African Modernity and Identity in the Era of New Media

2011 Symposium Schedule:  Saturday, April 2, 2011

8:30-9:15   Registration & Breakfast, Woodburn Hall
200, Political Science Library lobby

9:30-11:30 Welcome and Panel 1, Woodburn Hall 200,
Political Science Library

Rudo Mudia, Indiana
University, Communication and Culture

“You Won’t See Me
in Your History Books: The Performance and Mediation of Zimbabwean Identity in
the Work of Comrade Fatso”

            Kristofer Olsen, Ohio University,
Interdisciplinary Arts
“Takai on YouTube:
What Effect Does New Media Have on Traditional Ghanaian Musical
Creativity?”

            Carinna Friesen, Indiana University,
Ethnomusicology
“Internet, iTunes
and Rap: The role of music, globalization and technology in the construction of
identity among West African Canadians”

11:30-1:30  Lunch, School of Fine Arts (SOFA)
Gallery

1:30-2:30    Panel 2, Woodburn Hall 200, Political
Science Library

                Hans Aschim, University of Wisconsin
Madison, Journalism and Public Health
                “The BBC Effect in the Global
Village: Africa”

               John Hames, University of Florida,
Anthropology
“Pulaar Online:
Language Promotion, the Internet, and the Creation of a Common
Front”

3:00-4:15 Keynote
Lecture by Dr. Victoria Bernal, Associate Professor of Anthropology,  
University of California at Irvine, followed by Closing
Remarks

4:15-5:30   
Reception, Woodburn Hall 200, outside the Political Science
Library

Sponsored by the
following Departments & Programs at Indiana University -
Bloomington:

African Studies Program 

Office of the Vice President of International Affairs, Communications & Culture, Anthropology, Comparative Literature, English, Folklore & Ethnomusicology, Political Science, Department of History, School of Library & Information Science