| Wednesday, April 8
Museum Day
Chairs: Enid Schildkrout, American Museum of Natural History and Alisa LaGamma,
Metropolitan Museum of Art
10:00 am-12:00 pm
Salon J, 4th floor
Panel Discussion of Recent I.C.O.M. Proposals
Enid Schildkrout, American Museum of Natural History
Alisa LaGamma, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Robert T. Soppelsa, Mulvane Art Museum, Washburn University
David Binkley, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
Chap Kusimba, Field Museum of Natural History
Susan Vogel, Independent Scholar
Victoria Rovine, University of Iowa Museum of Art
William Siegmann, Brooklyn Museum of Art
12:00-5:00 pm
Foyer, 4th floor
Registration
12:00-2:00 pm
Lunch Break
2:00-4:00 pm
Salon J, 4th floor
Collaborative Projects with African Museums
Suzanne P. Blier, Harvard University
Christrand Geary, Smithsonian Institution
Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institution
Doran Ross, University of California, Los Angeles Fowler
Museum of Cultural History
Christine Mullen Kremer, Smithsonian Institution
William Dewey, University of Iowa
Chap Kusimba, Field Museum of Natural History
Enid Schildkrout, American Museum of Natural History
7:00-9:00 pm
Opening Reception
New Orleans Museum of Art
Co-hosted with the Greater New Orleans Black Tourism Network
By pre-paid charter shuttle bus ticket to and from hotel
Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou exhibition
Permanent Collection of African, Oceanic and Americas Art
Thursday, April 9
8:00 am-5:00 pm
Foyer, 4th floor
Registration (continues)
8:00-8:30 am
Salons A-D, 3rd floor
Opening Remarks
dele jegede, ACASA President
William Fagaly, New Orleans Triennial Coordinator
Mark Grote, Chair of Art Department, Loyola University
Frere Joseph Cornet, Fexhe-slins, Belgium
8:30-10:15 am
Plenary Session
Salons A-D, 3rd floor
African Art Studies At The Millennium: Expanding The Boundaries Of The Discipline
Chair: dele jegede, Indiana State University
J. D. Lewis-Williams, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Ethnography and Southern African Rock Art
Moyo Okediji, Gettysburg College
21st Century African Art: Downloading an Invisible Can(n)on
Margaret Thompson Drewal, Northwestern University
Performance Studies and the Prospects for African Art in the New Millennium
Babalorisa John Mason, Yoruba Theological Archministry, New York
Diaspora at the Turn: A Brass Ring to Snare Unless We Forget
NOTE: All Session Meeting Rooms (Salons I, J, L, M,) are located
on the 4th floor of the hotel
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Salon I
Sweet Dirges, Gumbo Yaya and Hey Pocky Way: Is New Orleans America's Most African City?
Chair: William Fagaly, New Orleans Museum of Art
Gwendolyn Hall, Rutgers University
Africans in Louisiana 1720-1820: Changing Patterns of Introductions to Louisiana
Jerah Johnson, University of New Orleans
Congo Square
Darryl Daniels, New Orleans architect, preservationist, planner
The Role of Free People of Color in the Evolution of New Orleans Architecture
Jason Berry, New Orleans author
New Orleans Jazz Funerals
Kalamu ya Salaam, New Orleans writer
New Orleans Mardi Gras Indians
Salon J
Philosophical Perspectives on African Art
Chair: Rowland Abiodun, Amherst College
Denis Dutton, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
How is Cross-Cultural Aesthetics Possible?
