Sharjah Biennial 16

Panel

Muriam Haleh Davis (Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Santa Cruz), Walter Mignolo (Distinguished William H. Wannamaker Professor, Romance Studies and Professor, Literature, Duke University; remotely) and Françoise Vergès (Professor, Cultural Studies, The Africa Institute) Moderator: Premesh Lalu (Professor, History, The Africa Institute and Founding Director, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape)

Panel

Anjali Arondekar (Associate Professor, Feminist Studies and founding Co-Director, Center for South Asian Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz), Tina Campt (Owen F. Walker Professor, Humanities and Modern Culture and Media, Brown University and Visiting Professor, Art and Archaeology, Princeton University) and Naminata Diabate (Associate Professor, Comparative Literature, Cornell University and Senior Fellow, The Africa Institute, Sharjah) Moderator: Nidhi Mahajan (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, University of California in Santa Cruz and Inaugural Fatema Mernissi Postdoctoral Fellow in Social and Cultural Studies, The Africa Institute)

Keynote

Angela Davis (activist, scholar and author; remotely) and Manthia Diawara (Professor, NYU and filmmaker), Moderator: Salah M. Hassan (Director, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University)

Panel

Meena Kandasamy (activist, poet, novelist and translator), Russell Rickford (Associate Professor, History, Cornell University; remotely), Ahmad Sikainga (Ali A. Mazrui Senior Fellow, The Africa Institute, Sharjah and Professor, African History, Ohio State University), Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor (Professor, Department of African-American Studies, Princeton University; remotely) and Suraj Yengde (Research Associate, Department of African and African American Studies, Harvard University) Moderator: Elizabeth W. Giorgis (Associate Professor, Art History, Theory and Criticism, The Africa Institute)

Panel

David Adjaye (architect), Ngaire Blankenberg (Director, Smithsonian National Museum of African Art), Chika Okeke-Agulu (Director, Program in African Studies and Professor, Art and Archaeology and African American Studies, Princeton University), Moderator: Salah M. Hassan (Director, The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, Cornell University)

Panel

John Akomfrah (artist), Carolina Caycedo (artist), T J Demos (writer and Patricia and Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in Art History, Department of the History of Art and Visual Culture, University of California, Santa Cruz) and Hrair Sarkissian (artist) Moderator: Amy Niang (Associate Professor, Political Science, The Africa Institute)

Panel

Brook Andrew (artist, writer, curator, founder, BLAK C.O.R.E. and Director, Reimagining Museums and Collections, The University of Melbourne), Gerald McMaster (curator, artist, professor, OCAD University and Director, Centre for Indigenous Visual Knowledge; remotely), Jolene Rickard (artist and Associate Professor, Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University; remotely), Megan Tamati-Quennell (Associate Indigenous Curator, Contemporary Art | Kairauhī Taketake Toi Onāianei, Govett Brewster Art Gallery and Curator Modern and Contemporary Maori and Indigenous Art, Te Papa) Moderator: Iftikhar Dadi (art historian, artist and John H. Burris Professor, Department of History of Art and Director of the South Asia Program, Cornell University)

Panel

Zahid Chaudhary (Associate Professor, English Department, Princeton University), Ayesha Hameed (artist and Senior Lecturer, Visual Cultures, Goldsmiths College, University of London), Bouchra Khalili (artist; remotely) and Rachid Koraichi (artist), Moderator: Awam Amkpa (Dean of Arts and Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi and Global Network Professor, Drama, Social and Cultural Analysis, NYU New York)

Panel

Noura Erakat (human rights attorney and Associate Professor, Department of Africana Studies and the Program in Criminal Justice, Rutgers University), Premesh Lalu (Professor, History, The Africa Institute and Founding Director, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape) and Khalil Rabah (artist, Artistic Director, Riwaq Biennale and founder, Palestinian Museum of Natural History and Humankind), Moderator: Nathalie Handal (poet, writer and Visiting Associate Professor, Practice in Literature and Creative Writing, NYU Abu Dhabi)

Keynote

Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak (University Professor,
Department of English and Comparative Literature,
Columbia University)