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Dear LSA Community:

Please find updates on our activities below


1)      *Announcing the Formation of LSA Publications Committee*

Led by member Carli Coetzee (Editor of the Journal of African Cultural
Studies), the LSA Publications committee came into existence last month.
Already, the committee has read 90 percent of the revised papers presented
at LSA 2019 and provided detailed feedback to authors. The formative
reviews covered conceptual/theoretical issue, data, and quality writing.



The work of this committee complements the mission of the LSA to help
improve the quality of scholarship and the visibility of Nigeria-based
members in tier-one journals in Africa and across the world. Our current
project of collating credible and non-predatory journals would easily sync
with the work of the Publications Committee, which promises to extend
professional development opportunities beyond the annual LSA Conference.
The committee also allows us to implement the recommendation of the Board
of Directors to strengthen our fellowship program to make it more
competitive.



*Committee Members*

Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi (University of California-Riverside)

Saheed Aderinto (Editor of the Journal of West African History, Western
Carolina University)

Akeem Ayofe Akinwale (University of Lagos)

Vicki Brennan (University of Vermont)

Oliver Coates (University of Cambridge)

Carli Coetzee (Editor of the Journal of African Cultural Studies):
Committee Chair

Emily Guitard (National Center for Scientific Research)

Peju Layiwola (University of Lagos)

Senayon Olaoluwa (University of Ibadan)

Yetunde Zaid (University of Lagos)



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2)      *Monthly Membership Update*

Twenty-six members paid their membership due in October. Thank you!

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1. Adeleke Adeeko (Ohio State University)

2. Ayodeji Adegbite (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

3. Shola Adenekan (University of Bremen)

4. Mosunmola Adeojo (University of Florida)

5. Folarin Ajibade (New York University)

6. Lani Akande (York University)

7. Bukola Amao-Taiwo (University of Lagos)

8. Chijioke Azuawusiefe (University of Pennsylvania)

9. Gabriel B=C3=A1mgb=C3=B3=E1=B9=A3=C3=A9 (Rutgers University)

10. Sandra Barnes (University of Pennsylvania)

11. Elizabeth Cobbett (University of East Anglia)

12. Jonathan Haynes (Long Island University)

13. Sesan Johnson (Obafemi Awolowo University)

14. Lisa Lindsay (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

15. Olisa Muojama (University of Ibadan)

16. Monsuru Muritala (University of Ibadan)

17. Kayode Odumboni (Ohio State University)

18. Folami Olaoluwa (Durban University of Technology)

19. Angela Olisama (University of Lagos)

20. Emmanuel Osayande (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

21. Rosemary Popoola (Covenant University)

22. Portia Roelofs (St. Anne=E2=80=99s College, University of Oxford)

23. Lynn Schler (Ben Gurion University)

24. Nicole Wilson (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)

25. Umar Yandaki (Usmanu Danfodiyo University)

26. Deng Zheyuan (University of Florida)



**Join the LSA Today! Pay your membership due. Become a member in perfect
standing.

1) *Nigeria-Based Members. *Account details: 0521034910/Guarantee Trust
Bank/LSA Foundation LTD/GTE. Include your name and email address in the
=E2=80=9Cnote.=E2=80=9D

Student membership: N2,000

Academic and non-academic practitioners: N5,000

Institutional membership: N20,000

Lifetime membership: N200,000



2) *International Members. *Send your payment through a secured LSA PayPal
Account using our email address. lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com*.* You
can also make international transfer to our Nigerian bank account with
WorldRemit or Moneygram. Nigerian Account details: 0521034910/Guarantee
Trust Bank/LSA Foundation LTD/GTE

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Student membership: $15

Academic and non-academic practitioners: $30

Lifetime membership: $600

Institutional membership: $100





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3)      Call for Panelists



*Continuity and Disruption: *

*Death, Dying, Mourning, and Memorialization in Postcolonial African Cities=
*

The 5th Annual Lagos Studies Association Conference

Theme: Postcolonial African Cities at 60: Continuities and Discontinuities

June 25-27, 2020
Lagos, Nigeria



Existing narratives about, and attitudes to death, dying, mourning, and
memorialization of the dead in postcolonial Africa are inextricably linked
with complex encounters with the Western and the Near Eastern cultures.
These encounters are characterized by major transformations in the colonial
and postcolonial African cities. While these transformations are partly due
to the introduction of new social ways of life and religious practices, a
combination of factors such as urbanization, industrialization, and
proliferation of scientific medicine explain why narratives and attitudes
to death, dying, mourning, and memorialization in Africa remain
complicated. This panel seeks to explore the concepts of continuity and
disruption to understand how the ideas of death, dying, mourning, and
memorialization in postcolonial African cities are framed.

