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Contested Spaces: Epistemic (A)Symmetries, Mobilities, Identities
Welcome speeches by Professor Adam Habib (SOAS Director) and Professor Nana Poku (UKZN Vice Chancellor)
Keynotes by Prof Achille Mbembe, Prof Francis Nyamnjoh, Prof Desiree Lewis, Prof Carolyn Hamilton, Prof Ciraj Rasooll.
Abstract:
What are the possibilities for south-north collaborations in terms of knowledge production, embedded notions of power relations, interdisciplinarity, the exchange of ideas? How do the urban spaces that house our libraries, museums, and universities impact on our sense of the ‘global’ and the ‘local’, and our understandings of Africa and African in the world, and how do we navigate this research with fieldwork ‘on the ground’? How can rural spaces be recognised as potential repositories of (indigenous) memory and heritage? How do the vast distances that are so often required to bring collections – artefacts, archives, artworks – and curators together help us think of new archival itineraries and exhibition practices? How do the archives and texts marginalize/silence the voices of women? How is the history of slavery or neo colonial forms of slavery and enslavement being contested, re-remembered in culture and the curriculum? How is the issue of decolonization, Africanization and transformation being remembered and embedded in the curriculum?
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