programme

BIGSAS COLLOQUIUM, 14 NOVEMBER 2013, S 18, GSP
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome by Prof. Rüdiger Seesemann, Vice Dean of BIGSAS
09:15 – 10:45
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Bakheit Mohammed: The Religious Men in Jebel Marra: The Process of Learning and
Performance of Islamic Rituals and Techniques
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Georg Materna: Small Entrepreneurs in Senegalese Tourism: Work and SocioProfessional Organization in Crafts, Trade and Art
10:45 – 11:15 Coffee break
11:15 – 12:45
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Stefanie Alisch: Mais carga! - Kuduro Music and Dance in Luanda
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Katharina Greven: Presenting Africa, Presenting Oneself - The "Phantasy" Africa of Art
Patronage in the Times of Modernism
12:45 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:30
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Diderot Djiala: Analyse Linguistico-Communicative des Sensibilisations Médiatiques
contre le VIH/SIDA au Cameroun
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Simon Nganga: Cosmological Mixes: on Verbal and Non-verbal Devices in the
Communicative Genre of the Funeral Sermon
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee break
16:00 – 17:30
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Weeraya Donsomsakulkij: Theorizing a Postcolonial-Material Ecocriticism and the
Concept of 'Placiality' in Selected South African Literatures
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Sibel Inal: Politics of Transcultural Communication in the Fiction of Ahdaf Soueif
17:30 – 18:00 Coffee break
18:00 – 20:00 Keynote Address and Discussion
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Dr Yohannes Woldetensae, Senior Expert, African Union Commission