SCOLMA – Annual Conference 6th September 2016, Cambridge
Annual Conference
African Medicine Matters: documenting encounters in medical practice and healthcare
Tuesday 6 September 2016
Alison Richard Building, University of Cambridge
Programme
9: 00 Registration
9:15 Welcome
9:20 Keynote Address
Dr Benson Mulemi, Catholic University of East Africa
Dialectical construction and deconstruction of contemporary African Medicine.
10:15 Panel 1
Dr Anne Samson, Great War in Africa Association
Medical Practices in World War I Africa
Dr Tony Jewell
Colonial Medicine in East Africa in War and Peace 1910-1932
11:15 Coffee Break
11:30 Panel 2
Marcia Tiede, Area Studies Cataloguer (Africana): Northwestern University
Indigenous Care in Mali, Examples from the Cahiers Ponty
Korklu A Laryea, University of Mines & Technology, Tarkwa
Aawon Amewuda Kartey (1895-2010): A life of an ‘aborted Christian faith’ and traditional medicinal practice
12:30 Film
Asha Ahmed Mwilu, Independent filmmaker from Nairobi, will introduce her documentary about traditional and western medicine in Kenya.
1.00 Lunch
1.50 SCOLMA AGM
2.15 Panel 3
Benjamin Bronnert Walker, Wellcome Trust doctoral student in the Department of History, University of York
The Conductors: Faith Healing, International Health and Medical Mission in Post-Colonial Ghana, 1957-1982
Sophie Smith, Adam Matthew
Animal attacks, dysentery epidemics and childbirth: Creating a digital archive of medical missionary experiences in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Dr Elinor Rooks, University of Leeds
Ebola Zombies and Vampire Scientists: Public Responses and Disease Control in Ebola and Sleeping Sickness
3.45 Tea Break
4.00 Panel 4
Erick V. A. Gbodossou, MD President PROMETRA International Dakar, Senegal
Virginia Davis Floyd, MD, MPH Vice President PROMETRA International Atlanta, GA USA
The PROMETRA International Journey: Traditional Medicine In Africa
Anselm Adodo and Jamie Hitchen, Africa Research Institute
Traditional Medicine as an alternative health care delivery system in Africa: An example from Nigeria
Dr Alistair G. Tough, University of Glasgow
Audit culture, overseas donors and medical record keeping. Some comments based on Tanzanian experience.
5:30 Conclusion
Gathering for drinks at local pub
SCOLMA thanks the following for support for the conference: Adam Matthew, Taylor and Francis, Alison Richard Building.
This programme is subject to change.
Conference fee £50 (£30 unwaged) to include tea/coffee and lunch.
To book a place please contact Sarah Rhodes (sarah.rhodes@bodleian.ox.ac.uk).