CAS ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“Africa in Scotland, Scotland in Africa”
PROVISIONAL PROGRAMME
April 29 – May 1, 2009
Day 1: 29.04.09 (Wednesday)
9.00 – 11.00: Arrival and Registration
11.00 – 12.00: Opening Ceremony
11.30 – 11.45: Opening Address: Michael Russell MSP, Minister for Culture, External Affairs and the Constitution
12.00 – 13.00: Keynote I:
Prof. Tom Devine (OBE), Did Slavery Make Scotland Great?
The University of Edinburgh, UK
13.00 – 14.00: Lunch Break
14.30–16.00: Plenary Session 1 (History, Commerce and Politics): CHAIR: J. THOMPSON
McCRACKEN, John, Missionaries and Nationalists: Scotland and the 1959 State of Emergency in Malawi
Rtd Prof., University of Stirling, UK
DRITSAS, Lawrence, The Zambesi Expedition 1858-64, the origins of Scotland's connection to Malawi
University of Edinburgh, UK
BREITENBACH, Esther, Scottish encounters with Africa in the nineteenth century: the accounts of missionaries, explorers and travelers
University of Edinburgh, UK
KAMAARA, Eunice K., Entrepreneurship, Self-realisation & Social Cohesiveness: Scotland in Kenya and the 2007 Post Election Violence
Moi University, Kenya
16.00 – 16.30: Break
16.30 – 18.00: Plenary Session 2 (Religion and Mission): CHAIR: A. ADOGAME
DAMARIS, Seleina Parsitau, Pentecostalising the Church of Scotland? Kenyan Presbyterianism in Historical Perspectives
Egerton University, Kenya
OKYEREFO, Kweku Michael Perry, Scottish Missionaries in Ghana: The Forgotten Tribe
University of Ghana, Legon
GAIYA, Musa & RENSHWAT, Jordan, Scottish Missionaries in Central Nigeria
University of Jos, Nigeria
18.00 – 18.30: Tea/Coffee Break
18.30 – 20.00: Plenary Session 3 (Gender and Mission): CHAIR: E. BREITENBACH
GOVINDEN, Betty, A woman with a shadow - Monica Wilson’s intellectual and political contribution to Southern African history
University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
BRESSEY, Caroline, Ida B. Wells in Scotland
University College, London, UK
ADESINA, Oluwakemi, Invoking Gender: The Thoughts, Mission and Theology of Mary Slessor in Southern Nigeria
Osun State University, Osogbo (Ikire Campus), Nigeria
OBINNA, Elijah, Bridging the Divide: Legacies of Mary Slessor, Queen of Calabar, Nigeria
University of Edinburgh, UK
Day 2: 30.04.09 (Thursday)
8.00 – 8.30: Registration
8.30 – 9.30: Keynote II:
Prof. Geoff Palmer (OBE), The Scottish – Jamaica Historical Connection
Rtd. Prof., Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, UK
9.30 – 11.00: Plenary Session 4 (Migration and Diaspora): CHAIR: O. ADESINA
McLEAN, Janice, Exploring a Scottish Legacy: Lewis Davidson, Knox College and Jamaica’s Youth
University of Edinburgh, UK
KHASANDI-TELEWA, Vicky, ‘She worships at the Shona Church’: Language and socio-dynamics in the devout African worshipper in London
Egerton University, Kenya
PARRIS, Garnet, ‘Two Bites of the Cherry’ The Direct and Indirect Contribution of Scottish Presbyterianism to Trinidad and Tobago
University of Birmingham, UK
11.00 – 11.30: Tea/Coffee Break
11.30 – 13.00: Plenary Session 5 (Health): CHAIR: L. GRANT
ADESINA, Olutayo Charles, The Roots of Public Health Services in Nigeria: Isaac Ladipo Oluwole, Oladele Adebayo Ajose and the Glasgow Connection
University of Ibadan, Nigeria
HOKKANEN, Markku, Missionaries, Experts, and Agents of Empire: Scottish Doctors in Late Nineteenth-Century Southern and East-Central Africa
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
OGBOMO, Onaiwu W., Mission to Heal: The Church of Scotland and Leprosy Control in Colonial Nigeria
Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, USA
WILLIAMS, Claire, ‘International nurse migration: Impacts on health care delivery of a nurse deficit in Kitwe, Zambia’
University of Newcastle, UK
13.00 – 14.00: Lunch Break
14.00 – 15.30: Keynote III:
Prof. Susanne Schwarz, “This Unnatural accursed Trade” Conflicting Perspectives on the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century
Liverpool Hope University, UK
15.30 – 17.00: Plenary Session 6 (Arts): CHAIR: B. GOVINDEN
ECHTLER Magnus Echtler, Scottish Warriors in KwaZulu-Natal. Cultural hermeneutics of the Scottish dancers (isikoshi) in the Nazareth Baptist Church, South Africa
University of Bayreuth, Germany
NICODEMUS, Everlyn, How an early African-American Pioneer Artist made his career through Scotland
Middlesex University, UK
ROMARE, Kristian, Between the Hudson River School of Landscape Painters and Romantic Paintings of the Scottish Highlands
Independent Scholar, Art historian, Edinburgh, UK
17.00 – 17.30: Tea/Coffee Break
17.30 – 18.30: Video Presentation: “Beyond Depiction” – Trauma and African Visual Art (Everlyn Nicodemus & Kristian Romare)
Open discussion on trauma and suffering (PTSD).
19.30 – 22.30: Conference Dinner
Conference Dinner Lecture: The Right Hon Baroness Valerie Amos, British Labour Party Politician & Former Leader of the British House of Lords
Royal African Society lecture: ‘Sub-Saharan Africa and the
Sub-Saharan Africa and the Global Recession’
Day 3: 01.05.09 (Friday)
9.00 – 10.00: Keynote IV:
Prof. Kings Phiri, The Issue of Good Governance in the Evolving Relationship between Scotland and Malawi. Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Chancellor College, University of Malawi, Malawi
10.30 – 12.15: Plenary Session 7 (NGOs and Development): CHAIR: R. HAYMAN
ROSS, Kenneth, Better Together: The Early Development of the Scotland-Malawi Partnership 2004-08
Secretary, Church of Scotland World Mission Council, Edinburgh, UK
TEMU, Apollo, Scotland Census 2011 – 21st Century Politics of Pigmentation
Tanzania Edinburgh Community Association, Edinburgh, UK
SIANN, Gerda and UKRIKE Peter, ‘Learning from each other: Higher education links between Scotland and Africa’
Honorary Consul, Rwanda and U. Dundee; Universities Scotland
ZINK, Gerhard, ‘The impact of landmines and HALO's mine clearance activities in sub-Saharan Africa' HALO Trust
12.00 – 12.15: Tea/Coffee Break
12.15 – 13.30: Plenary Session 8 (Epistemology, Politics and Race): CHAIR: O. OGBOMO
SHERWOOD, Marika, Two Pan-Africanist political activists emanating from University of Edinburgh: John Randall and Richard Akinwande Savage
University of London, UK
TROCHE, Ursula, Black Images in Scotland / Black Islands?
University of East London / Culture-Net-Work, UK
OLUSEGUN, Morakinyo, King Hinsta’s Skull and the geo-cultural politics of knowledge of Africa
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa
DANFULANI, Umar, Edwin Smith and the Study of African Tradition Religion: the Impact of Scottish Comparative School of Religion in Africa—from a Great Grand Father to Great Grand Children
University of Jos, Nigeria
13.30-14.30: Lunch Break
14.30 – 15.30: Plenary Session 9 (Health II): CHAIR: A. LAWRENCE
CODERE, Glen, Epidemiology
Health Protection Scotland
KILPATRICK, Roy & SINYEMU, Eunice, Overview of HIV/AIDS in Scotland
HIV Scotland
GRANT, Liz and MURRAY, Scott, Living and Dying Well: Lessons fromKenya for Scottish Palliative Care Programme
University of Edinburgh, UK
GOVINDEN Betty, HIV/AIDS and Liturgy in South Africa
University of Kwazulu-Natal, Durban. South Africa
15.30 – 16.00: Closing Ceremony and Departure
16.00 – 19.00: Guided Tour of Museums and Monuments