Tereba Togola Appointed Mali's National Director of Arts
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ANSA Tereba Togola Appointed Mali's National Director of Arts Editor's note: Some participants would like their paper to be on a panel other than what was listed in the last In Bamako, March 5, 1998 it was announced that Dr. newsletter. There are in fact an unusual number of paper TEREBA TOOOLA had been appointed NATIONAL topics for this conference that would fit on more than DIRECTOR OF ARTS. This highly prestigious post one panel. Some panels were already full; others drew manages all cultural efforts and includes a staff of more papers than could be fitted onto them, so some hundreds at such governmental entities as the National papers have been placed where they would fill out other Museum, I'Institut des Sciences Humaines, all cultural panels that were reasonably close topically but short of missions, the National Institute of Arts, and the North presenters. In any case, it is intended that no panels will Korean-built Palace of Culture. run concurrently, which means it is possible for each Dr. Togola, former student of Susan and Roderick presentation to be heard by everyone attending. McIntosh of Rice University, is the first American- trained professional appointed by President Alfa Konare CHANGING FRONTIERS: MIGRATORY to occupy a substantive post. MOVEMENTS OF MANDE PEOPLES AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Chair: Mirjam de Bruijn, Leiden University International Conferenee on Mande Studies Papers: Serrekunda, Gambia Edda Fields, University of Pennsylvania (Up-date) "Migration, Islam, and Rice Cultivation: Elements in the History of Baga-Mande Relations" Dates of conference: 12-19 June, 1998 Ariane DeLuz, Laboratoire d' Anthropologie Location: Senegambia Beach Hotel, Serrekunda, The Sociologique, Paris Gambia "Is There a Model of Malinke Penetration in the Mande SPECIAL NOTE TO PARTICIPANTS: World (Cote d'Ivoire)?" To participate, your MANSA membership dues must be Allen Howard, Rutgers University up-to-date (check your newsletter mailing label). As was "Mande- and Pula-speakers in the Transborder Trade the case with the conference in Leiden, we will be Between Guinea and Sierra Leone, Late 19th/Early 20th charging a registration fee of U.S.$25.OO per person, to Centuries" help defray the expenses of the conference. In addition to Mirjam de Bruijn, Leiden University and Han van that we are asking a donation of $5.00 apiece to help Dijk, Wageningen University pay musicians at the concert being organized and mostly "Fulbe Travels into Mande: The Influence of Mobility paid for by Lucy DUI""dIl(see below). You may submit on a Culture" this payment totalling $30.00 before leaving for The Bogodo Obare and Oumarou Banni Guene, Gambia, or pay by check in Serrekunda at the beginning Universite Nationale du Benin of the conference (make your check out to MANSA). "Linguistic, Ethnoarchaeolgical and Historical Evidence on the Boo/Boko Mande Subgroup Settlement in Conference Theme: Beninois Borgu: Preliminary Considerations" HISTORICAL MOMENTS AND SOCIAL Dolores Koenig, American University with Tieman IDIOSYNCRACIES: CULTURE, AGENCY AND Diarra and Moussa Sow CAUSALITY IN THE MANDE WORLD "Contemporary Agricultural Migration and Settlement: Aspects of Inter-Ethnic Relations" DAVIDC. CONRAD,President, State University of New York-Oswego BARBARAE. FRANK,Vice President, State University of New York-Stony Brook STEPHENWOOTEN,Secretary-Treasurer, University of California-Los Angeles Advisory Board Alpha Bah, College of Charleston LANSINEKAllA. University of Illinois-Chicago ARlANEDEwz, Laborntoire d'Anthropologie SocioJogique ~TER MARK,WESLEYANUNIVERSITY . MAMAoouD1AWARA,Universitat Bayreuth TtlREBATocoix, Mimstry of Culture and Tourism, Bamako + THE ANCIENT MANDE LANDSCAPE: Eugenia Herbert, Mount Holyoke College CLIMATE CHANGE AND HUMAN RESPONSE "Gender and Technology in Mande Societies" Chair: Roderick McIntosh, Rice University Rosa de Jorio, University of North Florida Papers: "Le Bara Dance and Women's Political Participation: A Hamady Bokoum, IFAN, Dakar View From Segu" "Les rapports entre la metallurgie et I' environnement "Kassim Kone, SUNY -Cortland dans la Moyenne Vallee du Senegal" "Male and Female in the Manden: Covert and Overt Roderick McIntosh, Rice University Rules in Excision" "Chasing Dunjugu Over the Mande Landscape: Making Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State University Sense of Prehistoric and Historic Climate Change" "Genderizing Mande Studies: A View From Jeliya" Tereba Togola, Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Bamako MATERIAL AND PERFORMANCE ARTS "Les peuples Mande face aux adversite du climat" AMONG THE MANDE AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Robert Vernet, Universite de Nouakchott Chair: Barbara Frank, SUNY -Stony Brook "Evolution du peuplement et