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We're so happy to be here. I am talia lieber. I am co-editor of ufa hombu, a journal of african studies.
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We would like to welcome all users of the virtual world wide web to this symposium, in commemoration of 50 anniversary of the bahamas. We celebrate here today who are the bahamas of the past, present and next. In 1970, a group of students from the ucla african activist association came together to create a journal of african studies. Its first issue was published in part to counter european and american control over the direction of african studies. The founding editorial team also initiated the journal's interdisciplinary ethos and emphasized its mission of gender, discussion, and being
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In the spirit of continuation creating an inclusive and interactive space for dialogue. We, as editors and director, have made it our mission to focus the science and art of the african continent through the journal and build a community of africans on the ucla campus and the rest of the world. We are so proud that any of us were able to visit us in modern times at our earliest symposium to celebrate this milestone with us. Through the discussions generated by this symposium, we hope to chart the direction and indicate in journals future publications and participation in supporting international africom science.
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Hi everyone. My name is rebecca wolf and i am also the editor-in-chief of hombu magazine. And we realized that this moment for the magazine is in harmony with the moment of global fear and uncertainty. In addition to mass protests and calls for an end to racism and justice, covid-19 continues to disrupt life around the world. We support this opinion of the international community of the bahamas, and most of the visitors are here today, which is really exciting, especially our friends and colleagues on the african continent. Since its inception, the bahama has given priority to building connections between continents and communities. Our current online platform and editorial process continues to contribute to the ability to work without contact. Now it looks like these kinds of sex rendezvous – and collaborations are meaningful, again, and we can say that our company all agrees that we are here.
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As our community expands, we should also always be sure to check it out. The time has come to be kind to ourselves personally and not to forget each other's various circumstances, we should especially empathize with each other when we are going through this difficult time.
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As an academic journal, we too are aware that we also have a unique responsibility lying around: science transcends our current predicament in history to give us perspective and enable us to respond to crises with critical thinking and deep monitoring. Analysis. In the same way, creativity helps to engage creatively in the often critical analysis of common problems we may encounter. As a magazine publishing new work during the current covid-19 pandemic. We are well aware of this important research that we are doing, collecting information and sharing it. We hope
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That the research we are publishing will hold power structures accountable and instigate change when action is needed.
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Thalia and i are art historians. And we desire to be historians of african art who study the vision and expand the work of african artists and critics who practice their secrets and letters to challenge authority. Through them. We have learned that when we want change to actually happen, we must recognize the racist colonial and neo-colonial structures that shape our daily lives. And we must also give ourselves to dismantling them.We agree with the urgent call for black lives to move in the face of a united states that has entrenched itself in the effectiveness of systemic racism based on white supremacy rights, as a journal based at ucla, the gland grant institute, we likewise recognize the gabrielino tongwa peoples as the traditional guardians of the land of tov ongar, which is the los angeles basin and the southern channel islands, as humanity calls them, as events unfold in nigeria with mass and mass protests and protests against sars, with mahamudra screams about the repressive and violent tactics with which the nigerian state has responded to the protests and stands in solidarity with all nigerians fighting against political corruption schemes and police brutality. We are keen to highlight our ideas and support to our nigerian comrades and colleagues.
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Before our company starts our symposium, we always try to thank the following people for all
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The help they gave us in planning, agency and running this symposium. It was really a group service and people would not be able to do it at random many people.
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First to the african research laboratory, namely director andrew after erika anjum, sheila breeding and eva howard, people would not have been able to host this symposium without their support. We also thank professor neilan kwan and the department of arts for their extensive support of this symposium. We are lucky that our pastry chefs can work with an incredible editorial team. We thank these games for their continued dedication to the magazine, and our professionals especially thank lucas avidin degenhart braun and eva for organizing our keynote lecture, our panel discussion and our roundtable. We also want to thank all our experts and participants of the round table. We look forward to seeing what will definitely be a lively lively and insightful discussion of your experiments and contributions to hongmoon contracts. We are particularly pleased to welcome dr. Saundra hale, ucla professor emeritus of anthropology and gender studies and sudanese scholar, who in 1970 became the founder of the khufa hombu. For her participation. We also thank our keynote speaker, dr. Mahmoud's mom, donnie, when he was here today. Because scholarship has often pushed african studies in unexpected directions. We are looking forward to his lecture, which will begin in a matter of hours. And last but not least, we want to thank the ai it team at the international center, alex xu, leo duarte, and oliver chen, for their specific knowledge, help, and patience when thalia and i learned how to navigate scaling webinar formats for this symposium could not take place the first time.
