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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Diawara, Manthia
Manthia Diawara is a writer, filmmaker, cultural theorist and art historian.
Giorgis, Elizabeth
She is Professor of Theory and Criticism at College of Performing and Visual Art, and Director of the Modern Art Museum: Gebre Kristos Deta Center at Addis Ababa University.
Abebe, Surafel
Surafel Wondimu Abebe uses academia, performance and media as sites of cultural politics from which to interrogate representational practices.
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.