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  • Wednesday, Jun 11th
    15:00 - 16:45 GMT
    Intertwined Histories, Memories and Legacies of Africa and Asia
    Chair: Kawthar Jeewa – Nelson Mandela University
    Presenter: Patrick Ziltener – University of Zurich
    Presenter: Eva Marie Lehner – University of Bonn / Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
    Presenter: Emma Kalb – University of Bonn
    Presenter: Aissatou Seck – ETHOS/UCAD
    Presenter: Lawrence Ogbo Ugwuanyi – University of Abuja
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Wednesday, Jun 11th
    15:00 - 16:45 GMT
    African Origins and Social Status in Early Modern South Asia
    Presenter: Emma Kalb – University of Bonn
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Wednesday, Jun 11th
    15:00 - 16:45 GMT
    African-Asian Relations: The New Dynamism in the 21st Century
    Presenter: Patrick Ziltener – University of Zurich
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Wednesday, Jun 11th
    15:00 - 16:45 GMT
    Crossing Oceans: The Asian Diaspora and Enslavement in Dutch Colonial Cape Town (1652–1795)
    Presenter: Eva Marie Lehner – University of Bonn / Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Wednesday, Jun 11th
    15:00 - 16:45 GMT
    Femmes des Tirailleurs et Héritage Culturel des Familles Africaines d’Origine Asiatique
    Presenter: Aissatou Seck – ETHOS/UCAD
    Co-Presenter: Sadio Diallo – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Revisiting Diasporic Culture and Memories across Oceans I
    Chair: Senayon Olaoluwa – University of Ibadan
    Presenter: Naaborle Sackeyfio – Miami University of Ohio
    Presenter: Uwe Skoda – Aarhus University
    Presenter: Liliana Morais – College of Sociology, Rikkyo University
    Presenter: Arnaud Dika Balotoken – Leiden University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    African Labor, Identity and Inclusion in Japan: The Push and Pull of Democracy and a Separate Peace
    Presenter: Naaborle Sackeyfio – Miami University of Ohio
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    From Blended “Europeanish” to Neo-Fatimid Styles. Architecture and “worlding” of an Indian Ocean Trading Community
    Presenter: Uwe Skoda – Aarhus University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Making a Hybrid Pottery Culture in a Rural Brazilian Town: Some Africa-Asia Entanglements
    Presenter: Liliana Morais – College of Sociology, Rikkyo University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Revisiting Diasporic Culture and Memories across Oceans II
    Chair: Senayon Olaoluwa – University of Ibadan
    Presenter: Annette Loeseke – Braunschweig University of Art
    Presenter: Marcelo M. Mello, N/A – Universidade Federal da Bahia
    Presenter: Livio Sansone – Universidade Federal da Bahia
    Presenter: Erik Akpedonu – Ateneo de Manila University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    The People of Africa-China Engagement
    Panel Convenor: Isaac Odoom – Carleton University
    Panel Chair: Caitlin Barker – Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs
    Presenter: Gary W. McDonogh – Bryn Mawr College
    Co-Presenter: Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong – College of Staten Island
    Presenter: Cai Chen – Université libre de Bruxelles
    Presenter: Jocelyne Kenne – Afro-Sino Center of International Relations (ASCIR)
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Across the Arabian Gulf and the East African Coast: Post-Oil Heritage Construction in Qatar
    Presenter: Annette Loeseke – Braunschweig University of Art
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Colonial Spirits and Their Legacies in the Southern Caribbean (Guyana): African and East-Indian Entanglements
    Presenter: Marcelo M. Mello, N/A – Universidade Federal da Bahia
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    1 - African Chinatowns in Their Global Contexts
    Presenter: Gary W. McDonogh – Bryn Mawr College
    Co-Presenter: Cindy Hing-Yuk Wong – College of Staten Island
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    3 - Boundary Brokerage: Sino-Congolese Couples Bridging Intergroup Boundaries in Congo (DRC)
    Presenter: Cai Chen – Université libre de Bruxelles
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    4 - Understanding Chinese Migration in Africa: The Role of Age and Education in Socioeconomic Dynamics among Chinese Migrants in Cameroon
    Presenter: Jocelyne Kenne – Afro-Sino Center of International Relations (ASCIR)
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    15:45 - 16:15 GMT
    Photographing Kanekalon: Art and Identity Through the Salon Lens
    Presenter: Maatkara N. Wilson – University of Chicago
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    [Activity/Workshop] Subverting Empire’s Plate: Cuisine, Colonialism, and Diasporic Daughters from Senegal and Vietnam
    Contributor: Patricia Nguyen – University of Virginia
    Contributor: Dialika Sall – City University of New York
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    Inde-Indochine-Afrique : Migrations Et Diasporas Asiatiques
