MANSA conference 2021

Recorded Plenary Session of MANSA2021@Uppsala

Please find here-below the different plenary sessions of the Eleventh International Conference on Mande Studies, Beyond Crisis and Insecurity: Cultural Creativity, Popular Struggle, and Social Change in West Africa, 16-19 June 2021. The editing has been skilfully done by Forum's Oula Makkonen.

Enjoy listening to the plenary sessions of the MANSA Conference 16-19 June 2021@Uppsala. #MANSAUppsala2021

16 June

1. Conference Opening on 16 June (Part 1) - Welcoming words by Anders Hagfeldt, Vice-Chancellor of Uppsala University; Sten Hagberg: Beyond Crisis and Insecurity in West Africa : Key Challenges / Au-delà des crises et des insécurités en Afrique de l'Ouest : les défis-clés.
2. Conference Opening on 16 June (Part 2). Inès Lydia Rouamba: La lutte des femmes au Burkina Faso : les principaux défis; and Anders Themnér et al.: Socializing Warlord Democrats: explaining violent discursive practices in post-war democratic politics.

17 June

1. Plenary Session on 17 June (Part 1) - Relativizing the Universal: Reconciling Human Rights, the Public Sphere, and the State in West Africa (Part 1). Rosa de Jorio: Human Rights as Memoryscapes for the Future; and Zakaria Soré: Human rights, popular perceptions and the struggle against insecurity in Burkina Faso.
2. Plenary Session on 17 June (Part 2) - Relativizing the Universal: Reconciling Human Rights, the Public Sphere, and the State in West Africa. Bruce Whitehouse: Marriage, gender, and the law in Bamako; Joseph Hellweg: Panic at the Wedding: Queer Marriage, Human Rights, and the Language of Belonging in Côte d'Ivoire; and Discussion.

18 June

1. Plenary Session on 18 June (Part 1) - Contestation over the mining boom in West Africa: actors, discourses, and governance. Bettina Engels: Introduction; Hermann Moussa Konkobo: Violence and Discrimination of women in artisanal mining; and Anna Dessertine Extractive territorialization and gold panning in the Republic of Guinea.
2. Plenary Session on 18 June (Part 2) - Contestation over the mining boom in West Africa: actors, discourses, and governance. Diana Ayeh: After the Boom Comes the Bust? Notions of "Security" in Mining Investment Decisions; and Discussion.

19 June

1. Plenary Session on 19 June (Part 1) - Roundtable: Publish or Perish in the Postcolony. Rosa de Jorio; and Fatoumata Ouattara.
2. Plenary Session on 19 June (Part 2) - Roundtable: Publish or Perish in the Postcolony. Baba Coulibaly; and Maria Grosz-Ngaté.
3. Plenary Session on 19 June (Part 3) - Roundtable: Publish or Perish in the Postcolony. Discussion.