BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:18560-6b8bcd1b3cc0bb0554911c892d5649e8@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260814T003244Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260220T110000 SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem ologies—Lani Akande DESCRIPTION:\nIn a ‘Decolonizing Film and Screen Studies’ workshop Akand e attended in Nigeria in 2020\, the conversation on decolonizing African film studies was preoccupied with answering such questions as: what wou ld a (more) decolonized African film studies look like? How do we get th ere with existing film theories? How is such a study conceptualized and taught? One of the key reveals of the workshop is that\, as time has pro ven\, we have been successful at coming up with relevant decolonization questions. The ongoing challenge\, however\, is that we are still largel y in search of viable and effective answers. Like Kessi\, Marks and Ramu gondo (2020)\, we are still asking\, “if everyone is decolonizing\, why has so little changed?” This presentation continues the conversations at that workshop. Akande borrows from writers like Sandra Harding\, Esiaba Irobi\, and Nick Redfern to present that the West’s early universalizat ion of its definitions of science and theorization have generated a degr ee of conditioning that non-Western understandings of film must also ‘to e the line’ if replicability remains a cardinal feature of ‘scientific’ findings. Consequently\, an adherence to this mindset has necessitated a willing adoption of Eurocentric frameworks upon which African film scho lars then decolonize film. Akande presents that a radicality may be nece ssary to break from this hierarchical structure of knowledge production\ ; that African film scholars unapologetically explore vernacular and ind igenous ways of conceptualizing film. And if these approaches neither co nform to Western scientific processes\, nor resemble anything Western-or iented Film Studies is saying\, then so be it.\n\nLani Akande is an assi stant professor in the Film Department at UNCW. He teaches courses in Ni gerian cinema\, African cinemas\, postcolonial cinema and film aesthetic s and style. His articles have appeared in Film Education\, Journal of A frican Cultural Studies and Quarterly Review of Film and Video.\n\nFor m ore details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-de coloniality-lani-akande/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In a ‘Decoloniz ing Film and Screen Studies’ workshop Akande attended in Nigeria in 2020 , the conversation on decolonizing African film studies was preoccupied with answering such questions as: what would a (more) decolonized Africa n film studies look like? How do we get there with existing film theorie s? How is such a study conceptualized and taught? One of the key reveals of the workshop is that, as time has proven, we have been successful at coming up with relevant decolonization questions. The ongoing challenge , however, is that we are still largely in search of viable and effectiv e answers. Like Kessi, Marks and Ramugondo (2020), we are still asking, “if everyone is decolonizing, why has so little changed?” This presentat ion continues the conversations at that workshop. Akande borrows from wr iters like Sandra Harding, Esiaba Irobi, and Nick Redfern to present tha t the West’s early universalization of its definitions of science and th eorization have generated a degree of conditioning that non-Western unde rstandings of film must also ‘toe the line’ if replicability remains a c ardinal feature of ‘scientific’ findings. Consequently, an adherence to this mindset has necessitated a willing adoption of Eurocentric framewor ks upon which African film scholars then decolonize film. Akande present s that a radicality may be necessary to break from this hierarchical str ucture of knowledge production; that African film scholars unapologetica lly explore vernacular and indigenous ways of conceptualizing film. And if these approaches neither conform to Western scientific processes, nor resemble anything Western-oriented Film Studies is saying, then so be i t.

Lani Akande is an assistant professor in the Film Department at UNCW. He teaches courses in Nigerian cinema, African cinemas, postcolon ial cinema and film aesthetics and style. His articles have appeared in Film Education, Journal of African Cultural Studies an d Quarterly Review of Film and Video.

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