and Contested Connection in Senegambia’s Eastern Hinterlands: Saint-Louisians, Sereers, and Sahelians, 1940s-1980s.”
Glovsky, David (University of Albany): “Making a New Home in a Time of War: Migrants to Senegal during Guinea-Bissau’s War for Independence.”
Valdespino, Gregory (University of Chicago): “Building Home/Building Power: Foyers and Communal Belonging among Senegalese Migrants in Interwar Marseille.”
Discussant: Aly Drame (Dominican University)
Session II: 10:15 am – 11:05 am: Language, Gender, and Identity in Transnational Senegambia
Chair: Marame Gueye (East Carolina University)
Gueye, Astou Fall (University of Wisconsin): “Being Jongé Abroad: A Discursive Negotiation of Senegalese Femininities.”
Smith, Maya (University of Washington): “Senegal Abroad: Language as Mobility in the Senegalese Diaspora.”
Discussant: Cheikh Thiam (School of International Training)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 11:15 am – 12:15 pm (Martin Klein, University of Toronto)
“Boubacar Barry’s Senegambia: The Role of Mobility in Integrating the Region”
Moderator: Babacar M’Baye (Kent State University)
Session III: 1:15 pm – 2:20 pm: Trade and Networks of Mobility
Chair: Bronwen Everill (University of Cambridge)
Manneh, Lamin (University of Michigan): “The Rise and Fall of a Woman’s Inter-Colonial Trade: Kola Nuts, New British Imperialism and Old Trade Networks In late 19th Gambia.”
Sweet, Nikolas (Grinnell College): “Mobility in the Greater Senegambian Region: Migrations, Politics, and Popular Culture.”
Zimmerman, Sarah (Western Washington University): “Gender, Authority, and Enslavability: Making African Community on Eighteenth-Century Gorée Island.”
Discussant: Mark Deetz (American University Cairo)
Session IV: 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm: The Senegambian Influence in American Culture and Music
Chair: Ibra Sene (Wooster College)
M’Baye, Babacar (Kent State University): “The Connections Between Pape Niang’s Music and Blues of the Black Diaspora.”
Wilson-Fall, Wendy (Lafayette College): “Senegambian Mobilities and Impacts on American Popular Culture Today and Yesterday.”
Discussant: Timothy Mangin (Boston College)
3:30 pm – 3:10 pm: Closing and Announcements (Niklas Hultin, George Mason University)