Selected Speakers
Panel 1: Historical Traditions of Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa - Session One
Bahija al-Chadili
Professor of African History, Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences, University of Hassan II - Casablanca, Morocco
Kyle Wynter-Stoner
Doctoral candidate, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago - Illinois, United States
Abubakar Sadiq Abdulkadir
Doctoral candidate, Department of History and Classics, University of Alberta - Edmonton, Canada
Panel 1: Historical Traditions of Arabic-Script Manuscripts in Africa - Session Two
Carl Davila
Associate Professor, Department of History, The College at Brockport, State University of New York - New York, United States
Zohra Azgal
Lecturer in Qur’anic Sciences at the Institut al-Dānī, Paris, and PhD student, Department of Historical and Philological Studies, Université Paris Sciences et Lettres - Paris, France
Wadia Agounine
Researcher, Learning and Development Centre for Studies, Research and Revival of Sahara Heritage, Muhammadiyah Association of Scholars - Rabat, Morocco
Panel 2: Manuscript Libraries and Manuscript Heritage Centres in Africa
Jonathan Eugene Brockopp
Professor, Department of History and Religion Studies, Pennsylvania State University - Pennsylvania, United States
Djim Othman Drame
Researcher and Head of the Manuscripts and Research Department, Fundamental Institute of Black Africa, Cheikh Anta Diop University - Dakar, Senegal
Nagwa Mahmoud el-Haj Mousa
Director of General Administration, National Records Office - Khartoum, Sudan
Panel 3: African Arabic-Script Languages
Dmitry Bondarev
Head of West Africa projects, Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg - Hamburg, Germany
Samba Camara
Assistant professor, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Mohamed Mwamzandi
Assistant professor, Department of African, African American, and Diaspora Studies, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
Amidu Olalekan Sanni
Professor of African and Middle Eastern Studies, Fountain University - Osogbo, Nigeria
Panel 4: Cataloguing, Editing, Research and Publishing
Ahmad Al-Saidy
Associate Professor, Faculty of Theology, Ibn Zohr University - Agadir, Morocco
Olga Verlato
Doctoral Candidate, New York University - New York, United States
Ali Diakite
Cataloger of West African Manuscripts, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library - Minnesota, United States
Paul Naylor
Cataloger of West African Manuscripts, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library - Minnesota, United States
David Calabro
Curator of Eastern Christian and Islamic Manuscripts, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library - Minnesota, United States
Panel 5: Preservation, Conservation and Digitization
Marco Fagiolo
Book and Paper Conservator - Milan, Italy
Afis Ayinde Oladosu
Professor, Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies, University of Ibadan - Ibadan, Nigeria
Ahmadu Girei Hamman
Academic Research Fellow, University of Maiduguri - Maiduguri, Nigeria
