Workshops and Events

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Muriam Haleh Davis (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz), Walter Mignolo (Distinguished William H. Wannamaker Professor, Romance Studies and Professor, Literature, Duke University; remotely) and Françoise Vergès (Professor, Cultural Studies, The Africa Institute) Moderator: Premesh Lalu (Professor, History, The Africa Institute and Founding Director, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape)

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Anjali Arondekar (Associate Professor, Feminist Studies and founding Co-Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz), Tina Campt (Owen F. Walker Professor, Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University and Visiting Professor, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University) and Naminata Diabate (Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Cornell University and Senior Fellow, The Africa Institute, Sharjah) Moderator: Nidhi Mahajan (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of California in Santa Cruz and Inaugural Fatema Mernissi Postdoctoral Fellow in Social and Cultural Studies, The Africa Institute)

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Angela Davis (activist, scholar and author; remotely) and Manthia Diawara (Professor, NYU and filmmaker), Moderator: Salah M. Hassan (Director, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University)

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Meena Kandasamy (activist, poet, novelist and translator), Russell Rickford (Associate Professor, History, Cornell University; remotely), Ahmad Sikainga (Ali A. Mazrui Senior Fellow, The Africa Institute, Sharjah and Professor, African History, Ohio State University), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Professor, Department of African-American Studies, Princeton University; remotely) and Suraj Yengde (Research Associate, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University) Moderator: Elizabeth W. Giorgis (Associate Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism, The Africa Institute)

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David Adjaye (architect), Ngaire Blankenberg (Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art), Chika Okeke-Agulu (Director, Program in African Studies and Professor, Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, Princeton University), Moderator: Salah M. Hassan (Director, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University)

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John Akomfrah (artist), Carolina Caycedo (artist), T J Demos (writer and Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History, Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz) and Hrair Sarkissian (artist) Moderator: Amy Niang (Associate Professor, Political Science, The Africa Institute)