Events
Cosponsors
- Institute for Social and Economic Research and Policy
- The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities
Organizer
- Department of History
Contact
email address [email protected]
Notes
- Audience open to all invited guests
This conference is not open to the public

ID is required for entrance.
Attendance at this conference is by invitation only.
Program
time9:30am - 10:00am EDT
Introduction
Gregory Mann
Department of History
Columbia University
time10:00am - 12:00pm EDT
Lived Experiences of Military Rule
Guardians of the Treasury: Military Rule in Upper Volta, 1966-1974
Riina Turtio
Graduate Institute, Geneva
Gendered Histories of Military Governance in Postcolonial Uganda
Alice Decker
Penn State University
Military Social States: Child Welfare and Redistribution in 1970s and 1980s Burkina Faso
Thomas Zuber
Columbia University
Gender, Materiality and Everyday Experience of Urban Militarization in Kampala
Ben Twagira
Williams College
time12:00pm - 1:30pm EDT
Midday Break
time1:30pm - 4:00pm EDT
Limits of Military Rule
The Military Takeover in Guinea at the Death of Sékou Touré and the First Years of the Lansana Conté Regime
Martin Mourre
Institut des mondes africains (Paris)
Judges, Shari’a, and the Limits of Military Rule (Sudan), 1983-1985
Rebecca Glade
Columbia University
Naked Life: Law and the End of Military Rule in Nigeria
Sam Daly
Duke University
Memoirs and Military Reason in Mali
Alioune Sow
University of Florida
time4:00pm - 6:00pm EDT
Lessons of Military Rule
Military Rule and Political Resistance of Academics in Mali: 1968-1991
Isaie Dougnon
Fordham University
Soldier/ Hero/ Victim/ Survivor: The Challenge of Military Rule in Ghana's National Reconciliation Commission
Abena Asare
SUNY-Stony Brook
Codifying Military Coups as an International Crime: Africa and the Search for Democratic Rule
Oumar Ba
Cornell University