The concepts of continuity and disruption provide analytical approaches to
understanding intricate webs of the idea of death and the practices of
mourning and memorializing the dead in Africa. It sees postcolonial cities
as spaces of cultural continuity and ruptures. This panel seeks to answer
the following questions: How does the socio-political and economic
structure of colonial and postcolonial African cities affect the way
Africans think and frame ideas of death, dying, mourning, and
memorialization? How do the features of postcolonial cities=E2=80=94modern
technology, scientific medicine, sanitation, chaos, violence=E2=80=94redefi=
ne and
reshape African practices and views of death? How does the postcolonial
city-structure create social spaces for the living and the dead? What
socio-economic and political conditions necessitate the making of these
social spaces? How do continuity and disruption affect death management in
postcolonial African cities? This panel welcomes contributions from
scholars whose empirical studies focus on death, dying, mourning, and
memorialization studies in Africa.



*Possible topics*

Cemetery and urban planning

Funeral ceremonies, social class, and consumer culture

The politics of authenticity of statues and memorials

Afropolitanism and memorialization

Grave shrines and indigenous religion and spiritualities

Of art and mourning: Grave tombs and expressivity

Dying well: Death, honor, and respectability

Print culture and memorialization

Exhibiting corpse: Funeral homes, costuming, and social class

Mourning in the age of social media and the internet

The political lives of dead bodies: Contesting corpse return and final
resting place



To participate in this panel, send a 250-word abstract and short bio to
Shina Alimi (alimis@oauife.edu.ng) by December 5, 2019. Visit the LSA
website for additional information about the Conference:
https://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/



*About Panel Convener:*

Shina Alimi teaches history at Obafemi Awolowo University where he bagged
his B.A., M.Phil. and PhD degrees. He is a Catalyst Fellow of Centre of
African Studies, The University of Edinburgh. His research interests
include the social and political history of Nigeria, decolonization, print
culture, editorial cartoons and contemporary African history, and the
history of death and dying in Africa.



4)      *Facebook Updates*

We have updated our Facebook page with professional development
opportunities, articles, and LSA and members=E2=80=99 activities and news:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/205111409881162/






Sincerely,

Saheed Aderinto



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*US Address*

The Lagos Studies Association

C\O Saheed Aderinto
286 Central Drive

History Department

McKee Building

Western Carolina University

Cullowhee NC 28723

Website: https://lagosstudies.wcu.edu/

Email Address: lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com



*Nigeria Address *

The Lagos Studies Association

C\O Dr. Yetunde Zaid

University of Lagos Library

P.M.B 1012

Akoka, Lagos

Nigeria

Email Address: lagosstudiesassociation@gmail.com

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scholarship and the visibility of Nigeria-based members in tier-one journal=
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non-predatory journals would easily sync with the work of the Publications
Committee, which promises to extend professional development opportunities
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recommendation of the Board of Directors to strengthen our fellowship progr=
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to make it more competitive.</span></p>

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em Ayofe Akinwale
(University of Lagos)</span></p>

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u Layiwola
(University of Lagos)</span></p>

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ayon Olaoluwa
(University of Ibadan)</span></p>

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(University of Lagos)</span></p>

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nty-six members paid their membership due in October. Thank
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Adeleke Adeeko (Ohio State University)</span></p>

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Ayodeji Adegbite (University of Wisconsin-Madison)</span></p>

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round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">3. =
Shola Adenekan (University of Bremen)</span></p>

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Mosunmola Adeojo (University of Florida)</span></p>

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Folarin Ajibade (New York University)</span></p>

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Lani Akande (York University)</span></p>

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round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">7. =
Bukola Amao-Taiwo (University of Lagos)</span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">8. =
Chijioke Azuawusiefe (University of
Pennsylvania)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">9. =
Gabriel B=C3=A1mgb=C3=B3=E1=B9=A3=C3=A9 (Rutgers University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">10.=
 Sandra Barnes (University of Pennsylvania)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">11.=
 Elizabeth Cobbett (University of East
Anglia)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">12.=
 Jonathan Haynes (Long Island University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">13.=
 Sesan Johnson (Obafemi Awolowo University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">14.=
 Lisa Lindsay (University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">15.=
 Olisa Muojama (University of Ibadan)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">16.=
 Monsuru Muritala (University of Ibadan)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">17.=
 Kayode Odumboni (Ohio State University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">18.=
 Folami Olaoluwa (Durban University of
Technology)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">19.=
 Angela Olisama (University of Lagos)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">20.=
 Emmanuel Osayande (University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">21.=
 Rosemary Popoola (Covenant University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">22.=
 Portia Roelofs (St. Anne=E2=80=99s College,
University of Oxford)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">23.=
 Lynn Schler (Ben Gurion University)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">24.=
 Nicole Wilson (Massachusetts Institute of
Technology)</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);backgro=
und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">25.=
 Umar Yandaki (Usmanu Danfodiyo University)</span></p>

