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French Colonial Historical Society
32nd Annual Conference
University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar 17-20 May 2006

At its last meeting in Washington, DC., in May 2004, the French Colonial Historical Society made the official decision to hold its annual conference in Dakar from May 17-20, 2006. The Department of History, UCAD, will host the event. The initiative will be supported scientifically and logistically by the West African Research Center (Warc) in Dakar. The French Colonial Historical Society gathers specialists of the old French colonial Empire who are attached to various institutions of higher education and/or research in Africa, North America, Asia and Europe. The Statutory General Assembly (GA) of the Society takes place every year at the same time as a conference, event held with the purpose of discussing topics relating to french colonization. Because Senegal held a prominent place in the french colonial system in Africa, its capital, is viewed as one of the most intellectually vibrant cities on the continent, the Society agreed to hold such a major scientific event here.

Prospective Program

Tuesday, May 16

7h 00 - 9h 00 PM : Opening Cocktail.
Presidency and welcome speech
- The President of UCAD (Université Cheikh Anta Diop)
- The Ambassador of France in Senegal
- The Ambassador of USA in Senegal
- The Representative of AUF (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie)
- Robert Duplessis,the French Colonial Historical Society President
- Ousmane Sène, WARC Director
- Mr the Director of Archives Nationales du Sénégal
- Ibrahima Thioub, Chair of the Department of History

Wednesday, May 17 (Registration)

9 :00 - 10 :00 AM. Plenary Session,
UCAD II Keynote Speech: Amadou Mahtar Mbow, former Général Manager of UNESCO : Colonization and Culture.
Chair : Pr. Mamadou Kandji, Dean, Faculté des Lettres et Sciences Humaines.
10 :00 - 10 :30 AM. break
10 :30 - 12 :00 AM.Plenary Session, UCAD II

Panel 1: Identifying a Colonial Empire
Chair : Pr. Boubacar Barry, UCAD
- Robert DuPlessis, Swarthmore College. "Defining a French Atlantic Empire: Some Material Culture Evidence."
- G. Wesley Johnson, Brigham Young University: Senegal: Pilot Colony for French Black African Politics.
- Saliou Mbaye, former Director of Archives Nationales du Sénégal : Les Archives de l'AOF : une Mémoire Partagée.

12 :00 - 02 : 00 PM. Lunch
02 :00 - 03 :30 PM.Concurrent Panels

Panel 2: The encounter of France and West Africa.
Chair : Geoffrey Parker, Andreas Dorpalen Professor of History, The Ohio State University
- Cornelius Jaenen, University of Ottowa. "La France aborde l'Afrique Occidentale: Jean de Béthencourt aux Canaries, 1402-1405."
- Assan Sarr, Michigan State University, "British Commerce and the French Occupation of Albreda, The Gambia c1681-1857."
- Ousmane Traoré, Université de la Sorbonne Paris IV. "Marge de Manœuvre et Pouvoir de Décision des Souverains Africains dans le Système des Relations Internationales, Transatlantiques et dans L'Evolution du Capitalisme Moderne en Afrique 1715-1800."

Panel 3: France and the Western hemisphere 1
Chair : Rokhaya Fall, UCAD, Dakar
- Colin Coates, York University, Canada. "The Presence of Louis XIV in New France".
- Jean-François Brière, State University of New York/Albany: Du Sénégal aux Antilles: Gaspard-Théodore Mollien en Haiti 1825-1831.
- Kenneth Donovan, Cape Breton University, " Slavery and Freedom in Ile Royale: A North Atlantic Perspective, 1713-1758".

Panel 4: France, the Mediterranean Sea, the Indian Ocean, and the Pacific Ocean.
Chair : Robert DuPlessis, Swarthmore College.
- Claudio Minca, University of Newcastle, "Re-enchanting Morocco: A 'Real' Journey Through Travel Narratives." (19th century).
- Isa Blumi, American University of Sharjah, Limitations of French Power in the Red Sea 1870-1908.
- Mark Choate, Brigham Young University, "Politics and Perception in the European Settlement of Tunisia: the French Colony vs. the Italian Colony"
- Mary Ellen Birkett, Smith College, "France in the Pacific: A Case Study".

