Sexuality and Colonial Black Atlantic Cities
University of Chicago
April 19 – 20, 2012

Thursday, April 19

Harper Memorial Library Room 130, 1116 E. 59th Street

5:00-6:30 pm: Opening Conference Keynote

Welcome, Linda M.G. Zerilli,
Introduction, Rachel Jean-Baptiste and Lorelle Semley

Cassandra Pybus
The University of Sydney
“Doll Thomas, 'The Queen of Demerera': Race and Gender in the Atlantic World in the Age of Revolutions”

Friday, April 20

All events to take place at: 5710 S Woodlawn Ave, Community Lounge

9:00 am: Refreshments available

9:15 am: Welcome by Conference Co-Conveners

Rachel Jean-Baptiste, University of Chicago
Lorelle Semley, College of the Holy Cross

9:30-11:15 am: Panel I
Arts and Publics

Chair: Julie Saville, University of Chicago

Emily Callaci
Northwestern University
"Romantic Love and Spectacles of Advancement in Colonial Dar es Salaam"

Elizabeth Fretwell
University of Chicago
"Articulating Nationalist Desires: Representations of Modernity, Women and Consumption in Dakar, Senegal, 1956-1968"

Rosa Carrasquillo
College of Holy Cross
"Performing Bravado: Songs of Black Men Behaving Badly in the Transnational Musical City of Salsa, San Juan"

Daniel McNeil
Newcastle University
"Refashioning the Male Gaze: Philippa Schuyler, Latin Lovers, Brutish Blacks and Effete Englishmen in Rome, Elizabethville, and New York"

Discussant: Agnes Lugo-Ortiz, University of Chicago

11:15 - 11:30 am: Coffee Break

11:30 am - 1:15 pm: Panel II
Geographies of Rights

Chair: Charlotte Walker-Said, University of Chicago

Hilary Jones
University of Maryland
"Ideologies of Womanhood in a West African Town: Race, Intimacy and French Colonialism in Nineteenth Century St. Louis Senegal"

Elizabeth Neidenbach
College of William and Mary
"'Refugee from St Domingue living in This City': The Geography of Social Networks in among Refugee Free Women of Color in New Orleans"

Emily Musil Church
Lafayette College
"Metropolitan Martinique: Women in the City of Men"

George Paul Meiu
University of Chicago
"The Ethno-Erotic Future?  Ritual Reconfigurations of Sex and Commodities in Samburu District, Northern Kenya"

Discussant: Theresa Barnes, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1:15 - 2:30 pm: LUNCH

2:30 - 4:15 pm: Panel III
Politics of Sex in the City

Chair: Daniel Desormeaux, University of Chicago

Liz Thornberry
Hobart and William Smith College
"Rape, Race, and Respectability in a South African City, 1890-1927"

Abosede George
Barnard College
"Seeing Like a Developmentalist State: Problem Girls, Private Vice, and Public Secrets in Lagos"

Jennifer Anne Boittin
Penn State University
"Independent Women or Sexual Creatures?:  Race and Gender from Paris to Dakar between the Wars"

Minayo Nasiali
University of Arizona
"'Le petit Harlem français': Living and Working in Marseille's African Quarter during Decolonization"

Discussant: Emily Osborn, University of Chicago

4:45 - 6:15 pm: Closing Keynote

AbdouMaliq Simone
Goldsmiths College, University of London
"Passages and Miracles: Notes on African contributions to Urban Life"

6:15 pm: Reception

Sponsors:
Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality
Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture
The College of the Holy Cross
Office of Multicultural Student Affairs
Office of LGBTQ Student Life
Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Center for International Studies
France Chicago Center
Department of History
Caribbean Studies Workshop
African Studies Workshop
University of Chicago Urban Portal