Conference Creative Methodologies
Writing the stories of working women from popular classes in African urban milieux, 1920 — 1970
Zoom link for the three days:
https://cnrs.zoom.us/j/96456641290?pwd=blNkWUtjWnRhV3FUclQwZS9hUDJmUT09
(passcode: 1iM7zc)
Day 1. Monday, 8th January 2024
9:00 – 9:45 Welcome and presentation of the project
9:45 – 10:45 Noor Nieftagodien, University of Witwatersrand
South Africa, Social History and the Recovery of Women’s Experiences in History
Coffee break
11:00–12:00 MahassinAbdelGalil,EHESS,Paris
Sudanese Women's History through Biographies and Microhistory: Implicit Methodological Challenges 12:00–13:00 AkosuaDarkwah,UniversityofGhana
The River of Life as an Interview Method
Lunch (IMAF, Bâtiment de recherches sud, 3rd floor, room n. 3.122)
14:30–15:30 DanielleVandenHeuvel,UniversityofAmsterdam
What can the Early Modern do for You? Uncovering Ephemeral Activities on Everyday City Life using the Snapshot Method
15:30 – 16:30 Darren Newbury, University of Brighton
Historical Photographs and Photographic Histories: Methodological Reflections on Research in Photographic Archives of Africa
Coffee break
16:45–17:30 KarinPallaver,UniversityofBologna
ERC Research Project: Ayahs in Kenya: a Preliminary Exploration of Themes and Sources
Day 2. Tuesday, 9th January 2024
9:00 – 10:00 Felix Meier zu Selhausen, Utrecht University
Gender Inequality and urban Elite Formation: New Insights from Parish Registers in British Colonial Africa 10:00 – 11:00 Filipa Ribeiro da Silva, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Searching for African Women’s Urban Occupations in Colonial Censuses: Preliminary Reflections and Comparisons
Coffee break
11:15–12:15 TimGibbs,UniversityofParisNanterre
The Widows of Warwick Junction Pavement Markets (Durban, South Africa): Studying Commercial Networks in a Time of Crisis
12:15 – 13:00 Domenico Cristofaro, University of Bologna
ERC Research Project: Creative Mobilities: Introductory Thoughts on Migration, Infrastructure Development and Market Traders in Colonial Northern Ghana
Lunch (IMAF, Bâtiment de recherches sud, 3rd floor, room n. 3.122)
14:30 – 15:30 Salvatory Nyanto, University of Dar es Salaam
Women, Brewing and Urban Professionalism in Twentieth-Century Tabora, Western Tanzania, 1930-1970
15:30 – 16:15 Alma Simba, EHESS, Paris
PhD ERC Research Project: Women’s Resistance and Informal Labour in Dar es Salaam, 1950-1985
Coffee break
16:30–17:15 DanielWorkuKebede,EHESS,Paris
PhD ERC Research Project: A History of Women in the Informal Sectors in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia (1886 -1991): the Case of Weavers and Potters
17:15–18:00 JulietTiwaahAduBoahen,EHESS,Paris
PhD ERC Research Project: Wayside Female Dressmakers: A Historical Analysis of Cultural, Economic and Social Impacts of Dressmaking in the Gold Coast and Ghana, 1919-1970
Day 3. Wednesday, 10th January 2024
9:00 – 10:00 Emma Hunter, University of Edinburgh
Swahili Language Newspapers and the History of Urban Working Women in Mid-twentieth-century Tanzania 10:00 – 11:00 Elara Bertho, Laboratoire Afriques dans le Monde, Bordeaux
Can Literature Rescue History? Paradoxes in Subalterns' Voices (Guinea, 1970s)
Coffee break
11:15–12:15 HeatherSharkey,UniversityofPennsylvania
‘The Guide to Modern Cooking’: Tracing the History of Sudanese Women’s Domestic Labor Through a Home Economics Textbook
12:15–13:00 MariamSharif,EHESS,Paris
PhD Research Project: The History of Nursing: Education, Practices and Political Participation in Sudan from 1899-1970s
Lunch (IMAF, Bâtiment de recherches sud, 3rd floor, room n. 3.023)
14:30–15:30 TirsitSahledengle,UniversityofAddisAbabaandMeronZeleke,UniversityofAddisAbaba Understanding the History of Female Employment in the Textile Industry in Ethiopia; the Value of Anthropological Methods
15:30 – 16:15 Pierre Guidi, IRD, Paris and Tirsit Sahledengle, University of Addis Ababa
ERC Research Project: Discourses ‘From Within’ versus Discourses ‘About’? The Work of Ethiopian ‘Traditional’ Midwives in the Press and in their Own Testimonies (1970s)
Coffee break
16:30–17:15 AnneHugon,UniversityofParis1
ERC Research Project: Documenting the History of Birth Attendants versus Documenting the History of Registered Midwives in the Gold Coast/Ghana: some Preliminary Reflections on Sources
17:15–18:00 ElenaVezzadini,InstitutdesMondesAfricains,Paris
ERC Research Project: Only Shadows of Traces: Studying Hairdressers and Estheticians in Colonial and Early Colonial Sudan