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SUMMARY:A Return to the African Personality: Intergenerational Conversations
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, May 23\, 2024\, 7:00 pm\nScreening with introduction and Q&A at the Pollock Theater \nNoorie (dir. Manmohan Krishna and Yash Chopra\, 1979\, 114’) \nProfessor Katie Young (Concordia University) will discuss the reception of the Super-Hit Indian Romance film Noorie in Northern Ghana (Dagomba Region) up to the present day. She will be in conversation with Francis Yeboah (PhD Student\, Film and Media Studies\, UCSB). Francis’s work is focused on exhibition practices in Ghana. See: https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock-events/cwc-global-noorie/ \nA Return to the African Personality:\nIntergenerational Conversations\nDownload the program \nFriday\, May 24\, 2024\, Conference: 9:00 am- 5:30 pm\nThe Annenberg Room: SSMS 4315 \nCo-convened by: Christabel Agyeiwaa\, kwabena agyare yeboah\, Peter Bloom\, and Stephan Miescher \n9:00-9:15am \nWelcome and Introduction \n9:15- 10:45am \nPanel I: Perspectives on African Personality: Ghana TV and Black Studies\nChair: Stephan Miescher (History\, UCSB) \nSpeaker: Bright Gyamfi (History\, UC-San Diego)\nPresentation: Locating the Black Star in Black Studies and Latin American Studies\nRespondent: Chris McAuley (Black Studies\, UCSB) \nSpeaker: Emmanuella Amoh (History\, Baylor University)\nPresentation: Ties that Bind: Diasporic Africans and Pan-Africanism in Making Modern Ghana\nRespondent: Jude Akudinobi (Black Studies\, UCSB) \n10:45-11:00am: Break \n11 am -12:30pm \nPanel II: Gendered Subjectivity: Consumerism and Family Law\nChair: Peter Bloom (Film and Media\, UCSB) \nSpeaker: Bianca Murillo (History\, CSU-Dominguez Hills)\nPresentation: Yentua/We Shall not Pay: Debt According to the People\, 1970s\nRespondent: Christabel Agyeiwaa (History\, UCSB) \nSpeaker: Kate Skinner (African History\, University of Bristol\, UK)\nPresentation: “The Right Type of Woman…at the Policy Making Level:” Representational struggles and inter-scalar analysis\nRespondent: Priscilla Owusu Amoako (History\, UCSB) \n12:30-1:30 pm\nLunch \n1:45-3:45 pm \nPanel III: Indigeneity\, Restitution\, and Ritualization\nChair: Mhoze Chikowero (History\, UCSB) \nSpeaker: Silvia Forni (Fowler Museum\, UCLA)\nPresentation: Moving Beyond Theory: An Experience in Repatriation\nRespondent: kwabena agyare yeboah (History\, UCSB) \nSpeaker: Andrew Apter (History and Anthropology\, UCLA)\nPresentation: Atlantic Slavery and the Spirits of Racial Capitalism\nRespondent: Elizabeth Pérez (Religious Studies\, UCSB) \nSpeaker: Boatema Boateng (Communication Studies\, UC-San Diego)\nPresentation: When Parallels Meet: From Indigenous to Indigeneity\nRespondent: Claudia Ankrah (History\, UCSB) \n3:45-4:00 pm\nBreak \n  \n4:00-5:30 pm \nPanel IV: Performance\, Cinema\, and Spectatorship\nChair: Althea Wasow (Film and Media Studies\, UCSB) \nSpeaker: Katie Young (Cultural Geography\, Concordia University)\nPresentation: Noorie in Context: Reflections from Northern Ghana\nRespondent: William Elison (Religious Studies\, UCSB) \nSpeaker: David Donkor (Performance Studies\, Texas A&M)\nPresentation: “Bringing Back the Love:” Batakari\, Soccer and the Performance of (Inter) generational Dress Politics in Ghana\nRespondent: Francis Yeboah (Film and Media Studies\, UCSB) \nDinner will be held at the home of Stephan Miescher (starting at 6:30 pm); we ask that participants\, colleagues\, and those attending please RSVP to miescher@ucsb.edu by Wednesday\, May 22\, 2024. \nThis Conference has been supported by the following units at UCSB: The Carsey-Wolf Center\, The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, The College of Letters & Science Conference Fund\, The Orfalea Center\, The Africa Center\, the Department of Film and Media Studies\, and the Department of History.
URL:https://www.filmandmedia.ucsb.edu/event/africanpersonality/
LOCATION:Annenberg Conference Room\, 4315 Social Science and Media Studies Building\, UC Santa Barbara\, California\, 93106
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