[acc-cca-l] 2022 Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture by Dr. Ayesha Hameed - "Of Sea Changes and Other Futurisms" - Monday 21 March 2022 at 13:00 EDT Online via Zoom

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Dear colleagues,

We’re excited to announce that the Joint Communication & Culture Graduate program at York University will be hosting the annual Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture on Monday 21 March 2022 at 13:00 EDT. This year’s invited lecturer is Dr. Ayesha Hameed, a Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths, University of London.

Attached is the iconic Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture poster. See below for registration and lecture details.

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We hope to see you there!

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The 2022 Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture
will be given by
Dr. Ayesha Hameed
Senior Lecturer in Visual Culture at Goldsmiths University of London

Her talk “Of Sea Changes and Other Futurisms” expands on two of her recent research-creation projects: Black Atlantis and Brown Atlantis.

The virtual lecture will take place on Monday 21 March 2022 at 13:00 EDT.
***NEW DATE***

The Ioan Davies Awards for outstanding scholarship will be presented at the Memorial Lecture by Diane Davies.

Register Now!<https://bit.ly/IDML_Registration>

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Black Atlantis (2014-) is a multi-part sound, video, performance and scholarly project that combines two conversations - Afrofuturism and the anthropocene. Black Atlantis looks at afterlives of the Black Atlantic, manifest in contemporary illegalized migration at sea, oceanic environments, popular science narratives, Afrofuturistic soundsystems, and outer space. It examines a landmark event in the history of transatlantic slavery: the jettison of slaves overboard the slave ship Zong in 1781. Black Atlantis rereads this event through a speculation made by the Detroit electronic band Drexciya that the unborn children of these jettisoned slaves adapted to life underwater to form an Atlantis made up of former slaves. Using Walter Benjamin's concept of the dialectical image Black Atlantis examines how to think through sound, image, water, violence and history as elements of an active archive; and time travel as an historical method.
Brown Atlantis (2020-) extends the geography of Black Atlantis from the Atlantic to the Indian Ocean. Brown Atlantis looks at the Indian and Atlantic Oceans together as a site of both indentured and slave labour. I am inspired by Chimurenga’s publication Festac ‘77, which considers the book as a form of technology, and imagine what it would look like if it was invented in Africa. Extending this, it ask: what would a book be if it was invented at sea in the context of indentured and enslaved labour, navigating mangroves, and the sound of the co-mingling of languages and ecosystems? Brown Atlantis builds on Black Atlantis to study marine ecology, Afrofuturist imageries of underwater adaptation, and technologies of navigation, in a different configuration of the weather that takes into account the uniqueness of the Indian Ocean’s trade winds, and south-south trade.



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Ayesha Hameed (London, UK) explores the legacies of indentureship and slavery through the figure of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans. Her Afrofuturist approach combines performance, sound essays, videos, and lectures. Hameed examines the mnemonic power of these media – their capacity to transform the body into a body that remembers. The motifs of water, borders, and displacement, recurrent in her work, offer a reflection on migration stories and materialities, and, more broadly, on the relations between human beings and what they imagine as nature. Recent exhibitions include Liverpool Biennale (2021), Gothenburg Biennale (2019, 21), Lubumbashi Biennale (2019) and Dakar Biennale (2018). She is co-editor of Futures and Fictions (Repeater 2017) and co-author of Visual Cultures as Time Travel (Sternberg/MIT 2021).


The Ioan Davies Memorial Lecture is an annual event at York University that brings a major intellectual figure in the areas of critical and cultural studies to York for a public lecture. It was initiated in 2002 to honour the memory of the late Ioan Davies, Professor of Sociology at York with a lecture that engaged some of the concerns of his very diverse scholarship. Previous lecturers have included Ian Hacking, Terry Eagleton, Michael Hardt, and Robin Kelley. It has also been featured on TVO’s Big Ideas television series several times. The event is one of the highest profile public lectures at York and attracts a wide and diverse audience.

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