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African Religious Movements & Democracies

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“Religious” movements have been and continue to play a central role in the public sphere of African societies, driving social and political change, both shaping and challenging the dominant ideological, socio-economic and political formations. From prophetic politics of protest to poetry to anti-colonial militant movements, the papers in this panel explore the roles African religious movements have played in defining, changing, and challenging their socio-political orders.

Part of the virtual conference, Religion and Democracy on the African Continent: Colonial Legacies and Postcolonial Possibilities, co-sponsored by the University of Virginia Democracy Initiative's Religion, Race & Democracy Lab, the Page-Barbour Funds, the Institute of the Humanities & Global Culture, the Carter G. Woodson Institute, and the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion.

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May 7, 2022 02:00 PM in Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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When: May 7, 2022 02:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada) Topic: African Religious Movements & Democracies Register in advance for this webinar: https://virginia.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_Xi1iDAGmTtedfdr2UI-BGw Or an H.323/SIP room system: H.323: 162.255.37.11 (US West) 162.255.36.11 (US East) 221.122.88.195 (China) 115.114.131.7 (India Mumbai) 115.114.115.7 (India Hyderabad) 213.19.144.110 (Amsterdam Netherlands) 213.244.140.110 (Germany) 103.122.166.55 (Australia Sydney) 103.122.167.55 (Australia Melbourne) 209.9.211.110 (Hong Kong SAR) 64.211.144.160 (Brazil) 69.174.57.160 (Canada Toronto) 65.39.152.160 (Canada Vancouver) 207.226.132.110 (Japan Tokyo) 149.137.24.110 (Japan Osaka) Meeting ID: 959 5031 5832 SIP: 95950315832@zoomcrc.com After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. ---------- Webinar Speakers Ousmane Kane (Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society @Harvard Divinity School) Ousmane Kane, a scholar of Islamic studies and comparative and Islamic politics, joined Harvard Divinity School in 2012 as the first Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Professor of Contemporary Islamic Religion and Society. Kane studies the history of Islamic religious institutions and organizations since the eighteenth century, and he is engaged in documenting the intellectual history of Islam in Africa. Kane has also focused on the phenomenon of Muslim globalization. His book Homeland Is the Arena: Religion, Transnationalism and the Integration of Senegalese Immigrants in America (Oxford University Press, 2010) looks at the community of Senegalese immigrants to the United States in New York and the importance these immigrants assign to their religious communities for the organization of their lives. Medina Thiam (PhD Candidate, History @University of California, Los Angeles) Medina Thiam is a doctoral candidate in History at the University of California, Los Angeles (PhD exp. spring ’22), and a Mellon/ACLS Fellow. In September 2022, she will join Drexel University as Assistant Professor of History and Africana Studies. Thiam works on Mali and the Sahel, with broad interests in African migrations and the connected social and intellectual histories of Islam across the Atlantic and Saharan worlds. Her PhD thesis, entitled “Seeking Freedom in the Sahel: Mobilities, Connectivity, and Islam, 1804-1960,” probes historical intersections between freedom, mobility, Islam and political change in the region, adopting a global and micro-historical approach. It draws on research she conducted in Mali, Senegal, France, England, Ireland, and Jamaica. Her research has been supported by the Social Science Research Council, American Historical Association, and African Studies Association, among others. Ebrima Sall (Executive Director @TrustAfrica) Ebrima Sall is the Executive Director of TrustAfrica, a pan African foundation that promotes responsible citizenship and accountable leadership, and champions inclusiveness that is founded on justice. He has also, in the past, held other senior positions, including as Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA), Africa’s premier social science research council, from April 2009 to June 2017; and Senior Research Fellow at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden (2001-2004). Ebrima is a member of the Expert Group supporting the work of UNESCO’s Global Commission on the Futures of Education, and the Scientific Advisory Committee of UNESCO’s Management of Social Transformations (MOST) program. He is the (co-) author/editor of several publications on higher education, academic freedom, social movements, citizenship, governance, and post-conflict transitions and development in Africa. Robert Vinson (Director & Chair @Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American & African Studies) Robert Trent Vinson is Director & Chair of the Carter G. Woodson Institute for African American & African Studies at the University of Virginia and a Research Associate at Stellenbosch University in South Africa. He is a scholar and teacher of 19th and 20th century African & African Diaspora history, specializing in the transnational connections between southern Africa, the Americas and the Caribbean. His first book was The Americans Are Coming!: Dreams of ’American Negro Liberation’ in Segregationist South Africa (2012) and his second book was Albert Luthuli: Mandela before Mandela (2018). Vinson currently serves as President of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD), the world’s premier professional organization of African and African Diaspora scholars. Naseemah Mohamed (Postdoctoral Research @Frank Batten School of Public Policy and Global Policy Center) Naseemah Mohamed (DPhil in Education, University of Oxford) is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Virginia's Frank Batten School of Public Policy and Global Policy Center, where she researches, teaches and writes on the connections among education, conflict, and public policy. A Zimbabwean Rhodes Scholar, she graduated in 2014 with an MSc with Distinction from Oxford’s Comparative and International Education Department and holds a B.A. from Harvard University. From 2015–16 she served as the director of African programs for Harvard’s Pre-Texts Initiative, an arts-based teacher training program that promotes creativity, leadership skills and critical thinking in kindergarten through university classrooms. Naseemah is the co-founder of two organizations—AfricanIvy, an organization that helps African students apply to universities, and of the Center for African Cultural Excellence and its flagship Writivism Workshop that hosts writing workshops across the African continent. Ayodeji Ogunnaike (Assistant Professor of Africana Studies @Bowdoin College) Professor Ogunnaike teaches interdisciplinary courses on Africa and the African Diaspora that center around the important role religion plays in these communities. His research focusses mostly on Yoruba oriṣa worship in Nigeria, but also addresses Islam in Africa, Christianity in Africa, and diaspora religions—Brazilian Candomblé in particular. Having studied Ifa divination with a high priest and diviner in Nigeria, he has a keen interest in indigenous African intellectual traditions and ways of knowing. His current book project, How Worship Becomes Religion, analyzes how the worship of traditional Yoruba deities originally differed greatly from Western notions of “religion” but eventually became the most widespread and celebrated indigenous African religion through contact with modernity and mission Christianity. He is also currently working on a children’s book of Yoruba mythology with his brothers and has been developing and curating an online library of Ifa orature. Noah Salomon (Irfan and Noreen Galaria Research Chair and Associate Professor in Islamic Studies @University of Virginia) Salomon’s research broadly concerns the intertwining of religious criticism, political aesthetics, and Islamic practice, with a focus on contemporary Africa and the Middle East. His first book, For Love of the Prophet: An Ethnography of Sudan’s Islamic State (Princeton University Press 2016, précis) is a study of the development of, and eventual crises in, new forms of political community that arose in Sudan during its “national salvation” period in the first two decades of the 21st century. It won the 2017 Albert Hourani Prize from the Middle East Studies Association and an Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion (analytic/descriptive studies) from the American Academy of Religion. Subsequent research has focused on the establishment of state secularism in the new nation of South Sudan, as a mode of unraveling the Islamic State, and the concomitant construction of a Muslim minority as part of a nascent project of nation-building.

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