2021
TBD Guest Lecturer: Oberlin College & Conservatory, Department of Africana Studies
Course: History of Africa & Pandemics
Description: This lecture emphasizes histories of pandemics in African contexts, urging students to think beyond the more normative ideas about pandemics: as either natural forces occurring beyond human control or, the result of human encroachments into the environment. The course aims to generate fresh perspectives useful to re/framing the important questions for history theory and, in tandem, will ground a newer arena for the emerging Africanist scholarship.
March Guest Lecturer. North Central College, Department of Film and Screen Studies
Course: Film 490, Film Theory and Criticism
Description: This lecture leverages the works of Ella Shohat and Robert Stam on multiculturalism in film
to explore constructs of gender in Nigerian cinema and correlations between 'dis/ability', notions of poverty, education and self-expression in Nigerian short subject genre for television. Constructs of gender can be seen as having several intersects: power, dis/empowerment, expressions of sexualities. These intersects also include tropes. For the purpose of the lecture and screenings, dis/ability is defined as 'different abilities' and emotional and physical acuities and correlations between education, poverty and self-representation are examined.
Course: History of Africa & Pandemics
Description: This lecture emphasizes histories of pandemics in African contexts, urging students to think beyond the more normative ideas about pandemics: as either natural forces occurring beyond human control or, the result of human encroachments into the environment. The course aims to generate fresh perspectives useful to re/framing the important questions for history theory and, in tandem, will ground a newer arena for the emerging Africanist scholarship.
March Guest Lecturer. North Central College, Department of Film and Screen Studies
Course: Film 490, Film Theory and Criticism
Description: This lecture leverages the works of Ella Shohat and Robert Stam on multiculturalism in film
to explore constructs of gender in Nigerian cinema and correlations between 'dis/ability', notions of poverty, education and self-expression in Nigerian short subject genre for television. Constructs of gender can be seen as having several intersects: power, dis/empowerment, expressions of sexualities. These intersects also include tropes. For the purpose of the lecture and screenings, dis/ability is defined as 'different abilities' and emotional and physical acuities and correlations between education, poverty and self-representation are examined.
2013
8 to 30 July E-Seminar: European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) Media Anthropology Network
See the series of moderated online seminars and subscribe to the Media Anthropology Network
Description: Diasporic identity through media, Nollywood and global television format adaptations.
20 June Guest Lecturer: New York University, Department of Anthropology
Course: Anthropology of Media, ANTH-UA 123
Description: This lecture explores the following questions concerning today's Nigerian media and culture industry: how is Nollywood mediating global culture(s)? and: in what ways is contemporary Nollywood cinema a fora for transnational publics and identities? The lecture also includes an introduction to emerging Nigerian cinematic genres, codes and conventions involving Nollywood-Bollywood co-productions.
See the series of moderated online seminars and subscribe to the Media Anthropology Network
Description: Diasporic identity through media, Nollywood and global television format adaptations.
20 June Guest Lecturer: New York University, Department of Anthropology
Course: Anthropology of Media, ANTH-UA 123
Description: This lecture explores the following questions concerning today's Nigerian media and culture industry: how is Nollywood mediating global culture(s)? and: in what ways is contemporary Nollywood cinema a fora for transnational publics and identities? The lecture also includes an introduction to emerging Nigerian cinematic genres, codes and conventions involving Nollywood-Bollywood co-productions.
2012
7-10 June The Thirteenth Annual Convention of the Media Ecology Association
Panel: Music, music, music...and media
Paper: Diasporic identity performance(s) in the first season of Nigerian Idol
Panel: Music, music, music...and media
Paper: Diasporic identity performance(s) in the first season of Nigerian Idol
