2021/2022
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.
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.
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
