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Africa Atlanta 2014: Website Archive

Africa Beyond Africa: The Future of Cultural, Social, and Scientific Research

Conference Program, May 15-17, 2014

View the Africa Beyond Africa Conference Program in its print format

View the Africa Beyond Africa Conference Program in an accessible PDF format

Selected Conference Proceedings

Introduction to the Proceedings
Yves Abrioux, Professor of English, University of Paris 8 (Vincennes in Saint-Denis), 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 (Vincennes in Saint-Denis), and Kenneth J. Knoespel, McEver Professor of Engineering and Liberal Arts, Georgia Institute of Technology

Mapping Place: Africa Beyond Paper

Exhibition Print Catalog

View the Mapping Place Print Catalog in its print format

Herbert Weiss, Professor of Political Science Emeritus, CUNY; Senior Policy Scholar, Wilson Center

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