Upcoming Events

Gulf Research Meeting 2017

August 1 - 4, 2017

Workshop Theme

Gender and Identity in the Gulf: Cultural Constructions and Representations, Gulf Research Meeting 2017

Paper

``Representing and Performing Pearling: the Gender, Identity, and Cultural Production Pearl Divers in Bahrain``

Conference Title

The Other’s Other: Performance and Representation in Language

September 25-26, 2017

Paper

``Witch-killers dancing for the White Men: Back talk with a laugh and other ironies in Yoruba masquerade performances``

Museums in Arabia Conference 2017

October 11-13, 2017

Conference Title

Representation and Identity

Paper

``Pearling as an artistic practice in Bahrain``

Ninth Biennial Conference of the Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora (ASWAD)

November 7-11, 2017

Panel Title

``Empowering the Black Body: Gender, Performance and Power the African Diaspora``

Paper

``Slavery, Marriage, and Mothering in Enslaved Communities in the Gulf, 1926-1938``

60th Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association

November 16-18, 2017

Panel Title

``Clothing the Living Dead: Change and Continuity in the Visual Arts of Secret Masquerade Societies in Nigeria, from ca. 1880s to the Present``

Paper

``Struggles Over the Cloth and Bodies of Worshippers in a Yoruba Town, Otta, Nigeria, 1882-1945``