Description
Panel organizer of the double-session panel: ANTH216 Crafting New Knowledge: Autoethnography and Creative Expression in African Studieswith Nauja Kleist, Pamela Kea and Helene Neveu Kringelbach.
Autoethnography and experimental modes of scholarship, such as fiction, poetry, and various creative expressions, continue to innovate contemporary research. The movement between personal experiences and cultural and social contexts has the potential to produce new forms of reflexive knowledge. This panel engages with the implications of these methodologies within the context of African studies, reflecting on the potentials and dilemmas for scholarship.
We will explore the implications of blending personal narrative and creative expressions with academic analysis, asking: What freedoms and challenges arise when researchers weave their own stories or their own or other’s creative expressions into their work? What imaginaries, emotions, and experiences can be expressed and explored? What ethical dilemmas arise from these modes of inquiry? What transgressive forms of knowledge might be produced? And how can such methodologies contribute to a nuanced examination of present and historical African, Afropean, and Afropolitan life worlds, entanglements, identities, and belongings?
The panel offers a platform to reflect on these questions and the multifaceted impacts of personal backgrounds and of weaving academic and creative expressions together in our knowledge production. We invite contributions from scholars who critically engage with African and Afropean contexts through personal narratives and/or different aesthetic forms and collaborations. Creative and artistic formats are welcome!
| Period | 27 Jun 2025 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Prague, Czech RepublicShow on map |
| Degree of Recognition | International |