The Nordic Africa Institute

Conference

Nordic Africa Days 2018

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Time • 19 Sep 2018 17:00 - 21 Sep 2018 19:00

Expanding the discourse on Africa
2018 theme: African Mobilities – Reshaping narratives and practices of circulation and exchange

The Nordic Africa Days (NAD) is the leading academic conference on Africa in the Nordics, organised by the Nordic Africa Institute since 1997. NAD provides a vibrant platform for researchers to critically expand the discourse on Africa. The conference attracts Africanists from across the world, including a high representation of scholars from the African continent.

NAD 2018 focused on African Mobilities – Reshaping narratives and practices of circulation and exchange, and took place in Uppsala, Sweden, 19-21 September 2018.


With support from Sida

Sida, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, generously supports the Nordic Africa Days 2018.

Mobilities have always been central to economic, social, cultural, and political formations across the African continent. In light of rising concerns over mass displacement and irregular migration towards the global North, the movement of people tends to be seen in an intellectually limiting and politically hostile manner.

 

The unequal distribution of social mobility continues to raise concerns relating to economic and political prospects for African polities. These different mobilities, moreover, combine and overlap in significant ways that are often neglected in public debates and policy initiatives.

 

By highlighting the multiplicity of mobilities that characterise contemporary Africa and the wider world today, as well as the social, cultural, economic and political anchorage of these movements in localised understandings and agendas, the theme African Mobilities encourages a holistic understanding of human movements as embedded in wider webs of circulation and exchange.

WEDNESDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

16:00
Pre-registration
Venue: The Nordic Africa Institute, Villavägen 6, Uppsala

18:00 - 19:00
Welcome reception and mingle in the library of the Nordic Africa Institute

 

THURSDAY 20 SEPTEMBER - VENUE: UPPSALA UNIVERSITY BUILDING, BISKOPSGATAN 3, UPPSALA

08:00 - 09:00
Registration of participants

9:00
Panel session 1

10:30
Coffee break

10:45
Welcome from the NAD 2018 Organisers

Keynote address: Kah Walla
Kah Walla, political leader, social activist and entrepreneur from Cameroon, is president of the Cameroon Gender and Development Network, and founder of Cameroon Ô’Bosso, a citizenship movement to help the grassroots organize to defend its interests.

12:00
Lunch

13:00
Panel session 2

14:30
Short break

14:40
Roundtable on the Mediterranean Crisis incl Coffee break with Moroccan specialities

Panel session 3

16:10
Coffee break

16:30
Panel session 4

18.00 - 19:00
Book launches, special events, mingle

19:30 - 22:30
Conference dinner at Norrlands Nation, Västra Ågatan 14, Uppsala

 

FRIDAY 21 SEPTEMBER - VENUE: UPPSALA UNIVERSITY BUILDING, BISKOPSGATAN 3, UPPSALA

9:00
Panel session 5

10:30
Coffee break

11:00
Keynote address: Francis NyamnjohFrancis Nyamnjoh, Professor of anthropology at University of Cape Town, South Africa, has written extensively on issues as diverse as democratization, ethnicity and regionalism in Africa, globalization, and the role and place of the media in Africa.

12:00
Lunch

13:00
Panel session 6

14:30
Short break

14:40
Roundtable on Decolonisation and Social Media

Panel session 7

16:10
Coffee break

16:30 - 18:00
Panel session 8

18:00
Film screening “Medan vi lever” / “While we live”
With opening address by Dani Kouyate, film director from Burkina Faso.
Co-arranged with Vänskapsgruppen för afrikansk film.

Below are the conference panels of NAD 2018 according to latest status:

PANEL TITLE/ PANEL ORGANISER/S

2.
Gender, Mobility and Change
Diana H. Madsen

3.
Mobility, violence and peace culture
Victor Adetula and Cyril Obi

4.
Re-viewing the Gender-Migration nexus
Titilope F. Ajayi and Margaret Monyani

5.
African Women Migrants: Reflections Along the Journey
Hanna Amanuel, Danait Mengist and Luwam Dirar

6.
Digital Mobilities: Representation and Self-Representation of the Digital African Citizen
Hilde Arntsen and Ylva Ekström

7.
Beyond marginality. Ambiguities and potentialities of informality in Africa
Anna Baral and Cristiano Lanzano

8.
Rethinking gendered mobilities and immobilities
Johanna Bergman Lodin

9.
Rural change and the ‘new’ resource frontiers in Africa
Atakilte Beyene and Terje Oestigaard

10.
Invisible Displacements
Between Labour Migration and Forced Displacement in African Transnational Spaces
Jesper Bjarnesen

11.
Livestock moving into cities – goods and bads in the rural-urban linkage
Sofia Boqvist, Carl-Johan Lagerkvist and Ulf Magnusson

12.
Regional integration amid changing global balances: Considering the prospects for an African Economic Community
Christopher Changwe Nshimbi

13.
Engaging Africa Diaspora in Knowledge Transfer through Networking
Linley Chiwona-Karltun and Fred Asiegbu

14.
Migration TO Africa: movements and concepts
Martin Doevenspeck and Asaf Augusto

15.
Contested flows of people, policies, concepts, discourses and images
Jónína Einarsdóttir and Pétur Skúlason Waldorff

18.
Little migrations? Children and teenagers mobility experiences from, to and within African continent (19th-21th)
Giacomo Ghedini and Giulia Consoli

19.
A Gender Perspective on African Mobilities
Amanda Gouws

20.
Security from below
Civil society, self-defence movements and the rule of law
Sten Hagberg

21.
Conceptualizing Youth Mobility
Kajsa Hallberg Adu and Michael Boampong

22.
The gendered dynamics of mobility and migration
Mathabo Khau

23.
Gendered Mobilities in Science Technology and Innovation in Africa
Rufai Haruna Kilu

25.
Conflicts, Climate Change and Involuntary Mobility in Africa
Anthony Kola-Olusanya

28.
Knowledge Production and Decolonization in African and Development Studies
Henning Melber

31.
African Migrants in Times of Crisis
Robtel Neajai Pailey

32.
Women, men, language and movement: African language and gender (im)mobilities
Taiwo Oloruntoba-Oju

34.
The meanings of migration: Connecting inequality and the culture of migration in West Africa
Erlend Paasche and Gunvor Jónsson

35.
Africans in diaspora and the Media
Abiodun Salawu

36.
Reaching wider worlds: Educational mobility and Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D)
Nima Shidende, Faraja Igira, Hector Mongi and Christina Mortberg

37.
African migrants' vulnerability, regional social policy development, and pan-africanist ideals
Christal O. Spel and Jimi Adesina

39.
Beyond Warfare – Consolidating Africa’s Piecemeal Peace
Anders Themnér

40.
Suspicious Medical Matters
Ulrika Trovalla

41.
Terrorism and forced migration in Africa in the 21st century
Delmas Tsafack

42.
Voice for the voiceless: knowledge, technology and transformation
Paula Uimonen and Vicensia Shule

43.
Nordic Africanists building networks for research
NARN, The Nordic Africa Research Network