Program
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September 12
Welcome Address |
Keynote
5:00 - 6:30 PM
Ubiquitous Infrastructures: Oloibiri,
Climate Politics and Energy
Futures in Nigeria
Dinner |
7:00-8:30 PM
7:00-8:30 PM
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September 13
Breakfast |
8:00-9:00 AM
Introductory Remarks | 9:00-9:15 AM
First Panel | Energy 9:15-10:45 AM
Taming the Niger River: Hydropower and African Expertise, 1960s-70s
John Cropper
The Imperial Energy Economy: Energy, Industrialization, and Imperialism in Nineteenth-Century Senegal
Gökçe Günel
A Seascape of Power
Shasha Nakhai
Take Light: Illuminating Nigeria’s Energy Crisis (documentary)
Moderator:
Vivian Chenxue Lu
Second Panel | Waste
11:00-12:30 PM
Colonial Inhalations: E-Wastework and Wastemen in Necropolitical Ghana
Rosalind Fredericks
Uncanny Exposures: Embodied Infrastructures and Toxic Solidarities at Dakar’s Dump
Brenda Chalfin
Technologies and Metabolisms of Plastics Repair in Urban Ghana
Rosalind Fredericks
The Waste Commons (documentary)
Moderator:
Shani Evans
Lunch |
12:30-1:30 PM
Artist Spotlight |
1:30-2:00 PM
Transforming Tire Waste: Histories, Processes, and Innovative Forms
Third Panel
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Constructing
the Environment 2:00-3:30 PM
the Environment 2:00-3:30 PM
Rethinking Colonial State-Making in West Africa: Land Alienation and the Making of Colonial Environmental Management State in the Gambia, 1880-1910
Rebecca E. Wall
Hydro-Energy Regimes and Displacement in the Senegal River Basin
Stephan F. Miescher
The Environmental and Social Impacts of Ghana’s Hydroelectric Akosombo Dam
R. Lane Clark
Man’s Greatest Lake (documentary)
Moderator:
Nana Osei-Opare
Fourth Panel | Governing the Environment
3:45-5:00 PM
Conceptualising and growing an e-mobility Initiative in Ghana
Tengi George-Ikoli
Managing Transition Risks in Fossil Fuel Dependent Economies: The Nigerian Case
Aida Diop
Senegal: On the Cusp of Gas Production Amid Energy Transition
Moderator:
Victoria Massie
Closing Remarks |
5:15-5:30 PM
Dinner |
6:00-7:30 PM