African-Atlantic Futures

"Vers un théâtre du corps habité: Actualisation scénique du corps et de la guerre dans Chemin de fer de Julien Mabiala Bissila."Nouvelles...

Keywords: humanism; racism; Enlightenment; universal humanism; ethnography; Césaire; capitalism

My latest article, "Unthinking philosphy: Aimé Césaire, poetry, and the politics of Western knowledge", was just published here in...

The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ was held at the University of Leeds from 31 August to...

By Liam Wilby Across the three days of the conference it has seemed to me that there has been a common thread that has run throughout –...

Across the three days of the conference it has seemed to me that there has been a common thread that has run throughout – the necessity...

As a theatre practitioner, I have responded to some of what we have heard about in the past 3 days: · How do we work across...

- Aylwyn Walsh riffing off of Donald Rumsfeld questions that arise on watching Helle Stenum's documentary film We Carry it Through Us:...

Performance Allows thinking through and with the body Brings feeling into the archive Makes as/if Move from potential to represented...

questions that cut across times across and between around and through loss and recuperation Call and...

By Zodwa Nyoni Over land Over property Over bodies Over narratives

By Zodwa Nyoni 1. RECOVERY I am Cut from the root Trying to make sense Recreating myself here Going back to see what is there A...

- Aylwyn Walsh Feeling through tensions light and what is unlit what is remembered but what should not have to be remembered, because it...

Thinking with our presenters about fugitivity, refusal, flight and the limits of representation, I'm reminded of a poem by Fred Moten:...

-by Aylwyn Walsh In Jason Allen-Paisant’s welcoming address he puts forward the provocations that underpin the call for papers: How...

The conference is being documented via live blogging by playwright and poet Zodwa Nyoni and scholar/ theatre practitioner Dr Aylwyn...

The interdisciplinary conference ‘Memory & Performance in African-Atlantic Futures’ brings together artists, curators, academics and...