Freitag, 26.11.2010
16:00-17:30: Registrierung
17:30-18:30: Address of welcome and introduction: Andreas Eckert/ Regina Finsterhölzl/ Daniel Tödt (Berlin)
18:30-20:00: Keynote by Sean Nixon (Essex): Cultural Intermediaries or Market Device? Some thoughts on conceptualizing advertising
20:00-22:00: Empfang
Samstag, 27.11.2010
10:00-12:00: Panel 1 „Consumption and Advertising“
Senior Discussant: Hans Peter Hahn (Frankfurt)
Andrea Scheibler (Oxford): Materiality and sociality in late colonial Nairobi: consumption, contestation and the Tai Tai class
Regina Finsterhölzl (Berlin): Advertising, decolonization and social change in Ghana, 1940-1970
Simon Heap (Woking): Marketing Modernity. Star Beer in Nigeria, 1949-66
12:00-13:00: Mittagessen
13:00-15:00: Panel 2 „Elite formation and sociability“
Senior Discussant: Michael Pesek (Berlin)
Jean-Herve Jezequel (Bordeaux): Living like and ‚Educated Man‘. Ponty Graduates’ cultural repertoires in Colonial West Africa, 1930s-1950s
Daniel Tödt (Berlin): ‘Quelle sera notre place dans le monde de demain?’ - Discourse and Sociability of the ‘Évolués’ in Belgian Congo, 1945-1960
Dominique Connan (Florenz/Paris): ‘Multiracialism’ and the Socialization of the African Elites in Late Colonial Nairobi: The Rise, Fall and Rebirth of the United Kenya Club, 1946-1963
15:00-15:30: Kaffeepause
15:30-17:00: Panel 3 “Staging Decolonization? Urban spaces of change”
Senior Discussant: Andreas Eckert (Berlin)
Jinny Prais (New York): ‘Do Gold Coast Youth Think?’ The Struggle to Define a New Urban Aesthetic and Modernity in Colonial Accra, 1930s
Susann Baller (Basel): Urban Youth and Decolonization in Senegal: Sport and Culture Clubs in the 1950s and 1960s
17:00-17:30: Kaffeepause
17:30-18:30: Final comments by Dmitri van den Bersselaar (Liverpool/Berlin)