03:30 - 04:00 PM. break

04 :00 - 05 :30 PM. Concurrent Panels

Panel 5: France and the Western hemisphere 2
Chair : Philip Boucher
- Carolyn Podruchny, History Department, York University, "The Long Journey of the Turtle Who Wanted to Fly: Oral Motifs and Cultural Exchange in the Fur Trade."
- Ibrahima Seck : Africains et Germaniques à la Rencontre de l'Amérique Française : l'Exemple de la Côte des Allemands en Louisiane.
- John Savage, Lehigh University, "Poisoning Crimes: Perceptions of the Slave Poisoner in Martinique and the Metropole during the Restoration and July Monarchy".
- Nathalie Dessens, University of Toulouse, Letters from New Orleans.

Panel 6: Engendering the Educational Mission in Nineteenth Century Africa
Chair: Odile Goerg, Université Paris-7 Denis Diderot
- Sarah Curtis, San Francisco State University, "The Education of a Missionary: Anne-Marie Javouhey in West Africa (1820s).
- Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona, "Catholic Missionaries in a Pre-Colonial Muslim State, Tunisia, c. 1840-1881".
- Rebecca Rogers, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg, "Travel and Cultural Contact in an Imperial Context: British Feminists, French Teachers and Algerian Girls in the XIXth Century".

Panel 7:Nationalism and Decolonization
Chair : Mbaye Thiam, Director EBAD, UCAD, Dakar
- Babacar M'Baye, Evergreen State College: Marcus Garvey's Influence on French West Africa's Decolonization Struggle.
- Harry Gamble, College of Wooster, "Léopold Senghor and the Popular Front: Negritude and the Reframing of Educational Reform."
- Allison Drew, University of York (UK), "Rural Protest and Communist Party Responses in French Colonial Algeria during the Inter-War Years."

07:30 PM. Reception offered by France Ambassador.

Thursday, May 18
8:30 - 10:00 AM Concurrent Panels

Panel 8: Colonial Strategies and Local Response1
Chair : Cheikh Faty Faye, UCAD, Dakar
- Addo Mahamane, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niger : Les mécanismes de légitimation du pouvoir dans la colonie du Niger (1922-1958).
- Mamoudou Sy, Docteur en histoire, Espionnage et Pouvoir Colonial en Sénégambie au 19e Siècle.
- Mouhamadou Moustapha Sow, Professeur d'Histoire-Géographie. Encadrement colonial et politique des chefs au Fouladou : Abdoul Diallo, chef de canton (1918-1939) : histoire d'une reconversion.
- Kalidou Diallo, UCAD, Dakar : De la chefferie traditionnelle à l'administration républicaine : le cas du Fuuta Tooro 1860-1980

Panel 9: Colonization and Religion 1
Chair : Saliou Kandji, Islamologue
- Mahaman Alio, Université Abdou Moumouni, Niger: Colonisation, Islam et Frontières: la Gestion de l'Islam Transfrontalier par l'Administration Française au Niger (1890-1945).
- El Hadji Samba DIALLO, EHESS, "Le Rôle de l'Administration française dans les conflits de succession au sein de la Tijaniyya nord-africaine: situations locales et répercussions chez les marabouts sénégalais (1840-1956).
- Cleo Cantone, University of London, School of Oriental and African Studies. "The Making of Colonial Mosques in Senegal, ca. 1820-1920."
- Ngodi Etanislas ( ?), Université Marien Ngouabi, Rép. Du Congo : Rôle et Place des Missions Chrétiennes dans le Transfert Culturel en Afrique Francophone. Discussant : Abbé Léon Diouf, Archidiocèse de Dakar.

Panel 10:Women Facing the Colonial System
Chair : Fatou Sow, UCAD, Dakar
- Marylee Crofts, Bentley College. "Claire de Kersaint's 1823 OURIKA: Race and Gender in Assimilation".
- Marian A. Johnson, Brigham Young University: The Signare Legacy: Senegalese Women of Independent Means.
- Micheline Lessard, University of Ottawa, Department of History, " 'Cet ignoble trafic': The Kidnapping and Sale of Vietnamese Women and Girls in French Indochina, 1890-1925".
- Marie Rodet, University of Vienna (Austria), Femmes et Droit colonial au Soudan Français (1903-1912)

10 :00-10 :30 AM. break

10 :30-12 :00 AM. Concurrent Panels

Panel 11 : Education and Culture
Chair : Abdoul Sow, UCAD, Dakar.
- Amadou Fall, UCAD, Dakar: L'Education Coloniale: Assimilation ou Adaptation ?
- James Covi, Washington State University, "French Colonial Education Policy in West Africa: A Global Comparative Perspective"
- Chérif Daha Ba, UCAD, Dakar : Méri, un Village de Nomades à l'École Française.
- Judith DeGroat, St. Lawrence University: Ambiguous Opportunities: North American Students and Experiential Education in the Francophone World.

