The Department of Creative Arts, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Lagos, Nigeria in collaboration with the Arts of Africa and the Global Souths Research Programme at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, South Africa, will host a Publishing Workshop at the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Lagos from Monday, November 4 to Friday, November 8, 2019.
PROSPA (Publishing and Research of the South: Positioning Africa) is a Mellon funded programme run by the Arts of Africa and the Global South research team at Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网. It is linked to the Africa-based editorial consortium partnership of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press Journal, African Arts.
The Annual Publishing Workshop, which brings together Africa-based scholars working in the visual arts, has taken place three (3) times so far. The first workshop was hosted by Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (2016); the second, hosted by Makerere 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Kampala, Uganda in collaboration with Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 (2017), while the third edition was hosted by Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 in collaboration with the Kwame Nkrumah 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Science and Technology (2018).
Selected participants for this year’s edition are:
- Dr Abiodun Akande, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Lagos
- Dr Akinwale Onipede, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Lagos
- Dr Lekan Balogun, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Lagos / 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town
- Dr Kim Gurney, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Cape Town
- Dr Tosin Tume, Federal 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 Oye-Ekiti
- Dr Olusegun Titus, Obafemi Awolowo 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.
- Kehinde Adepegba, Lagos State Polytechnic.
Members of the 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 community and the general public are cordially invited to participate in the workshop on Wednesday, November 6, 2019 from 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. at the Institute of African and Diaspora Studies (IADS), JP Clark Centre, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Lagos where there will be:
- A presentation titled, “Reaching Sideways As We Cast New Shadows: Counter-Narratives and a Geopolitics of Proximity in the Remaking of “African Studies””, by the Director of Arts of Africa and Global South Programme, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网, Prof Ruth Simbao.
- A performance by Jelili Atiku, a renowned multimedia artist, and
A panel discussion on publishing for postgraduate students and early-career scholars will hold on the same day at the Department of Creative Arts by 3:00 p.m.
Conveners:
Dr. Ganiyu Jimoh
Lecturer, Department of Creative Arts, 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网 of Lagos,
Postdoctoral Fellow, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.
Prof. Ruth Simbao
Director, Arts of Africa and Global South Programme,
Fine Arts Department, Rhodes 老虎机游戏_pt老虎机-平台*官网.
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