Panel 4 | Colorful Threads: Interwoven Worlds of Art and Culture in the Western Indian Ocean 

Panel 4: REPRESENTATIONS AND IMAGINARIES
Discussant
Meg Arenberg - Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Department of Humanities and the African Languages and Translation Program, The Africa Institute, U.A.E
Panelists
Arrivals and Departures, Desertions and Betrayals: Fraught Intimacies in Zanzibar and the East African Coast
Gaurav Desai - Professor and Chair of the English Department, University of Michigan, U.S.A
Imaging the Dodo Bird, Imagining Extinction (Mauritius)
Pamila Gupta - Research Professor, Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State, South Africa
Black, Brown, and Blue: Fabulatory Aesthetics in the Work of Shiraz Bayjoo and Kama La Mackerel
Natasha Bissonauth - Assistant Professor, Visual Art and Art History, York University, Canada
Distributed Objects, Distributed Personhood: Interwoven Relations between the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean Worlds
Neelima Jeychandran - Assistant Professor of African Visual Culture, Department of Art History, Virginia Commonwealth University, Qatar