• 8:45am 9:00am
    Arrival and Introductions
  • 9:00am 10:45am
    Panel I: The (mis)Measure of Poverty
    • Chair

      Gregory Mann

      Columbia University

    • “The History of Poverty in Ghana: Reflections from Recent Research"

      Gareth Austin

      Graduate Institute Geneva

    • “African Poverty by Numbers"

      Morten Jerven

      Simon Fraser University

    • “Measuring Material Living Standards in Pre-colonial West Africa"

      Klas Rönnbäck

      University of Gothenberg

  • 10:45pm 1:45pm
    Panel II: The Gender of Poverty
    • Chair

      Megan Vaughan

      City University of New York

    • “Poverty, Ignorance and Disease: Maternal and Child Health Policy for Nairobi During the Kenyatta Era"

      Milcah Amolo Achola

      Nairobi University

    • “Poverty and the Religious Imagination in Northern Nigeria.”us Imagination in Northern Nigeria"

      Shobana Shankar

      Stony Brook University

    • “Wealth-in-Women: Demographic Crisis and Food Production at the Office du Niger (French Soudan), 1935-1946"

      Laura Ann Twagira

      Wesleyan University

  • 1:45pm 3:30pm
    Panel III: Poverty of Food
    • Chair

      Rhiannon Stephens

      Columbia University

    • “Hlonipha and Health: Livelihoods, Taboos, and Nutrition in mid-Twentieth Century Pholela, South Africa"

      Abigail Neely

      Dartmouth College

    • “Nyakusa Food Security and Safwa ‘Poverty’ 1700-1900: History of Poverty and the Language Surrounding It"

      Catherine Cymone Fourshey

      Susquehanna University

    • “Statistical Comparability and Racial Incomparability: Conceiving Hunger in French West Africa under late Colonialism"

      Vincent Bonnecase

      Institut d’études politiques de Bordeaux

  • 3:30pm 5:30pm
    Panel IV: Rural Poverty and Urban Poverty
    • Chair

      Mamadou Diouf

      Columbia University

    • “Who is a Poor Child? Reflections from a Multigenerational Survey of Childhood in Twentieth Century Lagos"

      Abosede George

      Barnard College

    • “Structural Unemployment, Gender and Poverty in Apartheid’s ‘Dumping Grounds’"

      Laura Evans

      Sheffield Hallam University

    • “‘Capitals of the Poor’: Spaces of Poverty and Poverty Reduction in Northern Ghana, 1942-2012"

      Alice Wiemers

      Otterbein University

    • “Tanzanian Poverty in the Period of Villagization"

      James Giblin

      University of Iowa

  • 5:30pm 6:30pm
    Closing Discussion
    • Chair

      Rhiannon Stephens

      Columbia University