glissement des isohyetes a Papers: la fin de la prehistoire et au debut de I'histoire en Mary Jo Arnoldi, Smithsonian Institution Afrique de I'Ouest sahelienne" "Beautifying Bamako's Streets: New Public Sculpture Discussant: Joseph Tainter, U.S. Forest Service in Mali" Patrick McNaughton, Indiana University PRE-1700 MANDE AND LUSO-AFRICAN "Innovation and Restraint in Mande Performance CULTURAL AND ECONOMIC RELATIONS Aesthetics" ON THE ATLANTIC COAST Kirsten Langeveld, University of Amsterdam Chair: Peter Mark, Wesleyan University " The kankuran Mask in Gender Perspective: An Papers: Analysis of Myth and Female Ritual" Peter Mark, Wesleyan University Stephen Wooten, University of California--Los "Maude-Portuguese Relations and Cultural Interaction Angeles Before 1700" - "Expressive Agri/Culture: Headresses, Hoes, and Martin Klein, University of Toronto Heritage on the Mande Plateau" "Ethnic Pluralism and Homogeneity in the Western Sudan: Saalum, Segu, Wasulu" JELIY A AND MANDE ORAL TRADITION Donald Wright, SUNY -Cortland Chair: Lilyan Kesteloot, IFAN, Universite de Dakar "Pan-Africanism with 'the Pinch of Famine' (or Debt Papers: - Peonage on Both Sides of the Atlantic): The Gambian Seydou Camara, ISH Bamako Mandinka and Their African-American Relatives in "La Geste de Nankomanjan d' Apres Fode Berete de World Economy" Kangaba" Stephan Buhnen, Bremen University Lilyan Kesteloot, IFAN, Universite de Dakar "Exchange and Society in Precolonial Southern "Le mythe du Chef dans les epopees saheliennes" Gambia" "Gerard Dumestre, INALCO, Paris Jose da Silva Horta, Lisbon University "Chroniques amoureuses au Mali" "Pre-1700 Mande and Luso-African Cultural and Katrin Pfeiffer, University of Hamburg Economic Relations on the Atlantic Coast" "Mnemonic Function of Songs in Mandinka-Taaling" Stephen Belcher, Pennsylvania State University GENDER IN MANDE STUDIES INTO THE 21ST "A Synoptic View of the Nioro Region's Histories" CENTURY Part I Chair: Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State University THE POLITICS OF DECENTRALIZATION AMONG Papers: THE MANDE AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Saskia Brand, University of Leiden Co-chairs: Clemens Zobel, Centre d'Etudes Africaines, "Musoya: Gender Discourse Interpreted" EHESS and Claude Fay, Centre d'Etudes Africaines Lucy Duran, SOAS, University of London Papers: "Musoya and the Impact of the Music of Oumou Jan Jansen, Leiden University Sangare" "Inviting the Trojan Horse?: Local Traditions in Mali's Barbara Frank, SUNY -Stony Brook Politics of Decentralization" "Who Made the Djenne Terra-Cottas?: Gender, Craft Clemens Zobel, Centre d'Etudes Africaines EHESS Specialization and Mande Art History" Paris Maria Grosz-Ngate, Cornell University "Bringing Governance Back Home: Malian "Community and Gender in Sana (Mali)" Decentralization and Local Politics in the Mande Hills" Michele LeClerc-Olive, CNRS Lille GENDER IN MANDE STUDIES INTO THE 21ST "Penser la legitimite de la decentralisation CENTURY Part II administrati ve au Mali en zone rurale: approche Chair: Barbara Hoffman, Cleveland State University pragmatique et conceptuelle" Papers: 2 Claude Fay, Centre d'Etudes Africaines, Centre Paul Folmer, Leiden University d'Etudes Africaines EHESS, Paris "Stories About Supernatural Categories in Wuli: "Entre tradi tion, democratic et developpement: la jaiangoli, Devils and Sorcerers" decentralisation au Maasina (Mali)" Ralph Austen, University of Chicago Catherine Quinimal, Centre d'Etudes Africaines "Corning of Age Through Colonial Education: African EHESS, Paris Autobiography as Hybrid Bildungsroman (The Case of "Les immigres de la region de Kayes et la politique de Camara Laye)" decentralization" Ingse Skattum, University of Oslo Andreas Massing, GTZ Projets Foyers Ameliores, "Education bilingue: francais et bambara: I'ecole Bamako fondamentale au Mali" "Decentralization: Legal Theory and Practice in Burkina Faso, Ghana and Mali" RELIGION ANTI POLITICS AMONG THE WlANDE AND THEIR NEIGHBORS CONSTRUCTIONS OF POLITICAL AND Chair: Andrew Clark, University of North Carolina at CULTURAL IDENTITY AMONG THE MANDE Wilmington AND THEIR NEIGHBORS Part I Papers: Co-chairs: David Conrad, SUNY -Oswego and David Skinner, University of Santa Clara Dorothea Schulz, Freie Universitat Berlin "The Late 19th-Century Spiritual and Military Papers: Movement of Fode Kaba" Alice Bellagamba, Universita degli Studi di Torino Eduardo Costa Dias, Centro de Estudos Africanos, "The Meaning of karafoo: Representations of Power and Lisbon Personal Entrustment by Mandinka Elders of Bansang "Les mandingues de l' ancien Kaabu et Ie savoir (Fuladu West), The Gambia" islamique" Ferdinand de Jong, Amsterdam School for Social Andrew F. Clark, University of North Carolina at Science Research Wilmington "The Kankurang Masquerade: Performing Against "Mamadou Lamine Drame's Revolt and the Soninke of Ethnic Others and the Senegalese State"