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Just a few organizational notes for this online format. It should also be remembered that this kind of symposium is recorded. We will always keep the chat function open before and after the roundtable keynote during all breaks so that participants can send messages to everyone. We want to know who's here and who you're with.
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He will be using the topics and answers feature to ask questions to our speakers. . Please, if you haven't received yet, dude, write your name on the resource.
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And let us know who you are. Here we know for sure and there will be technical difficulties or delays at some point during the symposium, please bear with us, we hope to stick to the schedule. However, we appreciate your patience as we also navigate this platform. We always share the schedule of our program throughout the day and will try to send out email notifications of any time updates and many start of various components. If you haven’t done this in addition, subscribe to us on social networks or on vk, ok, and twitter. The schedule is posted on the event website. Our symposium is in three parts at 9:00 am pst. Very soon there will be a keynote lecture by dr. Mahmoud mamdani in options, followed by a worries and answers session moderated by our book review editor lucas at 11:00. The symposium will be attended by our panelists turner, otto neto temitop and fagunach and kevin tarbela. You have the option to watch their pre-recorded presentations on our celebration platform or via the youtube urls that were also included in your recent reminder emails.And the third part is a round table discussion that starts at 13:00. Together with our alumni and famu staff we are confident that we will stay to the fullest, however if you can't please feel free to come and go when you can. The agenda is in my notes for when there are scheduled breaks so we can all avoid total zoom fatigue, but we will make every effort to make sure we meet the scheduled times.
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And now our company is delighted to have professor andrew apter of the department of anthropology and art history at ucla and director of african studies open our symposium. We are extremely grateful to him for supporting the journal and that virtual symposium.
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Well, thank you very much. You both. So, rebecca thalia, and welcome to everyone.
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This is very good for a humble family in an immensely large africanist family that joined on . And even more so my purpose is to thank my brothers and sisters in nigeria who are joining us. And say we're not only concerned about the n sars movement in nigeria, but also
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The president trump's reckless language on the evolving conflict.
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Between ethiopia and egypt over a dam. And let's just note that as
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The work of the african activist association and khama continues, there's anything beyond that: there's a lot of work, which should be done. We need to do a lot of work in america america, not only on the ongoing
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Institutionalized racism and violence against people of color, in this state and the erosion of democracy. And i've been working in nigeria and africa for an unsanctioned long time to know that
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We have a long history in the united states. Has a long history of trying to teach democracy abroad and trying to evaluate leadership and analyze and test elections. And also we need a lot of help in china. Urgently we fell into a very serious rabbit hole, and hopefully we will be able to get out of it. But even a very important point. So what i'm trying to say is that vamo's mission couldn't be more topical and astounding. I won't take up much time. I am very glad that professor mahmoud mamdani has agreed to speak now, with the original speaker. This is a tribute to the african activists association. And all this is a tribute to the bahamian
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Editors. And this case respect to professor mamdani,
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Of course he has been published in the journal before, so he is not a stranger to him. However for this, however he is now one of my favorite african scientists, always provocative, and he took the macquarie institute, social and
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Sorry, master of economic research in new directions, which is highly welcome. Now that manipulation falls on neoliberal counseling paradigms. I won't speak for a long time, because we need to listen to him and start the conference. But i just wanted to pay tribute to the two co-founders of bahama and thank them.
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Opened new horizons in women's studies and feminist anthropology,
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<>and sudanese and middle eastern studies. She also founded the california scholars for academic freedom and was awarded the middle east women's studies science achievement award, a lifetime achievement award for scholarly achievement. I just want to say that this is the epitome of what everyone is trying to do, in other words to merge our science with ethical interaction with the world of political activity. I also want to pay tribute to the deceased and mourn to show me gabriel who was a friend, a friend to so many of us who were here until his untimely death in 2010. And he was a titan in film studies. His stage was in theater and theater, in cinema even on tv.
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And he really was a pioneer of the third world theory of cinema that , he himself came up with the concept of cinema, developed in 2 of his books: the third cinema in the third world, the aesthetics of liberation and the third cinematic exploration of nomadic aesthetics and narrative communities. This can be said only by the names, also, by the confluence of https://slut.wtf/tags/dominika-c/ mind and activity that this girl is given to each of us. And therefore, we are waiting for you again.I will agree more, i won't say anything, because i believe that in our company there is a long day ahead and the user really should not hear me, but i am glad that this community is online because it is so strong, i see now 56 players and i i believe the number will increase.
