Mélanie Shi

École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), France

Researcher at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) Paris, focusing on decolonial networks and presses in the 1960s between ex-socialist bloc and Global South; independent political magazines, literature and engagement; Francophone and Lusophone cultures, anthropology; French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin Chinese; Chinese and African geopolitics, also contributes to journalism about Chinese-Global South and China-Eastern European collaborations. Previously in Comparative Literature at Columbia University and China Studies (Beijing University).

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Presentation(s):

• African Engagement in and with Asia

  Thursday, June 12, 2025
  11:15 - 13:00 GMT

• Asian Engagement in and with Africa

  Thursday, June 12, 2025
  14:00 - 15:45 GMT

• Transregional Artistic Worlds II

  Friday, June 13, 2025
  11:15 - 13:00 GMT

• Dancing Africa-Asia: The Reverse Globalization of Kizomba

  Friday, June 13, 2025
  11:15 - 13:00 GMT