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…
26.09. | 16:00-16:45 JOHNNY PITTS „On Afropean Culture“ I spent five months traveling through Europe on trains, searching for an alternative side of the continent, not offered in the tourist literature of its cities. Mine was a search for ‚Afropea‘, the land of 2nd, 3rd and fourth generation children of immigrants, too indelibly connected…
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…