Panel 12: Race, Identity, and Colonization.
Chair : Amadou Aly Dieng, Chercheur, Economiste.
- Carole Reynaud Paligot, Chercheur associé à l'Université de Franche-Comté. Races et colonies : usages coloniaux de la pensée raciale de la fin du 19e siècle.
- Reine-Claude Grondin, Paris I-Sorbonne et Université de Limoges, "L'identité régionale au Prisme de la Colonisation. Fin XIX-1920".
- Pape Chérif Bertrand Bassène, Université Bretagne Sud, "Colonisation française et ethnicité en Sénégambie: le cas de la Casamance."

Panel 13: Health and Environment 1
Chair : Charles Becker, CNRS-Centre d'Etudes Africaines, Réseau sénégalais "Droit, éthique, santé".
- Andrew Clark, University of North Carolina Wilmington, Environmental Decline and Ecological Response in Colonial West Africa.
- Mor Ndao, UCAD, Dakar, Les Politiques de Santé en Afrique Occidentale Française (A.O.F). L'éclairage Historique (1895-1960).
- Matthieu Fintz, CEDEJ, Cairo: The fate of the material culture of tropical medicine in Africa in the aftermath of World War Two. An appraisal from the malaria eradication schemes.
- Anne-Laure Jaumouillié, Département d'Histoire, Université de La Rochelle, " De la nécessité de s'approprier les pratiques culturelles indigènes pour survivre. L'exemple des colons de Nouvelle-Calédonie, 1878-1910 ".

12 :00 - 02 :00 PM. Lunch

02 :00 - 03 :30 PM. Concurrent Panels

Panel 14: Colonial Strategies and Local Response 2.
Chair : Ibrahima Thioub, UCAD, Dakar
- Ibra Sène, PhD Candidate, Michigan State University: Imprisonment and the Colonial Society in Senegal: Inside the Prison of Saint-Louis (ca.1860- ca. 1940)
- Babacar Ba, Docteur en histoire, La genèse de la prison coloniale : un carcéral de conquête.
- Sokhna Sané, Docteur en histoire, Le contrôle de la circulation des armes à feu et des munitions en Afrique occidentale française : 1834 à 1958.
- Alison Murray Levine, Colby College, La France est un empire 1939-1943: Vichy, Documentary Film, and Imperial Propaganda.

Panel 15:Colonization and Religion 2
Chair : Penda Mbow, UCAD
- Ken Orosz, Department of Social Sciences and Business, University of Maine at Farmington: Presbyterian Missionary responses to French language policy in Cameroon
- Irit Back, History Department, Tel Aviv University: Francophone and Anglophone Postcolonies: Sufis and Islamists in Senegal and Nigeria.
- Keren Rouche, New York University, "Projecting Algerian Judaism, formulating a political identity: Zionism in Algeria during the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962"

Panel 16: Health and Environment 2
Chair : Babacar Fall, UCAD
- William Gallois, Department of History, Roehampton University, London, Ethics in Colonial Algerian Medicine.
- Johnston, A.J.B. Canadian National Park Service. "Grand Pré: History, Literature, Tourism, Memory and Identity."
- Evelyne Combeau-Mari, Université de La Réunion: Le Sport Colonial à Madagascar (1896 -1960).
- Abdoul Wahid KANE, Assistant à l'INSEPS-UCAD, Dakar : " La Diffusion et l'Appropriation des Pratiques Sportives Modernes dans la Société Sénégalaise Coloniale (1920-1960) "

