Call for Papers "Realities Re-Viewed / Revealed. Divination in Sub-Saharan Africa" International Conference National Museum of Ethnology Leiden Leiden (The Netherlands) July 4-5, 2005
(Please note, for matters of organization, that this conference has been scheduled two days after the AEGIS conference at SOAS, London.) Organizers: Philip Peek (Drew University), Wouter van Beek (African Studies Center, Leiden), Jan Jansen (Leiden University), and Annette Schmidt (National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden) Among the sub-topics we hope to address are the roles of today's diviners as political leaders and healers, the fundamental epistemologies which divination articulates, and the complex processes by which underlying realities are revealed. We also encourage descriptions of previously unstudied divination systems. Selected papers from the conference will be published. If you want to attend the conference or to present a paper, please contact Jan Jansen at [email protected] Hosted by: the National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden Sponsored by: Leiden University, Research School CNWS, Netherlands Association for African Studies NVAS, African Studies Centre, Leiden, and Brill Academic Publishers PRELIMINARY PROGRAM JULY 4, 2005 9.00 - 10.00 Subscription and reception 10.00 - 10.15 Opening (Walter van Beek [African Studies Center, Leiden], Jan Jansen [Leiden University], Philip Peek [Drew University]) 10.15 - 11.00 Keynote Speech - Wim van Binsbergen (African Studies Center/ Erasmus University) Divination through Space and Time 11.00-11.15 Discussion 11.15-11.30 Break 11.30 - 13.00 Panel I Mediums, Codes, Principles Chair: Peter Geschiere (University of Amsterdam) - Adrien N. Ngudiankama (Princeton University) Kongo Divination Principles and Practices - René Devisch (Africa Research Centre, K.U.Leuven) Matrixial Intelligence in Yaka Mediumnic Divination - Jeanne-Francoise Vincent (Université de Clermont-Ferrand) Pouvoir du futur, pouvoir du present: le devin face au pouvoir politique chez les Mofu-Diamare 13.00 - 14.30 Lunch 14.30-16.30 Panel II (Break at 15.30) Mathematically Inspired Interpretations of Divination Chair: Peter Pels (Leiden University) - David Zeitlyn (Kent University) Almost the Real Thing - Using Computer Based Simulation to Study Mambila Divination - Ron Eglash (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute): An Ethnomathematics Comparison of African and Native American Divination Systems - Franklin Tjon Sie Fat (Leiden University) Binary models in Divination in Africa and Beyond - Jan Jansen (Leiden University) Maninka Sand Divination : a Formalized Teaching Trajectory in an Illiterate Context 16.30 - 21.00 Reception/Dinner JULY 5, 2005 9.00-11.00 Panel III Maraboutic and non-maraboutic divination in the Mande World Chair: Jan Jansen (Leiden University) Discussant: Benjamin Soares (African Studies Center, Leiden) - Knut Graw (Africa Research Centre, K.U.Leuven) Divinastion and Ttime: a Processual Analysis of Prospective Divinatory Praxis in Senegal and The Gambia - Amber Gemmeke (Leiden University) Marabout Women in Dakar: Islam, Divination, and Femininity - Ferdinand de Jong (University of East Anglia) People said: It is like 9/11. The Interpretation of a Senegalese Shipwreckage - Dorothea Schulz (Freie Universität, Berlin) Divination and Monetarisation; Marabouts in Mali - Trevor Marchand (SOAS, London) Fortifying Futures on Blessed Foundations: masons, magic and gaurantees in Djenne 11.00-11.15 Break 11.15 - 12.00 Keynote speech - Alfred Adler (CNRS, Paris) Retour au bâton de l' aveugle: les dynamiques de la divination Moundang 12.00-13.30 Lunch 13.30-15.00 Panel IV Divination as Codes of Behavior? Chair: Philip Peek (Drew University) - Koen Stroeken (Africa Research Centre, K.U.Leuven) Sensory Codes in Sukuma Divination - Anja Veirman (Gand University) Sandogo Divination chez les Senufo du Folona (Mali) - Walter van Beek (African Studies Center/Utrecht University) Predicting the past, foreseeing the future: choices in Dogon divination 15.00-15.15 Break 15.15-16.45 Panel V Divination and the Construction of the Self Chair: Benjamin Soares (Africa Studies Center, Leiden) - Philip Peek (Drew University) The Communal Self: Diviners, Twins, and Doubles - Rijk van Dijk (African Stdies Center, Leiden) Confession as Divination in Pentacostal Practice: Private Narratives in Changing Public Situations - Kai Kresse (St. Andrews University) Can research on African divination be made fertile for the field of African philosophy? 16.45-17.30 _________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: http://interphil.polylog.org/ Intercultural Philosophy Calendar: http://agd.polylog.org/cal/
