December 23, 2022
Artists in Residence at the African Music Archives (AMA) at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, June/July ‘23 Application Deadline: 22 January 2023 The AMA* is looking for two […]
November 8, 2022
The 4th edition of the Korean Popular Culture Workshop will take place on the 16th of November 2022 between 4 and 6 pm CET. The event […]
May 31, 2022
Matthias Krings and Izuu Nwankwọ will host a double session panel with the title “Reciprocal perspectives: jocular anthropology and characterisations of the ‘other’ in African and […]
May 31, 2022
Sonia Campanini, Usaku Robinson Wammanda and Tom Simmert will host a panel at this year’s VAD conference, organised by the Association for African Studies in Germany. […]
May 25, 2022
The CEDITRAA team is pleased to invite to a workshop on “Commentary and (social) media in East Africa” on Monday, 13 June 2022.
March 28, 2022
Hwang Sok-yong is one of South Korea’s most widely read and most prolific writers. The author of more than a dozen novels and the hugely popular, ten-volume “Jang Gil-san”, an epic about […]
March 1, 2022
On 25 February 2022, Matthias Krings and Solomon Waliaula (Mainz University) presented recent findings of their research project “Cinema narration in East Africa – an intermedial […]
February 16, 2022
The Screen Worlds Workshop “Shaping the Conversation: Decolonising Film with Nigerian Women Filmmakers Omoni Oboli + Tope Oshin” is now online. African women filmmakers are continuously […]
January 20, 2022
The sub-project investigates optimal distinctiveness under the contingency of time, focusing on South Korean films and using Computer Vision to elicit the novelty of films.