Writing and Publishing KarinBarber, editor of Africa: Journal of the International African Institute

EmmanuelAkyeampong, editor of the Journal of African History

10:30 Break

11:00 to 12:30 WorkshopsII (concurrent sessions)

Documenting and Preserving Language Chair: JudyIrvine, University of Michigan

JeffHeath, University of Michigan

KofiAgyekum, University of Ghana Community Initiatives Chair: RaySilverman, University of Michigan

RaySilverman, University of Michigan

NanaBaffourAsareTwi BrempongII, Adontenhene of Techiman

CirajRassool, University of Western Cape

GyanApenteng, Cultural Initiatives Project, Ghana

12:30: Break

2:00 to 3:30 WorkshopsIII(concurrent sessions)

Digitizing Heritage Chair:AmaDadson, University of Ghana

TomBray, University of Michigan

AmaDadson, University of Ghana

DianeThram, Rhodes University

Heritage and Tourism Chair: EsiSutherland-Addy, University of Ghana

AlexAsiedu, University of Ghana

KwakuBoakye, University of Cape Coast

KofiAkpabli, Travel and tourism writer

AdelaideKastner, University of Ghana

3:30: Break

4:00 to 5:30 WorkshopsIV(concurrent sessions)

Media and Heritage Chair:MarkHorton, Bristol University

MarkHorton, Bristol University

JacquelineMaingard, Bristol University

Writing and Publishing KarinBarber, editor of Africa: Journal of the International African Institute

EmmanuelAkyeampong, editor of the Journal of African History 5:30 Break

The conference is free of charge and open to the public.

Organized and funded by the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana; the International African Institute; and the African Studies Center, University of Michigan.

Tuesday15December

9:00 Opening session

DrKwesiYankah, Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ghana

DrBrigidSackey, Acting Director of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana

DrKellyAskew, Director of the African Studies Center, University of Michigan

9:30 Opening address

Hon.JohnMahama, VicePresidentoftheRepublic ofGhana

11:00 Panel One: ContestedHeritage Chair: TakyiwaaManuh, University of Ghana

Discussant: CirajRassool, University of Western Cape

Chiefs,PriestsandPowerin EarlyAkanSocieties EmmanuelAkyeampong, Harvard University

Contestingtheproductionand meaningofhistoryandheritage intheAlexandraUrbanRenewal Programme NoorNieftagodien, University of the Witwatersrand

ChieftaincyInGhana:Whose ChiefsAndWhoseCultural Heritage? KodzoSenah, University of Ghana

ContestsofTime:Secessionists andMilleniariansinUganda DerekPeterson, University of Michigan

1:00 Break

2:30 Panel Two: Whatis‘National’Heritage? Chair: EsiSutherland-Addy, University of Ghana

Discussant: CynthiaKros, University of the Witwatersrand

OfChiefs,TouristsandCulture: TheMakingofLocaland NationalHeritagesinGhana RaySilverman, University of Michigan

NanaBaffourAsareTwi BrempongII, Community Development Officer and the Adontenhene of Techiman Changeandcontradictionsin thetransformationagendaof museumsinSouthAfrica: thecaseofMuseumAfrica AliKhangelaHlongwane, Chief Curator, Museum Africa

TheParadoxofChieftaincyin Ghana:AHeritagethat Identifies,UnitesandDivides AlbertAwedoba, University of Ghana

TitleTBA CirajRassool, University of the Western Cape 5:30 Break Wednesday16December

9:00 Opening lecture

Wearetheoneswhocare:the useandreuseofheritagein Africatoday DrGeorgeAbungu, CEO, Okello Abungu Heritage Consultants, & Representative (Kenya), UNESCO World Heritage Committee

10:00 Panel Three: RecontextualizingTradition Chair: FriedaEkotto, University of Michigan

Discussant: DanielHerwitz, University of Michigan

Theappearanceofareluctant tradition:Changingmuseums inpost-apartheidSouthAfrica LeslieWitz, University of the Western Cape

Heritage,EconomyandPolitical Control:FinancingaModern MonarchyThroughReinvention ofTraditionalMeasuresin Asante WilhelminaDonkoh, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

ContinuingGhanaianTraditions: Variationsonatheme AttaKwami, visual artist

Naturalresourceconflicts, alienationandtheframingof traditioninGhana KojoAmanor, University of Ghana

12:30 Break

1:30 Panel Four: Archaeologyandthe PoliticsofHeritage Chair:KellyAskew, University of Michigan

Discussant: KodzoGavua, University of Ghana

Developmentversus ArchaeologicalHeritage Preservation:TrendsinGhana BenKankpeyeng, University of Ghana

BeyondGhana:thearchaeology ofGhanabeyondAfrica MarkHorton, Bristol University

Monumentalizationsand Reappropriations:Sahelian ArabicInscriptions (11th-15thcentury) PauloFernandodeMoraesFarias, University of Birmingham

ArchaeologyofMaroon communities:Uncovering AfricanCulturalLegacyin theNewWorld KofiAgorsah, Portland State University

4:00 Panel Five: LanguageandthePolitics ofHeritage Chair: KarinBarber, University of Birmingham

Discussant: DerekPeterson, University of Michigan

Theroleoflanguageinforging newidentities:counteringa heritageofservitude MaryEstherDakubu, University of Ghana

Preservingthepreviously marginalisedlanguages (PMLs)aspartofretainingthe linguisticheritage:thecaseof SouthAfricanindigenous languages ThembaMoyo, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Afrikaansandtheheritageof (post)apartheid SarahSlabbert, University of the Witwatersrand

Visionsofethnicityin nineteenth-centuryAfrican linguistics JudithIrvine, University of Michigan

6:30 Break Thursday,17December

9:00 to 10:30 WorkshopsI(concurrent sessions)

Documenting Heritage: Identifying and Securing Collections Chair: DavidWallace, University of Michigan, & WilhelminaDonkoh, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

ThomasAning, U. Ghana, Manhyia Archives, University of Ghana

SelloHatang, Nelson Mandela Foundation

HenriettaSarpong, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology