Friday, April 5, 2024
[9:00 am]
Opening Remarks
Santa Ono, U-M President, and Omolade Adunbi, ASC Director
[9:15 am]
Keynote Remarks and Q&A
Mary Catherine Phee, Assistant Secretary of State, U.S. Department of State Bureau of African Affairs
[10:15 am]
Keynote Remarks
Representative Debbie Dingell, Michigan’s 6th Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives
[10:30-10:35 am] Break
[10:35-11:35 am]
Democratization and its Challenges in Africa
Moderator: Massy Mutumba, ASC Associate Director, University of Michigan
Michael Wahman, Michigan State University
Deadly Serious, But Not Deadly: Low-scale Violence in African Elections
António Tomás, University of California, Irvine
Rotten Peace as Democracy in Angola
Mike McGovern, University of Michigan
Jihadi Insurgency, Geopolitics, and Democracy in Sahelian West Africa
Anne Pitcher, University of Michigan; and Rod Alence, University of the Witwatersrand
The Spatial Effects of Political Violence on Election Outcomes: The Case of South Africa
Kamissa Camara, University of Michigan
Democratic Backsliding and Military Coups in the Sahel
Susan Page, University of Michigan
[11:35 am] Distinguished Lecture
Dr. Dolapo Fasawe, Mandate Secretary for Health and Environment, Federal Government of Nigeria
[12:15 pm] Fireside Chat and Q&A
Dr. Adedolapo Fasawe with Dr. Joseph C. Kolars, University of Michigan
[1:00-2:00 pm] Break and Student Poster Session
[2:00-3:15 pm]
Engaging Higher Education in Africa and the United States
Moderator: Arthur Verhoogt, University of Michigan
Kelly Askew, University of Michigan
Advancing Academic Partnerships in Higher Education: A Tanzanian Case Study
Angela Dillard, University of Michigan
The National Academic Student Success Movement and Continuous Improvement in Undergraduate Education at Michigan
Sarah Mosoetsa, University of the Witwatersrand
Anya Sirota, University of Michigan
Building Durable Reciprocity
Babajide Ololajulo, University of Ibadan
Higher Education in Africa and the Imperativeness of Pedagogical Reform
[3:15-4:20 pm]
Archives, Open Access, and the Politics of Knowledge
Moderator: Lisa R. Carter, University of Michigan
David Wallace, University of Michigan
A Spatial Approach to Archival Social Justice: Geomatics, GIS and Documenting Forced Removals In District Six, Cape Town
Rachel Deblinger, University of California, Los Angeles
Modern Endangered Archives Program: Funding the Preservation and Access of African Cultural Heritage
Derek Peterson, University of Michigan
The Politics of Limited Access: Lessons from Uganda’s Archives
Sauda Nabukenya, University of Michigan
Epistemological Limits of Government Archives: Recovering the Voices of Ordinary Litigants in Local Legal Archives and Writing a New Legal History
Adrian M. Deese, University of Michigan
Early West African Vernacular Histories and Higher Education
[4:20-5:25 pm]
Artificial Intelligence in Africa: Possibilities, Progress, and Caveats
Moderator: Melissa Elafros, University of Michigan
Micheal Nayebare, University of Michigan
Interim Report for Ubuntu-AI: A Bottom-up Approach to More Democratic and Equitable Training and Outcomes for Machine Learning
Kwame Robinson, University of Michigan
Computing for Community-based Economies
Yousif Hassan, University of Michigan
Africanization or Decolonization? Towards Different Visions of AI Education in Africa
Joan Nwatu, University of Michigan
Bridging the Digital Divide: Performance Variation Across Socio-Economic Factors in Vision-Language Models
Geoffrey Siwo, University of Michigan
Foundations for Equitable US-Africa collaborations in AI
[5:25-6:30 pm]
UMAPS Alumni meet Faculty Hosts
Moderator: Howard Stein, University of Michigan
Babajide Ololajulo, UMAPS Alum, University of Ibadan
Marissa Balmith Pahaladh, UMAPS Alum, University of Pretoria
Laston Manja, UMAPS Alum, U-M PhD student in Economics
Bart Bartlett, University of Michigan
Panos Papalambros, University of Michigan
Michael McGovern, University of Michigan