    Roundtable Convenor: Fatima Bintou Rassoul Sy – Raw Material Company
    Roundtable Participant: Babacar Mbaye M. Diop – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    Roundtable Participant: Ute Fendler – Université de Bayreuth, Allemagne
    Roundtable Participant: MARIUS Kamala – Bordeaux Montaigne University
    Roundtable Participant: Delphine M. Buysse – Université Cheikh Anta Diop (ETHOS-GIRCI)
    Roundtable Participant: Mery Bèye Diouf – Petite-fille de Vietnamienne
    Roundtable Participant: Arundhati Virmani – EHESS d'Aix Marseille
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    Mapping Martial Arts Genealogies on the Swahili Coast
    Roundtable Convenor: Derek Sheridan – Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
    Roundtable Chair: Derek Sheridan – Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
    Roundtable Participant: Derek Sheridan – Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica
    Roundtable Participant: Mohamed Yunus Rafiq – New York University Shanghai
    Roundtable Participant: Ally Issa Hassan – Bagamoyo Film and Martial Arts (BAFIMA)
    Roundtable Participant: Authmani Litunu – Alliance for Women, Children and Youth Survivors Bagamoyo
    Roundtable Participant: Alessandro Jedlowski – Sciences Po Bordeaux
    Roundtable Participant: Wen Lei – Huaqiao University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Urban Landscapes and Africa-Asia Entanglements I
    Chair: Ohsoon Yun – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Presenter: Abena Somiah – University of McGill
    Presenter: Jermaine Sanwo-Olu – University of Ibadan, Institute of African Studies
    Presenter: Peter Folorunsho Adebayo – University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    "Africa-Asia in an Entangled World: Migration, Diasporas, and Creolities" with Dakar, Senegal as Background”
    Presenter: Peter Folorunsho Adebayo – University of Ilorin, Ilorin, Nigeria
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Exploring Black Tokyo: African Placemaking in Urban Japan as Black Pacific Inquiry
    Presenter: Abena Somiah – University of McGill
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Exploring Nigerian Investments in the Lagos Real Estate Sector: Trends and Opportunities from Asia
    Presenter: Jermaine Sanwo-Olu – University of Ibadan, Institute of African Studies
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Urban Landscapes and Africa-Asia Entanglements II
    Chair: Ohsoon Yun – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Presenter: Elisa Tamburo – Harvard University
    Presenter: Pierre Wenzel – University of Vienna
    Presenter: Zhengli Huang – University of Sheffield
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Negotiating the City: Builders, Planners, Dwellers and the Making of Nairobi
    Presenter: Elisa Tamburo – Harvard University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Africa-Asia in Music, Literature, and Arts
    Chair: Adrien M. Pouille – Duke Kunshan University
    Presenter: Priscilla M. Campos – Universidade Federal de São Paulo
    Presenter: Sesede Whenume Simeon, N/A – University of Ibadan
    Presenter: Denise Ryner – Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
    Co-Presenter: Zairong Xiang – Duke Kunshan University
    Presenter: Anupama Kuttikat – The English and Foreign Languages University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Confounding Religious-Racial Categories: African-Asian Encounters in Everyday Life
    Panel Convenor: Shobana Shankar – Stony Brook University
    Panel Chair: Shobana Shankar – Stony Brook University
    Panel Discussant: Taushif Kara – King's College London
    Presenter: Benjamin Soares – University of Florida
    Presenter: Deng Zheyuan – Shanghai Normal University
    Presenter: Anneeth Kaur Hundle – University of California, Irvine
    Presenter: Musa Ibrahim – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    "From Colonization to Civilization, the Distance Is Infinite": Literary Dialogues in the Contemporary History of Nigeria and Palestine
    Presenter: Priscilla M. Campos – Universidade Federal de São Paulo
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    The ‘Stand In’ as a Strategy for Solidarity
    Presenter: Denise Ryner – Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
    Co-Presenter: Zairong Xiang – Duke Kunshan University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    1 - Thinking about Lived Islam: The View from West Africa and South India
    Presenter: Benjamin Soares – University of Florida
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    2 - Chinese Muslims and Religious Encounters in Dakar's "Chinatown"
    Presenter: Deng Zheyuan – Shanghai Normal University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    3 - African Sikhs: Africa and Africans in the Making of African and South Asian Minority Identity
    Presenter: Anneeth Kaur Hundle – University of California, Irvine
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    4 - Riyadha: Where Islam meets Kung-Fu at Sokoto Cinema – “It's like halal meets high-kick!"