Barry Hallen, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University and Morehouse College
Handsome Is as Handsome Does: Interrelations of the Epistemic, the Moral, and the
Aesthetic in an African Culture
William Hart, University of Ulster, Northern Ireland
Depth in African Art
Wilfried Van Damme, University of Ghent, Belgium
African Art and Ontology: Locating the Dynamic within African Art
Discussant: Gene Blocker, Ohio University
Salon L
The Convergence of Public, Mass, and Popular Art in Urban Africa
Chair: Mary Jo Arnoldi, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Kristyne Loughran, Florence, Italy
Jewelry, Fashion and Identity: The Tuareg Example
Rhoda Rosen, Chicago, Illinois
Set in Stone: Monuments and Identity in Contemporary South Africa
Victoria Rovine, The University of Iowa Museum of Art
Tradition on the Catwalk: Bogolan in National and International Fashions
Mary Jo Arnoldi, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
Beautifying Bamako's Streets: Dialogues Surrounding Public Sculpture in Mali
Discussant: To be announced
Salon M
The International Mukanda
Chair: Z.S. Strother, Columbia University
Manuel Jordan, Birmingham Museum of Art and Elisabeth Cameron, Los Angeles County
Museum of Art
The Shelter and the Crossroads: Male and Female Perspectives on Mukanda in Northwestern
Zambia
Lubangi Muniania, Museum for African Art, New York
Military Service as Continuation of Male Initiation
Filip De Boeck, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium
Mukanda's Modernity: Ritual, Violence, and Education in Southwest Congo
Costa Petridis, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Art at a Crossroads: Masks and the Mukanda Initiation among the Luluwa, South-Central
Congo
12:30-1:45 pm
Lunch Break
Triennial Patron Lunch (by invitation)
Palace Cafe, 605 Canal Street
Lunch for H-AfrArts Roundtable (on your own, no invitation
required)
Chairs: Ray Silverman and Michael Conner
Messina's, 200 Chartres Street (at corner of Iberville Street, directly behind hotel)
1:45-3:45 pm
Salon I
Vodun/Vodou: A la Recherche du Temps Perdu
Chair: Donald Cosentino, University of California, Los Angeles
Karen McCarthy Brown, Drew University
Binding Relationships: Race, Memory and Historical Consciousness in Vodou
Elizabeth McAlister, Wesleyan University
The Jew in the Haitian Imagination: Rara Festival, History and the Politics of Catholicism
Suzanne P. Blier, Harvard University
If You're Talking to the Gods, What Language Do You Speak: The Dialect/ic of Voudou/Vodon
Art
Marilyn Houlberg, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Leaves of Memory: Spirit Healing in Vodou Art and Ritual
Donald Cosentino, University of California, Los Angeles
The Altar as Palimpsest: An Archeology of Vodou Iconography
Salon J
Rock Art Studies in Southern Africa: New Vistas for a New Millennium
Chair: Nancy Ingram Nooter, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Thomas A. Dowson, University of Southampton, United Kingdom
Rock Art: Africa's Art of Darkness
Luc Smits, Ellecom, the Netherlands
Rock Painting Sites in the Sebapala-Tsatsane River Valleys, S.E. Lesotho
Cyril A. Hromnik, Mgwenya College, Capetown, South Africa
The Moon Cave Temple in Oorlogskloof (South Africa): Where Women Rock Artists and Megalith
Builders Met to Pray
H.C. Woodhouse, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Exploring Theories and Themes in the Rock Art of South Africa
Peter Garlake, Harare, Zimbabwe
Past and Future in Zimbabwean Rock Art Studies
Salon L
The Visual and Performing Arts of Mozambique: New Opportunities for Exchanges
Chairs: Gilberto Cossa, The University of Iowa and Harriet McGuire (in absentia), U.S.
