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  • Wednesday, Jun 11th
    15:00 - 16:45 GMT
    [Activity/Workshop] Architectural Walking Tour - UCAD Campus
    Contributor: Carole Diop – Afrikadaa
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Wednesday, Jun 11th
    15:00 - 16:45 GMT
    Artistic Industries, Creative Infrastructures
    Chair: Karina Simonson – Vilnius University
    Presenter: Alessandro Jedlowski – Sciences Po Bordeaux
    Presenter: Oreeditse Patrick P. Masuelele – University of Zululand
    Co-Presenter: Lindelwa Pepu – University of Zululand
    Presenter: Ruihua Shen – Morehouse College
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Wednesday, Jun 11th
    15:00 - 16:45 GMT
    Between Principles and Praxis: Cultural Brokers in China-Africa Media Relations
    Presenter: Alessandro Jedlowski – Sciences Po Bordeaux
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Wednesday, Jun 11th
    15:00 - 16:45 GMT
    The Africa They Are Experiencing: How Self-Media Shapes Chinese Perceptions of Africa Through Daily Life Representation
    Presenter: Ruihua Shen – Morehouse College
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Wednesday, Jun 11th
    15:00 - 16:45 GMT
    Ubuntu as a Pedagogical Tool for Healing and Well-Being in Creative Arts Education: A Case Study of Teacher Development in Zululand District, South Africa"
    Presenter: Oreeditse Patrick P. Masuelele – University of Zululand
    Co-Presenter: Lindelwa Pepu – University of Zululand
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Insularchives: Connecting Afro-Asia Islanders’ Distant Cultural Heritages
    Panel Convenor: Annachiara Raia – African Studies Centre, Leiden University
    Panel Convenor: Ben Arps – Leiden University
    Panel Chair: Ben Arps – Leiden University
    Panel Discussant: Farouk Topan – Aga Khan University
    Presenter: Annachiara Raia – African Studies Centre, Leiden University
    Presenter: Ben Arps – Leiden University
    Presenter: Clarissa Vierke – The University of Bayreuth
    Presenter: Silvia Neposteri – Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale
    Presenter: Verena Meyer – Leiden University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Whose Heritage? A Comparison of Colonial Influences on Indigenous Architecture in West Africa and Southeast-Asia and the Contestation of Shared Heritage for Global-Local Identity
    Presenter: Erik Akpedonu – Ateneo de Manila University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    1 - Back to the Narrative 'With Good Legs' Connecting Archipelagos through the Yusuf's Stories
    Presenter: Annachiara Raia – African Studies Centre, Leiden University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    2 - Since When is Java an Island, and When Will It End? An Early-Modern Javanese Poetic Map in a Late 19th-Century Cosmopolis
    Presenter: Ben Arps – Leiden University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    3 - The Stowaway and the Sultan: How Do Swahili Islands Narrate and Conceptualize Seascapes and Island Identities?
    Presenter: Clarissa Vierke – The University of Bayreuth
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    4 - Horns and Udders: Mastering Chaos through Allegories on the South-Eastern Malagasy Coast
    Presenter: Silvia Neposteri – Universita degli Studi di Napoli L'Orientale
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    5 - Conceptualizing the Ocean: Insularity, Separation, and Islam
    Presenter: Verena Meyer – Leiden University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    15:45 - 16:15 GMT
    Viable Visions: Retrospective of Martin Abasi Phiri (马丁)
    Presenter: Lifang Zhang – Tsinghua University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Thursday, Jun 12th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    [Activity/Workshop] Drawing Connections: An On-Site Artifact Drawing Workshop at the IFAN Museum of African Arts
    Contributor: Mahwish Chishty – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Material Affinities and Representational Imaginaries
    Panel Convenor: Padma Dorje Maitland – Asian Art Museum
    Panel Chair: Padma Dorje Maitland – Asian Art Museum
    Presenter: Padma Dorje Maitland – Asian Art Museum
    Presenter: Janine Francois – The Bartlett School of Architecture
    Presenter: Bhasha Chakrabarti – Experimenter
    Presenter: Siddhartha Shah – Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
    Presenter: Mario D’Souza – Kochi-Muziris Biennale
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Transregional Artistic Worlds I
    Chair: Thuy-Trang T. Nguyen – University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Presenter: Moad Musbahi – Princeton University
