Tag: Aesthetics

• ECAS: 7th European Conference on African Studies (Basel, 29 June-1 July 2017)

  

  The 7th European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) will be taking place at the University of Basel (Switzerland) from 29th June to 1 July 2017. The theme for this year is “Urban Africa – Urban Africans: New encounters of the rural and the urban,” and I am aware from the preliminary call for panels that there…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 7, 2016

  Africa, African Diaspora, Art, Art – Politics, Cities, Conferences, Congo (Democratic Republic), Contemporary African Art, Diasporas, Europe, Fashion, Geography, Human Geography, Performance Art, Photography

  Aesthetics, African European Studies, Dandyism, Les Sapeurs, Urban environments, Urbanism, Urbanization

• Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories (Florence – 28-31 May, 2015)

  Black Portraitures II: Imaging the Black Body and Re-Staging Histories (Florence, Italy, 28-31 May 2015) is the sixth in a series of highly successful conferences staged by New York University (NYU) in collaboration with Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African-American Research. “This conference will bring together artists and scholars from an assortment of disciplines…

  Carol Ann Dixon

  September 10, 2014

  Art, Conferences, Fashion, Film, Visual Analysis

  Academia, Aesthetics, Corporeality, Events, Italy, Portraiture, Representation, Sense of place