03 :30-04 :00 PM. break

04 :00-05 :30 Concurrent Panels

Panel 17: "Extremely Dangerous Suspects: Missionaries, African Christians and Colonial Ambivalence in 19th and 20th Century West Africa". Chairs: Barbara Cooper, Rutgers University.
- Elizabeth Foster, Princeton University: "Catholics in the Republic's Empire: The Catholic Mission and Electoral Politics in the Four Communes of Senegal, 1863-1905".
- Hilary Jones, Macalester College: Protestants and French Colonialism in Senegal 1863-1914.
- Barbara Cooper, Rutgers University: "An Extremely Dangerous Suspect": French Colonial Attitudes Toward Protestant Missionaries in West Africa under Vichy and Beyond".
Discutant/ Discussant : Rachel Jean-Baptiste, State University of New York.

Panel 18: Interwar Colonialism from West Africa to Paris
Chair : Alice Conklin, Ohio State University.
- Jennifer Anne Boittin, Pennsylvania State University, "West Africans in the 1920s and 1930s Paris."
- Elizabeth Foster, Princeton University, "Cooperation and Conflict: Catholic Mission and Colonial Administration in Interwar Senegal".
- Maureen G. Shanahan, James Madison University, "Visualising the African in the New Post-World War I Internationalism: the Case of Fernand Léger".
- Lotfi Ben Rejeb, University of Ottawa, "American Apologists for French Imperialism in North Africa".

Panel 19: Indochine Peninsula
Chair : Pr. Abdoulaye Bathily, UCAD
- Michael G. Vann, History Department, California State University, Punishment as a Pageant of Power: The Pedagogical Execution in Colonial Indochine.
- Andre Cote, Queen's University, Kingston, ON : Colonialism, Philosophy and French Indochina
- David Gordon, Bronx Community College, A New Co-Prosperity Sphere: Vietnam, France and China, 1940-1950.
- Mamadou Fall, UCAD, Dakar : Entre universalisme et colonialisme: les péchés d'empire en Indochine française/Fog of Empire between Universalism and colonialism, the Indochina case.

19 : 30 PM. Reception offered by the USA Ambassador

Friday, May 19

09:00 - 10:30 AM. Concurrent Panels

Panel 20: Nationalism and Litterature
- Eloise Brière, "Recycling History : Lessons from the Past?"
- Lindsey Campbell, Indiana University, "French Imperialism and Local Literature in Senegal".
- Solomon C. Madubuike, Bowen University, Osun State, Nigeria: Cultural Dislocation in African Francophone Countries: The Quest for Redefining Nationalism.
- Yasmeen Hanoosh, The University of Michigan: The Founding Ambiguities: Origins of the Linguistic Dispute in Modern Algeria.

Panel 21: Nationalism and Decolonization 2
Chair : A. F. Clark (University of North Carolina Wilmington)
- Rebecca B. Ruquist, Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics, Florida State University, "Anticolonialism in Francophone Africa: Thiaroye in Senghor and Sembène".
- Aleksi Ylönen Department of Political Science and International Relations, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Colonization and Post-Colonial Instability: Senegal and Sudan Compared.
- Piet Defraye, University of Alberta, "In Search of Lumumba: Six Times a Murder"

Panel 22: Decolonization and the Cold War in Africa.
Chair : Christopher Goscha, Université du Québec.
- Martin Thomas, University of Exeter, UK: Innocent Abroad? Decolonization and US Engagement with French West Africa, 1945-56
- Mathilde von Bülow: Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, UK: Anti-Colonialism versus Anti-Communism: West German responses to the Algerian war for independence (1954-62)'
- Christian Ostermann (director, Cold War International History Project, Washington DC) and Christopher Goscha (Université du Québec à Montréal): Towards a Southern View of the Cold War: Making an African Case.
- Alexander Keese, School Of Oriental And African Studies, London: A culture of panic: The communist fear, scapegoat invention, and French decolonisation in Western Africa and the Pacific, 1945-1957.
Discussant : Dr. Peter Jackson (University of Wales).