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Thank you for your participation and we will move on to the next step. I'm not sure where lucas is playing management now, i'm not sure. Thanks for this chapter. Now we'll call our book review editor lucas avedon, graduate student in ethnomusicology, to introduce our keynote speaker.
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Okay, hi all. I am a promise. This is an innovative speaker before we move on to the virtual keynote.
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Hi everyone and thanks for coming to our morning talk. . As mentioned before, my name is luke sabaton. And i'm one of the book review editors at famu
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Our keynote speaker today is a renowned scholar and professor of african history and politics. He received his phd from harvard institute in 1974 and is the author of several seminal texts in african studies, even on contemporary africa for citizens and subjects and the legacy of late colonialism. When the victims become the killers of colonialism, nativism and the genocide in rwanda.
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Good muslim, bad muslim, america, the cold war and the roots of terror hold professorships throughout the african continent, even at the dar salaam institute, macquarie university and the university of cape town. He currently teaches at columbia university and remains the 20th director of the macquarie institute for social research in kampala. His forthcoming book, neither settler nor native: the creation and scarcity of permanent minorities, explores the relationship between colonialism and the nation-state, arguing that these institutions have been mutually constructed throughout history. His speech today is titled "what can our company learn from the south african transition in 1994?" Please join me and give a warm welcome to professor mahmoud mamdani
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Hello, good evening. Good day. Good morning. I know that you all live in all time zones. Our contributors, press release contributors and everyone who joins the site today from different parts of the world. On behalf of the editors of the oklahoma journal of african studies, i would like to salute your talents, and thank you for now being the operator of obama's 50th birthday celebration. My name is anya hasnavi. Now i will be one of your co-hosts and co-moderators. And joined by my dear colleague degenhart braun and domestic fellow disputers and contributors. I'll introduce myself, so everyone in a minute. Since i'm a fourth year student at ucla in the department of creativity and culture, slash dance and editor yufa hamo. In my research, i study the trends in the use of musical healing practices in tunisia, i look at how practitioners cope with socially-recent news from the economic and political spheres of the changes after the 2011 revolution, when they are used in sacred and secular places. But as for degenhart, he is also a fourth-year graduate student in the same department of arts and other dances. Which is also an editor in oklahoma. His research explores the confluence of globalization, medical pluralism and material religion and the current federal republic of benin. And seasoned panelists, turner loves tomatoes, and please correct me if i can't pronounce my name
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By any means . So, he's an electrical and computer engineering graduate from ohio state university. His research focuses on the energy conversion of engines in arusha, tanzania and columbus, ohio, as well as how ordinary people shape energy landscapes in accordance with their energy trajectories. His paypal is headlined by experimentation and deliberate modest, and shiny opportunities. Kevin thiruwalla, associate curator of african art and department, head of african, american, oriental and pacific islands arts at the baltimore museum of art, although his work is extensive, his own research focuses on the relationships among colonialism, climate change and the art form. In the country of turkana. Kenya is featured in his exhibition titled "perfect motherhood and african art", accompanied by a short commissioned article about the exhibition he will be, which will appear in the winter edition of tribal art magazine.And last but not least, tim topi fragua, academic economic historian in the department of history and world studies at osu and state university, was oboo. Nigeria is following her doctoral dissertation in her own research with a specialization in the colonial economy lego, visa v, the historicity of african brazilian returnees. And without going through unnecessary words, and leave the main question to my dear colleague degenhart. Thank you, good morning and all the best. This is a very important event, especially given the layered chaos that is engulfing
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This planet during this. Thanks to everyone that was sent.
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Our main question for kevin as i understand that the base material should be gone at noon on. So.
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I have a question for myself and one for my mita. I'll start with this question because it touches on both issues that you both are interested in. Rather i mean, i asked, i was interested in the notion that the patriarchal attitudes of african societies were an import of western colonialism. I was wondering, with the help of several african feminist views and theories that you brought up in your presentation, how african matriarchy, which can be seen through these rarities, in this situation, headdresses that convey motherhood, etc. Is able to successfully counteract the influence of western colonialism, or its legacy, in western and western museums.
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Yes, but that's a great question. And thank you, amira, for really digging and thinking about this fact. Here, you know, i'm thinking, this
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This is exactly what we asked for, so that the users of the exhibition think and think start thinking, you are informed as i explained in the presentation that this is an exhibition that serves as part of a list of programs dedicated to a kind of, you can say, the 100th anniversary