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:19091-4a829e5b8190cc5b8ac6d9cab88d50e5@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260712T052840Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260515T110000 SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem ologies—Ezgi Guner DESCRIPTION:\nThis presentation centers on Diamniadio\, the new urban hu b southeast of Dakar\, as a site through which Güner analyzes the entang lements of Turkish capital\, state power\, and urban futurity in contemp orary Senegal. Diamniadio is a flagship project of the Plan Sénégal Émer gent (PSE)\, the state’s development agenda adopted under President Mack y Sall in 2014 for realization by 2035. Focusing on Turkish construction companies’ role in urban megaprojects developed in partnership with the Senegalese state\, I argue that Diamniadio is shaped by both a temporal ity of emergence\, tied to national development and global visibility\, and a temporality of emergency\, marked by the urgent pressure to comple te unfinished projects and deliver turnkey projects on tight deadlines. The paper shows how Senegal’s developmental future and Turkey’s expandin g role in Africa are articulated through intertwined\, if unequal\, proj ects of emergence.\n\nEzgi Güner is Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow and visit ing assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Haverford C ollege. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology\, with a minor in African studies\, from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She prev iously held the Alwaleed Fellowship in Contemporary Muslim Societies in a Globalised World at the University of Edinburgh. Her research examines the transnational articulations of race\, empire\, and Islam across Afr ica and the Middle East\, with a particular focus on Turkey’s contempora ry engagements with Africa south of the Sahara. She has published in jou rnals including Africa\, Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa and the Middle East\, Culture and Religion\, and Religions\, and has also co ntributed to MERIP and POMEPS Studies. Her latest article\, “Humanitaria n Statecraft in Turkey: Racialized Conjurings of Islamic and African Pol itical Futures\,” is forthcoming in Culture\, Theory and Critique.\n\nFo r more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum -ezgi-guner/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

This presentati on centers on Diamniadio, the new urban hub southeast of Dakar, as a sit e through which Güner analyzes the entanglements of Turkish capital, sta te power, and urban futurity in contemporary Senegal. Diamniadio is a fl agship project of the Plan Sénégal Émergent (PSE), the state’s developme nt agenda adopted under President Macky Sall in 2014 for realization by 2035. Focusing on Turkish construction companies’ role in urban megaproj ects developed in partnership with the Senegalese state, I argue that Di amniadio is shaped by both a temporality of emergence, tied to national development and global visibility, and a temporality of emergency, marke d by the urgent pressure to complete unfinished projects and deliver tur nkey projects on tight deadlines. The paper shows how Senegal’s developm ental future and Turkey’s expanding role in Africa are articulated throu gh intertwined, if unequal, projects of emergence.

Ezgi Güner is M ellon Postdoctoral Fellow and visiting assistant professor in the Depart ment of Anthropology at Haverford College. She received her Ph.D. in ant hropology, with a minor in African studies, from the University of Illin ois at Urbana-Champaign. She previously held the Alwaleed Fellowship in Contemporary Muslim Societies in a Globalised World at the University of Edinburgh. Her research examines the transnational articulations of rac e, empire, and Islam across Africa and the Middle East, with a particula r focus on Turkey’s contemporary engagements with Africa south of the Sa hara. She has published in journals including Africa, Comparative St udies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, Culture a nd Religion, and Religions, and has also contributed t o MERIP and POMEPS Studies. Her latest article, “Humanitarian Statecraft in Turkey: Racialized Conjurings of Islamic and African Political Futur es,” is forthcoming in Culture, Theory and Critique.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual- forum-ezgi-guner/

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