THURSDAY, 20 October 2022
12:00–12:30
Registration
12:30–13:00
Welcome and opening words
PANEL I: ABSENCES
13:00–13:45
Richard M. Kabiito
Globalising Ugandan art: remixing the contest between tradition and modernity
13:45–14:30
Gabriele Klein
The dancing body is absent/present. Methodological and theoretical aspects of digitalisation in dance
14:30–15:00
Coffee break
15:00–15:45
Aleksandra Domanović
From yu to me to turbo culture: presence and absence in internet technology and culture in the former Yugoslavia
15:45–16:30
Meha Priyadarshini
Fashion and its absent histories: the case of Madras fabric in the Caribbean
16:30–17:30
Break
17:30–18:45
Artist lecture
Parastou Forouhar / Cathrine Bublatzky
The global dis:connect: embodiment and personality as symbols of interruptions, detours and absences in Parastou Forouhar’s art
FRIDAY, 21 October 2022
09:00–09:30
Warm-up and welcome
PANEL II: DETOURS
09:30–10:15
Sujit Sivasundaram
Detours in the history of Islam in the Indian Ocean: Muslim Colombo
10:15–11:00
Kerstin Schankweiler
Global contexts of art in the GDR
11:00–11:45
Promona Sengupta
Time travel for all: decolonising the time-space continuum
11:45–13:00
Lunch
PANEL III: INTERRUPTIONS
13:00–13:45
Zoom
Anupama Kundoo
Rethinking urban materiality: time as a resource
13:45–14:30
Valeska Huber
‘The Limits of my Language mean the Limits of my World’: language barriers and ideas of global communication in the 1920s
14:30–15:00
Coffee break
15:00–15:45
Peter W. Marx
The elephant in the room: (dis:)connecting encounters in the early modern period
15:45–16:15
Wrap-up
16:15–17:45
Film screening and commentary
Fabienne Liptay
Atlantiques (2009, Mati Diop)
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