Information Service, American Embassy, Maputo, Mozambique
Gilberto Cossa, The University of Iowa
The Development of the National Museum of Art and the Problematic Preservation of Our
Cultural Legacy
Harry West, Sweet Briar College and Stacy Sharpes, Sweet Briar College
Holding Hands with the Devil: The Meaning of Tradition and the Marketplace among Makonde
Sculptors
Casimiro Nhussi, Mozambican National Song and Dance Company (CNCD)
The Impact of International Exchanges of Choreographers and Dancers
Salon M
Inside and Outside the Photographic Studio: African Photographic Practice Past and Present
Chair: Christraud M. Geary, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Vera Viditz Ward, Bloomsburg University
Evolving Traditions: Studio Photography in Sierra Leone
Tobias Wendl, Institute of Anthropology and African Studies, Munich, Germany
Speaking Grounds: The Semiotics and Aesthetics of Ghanaian Photographic Studio Backdrops
Heike Behrend, University of Kšln, Germany
The Appropriation of Western Tourist Spaces: The "Likoni Ferry Photographers" in
Mombasa, Kenya
Rory Bester, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg,South Africa
At Home in the City: Street Photographers in Johannesburg, South Africa
4:00-6:00 pm
Salon I
Mounting Controversy: Perspectives on the Development of the Sacred Arts of Haitain Vodou
Exhibition
Chair: Betsy D. Quick, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Betsy D. Quick, Director of Education, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
Transforming Skepticism: Dilemmas and Decisions in Mounting Vodou at the Museum
David Mayo, Director of Exhibitions, Fowler Museum of Cultural History
The Plight of the Designer -- "If only they could all be like this"
Henrietta B. Cosentino, Freelance Writer and Editor, Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou
Mounting Controversy: From Gothic Horror to Days of Our Lives
Aboudja Derencourt, Consultant for the Sacred Arts of Haitian Vodou
Mounting Controversy: Perspectives of a Haitian Vodou Priest on the Planning of The Sacred
Arts of Haitian Vodou
Discussant: Enid Schildkrout, American Museum of Natural History
Salon J
Arts, Media and Development: Is Development A Dirty Word in the Discourses on Cultural
Forms in Africa
Chair: Frances Harding, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London,
United Kingdom
Frances Harding, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United
Kingdom
Drama-Works: Showing Realities
Oga S. Abah, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria
Improvising Everyday Life and Death
Nadia Lovell, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Videoscaping Demography: From Black Woman to White Man
Danielle Gold, International Women in Development Foundation
Internetting the Artist
Salon L
African Aesthetics
Chair: Jean M. Borgatti, Clark University
Fred Smith, Kent State University
Comparative Analysis of Frafra and Igbo Aesthetic Concepts
Jeremy Coote, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
Aesthetics: World View versus Canonical Forms
Jean M. Borgatti, Clark University
Transgressing the Canon in Okpella Masking Traditions
Kris L. Hardin, Montana State University
Thoughts on the Usefulness of Comparing Aesthetic Systems
Discussant: To Be Announced
Salon M
Revisiting the Art/Craft Dichotomy: Looking for New Answers
Chair: Robert T. Soppelsa, Mulvane Art Museum,Washburn University
Patricia Darish, University of Kansas
Needle and the Adze: Kuba Arts in the 20th Century
Christine Mullen Kreamer, Smithsonian Institution
Expanding Parameters: Work as an Interpretive Frame in Moba Art and Ritual
Brenda Schmahmann, University of Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
Art versus Craft and Culture versus Nature: The Appliques of the Weya Women of Zimbabwe
Jerry Vogel, New York City
Talking to the Potters in Tanoh Sakassou: Aesthetics, Inspiration and Classification of
the Arts
Discussant: Marla C. Berns, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa
Barbara
7:00-9:00 pm
University Night I Receptions
By pre-paid charter shuttle bus ticket to and from hotel and universities
Tulane and Loyola are adjacent to each other and all three venues are within walking
distance -- see campus maps in this program
Amistad Research Center, Tulane University
Selections from the Toussaint L'Ouerture Series by Jacob Lawrence
Newcomb Art Gallery, Woldenburg Art Center, Tulane University
African American Art: 20th Century Masterworks V exhibition
Danna Art Center, Loyola University
African Basketry and Bamana Puppetry from the Kitten and Mark Grote Collection exhibition
Preview of the Frere Joseph Cornet Archives
Friday, April 10
8:00 am-12:00 pm
Foyer, 4th floor
Registration (continues)
8:15-10:15 am
Salon I
Pastoralists as Performers and Mediated Signs of Identity
Chairs: Sidney L. Kasfir, Emory University and Corinne A. Kratz, Emory University
Sidney Kasfir, Emory University
Slam-Dunking and the Last Noble Savage
Neal Sobania, Hope College
But Where are the Cattle? Popular Images of Maasai and Zulu Across the Twentieth Century
Paul Landau, Yale University
Visuality and Containment: George Eastman and the Nandi
Corinne A. Kratz, Emory University
Which Wodaabe?: Cinematic Representations of Pastoralists, Gender, and Ritual
Discussant: Robert Gordon, University of Vermont
Salon J
Written Culture: Arts of Writing and Inscription in Africa (Part I)
Chair: Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, University of Iowa
Mary (Polly) Nooter Roberts, University of Iowa
"I am a pen in the hand of God": Sufi Saints and Healing Scripts in Contemporary
Senegal
Labelle Prussin, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
"Those who write are magicians": Kabalistic Secret Writing and the Judaic
Presence in Sub-Saharan Africa
Frederick Lamp, The Baltimore Museum of Art
Sacred Signs of Poro
M.B. Visona, The Metropolitan State College of Denver
Art, Image and Word in the Art of Kemet (Ancient Egypt)
Simon Battestini, Georgetown University
Art and Literacy
Salon L
Music of the African Diaspora: Transformation and the Creation of Meaning in Performance
Chair: Cynthia Schmidt, University of Washington
Ernest Brown, Williams College
Peter Minshall and the Callaloo Company: African-Inspired Creativity in a Trinidadian
Masquerade Band
Shannon Dudley, University of Washington
Dropping the Bomb: Steelband Music and Power in the 60s in Trinidad
Cynthia Schmidt, University of Washington
Issues of Meaning Surrounding a Mende Funeral Song Sung in Sierra Leone and by the Gullah
of Coastal Georgia
Kazadi wa Mukuna, Kent State University
Bumba-meu-Boi in Maranhao: Resilience of an African-Brazilian Folk Drama
Paul Austerlitz, Brown University
"Textiled" Notation as Synesthetic Discourse on Black Atlantic Aesthetics
Salon M
Art: the Unseen Part of Life
Chair: Susan Vogel, Independent Scholar, New York
W. Perkins Foss, Plymouth State College
Viewing Urhobo Art: the Private, the Dramatic, and the Public
Sarah Adams, Yale University
Keeping it Under Wraps: Uli Body Painting and the Clothed Body
Boureima Diamitani, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Secret and Sacred Objects of the Tagwa-Senufo
Susan Vogel, Independent Scholar, New York
Not for Human Eyes: Baule Sculptures
Discussant: Henry John Drewal, University of Wisconsin
10:30 am-12:30 pm
Salon I
Diviners and Spirit Mediums as Foci of Artistic Production in Central and Southern Africa
Chair: William J. Dewey, The University of Iowa
Rebecca L. Green, Bowling Green State University
The Art of Healing: Divination and Art in Highland Madagascar
Diane Janell Thram, Indiana University
Performance as Ritual, Ritual as Performance: The Interplay of Indigenous Religion and
Entertainment Art in Contemporary Dandanda Song and Dance
Kathryn Kendall, University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
Izangoma: Zulu Spirit Mediums Performing for the Goddess
William J. Dewey, The University of Iowa
