Open to the NYU Abu Dhabi community and by invitation.
March 2nd 2024
Location: NYUAD Arts Center, Screening Room
Start Time: 10:00
March 3rd 2024
Location: NYUAD Arts Center, Screening Room
Start Time: 10:00
Convened by Shobana Shankar (SBU), Ethiraj Gabriel Dattatreyan (NYU), and David Ludden (NYU).
We bring together filmmakers, artists, and an interdisciplinary group of researchers for a two-day workshop to develop a methodological language and critically engage overlapping public cultures. Given NYU’s long-term investments in thinking through visual cultures and creative research across geographies, the global NYU network is ideal for this exploration of Africa-Asia visual and material cultural production.
In this workshop, we propose to delve into the methodologies of Africa-Asia studies and public cultures that have blossomed beyond academic scholarship to shape and influence them. Specifically, we turn to ways cinema and other visual arts have been utilized as a way to engage economic, social, political, and cultural connections between and across the African and Asian continents.
This workshop is organized by the NYU Global Asia Program in New York and sponsored by NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowships for the Study of the Arab World as part of our collaborative effort to establish the study of Afro-Asia Interactions as a field of study integrating Arts and Humanities disciplines.