Panel 1: Colorful Threads: Interwoven Worlds of Art and Culture in the Western Indian Ocean 

Panel 1: WOMEN, FEMINISM, AND THE INDIAN OCEAN
Discussant
Elizabeth W. Giorgis - Associate Professor of Art History, Theory and Criticism, The Africa Institute, U.A.E
Panelists
Archival Entropy: Tracing the Photographic Representations of Djoumbé Fatima Kinaya Hassane - Ph.D. Candidate, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, U.S.A
Women and the Creation of Omani-Swahili Identity
Jodie Marshall - Historian of Africa in the Indian Ocean, Michigan State University, U.S.A
The Indian Ocean as Feminist Aesthetic Space: Thinking with Lubaina Himid’s Contemporary Practice
Franziska Fay - Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Johannes Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany
The Africa Institute hosts the third symposium as part of its four-part series dedicated to Africa’s Indian Ocean rim, titled “Colorful Threads: The Interwoven Worlds of Art and Culture in the Western Indian Ocean.” The symposium, held from 14-16 December 2023 in Sharjah, UAE, explored diverse facets, from feminism and cinema to artmaking, echoing the dynamic complexities of the Indian Ocean rim.
This four-part series falls under the theme, “Thinking the Archipelago: Africa’s Indian Ocean Islands,” which is part of The Africa Institute’s year-round initiative, “Country-Focused Season,” dedicated to developing and supporting original scholarship and programming that expands understanding of African and African diaspora studies among the academic community and the broader public.
Organized by The Africa Institute in collaboration with leading scholars Jeremy Prestholdt, Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego; Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University in Qatar; and Uday Chandra, Assistant Professor of Government at Georgetown University in Qatar, this symposium is co-organized by Prita Meier, Associate Professor of Art History at New York University, and Laura Fair, Professor of African History in the Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies at Columbia University.
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