The African Studies Center (ASC) sponsors conferences, lectures, exhibits, film series, and cultural performances throughout the year. These events are designed to foster understanding of Africa among members of the U-M community and the public and to advance the exchange of resources and knowledge between U-M and its partners in Africa.
In addition to our yearly programming, ASC considers funding requests to cosponsor lectures, events, performances, and activities that coincide with the our mission to promote a broad and deep understanding of the region. Request to cosponsor an event»
ASC Film Screening and Q&A. Filming the Future of Detroit/Filming the Future from Berlin: African Perspectives
Damani Partridge, the project lead, and the filmmakers: Ajara Hamidatu Alghali, Hawlaane Noor Frances Sarr-Robbins, Whitney Smith, and Fatou-Seydi Singhiam Sarr
Thursday, February 1, 2018
7:00-9:00 PM
Wendell Auditorium
Off Campus Location
These five 10-minutes films will show the ways in which Berlin and Detroit are global from the perspectives of African immigration, and African imaginations of global futures. Berlin helps to elucidate what is distinctive about Detroit and vise versa. These films picture the distinctions between how African futures can be imagined in Europe versus the U.S., in Detroit versus Berlin. They reveal how race, citizenship, and humanitarian projects work in relation to African immigration in these two cities. They ask: What difference do the approaches to urban planning, districting, education, and social versus capital networks make? What kinds of communities can be formed? How do “Africans’’ relate to “Blackness’’ versus “foreignness’’ in both cities? What difference does it make to live in the city when one is a noncitizen?
Following the films showcase will be a Q&A with Damani Partridge, the project lead, and the filmmakers from Freedom House in Detroit: Ajara Hamidatu Alghali, Hawlaane Noor Frances Sarr-Robbins, Whitney Smith, and Fatou-Seydi Singhiam Sarr.
Reception to follow.
Following the films showcase will be a Q&A with Damani Partridge, the project lead, and the filmmakers from Freedom House in Detroit: Ajara Hamidatu Alghali, Hawlaane Noor Frances Sarr-Robbins, Whitney Smith, and Fatou-Seydi Singhiam Sarr.
Reception to follow.
| Building: | Off Campus Location |
|---|---|
| Location: | College for Creative Studies, 201 E Kirby St, Detroit, MI 48202 |
| Event Type: | Film Screening |
| Tags: | Africa, African American, Anthropology, Detroit, Film, History, immigration, International |
| Source: | Happening @ Michigan from African Studies Center, International Institute, Department of Anthropology |
