Contact information

• E-mail name corrections and title changes to Elizabeth Green Musselman (greenmue@southwestern.edu). Speakers must e-mail a copy of their paper (as an attachment) to Elizabeth by April 1.
• Direct other questions about the program schedule to Julie Livingston (jliving@tulrich.com) or Gary Kynoch (gkynoch@dal.ca).
• Direct questions about the conference location and accommodations to Glen Elder (Glen.Elder@uvm.edu). Participants must register for the conference by April 1. See below for details.
• To contact a presenter, see the following complete list of 2005 NEWSA participants.
  

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Registration, accommodation and travel information

All participants are housed at the Bishop Booth Conference Center. The conference facility can sleep up to a maximum of 50 people.  Single and double rooms are extremely limited and most rooms sleep 3 people with shared bathrooms.

Room rates:

single	$60 per night
double	$40 per night
triple	$30 per night

Meals: Charge for all meals for the weekend (Friday lunch through Sunday breakfast, excluding Saturday night dinner) = $50

Registration fees:
Full-time faculty at North American or European institutions: $110
Graduate students at North American or European institutions: $30
Attendees traveling from Southern Africa are not required to pay registration.

Instructions for registering for the conference (deadline April 1):

• Contact Glen Elder (Glen.Elder@uvm.edu) to request a triple, double, or single room. (Remember that single and double rooms are quite limited.)
• First-World scholars should send a $50 deposit and First-World graduate students should send a $25 deposit toward registration to the following address: 

Glen Elder
University of Vermont
Department of Geography
Old Mill Building
94 University Place
Burlington, VT 05405-0114
USA

Make checks payable to Bishop Booth Conference Center.

Travel instructions

If you are flying to the conference:
Make sure to book your flight to Burlington, Vermont. (One of the conference organizers, who shall remain nameless, accidentally sent herself to Burlington, Iowa, once. Very embarrassing.) If you are arriving at Burlington Airport and not renting a car, the easiest way to the conference facility is by taxi. This should cost about $12. Tell the driver that you are heading to the Bishop Booth Conference facility behind Burlington High School.

If you are renting a car or otherwise driving to the conference:

• Heading along North Avenue you will come to a set of traffic lights at Burlington High School
• This is where you want to turn left.
• Follow the road until you see a small road to the right marked BISHOP BOOTH CONFERENCE CENTER.
• Follow the road to the end and you will be at the conference site.

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Instructions for submitting papers

• E-mail your paper as an attachment to Elizabeth Green Musselman (greenmue@southwestern.edu) by 1 April.
• Use endnotes instead of footnotes.
  
• Incorporate as little formatting as possible into your paper. If you use EndNote program, do not leave footnotes in that format; it is very time-consuming to convert.
• Do not include images, tables, charts, or other figures with your paper. Instead, show or distribute these at the conference.
  

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Conference program

Friday, April 22

Arrival and registration: 11 a.m.-3 p.m.

Writers’ workshop: 1-3 p.m.

Scholars with extensive publishing experience will host a workshop for those seeking to learn more about navigating the process of publishing with academic journals and presses. Workshop leaders include:

• Shula Marks, University of Richmond; emerita professor, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London; and former editor of the Journal of African History (1971-77)
• Diana Jeater, Principal Lecturer in African History, University of the West of England, and reviews editor of the Journal of Southern African Studies
  
• Gillian Berchowitz, Senior Editor, Ohio University Press
  

Early afternoon session: 3-5 p.m.

1.    Environmental

Chair and commentator: Nancy Jacobs

• Tiwanna DeMoss, “Marginal Identities, Squatter Populations and South African Housing Development Initiatives”
• Meredith McKittrick, “Race Politics, River People, and Rational Resource Use: A Regional History of Southern Africa’s Rivers, 1945-2000”
• Jacob Tropp, “Days of the Locust: Tensions over Environmental Control and Popular Welfare in the Colonial Transkei”
• David Hughes, “Hydrology of Hope: Farm Dams, Conservation, and Whiteness in Zimbabwe”

Late afternoon session: 5:15-7:15 p.m.

Roundtable discussion I: Zimbabwe

• Norma Kriger, Wendy Urban-Mead, Eliakim Sibanda, Blair Rutherford, Tim Scarnecchia

Dinner: 7:30-9 p.m.


Saturday, April 23

Early morning session: 8:30-10:30 a.m.

2.    Sexuality

Chair and commentator: Glen Elder

• Marc Epprecht, “The Marquis de Sade, Zimbabwe, and Same-Sex Marriage”
• Tiffany Jones, “Defining Normal Sexuality: Psychiatric Perceptions about ‘Homosexuality’ in 1960s South Africa”
• Laura Mitchell, “Sex and Situation: Landscapes of Power in Early Colonial Southern Africa”
  

3.    Popular Culture

Chair and commentator: TBA

• Tyler Fleming, “A Troubled Paradise: The Representation of Drum Magazine in Post-Drum Memories”
• Ann Ciola, “Picturing the Procession: Newspaper Photographs of the Funeral of the ‘Guguletu Seven,’ March 15, 1986”
• Moses Chikowero, “The State and Music Policy in Postcolonial Zimbabwe”

Tea and snacks: 10:30-11 a.m.

Late morning session: 11 a.m.-1 p.m.

4.    Human Rights

Chair and commentator: Chris Lee

• Joanne Lebert, “Discipline and Deviance: Human Rights and Youth Lawlessness in Post-Independence Namibia”
• Hilda Varela, “Political Culture and the Construction of a Collective Memory”
• Costa Munhande, “Struggles for Democracy and Human Rights: The Zimbabwean Paradox, 1995-2005”

Lunch: 1-2 p.m.

• Gillian Berchowitz, Senior Editor at Ohio University Press will lead a lunch discussion about book publishing in African studies.
  

Early afternoon session: 2-4 p.m.

5.    Race and identity

Chair and commentator: Julie Livingston

• Allison Shutt, “‘The Natives Are Getting Out of Hand’: Legislating Insolence, Contemptuous Behavior and Manners in Southern Rhodesia, 1910-1963”
• Poppy Fry, “‘Proverbial Industry’ and ‘Traditional’ Authority: The Creation of Fingo-ness in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, 1800-1835”
• Michele Ruiters, “Re-imagining and Reclaiming Identity: Coloured Identities in a Post-Apartheid South Africa”

6.    Economic discourses

Chair and commentator: Derick Fay

• Morgenie Pillay, “Power Inequalities and Negotiated Outcomes: South Africa Punching above Its Weight in Negotiations with the EU?”
• Carolyn Bassett, “The Spectre of Debt in South Africa”
• Darlene Miller, “‘Spaces of Hope’ in the City: South African-Owned Shopping Malls and African Workers in Mozambique and Zambia”
• Pius Nyambara, “Market Liberalization and Smallholder Cotton Growers in Gokwe, Zimbabwe, 1994-2002”

Late afternoon session: 4:30-6:30 p.m.   

7.    Collective Action

Chair and commentator: Diana Wylie

• Konosoang Mafata, “The Impact of Gender Identity on Profession: A Case Study of Senior Female Police Officers (SFPOs) in the Lesotho Mounted Police Service (LMPS)”
• Bridget Kenny, “Divided Loyalties on East Rand Supermarket Shop Floors”
• Marlea Clarke, “Undermining Equality in South Africa: The Impact of Employment Restructuring on Labour Market Equality and Segmentation in South Africa”
• Carla Tsampiras, “‘This Is the New Struggle, But How Are We to Fight It?’: Responses to HIV/AIDS in the Eastern Cape, South Africa, 2000-2004”

8.    Zimbabwe

Chair and commentator: Carol Summers

• Cleophas Muneri, “Reconstituting National Identity and the Struggle for Hegemony: The Role of the State Media in Zimbabwe”
• Shastry Njeru, “Haunted by Unfinished Business: The Effects of the Lancaster House Peace Conference on Zimbabwe Politics Twenty Years Down”
• Finex Ndhlovu, “All in the Name of Regime Security! Reflections on the Politicization of the Land Question in Zimbabwe through Applied Propaganda Techniques”
• Richard Saunders, “Mugabe, Gramsci and Zimbabwe at 25”
  

Sunday, April 24

Early morning session: 8:30-10:30 a.m.

Roundtable discussion II: Transnationalism: US/South African Perspectives

• Alex Lichtenstein/Rick Halpern, Pamela Brooks, Robert Vinson, John Mason

Late morning session: 10:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m.

9.    State violence

Chair and commentator: Lars Buur

• Derek Catsam, “‘Men of Peace Murdered’: Lies, Obfuscation and the Killing of the Cradock Four”
• Tanya Goodman, “Extending the TRC Narrative: Analyzing White Audience Response in the ‘Register of Reconciliation’”
• Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, “Guarding the Nationalist Shrine: The Rule of a Nationalist-Military Oligarchy in Zimbabwe”

10.    Colonial

Chair and commentator: Aran MacKinnon

• Pamela Scully, “Migration and Heterography: Sara Baartman and ‘the Hottentot Venus’”
• Christoph Strobel, “‘The History of the Cape Is Already Written in That of America’: The Colonization of North America in South African Political Discourse of Empire in the Mid-Nineteenth Century”
• Thomas McClendon, “You Are What You Eat Up: Deposing Chiefs in Early Colonial Natal”

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