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SUMMARY:Africa || Asia as Method
DESCRIPTION:The Africa Institute of Global Studies University is pleased to invite you to attend the first Faculty Seminar Series of Spring 2026, featuring Professor Carli Coetzee, a scholar of African literature and cultural studies. Professor Coetzee will deliver a lecture titled “Africa || Asia as Method”.
Abstract
2025 marked the 25th anniversary of the publication of Chen Kuan-Hsing’s influential Asia as Method and the founding of the Inter-Asia Cultural Studies journal. One of the major contributions of these projects is the deliberate multiplication of reference points within Asia, thereby de-emphasizing a preoccupation with dominant Euro-American scholarly models. The Africa Institute (GSU) in Sharjah shares many of these intellectual aims as an interdisciplinary research institute dedicated to the study, research, and documentation of Africa, its people, and its cultures from its location in the Gulf. The presentation explores what these projects and intellectual communities can learn from one another by inter-referencing the scholarly and activist traditions they nurture and publish. In doing so, it contributes to a densely inter-referential historical trajectory for cultural studies, informed by scholars thinking and writing from and about multiple regions of the majority world.
LOCATION:Auditorium, GSU 
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