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  • Thursday, June 12, 2025
  • “South-South Scripts”: The Arabic Script in Asia and Africa I
    Roundtable Convenor: Mahmood Kooria – University of Edinburgh
    Roundtable Convenor: Jeremy Dell – University of Edinburgh
    Roundtable Participant: Seydi Diamil Niane – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    Roundtable Participant: Dmitry Bondarev – University of Hamburg
    Roundtable Participant: Tom Hoogervorst – Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian & Caribbean Studies (KITLV)
    Roundtable Participant: Annachiara Raia – African Studies Centre, Leiden University
    Roundtable Participant: Anne Bang – University of Bergen
    Roundtable Participant: Jajat Burhanudin – Universitas Islam Indonesia Jakarta
    Roundtable Participant: Ben Arps – Leiden University
    Roundtable Participant: Leon Buskens – NIMAR
    Roundtable Participant: Djibril Dramé – Hamburg University
    Roundtable Participant: Maria Luisa Russo – University of Hamburg
    7. Multiple Ontologies: Religions, Religiosities, Philosophies and Languages
  • Exploring Afro-Asia Futures: Infrastructure, Technologies, and Environment I
    Chair: Michiel Baas – Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    Presenter: Miao Lu – Lingnan University
    Presenter: Uche Okonkwo – University of Nigeria, Nsukka
    Presenter: Olugbenga S. Falase – Lead City University
    3. Economic Globalisation: Prosperity or Pain?
  • Ciné Club at Cheikh Anta Diop University
    Discussant: Chuong-Dai Vo – Centre des Récollets, Paris
    Documentary/Film
  • “South-South Scripts”: The Arabic Script in Asia and Africa II
    Roundtable Convenor: Mahmood Kooria – University of Edinburgh
    Roundtable Convenor: Jeremy Dell – University of Edinburgh
    Roundtable Participant: Dmitry Bondarev – University of Hamburg
    Roundtable Participant: Seydi Diamil Niane – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    Roundtable Participant: Tom Hoogervorst – Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian & Caribbean Studies (KITLV)
    Roundtable Participant: Annachiara Raia – African Studies Centre, Leiden University
    Roundtable Participant: Anne Bang – University of Bergen
    Roundtable Participant: Jajat Burhanudin – Universitas Islam Indonesia Jakarta
    Roundtable Participant: Ben Arps – Leiden University
    Roundtable Participant: Djibril Dramé – Hamburg University
    Roundtable Participant: Leon Buskens – NIMAR
    Roundtable Participant: Maria Luisa Russo – University of Hamburg
    7. Multiple Ontologies: Religions, Religiosities, Philosophies and Languages
  • African Engagement in and with Asia
    Chair: Mélanie Shi – École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
    Presenter: Yuanlong He – Columbia University
    Presenter: Marisa Ramos Gonçalves – Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra (CES-UC)
    Presenter: José Do Nascimento – University Paris Saclay
    Co-Presenter: Aoua Bocar Ly Tall – Histoire Général du Sénégal
    Presenter: Bunga Pratiwi Siagian – Universitas Indonesia
    11. ‘Pan-Africanism’, ‘Bandung Spirit’, ‘Global South’ Futures and the New World Order
  • Afro-Asian and Afro-Sino Pasts and Futures
    Panel Convenor: Isaac Odoom – Carleton University
    Panel Chair: Isaac Odoom – Carleton University
    Presenter: Vera Leigh Fennell – Lehigh University
    Presenter: Lina Benabdallah – Wake Forest University
    Presenter: Jin Wang – City University of New York
    Presenter: Seyram Avle – University of Massachusetts, Amherst
    11. ‘Pan-Africanism’, ‘Bandung Spirit’, ‘Global South’ Futures and the New World Order
  • Afro-Asian Solidarities in Arts and Culture I: Cinema Networks in the Spirit of Bandung
    Panel Convenor: Ling Zhang – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Panel Chair: Ling Zhang – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Panel Discussant: Carolien Stolte – Leiden University
    Presenter: Ling Zhang – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Presenter: Sarah Niazi – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Presenter: Peter J. Bloom – University of California - Santa Barbara
    11. ‘Pan-Africanism’, ‘Bandung Spirit’, ‘Global South’ Futures and the New World Order
  • Encounter at the Crossroads of the Empire I
    Chair: Jaqueline Pateguana – Global Digital Inclusion Partnership
    Presenter: Marcos P. Amorim – São Paulo State University
    Presenter: Felipe Paiva – Universidade Federal Fluminense
    Presenter: Anne Viguier – INALCO
    Presenter: Tracy Barrett – North Dakota State University
    2. Geo-political-economic Hegemonies: Cartographies and historiographies
  • Exploring Afro-Asia Futures: Infrastructure, Technologies, and Environment II
    Chair: Michiel Baas – Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    Presenter: Lei Sheng – Journal of Social Sciences
    Co-Presenter: Xueming Wu – Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences
    Presenter: Yiqing Xie
    Presenter: Weidi Zheng – King's College London
    Co-Presenter: Miao Lu – Lingnan University
    3. Economic Globalisation: Prosperity or Pain?
  • Global Southeast Asias as Method
    Panel Convenor: Justin Phan – University of Illinois - Chicago
    Panel Chair: Lina Chhun – University of Texas at Austin
    Presenter: Justin Phan – University of Illinois - Chicago
    Presenter: Lina Chhun – University of Texas at Austin
    Presenter: Jewel Pereyra – Boston University
    8. Negotiating Margins: Power, Agencies, Representations, Resistances
  • Harvesting Heritage: Cross-Continental Dialogues on Agrobiodiversity and Culinary Culture Between Southeast Asia and Africa
    Panel Convenor: Kornsorn Srikulnath, N/A – Kasetsart University
    Panel Chair: Kornsorn Srikulnath, N/A – Kasetsart University
    Presenter: Worapong Singchat – Kasetsart University
    Presenter: Aingorn Chaiyes – Kasetsart University
    Presenter: Thitipong Panthum – Kasetsart University
    Presenter: Jiraboon Prasanpan
    9. Foodscapes: Cultivation, Livelihood, Gastronomy, Agrico-Cultural Exchanges, Appropriations
  • Living with the River in African and Asian Contexts
    Roundtable Convenor: Paul E. Rabé – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Roundtable Convenor: Aarti Kawlra – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Roundtable Participant: Xiaomei Zhao – Department of Cultural Heritage and Museology, Fudan University
    Roundtable Participant: Mohomodou Houssouba – Malian Society of Applied Sciences
    Roundtable Participant: Jama Musse Jama – Hargeysa Cultural Centre
    Roundtable Participant: Rita Padawangi – Singapore University of Social Sciences
    Roundtable Participant: Satya Maia Patchitneelam – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Roundtable Participant: Fad Seydou – Institute of Human Sciences (ISH)
    Roundtable Participant: Sidy Ba – National School of Engineers Abderhamane Baba Touré
    Roundtable Participant: Ademide Adelusi-Adeluyi – Howard University
    Roundtable Participant: Jane Weru – Akiba Mashinani Trust
    Roundtable Participant: Corbin Raymond – Oslo School of Architecture and Design
    Roundtable Participant: Alexandra Joy Forman – URCA Institute
    1. Human-Nature-Technology: Interactions and Responses
  • Mobilités Religieuses Entre l’Afrique Et l’Asie : Circulation Des Corps Et Des Savoirs
    Panel Convenor: Frédérique Louveau – Université Gaston Berger, Centre d’étude des religions, MOVIDA
    Panel Chair: Frédérique Louveau – Université Gaston Berger, Centre d’étude des religions, MOVIDA
    Presenter: Frédérique Louveau – Université Gaston Berger, Centre d’étude des religions, MOVIDA
    Presenter: Claire Thi Liên Tran – Université Paris Cité - CESSMA
    7. Multiple Ontologies: Religions, Religiosities, Philosophies and Languages
  • Other Possible Perspectives: Power, Knowledge, and Language
    Chair: Mariam Lam – University of California - Riverside
    Presenter: Sudarsan Padmanabhan, N/A – Indian Institute of Technology Madras
    Presenter: Benoit Beucher – Université Paris-Cité (CESSMA)
    Presenter: Sally Matthews – Department of Political and International Studies, Rhodes University
    Presenter: Heide Duarte – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    Presenter: Sylvia Arthur – Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora
    Co-Presenter: Seth Avusuglo – Library Of Africa and The African Diaspora
    5. Knowledge-making: Institutions, Objects, Cultural Ownership
  • 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
  • African State-building: Actors, Actions, Performances
    Panel Convenor: Shinichi Takeuchi – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, African Studies Center
    Panel Chair: Shinichi Takeuchi – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, African Studies Center
    Panel Discussant: Frank Matose – University of Cape Town, Centre for African Studies
    Presenter: Shinichi Takeuchi – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, African Studies Center
    Presenter: Kojo Amanor – University of Ghana, Institute of African Studies
    Presenter: Chizuko Sato – Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
    Presenter: Horman Chitonge – University of Cape Town, Centre for African Studies
    Presenter: Akiyo Aminaka – Institute of Developing Economies - JETRO
    4. The Role of Local Communities: Society Against States and Corporations?
  • Afro-Asian Solidarities in Arts and Culture II: Revolutionary Third Worldism in Writing and Dance
    Panel Convenor: Emily Wilcox – William & Mary
    Panel Chair: Emily Wilcox – William & Mary
    Presenter: Emily Wilcox – William & Mary
    Presenter: Fang Wan – Yanshan University
    Presenter: Tings Chak – Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
    Presenter: Delinda J. Collier – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
    11. ‘Pan-Africanism’, ‘Bandung Spirit’, ‘Global South’ Futures and the New World Order
  • Asian Engagement in and with Africa
    Chair: Mélanie Shi – École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS)
    Presenter: Madina (Ibn) KOTÉ – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    Presenter: Sunyoung Park – Sejong University
    Presenter: Hyun-Jong Noh – Seoul National University (SNU)
    Co-Presenter: Joonhwa Cho – Seoul National University (SNU)
    11. ‘Pan-Africanism’, ‘Bandung Spirit’, ‘Global South’ Futures and the New World Order
  • Encounter at the Crossroads of the Empire II
    Chair: Geoffrey Nwaka – Abia State University, Uturu
    Presenter: Fabio B. Figueiredo – Universidade Federal da Bahia
    Presenter: Lina Puryanti – Airlangga University
    Co-Presenter: Aireen Grace Andal – Airlangga University
    Presenter: Annette Skovsted Skovsted Hansen – Aarhus University
    2. Geo-political-economic Hegemonies: Cartographies and historiographies
  • Heritage Subversions, Circulations and Mobilizations in Portuguese-speaking Post-Coloniality
    Panel Convenor: Ruy L. Blanes – CRIA, ISCTE-IUL
    Panel Chair: Ruy L. Blanes – CRIA, ISCTE-IUL
    Presenter: Catarina Alves Costa – Department of Anthropology, FCSH-NOVA
    Presenter: Ruy L. Blanes – CRIA, ISCTE-IUL
    Presenter: Inês Lourenço – CRIA, ISCTE-IUL
    Presenter: Rosa Maria Perez – CRIA, ISCTE-IUL
    5. Knowledge-making: Institutions, Objects, Cultural Ownership
  • Humanities Across Borders: Indigo Dialogues
    Roundtable Convenor: Aarti Kawlra – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Roundtable Chair: Jody Benjamin – Howard University
    Roundtable Participant: Eric T. Lawer – University of Ghana
    Roundtable Participant: Mohomodou Houssouba – Malian Society of Applied Sciences
    Roundtable Participant: Kibora KlM Ludovic – INSS-CNRST
    Roundtable Participant: Pimnara (Baitong) Chanorn – Mahidol University
    Roundtable Participant: Genner Llanes Ortiz – Bishop's University
    Roundtable Participant: Karthik Prema Rajakumar – Independent Researcher
    Roundtable Participant: Aminata Sall – Université Gaston Berger
    Roundtable Participant: Idrissa Dembele – Independent Indigo Practitioner
    Roundtable Participant: Enrico Joaquin H. Lapuz – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Roundtable Participant: Hsiao-Chi Chu – Taipei National University of the Arts
    Roundtable Participant: Masako Iijima – Wool Weaver and Video Journalist
    1. Human-Nature-Technology: Interactions and Responses
  • Indian Ocean Studies from Chinese Perspectives
    Roundtable Convenor: Danni Zhan – Peking University
    Roundtable Participant: Mingfei Li – Institute of Ancient History, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    Roundtable Participant: Ying Cheng – Peking University
    Roundtable Participant: Jinxiu Li – Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
    Roundtable Participant: Yihua Guo – Peking University
    5. Knowledge-making: Institutions, Objects, Cultural Ownership
  • 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
  • Korea-Africa: Geopolitics, Diplomacy, and Power
    Chair: Joseph J. L. Beadle – Harvard University
    Presenter: Elena Guido – LeidenAsiaCentre
    Presenter: Only Jeon – Institute of African Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
