Sharjah Art Foundation

Sharjah Biennial 16

Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
6 Febuary — 15 June 2025

Breakout Session 2

This breakout session features Manthia Diawara (Professor, NYU, and filmmaker), Elizabeth Giorgis (Associate Professor, University of Addis Ababa), and Surafel Wondimu Abebe (Assistant professor, Centre for African Studies and College of Performing and Visual Arts, Researcher, Institute of Ethiopian Studies, Addis Ababa University) in an open conversation about topics related to the March Meeting 2021 theme, ‘Unravelling the Present’. The talk is moderated by Salah M. Hassan (Director, The Africa Institute, Sharjah and Goldwin Smith Professor, Cornell University).

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Giorgis, Elizabeth

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Abebe, Surafel

Surafel Wondimu Abebe uses academia, performance and media as sites of cultural politics from which to interrogate representational practices.

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Hassan, Salah M.

Art historian, critic and curator Salah M. Hassan is Director of The Africa Institute, Sharjah, and Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences in Africana Studies and the Department of History of Art and Visual Studies, Cornell University.