Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere

A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF THE SCHOLARSHIP & CAREER OF LUISE WHITE

Friday, 8 February 2019, 9:30-12:30

Keene-Faculty Center, University of Florida

AFTERIMAGES

JACOB S. DLAMINI, Princeton University

An apartheid-era security archive — a secret police photographic album used by South Africa’s Security Police for thirty years (1960-90) — as remnants and as political dissidence.

EXPOSURES

MEGAN VAUGHAN, University College London

A Rockefeller research enclave in 1940s Nigeria: biosecurity and a “field” constructed through experimentation and technologies, plus the invisibility of the disease (yellow fever) and its quirky retrospective tracking through ‘protection’ tests.

SECRETS

JONNY STEINBERG, Oxford University

A puzzle about the oddness of secrets. The subjects: Winnie and Nelson Mandela. The facts of their courtship, of how they got together, were a realm of secrecy they kept from themselves, a matter of knowing and not knowing all at the same time, paradoxically enough.

VAMPIRE SORCERERS ON THE LOOSE

WARWICK ANDERSON, University of Sydney

Although some were bloodsuckers who might appear to eat people, doctors and scientists were not truly vampires and cannibals. But sorcerers they were, even if their sorcery was not as powerful as that of some historians of science or quirky STS scholars.

Followed by a catered lunch in the same room, 1-3 pm.

*STS = Science & Technology Studies

This is a joint effort of the African History Program, the Department of History, and the UF Center for African Studies.