A two-day online seminar “Exploring Ethics in Transnational Media Collaboration” is scheduled for May 30th and 31st. Speakers from Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, the UK, the USA, Canada, Germany, Africa and Nigeria will address a range of important topics, including storytelling, decolonising feminism, and the challenges of transnational media research. This seminar is the second in a series of interdisciplinary knowledge exchange events towards a decolonial imaginary around ethics in north-south transnational media collaborations.
Register for free via Eventbrite and join us on the 30th and 31st of May 2024
Overview of the Broader Research Project:
Developing a Media-Decolonisation Imaginary (DMDI) is a study which aims to advance new methodologies for transnational media research, Pedagogy and Practice. DMDI is developed in partnership with Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Ghana, as well as scholars at the University of Florida and the London School of Economics’ (LSE), Africa Institute. Also, in collaboration with us, are the Wole Soyinka International Cultural Exchange (WSICE), Lanka Cine (Media), Sri Lanka.
This interventionist work builds on the AHRC research project ScreenWorlds (2019 - 2025), and on Postcolonial interrogations of transnational research collaborations/allyship, to study how ethical north-south media research partnerships can be strengthened. Beginning in January 2024 and running till April 2025, it features a 12-month seminar series focalising themes of Postcolonialism, Intersectionality, and Indigenous Knowledge Theory. We believe that these are mobilisable for designing media-research methodologies which privilege intersectional diversity and inclusion in media landscapes, beyond superficial gestures.
Opening Keynote (30th May 2024): Prof. Jude William Genilo
Pro Vice Chancellor, The University of Liberal Arts. Bangladesh
Topic: - Community-Based Communication Model for Development: An Update.
Closing Keynote (31st May 2024): Professor Nikita Dhawan
Professor of Political Theory & History of Ideas at the Technical University Dresden. Germany | Chair of Political Science with a focus on Political Theory and the History of Political Thought, Institute of Political Science, Technical University Dresden. Germany.
Topic: - One World, One Pain? Transnational Literacy and Planetary Ethics
Chair for 30th May 2024: Prof. George M. Bob-Milliar. Associate Professor in African Studies, at the Department of History and Political Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi-Ghana.
Chair for 31st May 2024: Imruh Bakari (Filmmaker and Senior Fellow at University of Winchester, UK).
Other speakers as follows
Dr. Nini Kerr
Lecturer in Counselling, Psychotherapy and Applied Social Sciences
School of Health in Social Science.
The University of Edinburgh. UK
Topic: - Decolonising the University: An Impossible Task?
Prof.
Abu S.M. Dayen
Department of Bangla [Language]
Jahangirnagar University. Bangladesh
Topic: - Rabindranath Tagore's Education Policy: Exploring the Attempts to Decolonise Bengal Pedagogy
Dr. Rathitharan Kathiresu
Senior Lecturer, Department of Drama and Theatre Arts,
Sir Ponnambalam Ramanathan Faculty of Performing and Visual Arts.
University of Jaffna. Sri Lanka.
Topic: - Tamil Theatre Practices, with Some Attention to its History and its Characteristics as a Style of Stage/Screen Performance
Dr. Anisha Datta
Chair, Department of Sociology. Associate Professor of Sociology.
King's University College at Western University. Canada.
Topic: - Neoliberalist Slippages in Decolonisation in the Context of Transnationalism
Dr. Ayesha Siddiqua
Associate Professor, Department of Media and Communication Studies.
National University of Modern Languages. Pakistan
Topic: - Exploring Pakistani Female Identities and how they Challenge Stereotypical Media Representations
Asim Rafiqui
Photojournalist.
Ph.D., candidate in Social Anthropology at the TUDelft, Netherlands
Topic: - Trouble in the Field
Prof. Sunny Singh
Professor of Creative Writing and Inclusion in the Arts
London Metropolitan University. UK.
Topic: - Moving Beyond (Neo-)Colonial Paradigms: Centring Justice in Transnational Collaborations
Dr. Kanchuka Darmasiri
Department
of Fine Arts,
University of Peradeniya. Sri Lanka.
Topic: - A Trajectory of Sri Lankan Critical Feminist Locales in Precolonial, Colonial, and Post-Colonial Moments.
Santhus Aroh
Visiting Lecturer; Lagos Business School, Pan Atlantic University. Nigeria.
Topic: - Focus on Nigeria’s Financial Responsibilities in Transnational Media Collaborations.
Kyari Bukar
Co-Founder, Trans Sahara Investment Corporation
Chairman (2015 - 2018): Nigerian Economic Summit Group
Topic: - In Conversation with Kyari Bukar: Sustainable Africa-Funded Research - Visiting Possibilities.
Bolanle Austin-Peters
Founder Terra Kulture, Nigerian Cultural Centre, Nigeria
Topic: Arts of the Peoples: Crafting Our Stories - from SARO! THE MUSICAL (2013), to FUNMILAYO (2024).
Prof. Aniko Imre
Professor of Cinematic Arts
University of Southern California. U.S.A
Topic: - European Semi-Peripheral Media and Research Production
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