Ndau and Manyika Shona Diviners and Spirit-Mediums as Culture Brokers in Southeastern
Africa
Salon J
Written Culture: Script and Inscription in the Art of Africa and the African Americas
(Part II)
Chair: Grey Gundaker, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton University
Amanda Carlson, Indiana University
Nsibidi and the Art of the Ejagham
Sarah Brett-Smith, Rutgers University
The Anomalous Style of Basiae Mud Cloths Among the Bamana of Mali
Maude Southwell Wahlman, W.E.B. Du Bois Institute, Harvard University
Secret African Scripts Recreated in New World Arts
Judith McWillie, The University of Georgia
Writing in an Unknown Tongue
Grey Gundaker, Center for the Study of American Religion, Princeton University
Narrative, Wrapping and Emblems: Three Modes of African Diaspora Inscription
Salon L
Topics in Museum Practice and Theory
Chair: Marie-Therese Brincard, The American Federation of the Arts, New York
Helen Shannon, Columbia University
Between "291" and the Museum of Modern Art: Explaining the Erasure of Two
American Exhibitions of African Art of the 1920s
Cory Micots, Independent Curator
Challenges at the Small Museum Level
Leasa Farrar Fortune, Independent Scholar, Washington, DC
A King and His Cloth: The Story of an Exhibition
Andrea Nicolls, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution
A Spiral of History: A Figurative Ivory Tusk from the Loango Coast on Display
Marie-Therese Brincard, American Federation of the Arts, New York
Some Aspects of African Funerary Art: A Prospective Exhibition Idea
Salon M
Contemporary African Art Practice and Studies at the Turn of the Millennium
Chairs: Sylvester Ogbechie, Northwestern University and John Peffer, Columbia University
John Peffer, Columbia University
Helen Sibidi Invented Art in Contemporary South Africa
Joanna Grabski-Ochsner, Indiana University
Genre and Memory in Contemporary Congolese Painting
Michelle Omari-Obayemi, University of Arizona
Pasts in the Present: Negotiating "Tradition" in the Art Practice of Two
Southern African Women Artists
Elizabeth Harney, New York University
Fabric-ating Nationalism: The Thies Tapestries in Retrospect
Discussant: Okwui Enwezor
12:30-1:45 pm
Lunch Break
ACASA Board Meeting (Part I)
Palace Cafe, 605 Canal Street
1:45-3:45 pm
Salon I
Altars, Flags, and Other Works of Art and Power within the Religions of the African
Diaspora
Chair: Patrick A. Polk, University of California, Los Angeles
LeGrace Benson, Arts of Haiti Research Project, Ithaca
Ironies of Modernism in Haitian Art
Patrick A. Polk, University of California, Los Angeles
Fabric and Power: Interpreting the Sacred Banners of Haitian Vodou
Stephen C. Wehmeyer, University of California, Los Angeles
The "Indian" Altar: A Vision of Wholeness, Hybridity, and Liberation
Roberta Evanchuk, University of California, Los Angeles
The Altar Art of Santeria
Salon J
Architecture: Power and Counter-Power
Chair: Dominique Malaquais, Princeton University
Dominique Malaquais, Princeton University
Taking Position: Gender, Landscape, and the Built Environment in West Cameroon, 1955-1965
Stephen Nelson, Harvard University
In Her Own Image? Mousgoum Wall Painting, Architecture and Gender
Ikem Okoye, Northwestern University
Contra-History: A "Recalcitrant" Architecture of Umunri
Allen F. Roberts, The University of Iowa
An Architecture of the Word: Arson and Mysticism in a Senegalese Mosque Complex
Discussant: Christina Vella, Tulane University
Salon L
Topics in Contemporary Art and Expressive Culture Today
Chair: Rosalind I.J. Hackett, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Bolaji Campbell, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Coloring Gods and Man in the Yoruba Universe
Simon Ottenberg, Seattle, Washington
The Art of Obiora Udechukwu: Changing Creations in Changing Times
Sharon Pruitt, East Carolina University
A Confluence of Artistry: Nigerian Artists on Art
Lauri M. Firstenberg, Harvard University
Overexposed: Spectacular Identities, The Photography of Ike Ude
Jackie Guille, Middlesex University, United Kingdom
"Agali Awamu -- teeth that bite together easily chew": Reflections on Craft,
Community and Enterprise in Central and Southern Africa
Salon M
African Art and European Modernism
Chairs: Bennetta Jules-Rosette, University of California, San Diego and Peter Bloom,
University of California, Davis
Bennetta Jules-Rosette, University of California, San Diego
"These Paintings Must Be Spoken": Popular African Art in European Spaces
Yamba Bidima, Universite de Bordeaux II, France
African Art in French Museums: The Visitor's Perspective
Anne Doquet, Universite de Bordeaux II, France
"Othering" the Work of Art: Dogon Masks
Peter Bloom, University of California, Davis
Black American Boxers in Exile: European Modernism and Black Nationalism
Discussant: Lorna Lueker, University of California, San Diego
4:00-6:00 pm
Salon I
Afro-Oceanic Art: Creative World Currents at the Millennium
Chairs: Robert Farris Thompson, Yale University and Ramona Austin, Dallas Museum of Art
Dana Rush, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom
Vodun Vortex: Centuries of International Arts and Religious Consciousnesses Along Coastal
Benin
Fu-Kiau Bunseki, Boston, Massachusetts
Kongo Impact on the Americas: New Evidence
Ramona Austin, Dallas Museum of Art
The Kongo Staff as Nkisi, Its Appearance in African American Artistic Traditions, and
Parallel Evolution in the Lower Congo and North America
C. Daniel Dawson, Independent Scholar, New York
"Fist Against Fist is Irrational": The African Influence in American Athletics
Robert Farris Thompson, Yale University
Afro-Oceanic: The Visual Traditions
Salon J
Topics in African Performance Studies
Chair: Carol A. Thompson, New York University
Bob White, McGill University, Canada
Atalaku as Trickster: Creative Borrowing and Cultural Knowledge in Congo-Zaire Popular
Dance Music
Cynthia Becker, University of Wisconsin
Art and Performance as Protection against Passages amongst the "Berbers" and the
"Gnaoua" of Southeastern Morocco
Esther A. Dagan, Galerie Amrad African Art Publications, Canada
Problems and Dilemmas in Recording the Dances of Africa
Karel Arnaut, Oxford University, United Kingdom
A Handful of Old Masks and the Bedu Tradition: A Critical Review of Many Sources
Dunja Hersak, Universite Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium
Nkisi and Other Powers among Contemporary Vili and Yombe Peoples of Congo-Brazzaville
Salon L
Cross Currents in the Niger Delta (Part 1)
Chair: Martha Anderson, Alfred University
Martha Anderson, Alfred University
Queen of the Rivers and Other Ijo Diviners: Artistry as a Path to Power
E. J. Alagoa, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Neighbors of Benin in the Niger Delta
Osa D. Egonwa, Delta State University, Nigeria
Plural Identity, Singular Heritage: Dress and Masquerading in the Niger Delta
Rosalinde Wilcox, Saddleback College
Cameroon Coastal Masking Traditions
Salon M
Teaching Studio Art in Africa
Chair: Betty LaDuke, Multi-Cultural Images, Ashland, Oregon
Elsbeth Court, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United
Kingdom
Still Seeking Raphael? Studio Practice in Africa
Sy Kalidou, Dakar, Senegal
Contemporary Senegalese Art: Crossroad of Culture
Obiora Udechukwu, St. Lawrence University
The Freedom of Tradition: Teaching Art in Nsukka 1973-97
Betty LaDuke, Multi-Cultural Images, Ashland, Oregon
Eritrea Art Workshop: Artists/Fighters and New Visions
7:00-9:00 pm
University Night II Receptions
Pre-paid charter shuttle bus ticket to and from hotel and between universities
Samuel Dubois Cook Fine Art Gallery, Dillard University
Willis "Bing" Davis: Spirit, Ceremony and Ritual exhibition
Southern University at New Orleans
Jimoh Buraimoh exhibition
Selections from the Permanent Collection of African Art
Saturday, April 11
8:15-10:15 am
Salon I
Arts of The Fulani Roundtable
Chair: Thomas M. Shaw, Kean University
