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Date: 23 June 2015 at 23:16
Subject: [josana] Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora: The Centre for Nollywood and New Media in Africa presents an Afternoon with Duriel E. Harris and Paul Ugor [1 Attachment]
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From: Carmen McCain carmenmccain@yahoo.com [josana] <josana-noreply@yahoogroups.co.uk>
Date: 23 June 2015 at 23:16
Subject: [josana] Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora: The Centre for Nollywood and New Media in Africa presents an Afternoon with Duriel E. Harris and Paul Ugor [1 Attachment]
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For those of you in Ilorin and environs, please see the following event.
Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora: The Centre for Nollywood and New Media in Africa presents an Afternoon with Duriel E. Harris and Paul Ugor
The Centre for Nollywood and New Media in Africa at Kwara State University hosts an afternoon with Duriel E. Harris and Paul Ugor, who will present the journal Obsidian and give presentations on identity politics in performance and media that encompass both Africa and its Diaspora.
Founded in 1975, the biennially published Obsidian is recognized as one of the premier journals dedicated to Africa and African Diaspora Literatures. Now published at Illinois State University, Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, is celebrating over 40 years of continuous publication and is seeking submissions from African scholars and writers. For more information about the journal, see https://about.illinoisstate.edu/obsidian/Pages/default.aspx
Date: 29 June 2015, Monday
Venue: Engineering Seminar Room, Top floor, Engineering Building, Kwara State University, Malete
Presentation 1:00-3:35
1:00-1:45pm Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora: Publishing Contemporary Arts and Scholarship in an International Journal with Editor-in-Chief Duriel E. Harris and Criticism Editor Paul Ugor
1:55-2:40 Duriel E. Harris, "Let Us Consider Sarah, Re-envisioning Thingification: Notes on Withness, Affective Labor, Making and the US Imaginary" -
2:50-3:35 Paul Ugor, "The Urbanization of Injustice and Youth Identity Politics in Femi Odugbemi's Maroko"
Biographies
Duriel E. Harris is an artist, poet, performer and an associate professor of Creative Writing in the Department of English at Illinois State University. She is the author of the critically acclaimed print poetry collections Drag (2003) and Amnesiac: Poems (2010), and the video collaboration Speleology, a jury selection for the International Literary Film Festival (NYC), the Visible Verse Festival (Vancouver), and the Zebra Poetry Film Festival (Berlin). She edits the journal Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, co-founded the avant-garde poetry/performance trio the Black Took Collective, and is a member of Douglas R. Ewart and Inventions free jazz ensemble. A MacDowell and Millay Colony fellow, Harris has received grants from the Illinois Arts Council, the Cave Canem Foundation, and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and post-doctoral residencies at the University of Illinois Chicago and the University of California, Santa Barbara. She earned her PhD in English from the University of Illinois, an MA in Creative Writing from New York University and a BA in Literature from Yale University. Her research interests include improvisation and black aesthetics, oppositional/experimental poetics, memory and trauma studies, Women of Colour feminisms, Digital Technology and the African Diaspora, and 18th and 19th century African American literature. Current projects include the sound compilation "Black Magic" and Thingification—a one-woman show. A one act solo play with music, selections from Harris's Thingification have been featured internationally including performances at Babylon Cinema (Berlin), the Babel Theatre (Beirut), The Poetry Project (NY), the MCA Denver, and Poet's House (NY). (www.thingification.org)
Paul Ugor is an Assistant Professor in the Department of English at Illinois State University. He is the criticism and drama editor for the journal Obsidian: Literature & Arts in the African Diaspora, and has previously been a recipient of the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council postdoctoral fellowship in Canada and the prestigious Newton fellowship at the University of Birmingham. He earned his PhD in Anglophone African and Postcolonial Literatures from the University of Alberta, an MA in Theatre and Film Studies focusing on Nollywood Cinema from the University of Ibadan, and a BA in Theatre and Media Studies from the University of Calabar. His research interests include Nollywood and new social processes in global politics, economy, information, communication technologies, cultural/textual representations and every day life and the new social responses, which these social changes elicit especially from youth and women in postcolonial settings.
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Carmen McCain
Columnist, Weekly Trust
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PhD, Department of African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin, Madison
http://carmenmccain.com
"Bayan wuya, sai dad'i."
Carmen McCain
Columnist, Weekly Trust
and
PhD, Department of African Languages and Literature
University of Wisconsin, Madison
http://carmenmccain.com
"Bayan wuya, sai dad'i."
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