    Presenter: Stephen Roddy – University of San Francisco
    Presenter: Rashmi Devi – New York University Abu Dhabi
    Presenter: Nidhi Mahajan – University of California Santa Cruz
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Sino-African Harmony: Rwandan Singers in China
    Presenter: Stephen Roddy – University of San Francisco
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Taught to Travel, a Curatorial and Ethnographic Project Between Dakar and Singapore
    Presenter: Moad Musbahi – Princeton University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Translating Desire from Bombay to Dakar: Cultural Commodities and Transnational Feminism
    Presenter: Rashmi Devi – New York University Abu Dhabi
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    1 - Panther: Visual and Material Solidarities of Race and Caste
    Presenter: Padma Dorje Maitland – Asian Art Museum
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    2 - Diasporan Dialogues: How the Caribbean Mediates between African and Asian Artistic Practices
    Presenter: Janine Francois – The Bartlett School of Architecture
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    3 - Indigo: The Layered Materiality of a Seductive Material
    Presenter: Bhasha Chakrabarti – Experimenter
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    A View from the Dhow: Voyages between Art, Activism, and Anthropology in the Indian Ocean
    Presenter: Nidhi Mahajan – University of California Santa Cruz
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    4 - The Importance of Being Empress: Race and Labor in the Court of Queen Victoria
    Presenter: Siddhartha Shah – Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    5 - Spectres, Ships, and a Sea of Stories
    Presenter: Mario D’Souza – Kochi-Muziris Biennale
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Transregional Artistic Worlds II
    Chair: Rosa M C Beunel-Fogarty – City Saint George's, University of London
    Presenter: Alexei Wahyudiputra – Airlangga Institute of Indian Ocean Crossroads
    Presenter: Mélanie Shi – École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
    Presenter: Serigne Seye – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Dancing Africa-Asia: The Reverse Globalization of Kizomba
    Presenter: Mélanie Shi – École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Disko Afrika as a Transcultural Contact Between Indonesian and African Disco: Musicking and Questions of Decolonization
    Presenter: Alexei Wahyudiputra – Airlangga Institute of Indian Ocean Crossroads
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    L’Inde Au Sénégal : Une Relation Interculturelle à Sens Unique
    Presenter: Serigne Seye – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    [In Conversation With] The Story of the Third Aesthetic
    Contributor: Serge Mouangue – Independent Artist
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Graffiti and Music as Political Protest: Youth Resistance in West African Urban Spaces
    Presenter: Sesede Whenume Simeon, N/A – University of Ibadan
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 18:00 GMT
    [Activity/Workshop] Humanities Across Borders: Natural Dyes Workshop for Eco-Friendly Fashion
    Contributor: Idrissa Dembele – Independent Indigo Practitioner
    Discussant: Aarti Kawlra – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    14:00 - 18:00 GMT
    [Activity/Workshop] Humanities Across Borders: Trans-Humance - Knowledge in Circulation
    Contributor: Cécile Ndiaye – Independent Practitioner
    Discussant: Aarti Kawlra – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    [Activity/Workshop] Reading Images - Representations of Self - Past, Present, Future
    Contributor: Gina Osterloh – Ohio State University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    Creative Crossings: Sino-African Encounters in Fashion and Literature
    Panel Convenor: Isaac Odoom – Carleton University
    Panel Chair: Lina Benabdallah – Wake Forest University
    Presenter: Tommy Tse – University of Amsterdam
    Presenter: Jiaying Tu – University of Amsterdam
    Presenter: Jodie Yuzhou Sun – Fudan University
    Presenter: Wei Jupiter Wang – University of Amsterdam
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    1 - When the Copies Become Better: Seduction of Gāofǎng Fashion in China
    Presenter: Tommy Tse – University of Amsterdam
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    2 - From Asia and Africa to the Globe: Living Memories, Aspirations and Tensions of the Past and Present in Second-hand Cloth Consumption
    Presenter: Jiaying Tu – University of Amsterdam
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    3 - Third World Crossings' and China-Africa Networks: Visual representation of Africa in Afro-Asian literature
    Presenter: Jodie Yuzhou Sun – Fudan University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Friday, Jun 13th
    16:15 - 18:00 GMT
    4 - Cash in on the "African Superstar" Tupac: African-Chinese Co-Creation via Misunderstanding, Misinterpretation, and Racialization
    Presenter: Wei Jupiter Wang – University of Amsterdam
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Africa-Asia Art: Configurations, Exchanges, and Ownership
    Chair: Karina Simonson – Vilnius University
    Presenter: Emi Koide, N/A – Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia
    Presenter: Malika Kraamer – University of Bonn
    Presenter: Aude Tournaye – Columbia University
    Presenter: Kritika Rathore – University of Pittsburgh
    Co-Presenter: Sandeep Kawat – Independent Researcher
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Contextualising Africa’s Creative and Cultural Expressions and the Politics of (Non)Restitution of African Artefacts
    Presenter: Feyisitan O. Ijimakinwa – University of Ibadan
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Develop to the Rhythm of the Algorithm: Kenyan Rappers, Sino-African Futures
    Presenter: Joseph J. L. Beadle – Harvard University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    From the Ethics of Acting to the Empire Without Signs
    Presenter: Aude Tournaye – Columbia University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Indigo Weaving: Threads Between Elu and Aizome
    Presenter: Emi Koide, N/A – Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:00 - 10:45 GMT
    Material Knowledge: African – Asian Exchange Through Kente Cloth
    Presenter: Malika Kraamer – University of Bonn
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    09:45 - 10:45 GMT
    Ilm Ka Shehar (City of Knowledge)
    Director: Yamini Krishna Chintamani – FLAME University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Cinematic Explorations of Africa-Asia
    Chair: Thuy-Trang T. Nguyen – University of Wisconsin - Madison
    Presenter: Ekua a. Agha, N/A – LTE GROUP
    Presenter: Vishnu P. Satya – University of California
    Presenter: Senayon Olaoluwa – University of Ibadan
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Exploring How Cinema Critiques Social Inequalities Across Africa and Asia: Highlighting Cultural Narratives That Challenge Class Structures and Inspires Change
    Presenter: Ekua a. Agha, N/A – LTE GROUP
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Reel Histories: Perceptions of Slavery Films in African and Asian Societies
    Presenter: Vishnu P. Satya – University of California
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    11:15 - 13:00 GMT
    Scrutinizing a Trip to Malaysia: Transnational African Desperados and Human Organ Sales in Malaysia
    Presenter: Senayon Olaoluwa – University of Ibadan
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Artist and Self: Identity and Expression in Transregional Times
    Chair: Manasee Jog – RMIT University
    Co-Chair: Rosa M C Beunel-Fogarty – City Saint George's, University of London
    Presenter: Abdou Nouhou Badroudine – Université de La Réunion
    Presenter: Adrien M. Pouille – Duke Kunshan University
    Presenter: Lifang Zhang – Tsinghua University
    Presenter: R. Benedito Ferrão – William & Mary
    Presenter: Abdel Fatah Nadjloudine – Université de la Sorbonne
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    « Mayotte – Française » : Objet De Revendication Artistique Aux Comores (2001-2014)
    Presenter: Abdou Nouhou Badroudine – Université de La Réunion
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Archaeology of the Self in African and Asian Writing
    Presenter: Adrien M. Pouille – Duke Kunshan University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Cheikh Mc Ou Le Rap Comorien Entre Originalité Esthétique Et Engagement
    Presenter: Abdel Fatah Nadjloudine – Université de la Sorbonne
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Martin Abasi Phiri (马丁): (Re)Mapping Africa-Asia Artistic Connections Through Research and Practice
    Presenter: Lifang Zhang – Tsinghua University
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    14:00 - 15:45 GMT
    Vamona Navelcar’s Lost Suitcase: Drawing (from) the Impossibility of Nation in the Destination Is the Journey
    Presenter: R. Benedito Ferrão – William & Mary
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations
  • Saturday, Jun 14th
    16:00 - 18:00 GMT
    [Activity/Workshop] Architectural Walking Tour - Dakar Plateau Area (Paid)
    Contributor: Carole Diop – Afrikadaa
    6. Arts, (Digital) Media and Culture: Creativities, Contestations and Collaborations