Contributions to Africa Atlanta 2014 from Herbert Weiss, Emeritus Professor of Political Science, CUNY; Senior Policy Scholar, Wilson Center

Lecture, ‘Art, Oppression, Protest and Survival: The Pende in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,’ April 24, 2014 Robert C. Williams Museum of Papermaking

Collecting African Art: An Interview with Herbert Weiss, Edited by Yves Abrioux and K.J. Knoespel

Interview with Herbert Weiss on North Avenue Lounge, WREK Atlanta 91.1 FM

Contents

I. Africa Beyond Africa: Conference Program, 2014 (pdf)

II. Africa Beyond Africa Selected Proceedings:

Introduction to the Proceedings
Yves Abrioux, Professor of English, University of Paris 8, and Kenneth J. Knoespel, McEver Professor of Engineering and Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology

A Celebration of Africa Atlanta 2014
Johnnetta Betsch Cole, Director, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution

Towards the Renewal and the Renovation of the Royal Museum for Central Africa
Guido Gryseels, Director General, Royal Museum for Central Africa

The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Introduction of Human Diseases
Tine Huyse, Researcher, Department of Biology, Royal Museum for Central Africa

Mathematical Understandings of Africa
Evans M. Harrell II, Associate Dean, College of Science, Georgia Institute of Technology

Adapting and Transforming Ethnographic Exhibits
Corinne A. Kratz, Professor Emerita, Emory University and Museum of International Folk Art

The Future of the Museum Is Ethnographic
Kavita Singh, Professor, School of Arts and Aesthetics, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India

Un Musee à Venir: What Did We Learn from the Louvre-Atlanta Exhibitions?
Yves Abrioux, Professor of English, University of Paris 8, and Kenneth J. Knoespel, McEver Professor of Engineering and Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology

III. Mapping Place exhibition catalog (pdf)

IV. Collecting African Art: an interview with Herbert Weiss