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Tahrir Square, Cairo - 2012

2022

TBD               Guest Lecturer: James Madison University, Public History
                       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.

TBD             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
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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
                      


                        
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