    3. Economic Globalisation: Prosperity or Pain?
  • 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
  • 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
  • Trust and Trust-Making in Africa’s Global Connections: Reflections on Crisis, Complexity and Collaboration
    Roundtable Convenor: Mayke Kaag – African Studies Centre, Leiden University
    Roundtable Chair: Mayke Kaag – African Studies Centre, Leiden University
    Roundtable Participant: Alena Thiel – IT University of Copenhagen
    Roundtable Participant: Rishuai Chen – African Studies Centre, Leiden University
    Roundtable Participant: Eric T. Lawer – University of Ghana
    Roundtable Participant: Abubakari Zaid – Simon Diedong Dombo University of Business and Integrated Development Studies
    8. Negotiating Margins: Power, Agencies, Representations, Resistances
  • Sabar: music, dance, martial arts and storytelling in Senegal
    Program Coordinator: Chuong-Dai Vo
    Documentary/Film
  • Poster Presentation I
    Poster Presenter: Marie-Therese Png – Green Screen Coalition
    Poster Presenter: Vick Lukwago Ssali – Aichi Gakuin University
    Poster Presenter: Ousseynou Sene – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    Poster Presenter: Carmen Ferri – Global Digital Inclusion Partnership
    Poster Presenter: Karthik Prema Rajakumar – Independent Researcher
    Poster Presenter: Swati Maskeri – Srishti Manipal Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
    Poster Presenter: Maatkara N. Wilson – University of Chicago
    Poster Presenter: Helena Batista – Instituto Pasteur
    Poster Presenter: Jaqueline Pateguana – Global Digital Inclusion Partnership
    Poster Presenter: Lifang Zhang – Tsinghua University
    Poster Presenter: Jodie Yuzhou Sun – Fudan University
  • [Activity/Workshop] Drawing Connections: An On-Site Artifact Drawing Workshop at the IFAN Museum of African Arts
  • [Activity/Workshop] Subverting Empire’s Plate: Cuisine, Colonialism, and Diasporic Daughters from Senegal and Vietnam
  • [In Conversation With] Humanities Across Borders: Archives Beyond the Institutional: Discovery and Critical Possibilities
  • Afro-Asian Solidarities in Arts and Culture III
    Roundtable Convenor: Peter J. Bloom – University of California - Santa Barbara
    Roundtable Convenor: Emily Wilcox – William & Mary
    Roundtable Convenor: Ling Zhang – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Roundtable Chair: Peter J. Bloom – University of California - Santa Barbara
    Roundtable Chair: Ling Zhang – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Roundtable Participant: Sarah Niazi – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Roundtable Participant: Delinda J. Collier – School of the Art Institute of Chicago
    Roundtable Participant: Tings Chak – Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research
    Roundtable Participant: Carolien Stolte – Leiden University
    Roundtable Participant: Fang Wan – Yanshan University
    11. ‘Pan-Africanism’, ‘Bandung Spirit’, ‘Global South’ Futures and the New World Order
  • Asia–Africa Engagements in Multipolar World: Revisiting 70 Years Since Asian-African (Bandung) Conference and Viewing Future
    Panel Convenor: Takuo Iwata – Ritsumeikan University
    Panel Chair: Takuo Iwata – Ritsumeikan University
    Presenter: Takuo Iwata – Ritsumeikan University
    Presenter: Scarlett Cornelissen – Stellenbosch University
    Presenter: Huaqiong Pan – Peking University
    Presenter: Lloyd A. Amoah – University of Ghana, Centre for Asian Studies
    11. ‘Pan-Africanism’, ‘Bandung Spirit’, ‘Global South’ Futures and the New World Order
  • Embedding Indian Ocean Studies: Rationales and Practicalities
    Roundtable Convenor: Mahmood Kooria – University of Edinburgh
    Roundtable Convenor: Tom Hoogervorst – Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian & Caribbean Studies (KITLV)
    Roundtable Chair: Philippe Peycam – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Roundtable Participant: Leon Buskens – NIMAR
    Roundtable Participant: Eka Srimulyani – Ar-Raniry State Islamic University
    Roundtable Participant: Sebastian Schwecke – Max Weber Stiftung India
    Roundtable Participant: Pedro Machado – Indiana University
    Roundtable Participant: Cut Dewi – Syah Kuala University
    Roundtable Participant: Mathew Senga – University of Dar es Salaam
    Roundtable Participant: Maulana Ibrahim – UN Khair
    5. Knowledge-making: Institutions, Objects, Cultural Ownership
  • 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
  • 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
  • Responding to Climate Change
    Chair: Paul van der Velde – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)
    Presenter: Michiel Baas – Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
    Presenter: Juliane Miriam Schumacher – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
    Presenter: Hamady Niang – Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar
    Presenter: Raghu B. Bista, Dr. – Tribhuvan University
    Presenter: Ana I. Ribeiro – University of Lisbon, Tropical College, School of Agriculture
    Co-Presenter: David Katamba – Makerere University Business School
    Co-Presenter: Andrea Valente – Universidade de Lisboa
    1. Human-Nature-Technology: Interactions and Responses
  • Valorizing Social Infrastructures and Human Mobility: Transregional Perspectives
    Roundtable Convenor: Anna S. Reumert, n/a – The New School
    Roundtable Chair: Gregory Valdespino – University of Iowa
    Roundtable Participant: Gregory Valdespino – University of Iowa
    Roundtable Participant: Anna S. Reumert, n/a – The New School
    Roundtable Participant: Kristen Miller – City University of New York
    Roundtable Participant: Julie Kleinman – Fordham University
    8. Negotiating Margins: Power, Agencies, Representations, Resistances
  • Strates Miroir [Mirror Stratas] Vernissage and Blind Seer Performance