AFTER BANDUNG: AFRICA AND CHINA IN A NEW ERA
GM Room, Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT
DAY 1 – Friday, April 21, 2023
8:00-8:30 Breakfast
8:30-9:00 Welcome & Introductory Remarks: Ted Wittenstein (Yale University), Vivien Chang (Yale University), Benedito Machava (Yale University)
9:00-10:30 Panel: Bandung Lives and Afterlives
Chair: Vivien Chang (Yale University)
Jeremy Friedman (Harvard Business School): Remarks from Ripe for Revolution
Nana Osei-Opare (Fordham University): The New Empire Studies?: South-South and Second-Third World Scholarship
Christopher J. Lee (The Africa Institute): Bandung Historicism
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Panel: Diplomacy, Taiwan, and the Limits of Self-Determination
Chair: Bisa Williams (Yale University)
James Evans (Harvard University): Navigating Agency in China and Taiwan’s Cold War Aid Diplomacy: A Framework for Intra-Third World Competition
Jeffrey Ngo (Georgetown University): Betraying Self-Determination: Inside One Tanzanian Ambassador’s Quest against Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Macau, 1970-1972
Jorge Njal (Independent Scholar): China-Mozambique Relations and the Taiwan Issue
Anatol Klass (Harvard Kennedy School): Imagining a Non-Aligned Taiwan: The Role of “Africa Experts” in the Republic of China’s West African Charm Offensive, 1960-1963
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel: Security and Grand Strategy
Chair: Michael Brenes (Yale University)
Dawn Murphy (US National War College): Remarks from China’s Rise in the Global South
Austin Cooper (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): All About Proliferation? Chinese Nuclear Policy and Afro-Asian Solidarity
David Shinn (George Washington University): The Evolution Since Bandung of China’s Security Engagement with Africa
Njuateh Sebastien (University of Douala): Stakes and Constraints in the Construction of China-Africa Defense Cooperation
3:00-3:15 Coffee break
3:15-4:45 Panel: Aid and Economic Sovereignty
Chair: Erez Manela (Harvard University)
Vivian Lu (Fordham University): Commercial Terrains: Demographic Giants, Commodity Quality, and Embodied Geopolitics
Chris Alden (London School of Economics): Being Africa’s BRIC(S): Understanding the Sources, Policies, and Changing Dynamics of South Africa-China Relations in the “New Era”
Kevin Keller (Yale University): “Why Did We Walk While the Asians Ran?”: Peter Anyang’ Nyong’o and the Provocation of East Asian Economic Growth
5:15-5:45 Reception
5:45-6:30 Keynote: Arne Westad (Yale University)
6:30 Dinner
DAY 2 – Saturday, April 22, 2023
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:00-10:30 Panel: Development and Regimes of Extraction
Chair: Christopher J. Lee (The Africa Institute)
Omolade Adunbi (University of Michigan): Remarks from Enclaves of Exception
Miriam Driessen (State University of New York at Buffalo): Litigating China in Ethiopia
Hao Chen (Yale University): From Representing China to the “Third Force”: China’s Quest for Legitimacy in the Second Asian-Africa Conference
Jodie Sun (Fudan University): The Past and the Present of China-Africa Relations: An Examination of Mining, Health, and Infrastructure
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:15 Panel: Rethinking Histories of Afro-Asianism
Chair: David Engerman (Yale University)
Jeffrey James Byrne (University of British Columbia): What Harm Is There in Diversity: China, India, and the Anti-Imperial Cold War in Africa
Yanqiu Zheng (Social Science Research Council): Leveraging the Network of Networks: The Social Science Research Council’s Programming on Africa-China and Beyond
Harry Verhoeven (Columbia University): Sovereignty is Still the Issue: China, the Horn of Africa and the Limits of “After Bandung”
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel: Afro-Chinese Encounters
Chair: Hao Chen (Yale University)
Yunxiang Gao (Toronto Metropolitan University): Remarks from Arise Africa, Roar China
De-Valera Botchway (University of Cape Coast) and Wincharles Coker (University of Cape Coast): The Burden of the “Yellow” Skin: Deconstructing Sinophobia in West African Popular Discourse
Ruodi Duan (Haverford College): Race, Decolonization, and the Contingencies of China-African Relations, 1959-1964
Fikayo Akeredolu (University of Oxford): Love in a Time of Racism – How Race affects Sino-African Romantic Relationships
3:00-3:15 Coffee break
3:15-4:45 Panel: Mobility, Education, and Technology
Chair: Peng Peng (Yale University)
Caitlin Barker (Michigan State University): Anticolonial Pedagogies: Knowledge Exchange between the Union des Populations du Cameroun and the PRC in the Global Cold War
Olatunde Taiwo (University of Ghana): Mandarin Mobilities in the Ghanaian Anglosphere, 2013-2022
Kudus Adebayo (University of Ibadan): Pandemic Times and Health Diplomacy: Race and Racialization in Africa-China Relations
Mingwei Huang (Dartmouth College): Afro-Asian Futures
4:45-5:00 Concluding Remarks