ASCA Global Africa Seminar Series Event #3
4月11日周五
|Amsterdam
The ASCA Global Africa Reading group is delighted to announce the details of our third seminar event for this academic semester: “Afro-Sino Tech Futures”. This seminar will be held on Friday, 11 April 2025 (3:00-4:30pm CEST) in Room 0.16, BG1 Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012XT, Amsterdam
時間和地點
2025年4月11日 15:00 – 16:30
Amsterdam, Turfdraagsterpad 9, 1012 XT Amsterdam, Netherlands
關於本活動
Registration is not required. For those who cannot attend the seminar in person, you can join us on Zoom. Please use the above poster’s QR code or this Zoom link: https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
The speakers will be Seyram Avle and Wei (Jupiter) Wang.
Dr. Seyram Avle will give a talk titled “Other Futures? Afro-Sino Entanglements in the Digital Age”. She is an associate professor of Communication at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She researches on digital technology cultures and innovation across parts of Africa, China, and the United States. Her work primarily takes a critical approach towards understanding how digital technologies are made and used, as well as their implications for issues of labour, identity, and futures.
Dr. Wei Wang will give a talk titled “Predict the unpredictable? The futile data colonialism and techno-developmentalism in China’s industrial innovation”. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the China Africa Fashion Power project at the…