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Expressing Identities in Africa and the Diaspora: Panel Discussions
April 21, 2017
10:30 AM - 03:00 PM
Hawkins Carlson Room of Rush Rhees Library
Speakers:
-Christopher Richards, University of Florida
A"dressing" the Nation: Accra's Independence-era Fashion Culture
-Kristin Moriah, CUNY Graduate Center
A String of Black Diamonds: Styling the African Diaspora in Europe
-Katherine Wiley, Pacific Lutheran University
“He will say that I’m a young girl”: The Materiality of the Malahfa (Mauritanian veil)
-Amanda Maples, University of California, Santa Cruz
New Directions in the Arts of Africa: City-Life, Youth Masquerades and Decolonizing “Tradition”
-Rebecca Ohene-Asah, University of Ghana
‘Kumawood’ Video Movies and the Quest for Legitimacy
-Moustapha Ndour, Indiana University Bloomington
Echoes of Resistance: African Diaspora in Contemporary Francophone Literature
-Brittany Sheldon, FDI Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana U. Bloomington
Visual Storytelling: Wall Paintings by Women in Northeastern Ghana
-Paul Fess, FDI Predoctoral Fellow, City University of New York
“the same old slave song”: Music and Antislavery Politics in Martin R. Delany’s Blake; or, the Huts of America
Category: New Direction Symposium