Hi everyone,
I'm Kaiyang Xu, PhD candidate at University of Southern California. I'm proposing an in-person panel about the Global South and Afro-African interactions. Potential questions this panel will inquire are: what roles have transnational mobility and associated cultural productions (cinema, arts, literature, digital media, etc.) played in shaping crosscultural and interracial dynamics of Afro-Asian interactions, and furthermore, contouring the very notion of the Global South? How to imagine a decolonial future through centering discursive Asian and African perspectives, and what critical roles can cultural forms play in this process? From a bottom-up perspective, how do individuals and interpersonal interactions navigate Global South connectivity? Where lies a crosscultural and interracial mutual ground of constituting world-framings alternative to the West-dominated global structures that have deeply shaped postcolonial subjectivity?
Paper topics may include, but are not limited to:
- Afro-Asian connectivity and Asian/African agency
- individual media and cultural practices in the Global South
- Identity and politics in crosscultural and interracial interactions
- Migration, mobility, and material circulation related to the Global South
- Imagining futurity through the Global South
If you are interested in this panel and would like to present your work, please send a 250-word abstract to kaiyangx@usc.edu by July 30. If you are interested in being the discussant, please also kindly contact me at this email address. Many thanks!
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Kaiyang Xu
Dornsife College of Letters Arts and Sciences, USC (EALC)
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