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Prof. John C. McCall Keynote Address: The Good, the Bad, and the Unintended: Nollywood and the Consequences of Culture Jane Bryce
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John C. McCall is currently an associate professor of anthropology and Africana studies at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale. He writes primarily about the arts in Africa. McCall's book, "Dancing Histories" (2000), examines music and dance as embodied forms of social memory in southeastern Nigeria. For the past decade, McCall has published ethnographically enriched accounts and analyses of Nigeria's emerging global movie industry.
Jane Bryce is Professor of African Literature and Cinema at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill. Born in Tanzania, she was educated there, the UK, and Nigeria. She has been a freelance journalist and fiction editor and has published in a range of academic journals and essay collections. She is author of a collection of short stories, Chameleon (2007) and editor of Caribbean Dispatches: Beyond the Tourist Dream (2006). She founded and co-directed the Barbados Festival of African and Caribbean Film and curates the Africa World Documentary Film Festival at Cave Hill. She is also editor of Poui: Cave Hill Journal of Creative Writing and runs the Poui Project for Creative Writing. 
Jonathan Haynes was educated at McGill University (B.A. with honors, 1974) and Yale (M.A., 1976; Ph.D., 1980). He has taught at the American University in Cairo (Egypt), Tufts University, Albion College, Bennington College, the University of Nigeria-Nsukka, Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria), Columbia University, New York University and the University of Ibadan (Nigeria). Since 1998 Dr. Haynes has been at Long Island University, first at Southampton College and then, since 2004, in the English Department at the Brooklyn Campus. In 2001-2002 he was director of the Friends World Program’s West African Center in Kumasi, Ghana.