Video Conference
11.03.2021
19:30-21:15
Welcome and Introduction (15 min)
New technologies, new diasporas (90 min)
Peter Simatei (Moi University)
“Networked Diasporas: New African Diasporas and the Politics of home”
Clayton Peel (Namibia University of Science and Technology),
“New technology, violence and memory: Holding the state security apparatus accountable in Zimbabwe
12.03.2021
14:00-16:15
Diasporic politics today (2 hours 15 min)
Yusuf Sheik Omar (SOAS),
“The Role of the Horn of Africa diaspora in peace and violent conflict in their countries of origin”
Sam Coombes (University of Edinburgh),
“Francophone and anglophone Black Atlantics and Black Lives Mattering today”
Matti Steinitz (University of Bielefeld),
“Hemispheric Black Transnationalism and the Struggle against Racism in the Americas: Networks of solidarity and dialogues between Afro-diasporic communities in the US, the Caribbean, and Latin America”
17:00-19:15
New visions and visual archives of African diasporas (2 hours 15 min)
Dagmawi Woubset (University of Pennsylvania),
“The Films of Abderrahmane Sissako and the Right to African Interiority”
Yogita Goyal (UCLA),
“Speculative Fictions and Sanctuary Worlds”
Muyiwa Falaiye (University of Lagos),
“Image of the African Diaspora: From the Hut Near the Congo to the Banks of the Mississippi”
20:00-21:30
Rethinking diaspora from the South (90 min)
Deborah Nyangulu (University of Münster),
“Rethinking Knowledge in Crossborder Terms: A View from the Global South”
Finex Ndhlovu (University of New England),
“Transnational Sociality: (Re)theorising African Diasporas from the Margins
13.03.2021
14:00-15:30
New forms of diasporic return (90 min)
Judith A. Byfield (Cornell University),
“Remaking the Triangle: West Indian wives in Nigeria”
Celina de Sá (University of Pittsburgh),
“Diaspora without Displacement: Race and Belonging in Postcolonial West Africa”
16:15-17:45
African diasporas in Africa: literary perspectives (90 min)
Christopher Ouma (University of Cape Town),
“Contemporary African small magazines and the new diaspora”
Chigbo A. Anyaduba (University of Winnipeg),
“‘The Strange Familiar’: Writing African Migrants in Africa”
18:30-20:00
New diasporic sounds (90 mins)
Sonjah Stanley Niaah (University of the West Indies),
“Sound, Diaspora, and the Politics of Citizenship”
Stefanie Alisch (Humboldt University Berlin),
“Quinta do Mocho, South Africa: Kuduro, tarraxinha and afrohouse, mapping Africa onto Lisbon’s musical topography”
20:00-21:30
Roundtable discussion and conclusion