10 :30-11 :00 AM. break

10 :30 -12 :30 AM. Concurrent Panels

Panel 23: France and Postcolonial Africa.
Chair: Bouba Diop, UCAD, Dakar
- Jean-Philippe Dedieu, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales: Domestiquer les lois: Les conditions de circulation et de séjour du personnel domestique africain en France (1900-2000).
- Jibo Nura, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria: French Diplomatic Missions and Investments in the 21st century Anglophone Nigeria.
- Julien Meimon, Centre d'Etudes et Recherches Internationales (Paris), "Porter la cause du développement. Les anciens cadres coloniaux, de la France d'Outre-mer à la Coopération".
- Adam Knobler, College of New Jersey, "The Hotel as Utopie: Creating a Safe Space in the French Colonial and post-Colonial Movement."

Panel 24: Displaying Colonial Knowledge: French Museums and Africa, 1900-2000"
Chair : Todd Shepard (Temple University).
- Emmanuelle Sibeud (Université Paris VIII), "From Colonial Trophy to 'Art Nègre': Scientific, political and popular uses of the African collections of the Musée d'Ethnographie du Trocadero in the 1910s".
- Alice Conklin (Ohio State University) "The Musée de l'Homme and the Ethnography of Empire, 1930-1945".
- Daniel J. Sherman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee) "The Impossible Museum: Creating the Musée des Arts d'Afrique et d'Océanie, 1960-1975".
- Stacy Holden, Purdue University, "The Political Economy of Preservationist Projects in Colonial Fez, 1912-1930.

Panel 25: Personal Experience and History.
Chair: Boubacar Boris Diop, écrivain.
- Sarah Davies Cordova. Associate Professor of French - Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Récits imaginatifs ou expressions de l'Histoire dans les écrits contemporains haïtiens?"
- Antoinette Sol. Associate Professor of French - University of Texas, Arlington. "L'infanticide: une marque du passé qui efface l'avenir"
- Thierry Léger. Associate Professor of French - Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia. "Le poids de l'Histoire chez Maryse Condé"

12 :30 - 02 :30 PM. "Téérou Bi" Restaurant: Lunch / Business Meeting

02 :30 - 04 :30 PM. Plenary Session UCAD II

Panel 26: Tribute to the Tirailleurs Sénégalais
Chair : Pr. Assane SECK, former tirailleur, former Minister of Sénégal.
- Dr. Ruth Ginio, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, A reflection of colonial contradictions: the tirailleurs sénégalais in the interwar period.
- Sarah Zimmerman, University of California at Berkeley, "Cultural and Racial Re-Invention : Tirailleurs Sénégalais in the Maghrib"
- Joe Lunn, University of Michigan-Dearborn, Caste, Class, and Ethnicity in Colonial Senegal: Five Wolof Soldiers' Oral Histories from the Great War.
- Armell Mabon, Université Bretagne Sud Lorient: Projection de film/Screening of a documentary. "Oubliés et Trahis : Les Prisonniers de Guerre Coloniaux et Nord-Africains" (55 minutes).

04 :30-05 :00 PM. Break

05 : 00-06: 00 PM. Final Lecture. "Savoirs Interdits en Situation Coloniale: la Censure en AOF".
Speaker : Pr. Ibrahima Thioub, UCAD, Dakar.
Chair: Pr. Iba Der Thiam, Historien, UCAD, Dakar, Vice Président Assemblée Nationale du Sénégal.

07: 00-09: 00 PM. West African Research Center :Closing Cocktail. Prix 2005 Alf Andrew Heggoy with
Recipient: Londa Schiebinger.
Chair: Robert DuPlessis, President FCHS.
Comments: presentation on Schiebinger's book and announcement of the 2006 winner; by Sue Peabody, Vice President of FCHS, Associate Professor of History Washington State University Vancouver:

10 :00 PM. Optional outing at the Jazz Club Just 4 U. Spicy food, live band, spirits, and softies.

Saturday, May 20

09:00 - 10:00 AM. Visit to IFAN Cheikh Anta Diop and the Department of History.

11 :00 AM. Departure for Gorée
11 :30-12 :00 AM. Visit at "Maison des Esclaves"
12 :00 - 02 :00 PM. Lunch at Le Niiwa
02 :00 PM. Back to Dakar.
02 :30 PM. Departure for St. Louis (about 4 hours). Optional outing.

Sunday, May 21 / Dimanche 21 Mai
10 : 00-12 :00 AM. Visit to St. Louis
12 :00-02 :00 PM. Lunch at St. Louis
03 :00 PM. Back to Dakar