26.09. | 17:15-18:00 NADIA DENTON „Why the Best of the Nigerian Film Industry is Yet to Come!“ In this paper Nadia discusses the shape of the Nigerian film industry in the next 10 years drawing from the interviews compiled for her latest publication The Nigerian Filmmaker’s Guide to Success: Beyond Nollywood. Her talk will include…
25.09. | 21:00 – 22:30 THE STUART HALL PROJECT Dir. John Akomfrah (2013, UK, 98min) Synopsis: Stuart Hall is one of the most influential and esteemed cultural theorists of a generation. A thinker and commentator, his peers include other giants of political commentary such as Noam Chomsky, Susan Sontag, Alan Ginsberg, Michel Foucault and Gore Vidal. …
Saturday 27.09. | 15:00-15:45 BELINDA KAZEEM „Naming what was once Unnameable“ Experiences of being made “other” are part of growing up in the Diaspora, especially when there is a somewhat silent understanding of who is thought of as part of the nation and who is not. In the Austrian context people of color are not thought…
