Join us for the third scholarly conference themed, "Colorful Threads: The Interwoven Worlds of Art and Culture in the Western Indian Ocean" on December 14-16, 2023 at The Africa Institute, Sharjah.
This multi-series conference is part of our flagship annual Country-focused Season themed, "Thinking the Archipelago: Africa’s Indian Ocean Islands" convened by The Africa Institute in collaboration with leading scholars namely Jeremy Prestholdt, Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego; Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Professor of Anthropology, Georgetown University in Qatar; and Uday Chandra, Assistant Professor of Government, Georgetown University, in Qatar.
The scholarly conference aims to rethink the archipelago with vantage points of anthropology, history, art, architecture, museum studies, ethnographies of rituals, music, and dance as conceived within disciplinary and interdisciplinary knowledge and practice.
Watch these highlights from our second conference on "Legacies of Race and Slavery In the Atlantic and Indian Oceans" held in Zanzibar between June 12-14, 2023.
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4 дек 2023
