IMPERIAL CULTURE IN COUNTRIES WITHOUT COLONIES

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IMPERIAL CULTURE IN COUNTRIES WITHOUT COLONIES: AFRICA AND SWITZERLAND
Thursday, 23. October
14:00	Greetings and Introduction

Session 1	Intellectuals: missionaries, anthropology and linguistics Centre for African Studies Basel, Rheinsprung 9
14:30	David Coplan (University of the Witwatersrand): "A Grand Quixotic Intellectual Quest: Western Switzerland and Missionary Anthropology in 19^th century Lesotho."
15:00	Tom McCaskie (University of Birmingham): "Perregaux among the Akan."
15:30	David Birmingham (University of Kent) & Didier Péclard (Universität Basel): "Héli Chatelain and the colonial encounter in Angola.”
16:00	Break
16:30	Erika Eichholzer (Universität Hamburg): "Language and misrepresentation: Swiss Missionary linguists and the Non-European Other." abstract
17:00	Alain Ricard (CNRS, Paris): "The Ellenbergers ( David-Frederic, Victor, Paul): interpreting sesotho."
17:30	Final Discussion

18:30	Conference-Apéro, Centre for African Studies Basel

Friday, 24. October
Session 2	Intellectuals: between science and romance Centre for African Studies Basel, Rheinsprung 9
9:00	Nigel Penn (University of Cape Town) & Roland Kaehr (Musée d'ethnographie de Neuchâtel): "Gen. Charles-Daniel de Meuron at the Cape and in Switzerland."
9:30	Wolbert Smidt (Universität Hamburg): "A Swiss in Africa: Munzinger between scholarship, political reform and imperialism."
10:00	Bernhard Gardi (Museum der Kulturen, Basel): "René Gardi (1909-2000): Traveller, Writer, Photographer and Filmmaker."
10:30	Break
11:00	William Beinart & Daniel Gilfoyle (St. Antony's College, Oxford University): "A Swiss vet in South Africa: Arnold Theiler, the South African stock industry and the lamsiekte problem."
11:30	Giorgio Miescher (Basler Afrika Bibilographien): "From Rinderpest to the Basel Zoo. - Markus Zschokke or how Vets, Monuments and Nature Conservation opened a line against dark Africa."
12:00	Final Discussion

12:30	Lunch: Harmonie Restaurant, Petersgraben 71

Session 3	Science and Exploration Englisches Seminar, Nadelberg 6
14:30	Guy Thomas (Mission 21, Universität, Basel): "Spatial Transformation in Colonial Cameroon: Cantons, Chiefdoms and Missionary Cartography."
15:00	Werner Korte (Independent Scholar): "Expeditions into an Unknown Country: The Journeys of Johann A. Büttikofer through Liberia in the Years 1880-1882 and 1886."
15:30	Break
16:00	Dag Henrichsen (Basler Afrika Bibliographien): "Classifying colonial territory and mapping out an academic career. The example of Hans Schinz, botanist in southwestern Africa and Zurich."
16:30	Jürg Schneider (Universität Basel): "Photographs and Findings: Carl Passavant's travelling and exploring in West Africa." abstract
17:00	Final Discussion

17:30	SAG - SSEA - Swiss Society for African Studies: Annual Meeting

19:00	Conference-Dinner in the Tante-Schuggi-Tram Meeting point: 18:45 at Schifflände.

Saturday, 25. October - Parallel Sessions
Session 4A		Institutions and intellectuals Englisches Seminar, Nadelberg 6
9:00		Paul Jenkins (Mission 21, Universität, Basel): "What is a missionary society? A systematic view of a key institution in imperial and post-imperial culture."
9:30		Ulrike Sill & Sara Janner (Universität Basel): "From India via Basel to the Gold Coast - the Basel Women's Mission in the nineteenth century."
10:00		Eric Morier-Genoud (Universität Basel and Binghampton, SUNY): "Missionary Mismatch: H.-P. Junod's politics in South Africa and Switzerland, ca. 1930-1980s."
10:30		Break
11:00		Cephas Omenyo (University of Ghana, Legon): "The legacies of the Basel Mission in Ghana revisited." abstract
11:30		Alpheus Manghezi (formerly Centre for African Studies, UEM, Maputo): "Out of Bounds: Control, Discipline and Passive Resistance in a Mission College."
12:00		Final Discussion

Session 4B		Africa in Switzerland / Servitude and Freedom Englisches Seminar, Nadelberg 6
9:00		Wolbert Smidt (Universität Hamburg): ”Africans in Switzerland: The example of Basel in the 19^th century."
9:30		Patrick Minder (Université de Neuchâtel): "Le 'zoo humain' en Suisse, objet de curiosité populaire ou instrument de propagande coloniale?" abstract bibliography
10:00		Patrick Harries (Universität Basel): "Taming domestic savages: the image of Africa in Sunday Schools of Western Switzerland, ca. 1860-1960."
10:30		Break
11:00		Hans Fässler (Independent Scholar and Performing Artist): "The third chapter is the first - unravelling Switzerland's slavery past." abstract
11:30		Botlhale Tema (DACST, South African Government): "Henri Gonin and Welgeval farm: from Servitude to Salvation."
12:00		Final Discussion

12:30		Lunch: Storchen Restaurant, Fischmarkt 10

Session 5A		Christianity and Transculturation Englisches Seminar, Nadelberg 6
14:30		Sonia Abun-Nasr (Basler Afrika Bibliographien): "Patterns of life: Christian biographies from Switzerland and Ghana."
15:00		Tim Couzens (University of the Witwatersrand): "Edward Jacottet and the Development of an indigenous pastorate in Lesotho."
15:30		Break
16:00		Gaby Fierz (Museum der Kulturen, Basel): ”Swiss African chief and Queenmother: Auf den Spuren transkultureller Identitäten.” abstract
16:30		Final Discussion

Session 5B		African Images and Swiss Indentities Englisches Seminar, Nadelberg 6
14:30		Bouda Etemad (Université de Genève et de Lausanne), Thomas David (Universités de Lausanne et de Neuchâtel) & Janick Schaufelbuehl (Université de Lausanne): "Mouvements abolitionnistes et valeurs culturelles. Le cas de la Suisse."
15:00		Marcel Dreier (Universität Basel): "Africa is fighting: a Swiss anti-imperialist solidarity movement and its models of liberation in the 1970s."
15:30		Break
16:00		Monica Kalt (Universität Basel): "'Entwicklung heisst Befreiung' - kritisches entwicklungspolitisches Engagement in der Schweiz der 70er und 80er Jahre."
16:30		Final Discussion

17:00		End of Conference