Graduate Research Workshop
11th Annual Graduate Research Worskhop
Friday, March 25, 2022
Register here: tinyurl.com/graduate-research-workshop
(09:00 – 09:15) Introductory Remarks
(09:15 – 10:15) Session 1: Public Health and Well-being
Chair/Moderator: Dr. Kathryn Rhine; African & African-American Studies and Geography and Atmospheric Science, (KU)
Adjeiwa Akosua Affram (Health Policy, Planning and Management, University of Ghana)
- Long-Term Care for Older Adults in Ghana: An Exploration of Normative Values for Policy Decision Making
Syed Muhammad Omar (Psychology, KU)
- Sustainability Orientation to Well-being in Ghana: Implications of Neoliberal Subjectivity and Dagomba Muslim’s Conceptions of Well-being
(10:15 – 10:30) Break
(10:30 – 12:00) Session 2: Children and Family
Chair/Moderator: Dr. Annabella Osei-Tutu; Psychology, (University of Ghana)
Christabel Tsoto (Geography and Atmospheric Science, KU)
- Maternal versus Paternal Migration and its Effect on Child Wellbeing
Omowunmi Olaleye (Social Welfare, KU)
- Conceptual Analysis of the Child, Childhood, and Family trauma: A Cross-Cultural Perspective
Agnes P. Muyanga (Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, KU)
- Caring for African Bodies and Spaces – Evidence from the 3rd Kwame Nkrumah Festival
(12:00 – 12:45) Lunch Break
(12:45 – 2:15) Session 3: (De)Coloniality, Liberation, and Cultural Production
Chair/Moderator: Dr. James Yeku; African & African-American Studies, (KU)
Ogochukwu Ngwudike (English, KU)
- Un -gendering Africa: Expansive Representations of Queer Bodies and Sexualities in Nigerian Literature
Brigid Enchill (French, Francophone, & Italian Studies, KU)
- Neo-Colonialists in Tandem with locial elites: Kaveena by Boubacar Boris Diop
Priscilla Judson Wallace (History, University of Houston)
- Origins of Black Radical Tradition
(2:15 – 2:30) Break
(2:30 – 4:00) Session 4: Social Science Perspectives
Chair/Moderator: Dr. John Gluckman; Linguistics, (KU)
Eric Splavec (Political Science, KU)
- The Merits of Military Aid: An examination of the interactions between US military aid and terrorism in the East African Community
Aron David Finholt (Linguistics, KU)
- Complementizer Distinctions in Mashi
Ahmad S. Mustafa (Political Science, KU)
- The Role of Laws and Constitutions in Authoritarian Regimes: Al-Azhar Institution as a case study
5:00 Get Together at McLains @ KU
Abstracts can be found here:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/8ee2vsntjuuguwv/KASC%202022%20GRW%20Program.pd...