New Podcast Launches In Collaboration With AGYU

Sanja Begic — Wed, 15 May 2024 16:15:10 +0000

The Department of Anthropology is pleased to announce the launch of a limited podcast series. In collaboration with Art Gallery of �첥��Ƶ (AGYU) curators Lillian O'Brien Davis and Clara Halpern, Dr. Zulfikar Hirji developed 'Speculative Futures of Objects' as part of the AGYU's .

The joint project emerged from Dr. Hirji's winter 2023 undergraduate course, 'Speculative futures: The Anthropology of What Might Be'.

The first episode of the limited podcast series, hosted by Dr. Hirji, features Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Ayana V. Jackson, and Camille Turner.

In this limited podcast series, scholars, curators, and artists engage with articulations, expressions, and representations of the (im)possible, (extra)ordinary, and (un)imaginable—i.e., speculative—futures that diverse individuals, groups, communities, and societies are envisaging, dreaming, composing, conjuring, imagining, and bringing into being.

The first episode, '' features Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, Ayana V. Jackson, and Camille Turner.

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