On November 10th we invate you to public lecture Africa in Global Media Imaginaries: Representations, Contestations, Agency by Ignatius G.D. Suglo. This lecture discusses representations of postcolonial Africa in media across the Global North and Global South. It draws on the historical and changing depictions of Africa in North America and the nascent engagements with the image of Africa in Asia. Tracing continuities, fractures, and most importantly contestations of these competing imaginations of Africa in the world.
You can join lecture via link below:
https://fsf-vu-lt.zoom.us/j/94414482999?pwd=VnhoVjJOL0RFU0RQZ3N5cjd6Y2Z6dz09
Meeting ID: 944 1448 2999
Passcode: 301289
Ignatius G.D. Suglo is a media and cultural Historian and a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. His research interests include: discourses, representations, and knowledge production and circulation of Africa in China; Afro-Asian cold war media engagements; and digital diasporic communities. His current work engages with textual, visual, aural, and audiovisual media in analyzing the imaginaries of Africa from 19th century China till the present. It traces continuities, fractures, and entanglements of co-creation of ways of knowing Africa through popular media produced and circulated in China.