    Presenter: Musa Ibrahim – Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    A Gaze Without a Gaze: African and Chinese Getting Together in Daily Life
    Roundtable Convenor: Florence Padovani – GIS Asie
    Roundtable Chair: Florence Padovani – GIS Asie
    Roundtable Participant: Abdoulaye Diagne – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    Roundtable Participant: Ruihua Shen – Morehouse College
    Roundtable Participant: Cai Chen – Université libre de Bruxelles
    Roundtable Participant: Penglei Su – Université Paris Cité
    Roundtable Participant: Yann Philippe Tastevin – CNRS and Université Cheikh Anta Diop
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    Africa-Asia in Music, Visual, and Performing Arts
    Chair: Nalini E. de Sousa – Aveiro University
    Presenter: Thuy-Trang T. Nguyen – University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Presenter: Jorge C. Cardoso Filho – Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia
    Presenter: Kamila Junik – Jagiellonian University
    Presenter: Ipshita Chanda – The English and Foreign Languages University
    Presenter: Filipa L. Vicente – Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    Afro-Asia Intimacies: A Speculative Storytelling Aesthetic in Tuấn Andrew Nguyễn’s Moving Image of the Postcolonial Space
    Presenter: Thuy-Trang T. Nguyen – University of Wisconsin - Madison
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    Black Indian Ocean? Diasporic Images in Mozambican Rap in Azagaia
    Presenter: Jorge C. Cardoso Filho – Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    “Ethiopians Speaking Urdu” : Marfa, the Afro-Arabic Music of Hyderabad, India
    Presenter: Ipshita Chanda – The English and Foreign Languages University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    Goan Photographers in East Africa (1860-1900)
    Presenter: Filipa L. Vicente – Institute of Social Science, University of Lisbon
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    Reimagining "Indianness". Cultural Identity in the Works of Contemporary South African Indian Artists
    Presenter: Kamila Junik – Jagiellonian University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Banishment and Belonging: African and Asian Migrant Identity and Their Affective Positioning
    Chair: Penglei Su – Université Paris Cité
    Presenter: Ajay Gandhi – Leiden University
    Presenter: Xiuyuan Liu – KU Leuven
    Presenter: Mustapha Isa – University of Ibadan
    Presenter: Kudus O. Adebayo – University of Ibadan
    Presenter: Gayatri Maria de Souza – Freie Universität Berlin
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Youth diaspora across Continents
    Chair: Cai Chen – Université libre de Bruxelles
    Presenter: Quan T. Tran – Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program, Yale University
    Presenter: Abíọ́dún A.O Abdul – University of Nottingham
    Presenter: Mustahid Husain – University of Toronto
    Presenter: Joseph J. L. Beadle – Harvard University
    Presenter: Czarina A. Saloma – School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    “…China Is Not a Country That You Can Just Leave…”: Vortex of Relationality and Networking in Post-deportation Lives of Nigerian Men
    Presenter: Kudus O. Adebayo – University of Ibadan
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    “Cuộc Sống ở Châu Phi [Life in Africa]”: Vietnamese - Angolese Encounters Through the Lens of Quang Linh Vlogs
    Presenter: Quan T. Tran – Ethnicity, Race, and Migration Program, Yale University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Negotiating Belonging: The Goan Diasporic Community Press Between East Africa and Bombay
    Presenter: Gayatri Maria de Souza – Freie Universität Berlin
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Persecuting and Prosecuting: The Politics and Others of Indians from East Africa
    Presenter: Ajay Gandhi – Leiden University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Social Diversity and Inequality in University Spaces: Apprehending Philippine Higher Education Through African Student Navigations
    Presenter: Czarina A. Saloma – School of Social Sciences, Ateneo de Manila University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Sometimes Powerless, Always Helping: Emotions and Affect of Chinese Doctors in Africa
    Presenter: Xiuyuan Liu – KU Leuven
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Statelessness, Identity, and Transnational Migrations: The Intersection of the Rohingya Crisis and African Diaspora Experiences Under Global Migration Regimes
    Presenter: Mustapha Isa – University of Ibadan
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Yorùbá Meets Japan: Tales of Teenaged Wanderlust Encountering Ancient Migration
    Presenter: Abíọ́dún A.O Abdul – University of Nottingham
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Youth Trajectories for “protestant-Muslims” Across the Gender Stream: Inherited Complex Intergenerational Trauma of Bangladeshi-Canadian Youth in the Greater Toronto Area
    Presenter: Mustahid Husain – University of Toronto
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 12:30 GMT
    The Club
    Director: Nalini E. de Sousa – Aveiro University
    Producer: Nalini E. de Sousa – Aveiro University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Afro-Asian World Making: Reflections on Minor Histories, Circulations, and Mediations
    Panel Convenor: Neelima Jeychandran – Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar
    Panel Chair: Rogaia Abusharaf – Georgetown University, Qatar
    Panel Discussant: Rogaia Abusharaf – Georgetown University, Qatar
    Presenter: Neelima Jeychandran – Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar
    Presenter: Amal Ghazal – Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
    Presenter: Uday Chandra – Georgetown University, Qatar
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Entangled Pasts, Archipelagic Futures: AfricAsian Islands, Arts and Literatures
    Panel Convenor: Rosa M C Beunel-Fogarty – City Saint George's, University of London
    Panel Convenor: Sandrine Soukaï – Gustave Eiffel University
    Panel Chair: Rosa M C Beunel-Fogarty – City Saint George's, University of London
    Panel Discussant: Ananya Jahanara J. Kabir – King's College London
    Presenter: Rosa M C Beunel-Fogarty – City Saint George's, University of London
    Presenter: Sandrine Soukaï – Gustave Eiffel University
    Presenter: Ananya Jahanara J. Kabir – King's College London
    Presenter: Nikhita Obeegadoo – The University of Chicago
    Presenter: Kelsey McFaul – Independent scholar
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    1 - Creole Fetes and Festivalisation: Building Archipelagic Collaborations
    Presenter: Rosa M C Beunel-Fogarty – City Saint George's, University of London
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    1 - The Place Beyond a Place: Materialities, Mobilities, and Trans-Indian Oceanic Exchanges
    Presenter: Neelima Jeychandran – Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    2 - Envisioning African-Asian Archipelagic Connections through Caribbean Contemporary Art
    Presenter: Sandrine Soukaï – Gustave Eiffel University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    3 - Texts as Contexts: The Making of Religious Traditions in the Omani Empire
    Presenter: Amal Ghazal – Doha Institute for Graduate Studies
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    3 - Transoceanic Creolisation’s intimate entanglements: the Archipelagic Memory Connecting, Pondicherry to Saigon, Guadeloupe, Reunion, and Dakar
    Presenter: Ananya Jahanara J. Kabir – King's College London
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    4 - Interstitial Lives and Interconnected Places: Towards a New Theory of Afro-Asian Circulation
    Presenter: Uday Chandra – Georgetown University, Qatar
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    4 - Swaying to the Rhythms of Archipelagic Encounters: An Exploration of Afro Jaune's Séga
    Presenter: Nikhita Obeegadoo – The University of Chicago
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    5 - Secret Gardens: Afro-Asian Migration and Creolization in Indian Ocean Archipelagic Art and Literature
    Presenter: Kelsey McFaul – Independent scholar
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Intra- and Intercontinental Mobility around the world
    Chair: Cai Chen – Université libre de Bruxelles
    Presenter: Suzana Velasco – Institute of International Relations, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
    Presenter: Tong Cheng – Shanghai International Studies University
    Co-Presenter: Jun Ma – Shanghai International Studies University
    Presenter: Michael K. Peters – Shizuoka University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Dexterity and Endurance for Maendeleo: Kenyan Distance Runners in the Ekiden
    Presenter: Michael K. Peters – Shizuoka University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Narratives of the Sea: South Atlantic Escape Routes
    Presenter: Suzana Velasco – Institute of International Relations, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    The Influence of the Trip to China and Japan on the Formation of Mihdī Qulī Hidāyat Reformation Thought
    Presenter: Tong Cheng – Shanghai International Studies University
    Co-Presenter: Jun Ma – Shanghai International Studies University
    12. ‘Africa-Asia’ in an Entangled World: Migrations, Diasporas, Creolities