15:30 - 17:00
Performance and Publics in Contemporary African Popular Culture
Room: Arts – Lecture Room 6
Stream: Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber
Chair/s:
Rouven Kunstmann
15:30 - 15:45
We-A09 Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber 6-P-001
Form and Style in Hausa Performance Poetry
Rabi'atu Lawal
Federal University Dutse, Dutse, Nigeria
15:45 - 16:00
We-A09 Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber 6-P-002
Moral Publics: Human Trafficking, Video Films and the Responsibility of the Postcolonial Subject
Alessandro Jedlowski
University of Liege, Liege, Belgium
16:00 - 16:15
We-A09 Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber 6-P-003
Text and performance in popular cultures of cyber-sphere; News and #Fakenews in the Kenyan socio-political imaginary
Caroline Mose
Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
16:15 - 16:30
We-A09 Celebrating the Work of Karin Barber 6-P-004
The aesthetic dimension of popular protest: Reading Karin Barber in the context of South African student uprisings, 2015-16
Heike Becker
University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa