2018 – Oceanic Circularities: Arts, Ideologies, and Identities in the Indian Ocean
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Opening and welcome – Dr. Ahmad Dallal, Dean of Georgetown University in Qatar
Keynote: “The Surface of Things: A History of Photography from the Swahili Coast” – Dr. Prita Meier, New York University
Panel 1: Socialism and Socialist Legacies
“Ethiopia and Yemen: A Tale in Three Acts”– Dr. Bahru Zewde, Addis Ababa University
“Exposed Spies, Conspiring Sheikhs and Flying Cattle: Conflating Socialism, Superpower Interests and Somali Segmentary Society in the 1970s” – Dr. Radoslav Yordanov, Columbia University
“Rural Modernities: Comparing Socialisms and Postsocialisms in China, India, and Tanzania” – Dr. Uday Chandra, Georgetown University in Qatar
“The Party and the Gun: African Liberation, Asian Comrades and Socialist Political Technologies” – Dr. Harry Verhoeven, Georgetown University in Qatar
Panel 2: Modernity and Islam
“Religion as Discourse: Conversion and Commitment to Jihad in South Africa” – Dr. Abdulkader Tayob, University of Cape Town
“Itineraries of Islam: Law, Constitutionalism, and Translation across Asia” – Dr. Iza Hussin, Cambridge University
“Body, Worker, Object: The Radical Feminist Aesthetics of Mahashweta Devi’s Breast Stories” – Dr. Paromita Chakrabarti, University of Mumbai
Panel 3: Arts and Architecture
“Indian Films in East Africa Theaters: Circuits of Distribution and Community Engagement” – Dr. Laura Fair, Michigan State University
“Cold War Realties, Postcolonial Fantasies in Tanzania” – Dr. Abdullahi Ibrahim, University of Missouri
“Slavery, Oil, and Abolition in Qatar in the Late 1940s and Early 1950s” – Dr. Ahmad Sikainga, Ohio State University
“Samhani: Narrating Justice and Clemency in Zanzibar” – Abdel Aziz Baraka Sakin, Independent Writer
“Reading of Arab Perceptions of the Indian Ocean: The Kingdom of Women” – Abdallah Al Bashir, University of Khartoum