STS Africa WiSER Program

CONFERENCE

Mapping Science and Technology in Africa: Traveling technologies and global dis\orders

 

12-15 February 2014

 

Venue: Wits Institute for Social & Economic Research (WISER), Johannesburg, South Africa

Overview Conference Schedule

Session

Wed, 12 Feb 14

Thu, 13 Feb 14

Fri, 14 Feb 14

Sat, 15 Feb 14

9.00-10.30

 

Panel 1

Panel 2

Panel 7

Panel 8

Open Discussion

11.00-12.30

 

Panel 3

Panel 4

Plenary/Discussion

 

Fieldtrip

Lunch

 

 

 

14.00-15.30

 

Panel 5

Panel 6

Strategic Meeting

Film Session

16.00-17.30

Keynote (Public)

Roundtable (Public)

 

19.00-

Joint Dinner

Joint Dinner/Party

Joint Dinner

 

 

Wednesday, 12 February 2014

 

16.00h – 16.15h

Introduction by Faeeza Ballim, Luísa Reis-Castro, Norman Schräpel, Thomas Thadewaldt & Natasha Vally

 

16.15h – 16.30h

 

Welcome Note by Keith Breckenridge (Wits University, South Africa)

 

16.30h – 17.30h

 

Keynote Lecture “Travelling Technologies, Institutions, Critique”

Richard Rottenburg (University of Halle, Germany)

 

18.00h

Welcome Dinner at Wits Club

 

 

Thursday, 13 February 2014

 

09.00h – 10.30h

 

S1: Experiments

Discussant & Chair: Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan, USA)

Rapporteur: Faeeza Ballim (Wits University, South Africa)

 

Town Planning for Vibrant African Cities

Patience Mususa (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

 

Experiments with organizing coal production in Mozambique

Thomas Thadewaldt (University of Halle, Germany)

 

Experiments here and there: Conversations between the literature on experimentation in Africa and the release of transgenic mosquitoes in Brazil

Luisa Reis Castro (University of Halle, Germany)

 

Inequality, Class and Apartheid in the Vaal Triangle

Bill Freund (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)

 

S2: Traveling Technologies

Discussant & Chair: Clapperton Mavhunga (MIT, USA)

Rapporteur: Sandra Calkins (University of Halle, Germany)

 

‘groping with the unknowns of a developmental project’:

Technological failure, nationalism and Apartheid South Africa’s oil-from-coal project

Stephen Sparks (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

 

After Travel and Contact: The Sciences of Race in the Pacific, South-east Asia and Southern Africa, c.1780-1840

Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge, UK)

 

Mobilities and Immobilities in Making of Scientific Knowledge

Manjari Mahajan (New School, USA)

 

10.30h – 11.00h

 

Coffee Break

11.00h – 12.30

 

S3: Inscriptions

Discussant & Chair: Fikremarkos Merso Birhanu (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)

Rapporteur: Natasha Vally (Wits University, South Africa)

 

Categorizing a “Crisis”: Counting and classifying children affected by HIV/AIDS in South Africa

Lindsey Reynolds (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

 

Serialising the copy

Julia Hornberger (University of Konstanz, Germany & Wits University, South Africa)

 

Technologies of Inscription and the translation of the Millennium Development Goals in Rwanda

Norman Schräpel (University of Halle, Germany)

 

Investigating Neglected Zoonoses Innovation (INZI)

James Smith (University of Edinburgh, UK)

 

S4: Interventions

Discussant & Chair: Norman Clark (Open University, UK)

Rapporteur: Sandra Manuel (Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique)

 

Using Science and Technology to Tackle Modern Day Environmental Challenges in Africa

Pamela Towela Sambo (University of Zambia)

 

The Devil’s Money: A multi-level approach to the disordering in oil-producing southern Chad

Andrea Behrends (University of Halle, Germany)

 

What Happened to the Internet? Scientific Communities in Three Low-income Areas, 2000-2010

Wesley Shrum (Louisiana State University, USA)

 

12.30h – 14.00h

 

 

 

 

Lunch

14.00h – 15.30

 

S5: Biosocialities

Discussant & Chair: Stacey Langwick (Cornell University, USA)

Rapporteur: Remadji Hoinathy (Centre de Recherches en Anthropologie et Sciences Humaines, Tchad)

 

The role of Politics in Science and Technology in South Africa: Knowledge and Power, Apartheid and Democracy

Isayvani Naicker (Wits University/University of Cambridge)

 

Technology, medicine and race: debates  “RHESUS SENSITIZATION IN THE BANTU” in South Africa, 1940 to 1970

Catherine Burns (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)

 

From the Kalahari to the Mitochondrial Eve: Travelling Samples, Race and Representation in Genomic Research

Katharina Schramm (University of Halle, Germany)

 

 

S6: Knowledge Production

Discussant & Chair: Lesley Green (University of Cape Town, South Africa)

Rapporteur: Sung-Joon Park (University of Halle, Germany)

 

The Importance of the Mapping of Non-Traditional forms of Science and Technology

Ahmed Bawa (Durban University of Technology, South Africa)

 

Policy Conflicts in Photovoltaics: Moving Up or Sliding Down the Learning Curve

Dave Walwyn (CSIR/University of Pretoria, South Africa)

 

Open-endedness of Global Health Technologies and Gaps in Community Health Services in Rwanda and Uganda

Herbert Muyinda (Makerere University, Uganda)

 

Yoruba fermented food technologies: Shedding light on African accuracy of implicit knowledge

Aimé Segla Dafon (Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin)

 

15.30h – 16.00h

 

Coffee Break

 

 

16.00h – 17.30h

 

Public Roundtable - Techno-fantasies and liberation: can science and technology remedy for the problems of post-colonial Africa?

Keith Breckenridge, Gabrielle Hecht, Lea Velho, Pritibha Mistry, Clapperton Chakantsa Mavhunga

Chair: Achille Mbembe

 

19.00h

Joint Dinner at Melville

 

 

Friday, 14 February 2014

 

09.00h – 10.30h

 

S7: Science, Power and Law

Discussant & Chair: Pritibha Mistry (World Bank)

Rapporteur: Thomas Cousins (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

 

The (in)visibility of women in science in Mozambique

Sandra Manuel (Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique)

 

A Critical Appraisal of the Role and Place of Intellectual Property Rights in Science and Technology Policies in Africa: the Case of Ethiopia

Fikremarkos Merso Birhanu (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)

 

Shit in the Mother City: rethinking “the political” through the infrastructures and technologies of human waste

Steven Robins and Thomas Cousins (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

 

Technology & Citizenship

Vukile Khumalo (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

 

S8: Science and Policies

Discussant & Chair: Lea Velho (UNICAMP, Brazil)

Rapporteur: Lindsey Reynolds (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

 

Local and international civil society initiatives to enforce oil resources’ governance in Chad

Hoinathy Remadji (Centre de Recherches en Anthropologie et Sciences Humaines, Tchad)

 

Technology Development for the Low Income African Farmer: Science Policy Implications for Overseas Aid

Norman Clark (Open University, UK)

 

The Meaning of Science and Technology in Contemporary Policy Documents in Mozambique

Patrício V. Langa (Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique)

 

Rethinking the Science-Policy Interface in South Africa: Experiments in Knowledge Co-Production

John van Breda (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)

 

 

10.30h – 11.00h

 

Coffee Break

 

 

11h00 – 12.30h

 

Plenary/Discussion: Summary by Rapporteurs

12.30h – 14.00h

 

Lunch Break

 

14.00-17.30

 

STS AFRICA Strategic MEETING (on invitation)

19.00h

Dinner at Wits Club

 

 

Saturday, 15 February 2014

 

09.00h – 10.30h

 

Open Discussion: Future Direction and Summary of Strategic Meeting

 

 

11.00h

Fieldtrip

 

 

Participants

 

Keynote/Roundtable/Plenary

  1. Achille Mbembe (WISER, South Africa)
  2. Clapperton Chakantsa Mavhunga (MIT, USA)
  3. Gabrielle Hecht (University of Michigan, USA)
  4. Keith Breckenridge (WISER, South Africa)
  5. Lea Velho (UNICAMP, Brazil)
  6. Pritibha Mistry (World Bank)
  7. Richard Rottenburg (University of Halle, Germany)

Paper Presenters

  1. Ahmed Bawa (Durban University of Technology, South Africa)
  2. Andrea Behrends (University of Halle, Germany)
  3. Bill Freund (University of Witwatersrand, South Africa)
  4. Catherine Burns (University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
  5. Dave Walwyn (CSIR and/or University of Pretoria, South Africa)
  6. Fikremarkos Merso Birhanu (Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia)
  7. Herbert Muyinda (Makerere University, Uganda)
  8. Hoinathy Remadji (Centre de Recherches en Anthropologie et Sciences Humaines, Tchad)
  9. Isayvani Naicker (Wits University/University of Cambridge)
  10. James Smith (University of Edinburgh, UK)
  11. John van Breda (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
  12. Julia Hornberger (University of Konstanz, Germany & Wits University, South Africa)
  13. Katharina Schramm (University of Halle, Germany)
  14. Lindsey Reynolds (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
  15. Luísa Reis-Castro (University of Halle, Germany)
  16. Manjari Mahajan (New School, USA)
  17. Norman Clark (Open University, UK)
  18. Norman Schräpel (University of Halle, Germany)
  19. Pamela Towela Sambo (University of Zambia)
  20. Patience Mususa (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  21. Patrício V. Langa (Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique)
  22. Sandra Manuel (Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique)
  23. Segla Dafon Aimé (Université d’Abomey-Calavi, Benin)
  24. Stephen Sparks (University of Johannesburg, South Africa)
  25. Steven Robins (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
  26. Sujit Sivasundaram (University of Cambridge, UK)
  27. Thomas Cousins (Stellenbosch University, South Africa)
  28. Thomas Thadewaldt (University of Halle, Germany)
  29. Vukile Khumalo (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)
  30. Wesley Shrum (Louisiana State University, USA)

(Only) Chairs Discussant

  1. Lesley Green (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  2. Stacey Langwick (Cornell University)

(Only) Rapporteur

  1. Faeeza Ballim (Wits University, South Africa)
  2. Natasha Vally (Wits University, South Africa)
  3. Sandra Calkins (University of Halle, Germany)
  4. Sung-Joon Park (University of Halle, Germany)

Guests

  1. Baanda A. Salim (Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania)
  2. Chen Fan (Northeastern University, China)
  3. Chen Jia (Northeastern University, China)
  4. Diana Gibson (University of Western Cape, South Africa)
  5. Howard H. Hendricks (South African National Parks)
  6. Kelsey Draper (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  7. Layla Al-Zubaidi (Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung, Cape Town)
  8. Tania Douglas (University of Cape Town, South Africa)
  9. Trust Saidi (Maastrich University, Netherlands)