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und-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;backg=
round-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">26.=
 Deng Zheyuan (University of Florida)</span></p>

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n 0.0001pt 0.5in;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;backg=
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serif"><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"color:rgb(29,34,40)">3)<span style=3D"=
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</span></span><span lang=3D"EN-GB" style=3D"color:rgb(29,34,40)">Call for P=
anelists</span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style=3D"font-size:=
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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Continuity
and Disruption: </span></b></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style=3D"font-size:=
12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Death,
Dying, Mourning, and Memorialization in Postcolonial African Cities</span><=
/b></p>

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:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-s=
ize:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-=
clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-=
size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang=3D"EN-C=
A" style=3D"color:rgb(29,34,40)">The 5th Annual Lagos Studies
Association Conference</span><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,34,40)"></span></p=
>

<p class=3D"gmail-yiv9425837293ydpb5f3353dmsonormal" style=3D"margin-bottom=
:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-s=
ize:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-=
clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-=
size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang=3D"EN-C=
A" style=3D"color:rgb(29,34,40)">Theme: Postcolonial African
Cities at 60: Continuities and Discontinuities</span><span style=3D"color:r=
gb(29,34,40)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"gmail-yiv9425837293ydpb5f3353dmsonormal" style=3D"margin-bottom=
:0.0001pt;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-s=
ize:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-=
clip:initial;vertical-align:baseline;margin-right:0in;margin-left:0in;font-=
size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span lang=3D"EN-C=
A" style=3D"color:rgb(29,34,40)">June 25-27, 2020<br>
Lagos, Nigeria</span><span style=3D"color:rgb(29,34,40)"></span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Existing
narratives about, and attitudes to death, dying, mourning, and memorializat=
ion
of the dead in postcolonial Africa are inextricably linked with complex
encounters with the Western and the Near Eastern cultures. These encounters=
 are
characterized by major transformations in the colonial and postcolonial Afr=
ican
cities. While these transformations are partly due to the introduction of n=
ew
social ways of life and religious practices, a combination of factors such =
as
urbanization, industrialization, and proliferation of scientific medicine
explain why narratives and attitudes to death, dying, mourning, and
memorialization in Africa remain complicated. This panel seeks to explore t=
he
concepts of continuity and disruption to understand how the ideas of death,
dying, mourning, and memorialization in postcolonial African cities are fra=
med.
</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;text-indent:0.5in;l=
ine-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span styl=
e=3D"font-size:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The
concepts of continuity and disruption provide analytical approaches to
understanding intricate webs of the idea of death and the practices of mour=
ning
and memorializing the dead in Africa. It sees postcolonial cities as spaces=
 of
cultural continuity and ruptures. This panel seeks to answer the following
questions: How does the socio-political and economic structure of colonial =
and
postcolonial African cities affect the way Africans think and frame ideas o=
f
death, dying, mourning, and memorialization? How do the features of
postcolonial cities=E2=80=94modern technology, scientific medicine, sanitat=
ion, chaos,
violence=E2=80=94redefine and reshape African practices and views of death?=
 How does
the postcolonial city-structure create social spaces for the living and the
dead? What socio-economic and political conditions necessitate the making o=
f
these social spaces? How do continuity and disruption affect death manageme=
nt
in postcolonial African cities? This panel welcomes contributions from scho=
lars
whose empirical studies focus on death, dying, mourning, and memorializatio=
n
studies in Africa. </span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">=C2=A0</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style=3D"font-si=
ze:12pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Possible topics</spa=
n></u></b></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Cemetery
and urban planning</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Funeral
ceremonies, social class, and consumer culture</span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The
politics of authenticity of statues and memorials </span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Afropolitanism
and memorialization </span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Grave
shrines and indigenous religion and spiritualities </span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Of
art and mourning: Grave tombs and expressivity</span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Dying
well: Death, honor, and respectability</span></p>

<p class=3D"MsoNormal" style=3D"margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;=
font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Print
culture and memorialization </span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Exhibiting
corpse: Funeral homes, costuming, and social class</span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">Mourning
in the age of social media and the internet</span></p>

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font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style=3D"font-size:12p=
t;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif">The
political lives of dead bodies: Contesting corpse return and final resting
place</span></p>

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(<a href=3D"mailto:alimis@oauife.edu.ng">alimis@oauife.edu.ng</a>) by Decem=
ber 5, 2019. Visit the LSA website for
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