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Research Project

Panafrica: Histories, Aesthetics, Politics

2021 – 2025
A Kerry James Marshall sculpture depicting Africa

Kerry James Marshall, Africa Restored (Cheryl As Cleopatra), 2003. Courtesy of the artist.

Key Question

Project Summary

A series of discussions will explore the links between Pan-African politics and cultural production.

Research Team

Antawan Byrd

Antawan Byrd

Weinberg Fellow, Department of Art History

Northwestern University

Antawan I. Byrd specializes in modern and contemporary art of Africa and the African diaspora, with a particular focus on histories of photography, sound, urbanism, and popular culture. Byrd is currently completing his dissertation, titled “Interferences: Sound, Technology, and the Politics of ...

Adom Getachew

Adom Getachew

Professor of Political Science

University of Chicago

Adom Getachew is Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science and the College at the University of Chicago. She is a political theorist with research interests in the history of political thought, theories of race and empire, and postcolonial political theory. Her work focuses on the ...

Elvira Dyangani Ose

Elvira Dyangani Ose

Director, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona; Lecturer in Visual Cultures

Goldsmiths, University of London

Elvira Dyangani Ose serves as Director of the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA). From 2018 to 2021, she was director and chief curator at The Showroom gallery, London. From 2012 to 2014, Ose was responsible for the Across the Board project, which was an interdisciplinary project in ...

Matthew Witkovsky

Matthew Witkovsky

Richard and Ellen Sandor Chair and Curator of Photography and Media

Art Institute of Chicago

Matthew S. Witkovsky is the Richard and Ellen Sandor Chair and Curator, Photography and Media, and vice president for strategic art initiatives at the Art Institute of Chicago. Highlights among the many exhibitions he’s curated since joining the Art Institute in 2009 include Revoliutsiia! ...

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