Tavi Aherne, Indiana University
Fulani Art in Fouta Djallon, Guinea
Alpha Ba, The College of Charleston, South Carolina
Brief History of the Fulbe Diaspora with Emphasis on the Mano River
Phyliss Galembo, State University of New York
Images of Fulani in Northern Ivory Coast
Tierno Bah
The Verbal Art of the Fulbhe of Fuuta Jaloo (Guinea)
Salamatou Sow, Niamey, Nigeria
The Ideal Fulani Woman
Salon J
Atlantic Rim Performance Arts: Links and Missing Links in the Development of Caribbean and
West African Masquerades
Chair: John W. Nunley, Saint Louis Art Museum
John W. Nunley, Saint Louis Art Museum
Masquerades of Sierra Leone and the West Indies
Joe Roach, Yale University
Indian Masquerades of Trinidad and Tobago and New Orleans
Kenneth M. Bilby, Rhinebeck, NY
Music and Performance of the West Indies: African Roots
Lori Dumm-Mbengue, University of Wisconsin
Beyond the Caribbean: The Politics of Ghanaian Masquerades
Robert W. Nicholls, University of the Virgin Islands
Creolization and Masquerades in the Virgin Islands
Salon L
Cross Currents in The Niger Delta (Part II)
Chair: Philip M. Peek, Drew University
F.N. Anozie, University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria
Nki Body Decoration of Nembe Women
Lisa Aronson, Skidmore College
Tricks of the Trade: A Study of "Ikakibite" (Cloth of the Tortoise) among the
Eastern Ijo
Eli Bentor, Appalachian State University
Up and Down the River: The Spatial History of Mask Exchanges in the Niger Delta and
Southern Igboland Region
Discussant: Philip M. Peek, Drew University
Salon M
Visual Diplomacy: Comical Representations in African Art
Chair: Babatunde Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University
Judy D. Freeman, University of Arizona
Monstrous Mounts, Rapacious "She-males" and other Anomalies: Theorizing Indecent
Sex at the Ritual Margin
Babatunde Lawal, Virginia Commonwealth University
Funny but Serious: Poetic Humor in Yoruba Art
Nancy R. Hunt, University of Michigan
Congolese-Zairian Comics Since the 1930s
Discussant: Flora E. Kaplan, New York University
10:15 am-12:15 pm
Salon I
Contemporary Trends in Yoruba Textile and Clothing Traditions
Chair: Norma H. Wolff, Iowa State University
Norma H. Wolff, Iowa State University
The Impact of Fashion on Yoruba Textile Traditions
Duncan Clarke, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, United
Kingdom
Super Q: Women Entrepreneurs, Ewe Weavers and the Transformation of Yoruba Aso Oke
Elisha Renne, Princeton University
Cloth and Conversion: Yoruba Textiles and Ecclesiastical Dress
Victoria Scott, Black Arts Studio, Santa Fe
The Career of Nigerian Textile Artist Nike: A Personal View
Discussant: Joanne Eicher, University of Minnesota
Salon J
The Non-Specialist Teacher and The African Art Course
Chair: Betsy Cogger Rezelman, St. Lawrence University
Rita Parham McCaslin, James Madison University
Collaborative Strategies for Meeting the Educational Challenges of Interdisciplinary
Teaching of African Arts and Culture
Meredith Rode, University of the District of Columbia
Translating Art: Speaking Another's Language
Nancy Steele Hamme, State University of West Georgia
Professional and Pedagogical Strategies of a Pretender: The Personal Odyssey of a
Non-Specialist
Gilbert Graham, Long Island University
From Medicine to Teaching African Art: An Adventure in Exposing Students to Beauty,
Ethnography and History of a Subject Not Previously Taught at Long Island University
Salon L
"Africanness" in Contemporary South African Art
Chairs: Sandra Klopper, University of Cape Town, South Africa and Michael Godby,
University of Cape Town, South Africa
Janet Hess, Harvard University
Affecting Spaces: Institutional Practices and the Renegotiation of Identity
Sandra Klopper, University of Cape Town, South Africa
The Africanization of Sartorial Style in Contemporary South Africa
Kimberley Miller, University of Wisconsin
Defining Women: Sexuality and the South African Female Body
Michael Godby, University of Cape Town, South Africa
The Early Years of Willy Bester: Art and Identity in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Gary Van Wyk, Rosen Publishing, South Africa
A Decade of Redefining Decadence: South African Contemporary Art 1986-1996
Salon M
Trends Old and New in the Performing Arts of East Africa
Chair: Lois Anderson, University of Wisconsin
Lois Anderson, University of Wisconsin
Court Jesters in Uganda and Tanzania
James Makubuya, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Adungu: Trends Old and Trends New
Kelly M. Askew, Indiana University
Swahili Musical Aesthetics: Traditional Innovation
Salon K
Recent Research on Traditional and Contemporary Nigerian Art
Chair: Adetokunbo Abimbola, Songobiyi African Creations, Lagos, Nigeria
Adetokunbo Abimbola, Songobiyi African Creations, Lagos, Nigeria
Oyo Orisa Carvings in Transition
Akin Ibidapo-Obe
African Liberation, Pan-Africanism, Alternative Lifestyles and the Musical Art of Fela
Other presenters to be announced
12:30-1:45 pm
Lunch Break
1:45-3:45 pm
Salon I
Women's Art/Women's Masquerade: The Caribbean and Africa
Chair: Judith Bettelheim, San Francisco State University
Pamela R. Franco, Emory University
Playing Mas in Trinidad with La Belle Creole
Krista Thompson, Emory University
FREAKnic: Performing Women and Sexy Dress in Atlanta's Urban Masquerade
Laurel Birch Aguilar, St. Andrews University, United Kingdom
Clay Arts and Metaphors for Women in Central Malawi
Alice R. Burmeister, Winthrop University
Demonstrating Iyawa: Art and Aesthetics in Hausa Women's Wealth Display
Discussant: to be announced
Salon J
Art of the African Diaspora: Issues of Voice, Definition, and Transformation
Chairs: dele jegede, Indiana State University and Michael Harris, University of North
Carolina, Chapel Hill
David Doris, Yale University
An Orisha in the Land of Technology: the Internet and the Construction of Yoruba
Identities
Lyneise Williams, Yale University
Jean-Michel Basquiat: Not Just Another Dipped Barbie
Michael D. Harris, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
TransAtlantic Dialogues
Salon L
The Bantu Identity Problem: What Role Can Art History Play?
Chair: Ekpo Eyo, University of Maryland
Wyatt MacGaffey, Haverford College
Art Works and Cosmological Assumptions in Bantu Studies
Christopher Ehret, University of California, Los Angeles
Bantu Culture History: Getting the Story Right
Merrick Posnansky, University of California, Los Angeles
Archaeolgy and Bantu Genesis
Francine Farr, University of California, Los Angeles
Bananas and Bones in the Art History of the Bantu Migration
Ekpo Eyo, University of Maryland
Excavations at Calabar: A Link with the Congo
Salon M
Teaching and Studying African Art with Computer Technology
Chair: Christopher Roy, University of Iowa
Raymond A. Silverman, Michigan State University
H-AfrArts: What It Is and What It Can Be
John Patrick Frazier, Indiana University
The Bird Masquerade of Sidi Ballo: Africa CD-Rom at Indiana University
Christopher D. Roy, University of Iowa and L. Lee McIntyre, University of Iowa
Art and Life in Africa Project
Michael Conner, Indiana University
Reaching Beyond the Classroom: Distance Learning Technologies and Computer Based Resources
for African Art Scholarship
Martha Mahard, Harvard University
The Baobab Project at Harvard University
Benjamin C. Ray, University of Virginia
African Art and the Virtual Museum
2:00-5:00 pm
Visits to Private Collections of African Art [Sorry! Already Sold
Out]
By pre-paid charter bus ticket to and from hotel
Visits to New Orleans Cemeteries [Sorry! Already Sold Out]
By pre-paid charter bus ticket to and from hotel
4:00-5:30 pm
Salon I
ACASA Business Meeting
5:30-6:15 pm
Salon J
ACASA Board Meeting (Part II)
7:00-11:00 pm
Awards Banquet
By pre-paid ticket
Mulate's, The Original Cajun Restaurant and Dance Hall
200 Julia Street at Convention Boulevard
(20 minute walk or 5 minute taxi)
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