Pátek, 25. dubna

8:45

Official opening of the Conference
Tomáš Machalík and Jan Záhořík

Panel 1: Decolonization and globalization 1

8:55

Tekeste Negash (Dalarna University, Falun)
Higher education and the decolonisation discourse

9:20

Karin Hiiemaa (University of Tartu)
Decolonization of the Mind – the Case of Africa

9:45

Sébastien Kapp (EHESS Paris)
Recreating rural tradition in Central Africa: the other side of globalization

10:10

Obinna Ihunna (Federal University of Technology, Owerri)
Africa, Decolonization and the Politics of Venomous Elite

10:35

Coffee break

Panel 2: Endangered languages

10:50

Graziano Savà (Istituto Universitario Orientale, Napoli)
What does documentation of endangered languages mean? The case of the
Ongota Documentation Project (Southwest Ethiopia)

11:15

Helma Pasch (Universität zu Köln)
Mündü, an endangered language of Southern Sudan

11:40

Václav Blažek/Jan Záhořík (Masarykova Univerzita Brno/ Západočeská univerzita v Plzni)
Baiso – an endangered language of the Ethiopian highlands Its position, linguistic affiliation and socio-linguistic situation

12:05

Daniel O. Orwenjo (J. W. Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main)
Lexical Borrowing as Language Contact Phenomena: Phonological Adaptations of Dholuo Loanwords from Swahili

12:30

Lunchtime

Panel 3: Politics

13:45

Petr Skalník (Univerzita Pardubice)
Nationhood in post-colonial Africa: between politics and religion

14:10

Ineke van Kessel (University of Leiden)
Post-Apartheid South Africa: Class, Culture, the neo-patrimonial welfare
state and African Nationalism

14:35

Vlastimil Fiala (Palackého Univerzita Olomouc)
Function of the African Political Parties

15:00

Coffee break

Panel 4: Religion

15:15

Shelley Ashdown (SIL, Dallas)
The Supernatural Category of the Non-Physical Self in Ndorobo World View

15:40

Annekie Joubert, Cilliers Breytenbach (Humboldt Universität, Berlin)
Code Switching in Religion: From Ancestors to Christian Prophets in Southern Africa

16:05

Kateřina Mildnerová (Západočeská univerzita v Plzni)
Spirtitual healing in context of the Zambian Christian Initiatives today (case
study of Mutumwa churches in Lusaka)

16:30

Aleksandra Cimpric (Université Aix-Marseille I)
Occult forces, practice and imaginary, in urban context of CAR

16:55

Coffee break

Panel 5: Social Issues

17:10

Radka Rejhová, Elias Lee Tembo (Jihočeská univerzita v Českých Budějovicích)
Family situation in Zambia

17:35

Philip L. Kilbride (Bryn Mawr College)
Still Working on the Streets: Post "Street Child" Transition in Kenya

18:00

Ogunniyi Ayodeji Ige (University of Lagos)
Cultural Factor in the Development Paradigm of an African Society in the 21st Century. An Appraisal of the Ovia Osese Ceremony

Sobota, 26 dubna

Panel 6: Ethnicity and Identity

8:55

Hana Horáková (Univerzita Hradec Králové)
Contested language: Nuwe Afrikaanse Beweging in a New South Africa

9:20

Jan Záhořík (Západočeská univerzita v Plzni)
Ethnicity, languages, and the discussion on the Ethiopian constitution

9:45

Fekadu Adugna (Max Planck Institut for Social Anthropology, Halle)
State and identity politics: an experience from Oromo-Somali border in Ethiopia

10:10

Tomáš Machalík (Západočeská univerzita v Plzni)
Namibian Czechs today - an overall summary of the issue

10:35

Coffee break

Panel 7: Culture and Education 1

10:50

A.M. Maphumulo (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal)
An analysis of a plot structure of DBZ Ntuli’s radio trilogy: Isivumelwano,
Isivumelwano Esisha and Ngenxa Yesivumelwano

11:15

P.B.Skhosana (University of Pretoria)
'AmaNdebele culture influence in character delineation in NE Skosana's drama:
Kanti Ngewakabani ? (To whom does she belong ?)

11:40

Jerry Mojalefa (University of Pretoria)
Ramaila and Matsepe: two authors representing two different periods in the history of Sepedi literature

12:05

Daniel Künzler (Universität Zürich)
“The state has resigned.”
Transformations in the educational system of Benin, West Africa

12:30

Lunchtime

Panel 8: Beyond Africa

13:45

Ivo T. Budil (Západočeská univerzita v Plzni)
Hannah Arendt and Africa

14:10

Wondwosen Teshome B. (University of Vienna)
The Cold War Politics in the Horn: Ethiopia in the Bipolar World (1945-1991)

14:35

Loránd Szabó (University of Pécs)
Power Brokers and Stability in the Congo Basin (Democratic Republic of the
Congo, 2003–2007)

15:00

Coffee break

Panel 9: Decolonization and Globalization 2

15:15

Irma Taddia (University of Bologna)
Reconsidering Horn of Africa studies today

15:40

István Tarrósy (University of Pécs)
Africa’s global positions in light of non-alignment since 1955

16:05

Martijn Wienia (University of Leiden)
Silence and insecurity in Post-Conflict Northern Ghana

16:30

Coffee break

Panel 10: Culture and Education 2

16:45

Catharina Enhörning (Dalarna University, Falun)
African Studies Education at Dalarna University: Programme based on Partnerships

17:10

Isaac Akenji Ndambi (University of Bufea)
Africa Cultural Revival and Sustainability in the Face of Modernity: An Ethnographic Study of the Traditional and Cultural Dances of the Peoples of the Bameda Grasslands of Cameroon

17:35

Akin Ibidapo-Obe (University of Lagos)
The Legal Protection and Preservation of Cultural and Religious Diversities in a Globalised World

18:00

Official closing of the Conference