11:00 - 12:30
Humour, Online Space and the Carnivalesque
Room: Poynting – Lecture Theatre S06
Stream: The Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies stream
11:00 - 11:15
Th-A43 Eastern Africa 5-P-001
Popular culture, new femininities and subjectivities: reading Nairobi Diaries
Dina Ligaga
University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa
11:15 - 11:30
Th-A43 Eastern Africa 5-P-002
‘Po(o)pular’ culture: exploring excrementality in Kenyan social media spaces
Caroline Mose
Technical University of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya
11:30 - 11:45
Th-A43 Eastern Africa 5-P-003
Comic calibrations of violence in Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa
Grace Musila
Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa