Presented by the University of Wisconsin-Madison African Studies Program
Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
AT&T Lounge, Pyle Center, 702 Langdon St.
3:00 P.M.
Welcome and Introductions
Gilles Bousquet, Sharon Hutchinson, and Jeremy Foltz
3:15
Is China an Authoritarian Model of Development for Africa?
Edward Friedman, Department of Political Science
3:35
Is China an Engine of Growth for Africa?
Jeremy Foltz and Ian Coxhead, Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics
4:00
One Helps One, Two Become Red: Technology Transfer in the Social Spaces of Work during the Construction of the Tazara Railway, 1968-1976
Jamie Monson, Department of History, Carleton College
4:20
Out of Precarity: Politics of Casualization in Africa’s Chinese Enclaves
Ching Kwan Lee, Department of Sociology, University of Michigan
5:00
Featured Speaker
Howard W. French , Shanghai Bureau Chief, New York Times
China’s Grand Return: Serving Africa or Stripping it Bare?
5:45
Featured Speaker
Adama Gaye, Senegalese journalist, former editor, West Africa Magazine
China in Africa: A New Colonial Project?
6:30
Roundtable Dicussion with All Presenters
Moderated by Crawford Young, Department of Political Science
Co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies, Global Studies, and the School of Journalism and Mass Communication