In case some of you want to join us online, see below!
Topic: Global Africa as Method (Prof. Tommy Tse)
Time: Mar 6, 2026 01:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
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My article “Fashions in Africa, and Africas in Fashion” is now out (OA) in #FashionTheory. What if we take #GlobalAfricaAsMethod seriously - not as a fixed region, culture or identity, but as a way to rethink fashion, value & creativity beyond Eurocentric frames?
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On 6 Mar I’ll present Global Africa as Method at #GloTechLab. Drawing on ethnography across Nairobi, Maputo & Guangzhou, it rethinks African fashion in plurals and as a method for understanding creativity and value-making across China–Africa networks.
📍 UMass Amherst
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California’s warmth keeps me in a good mood of writing so far, and it’s time to engage in some good conversations with the great media studies fellows here - on 23 Feb (Mon), 12noon, ASC 207, the #USCAnnenberg Research Seminar series.
Pls share, see you there, and see below for details & RSVP.
Invitation! Interested in in beauty, bodies, decoloniality and inequality? Please join us for an online seminar series on "decolonizing bodies". With our very special guest Walter Mignolo; and @tommytse.bsky.social, Patricio Simonetto, Ashley Mears, Ladan Rahbari & @carorabasarucki.bsky.social >>
What happens when Nairobi traders call an “original” Adidas fake — but better than the “real”? In this upcoming #IIAS talk I draw on #ethnography in China & Kenya to rethink creativity, fakes and value in Global South markets. 13 Nov · Hybrid · Register: tinyurl.com/5n8ty8zc
#FashionStudies #IIAS
And what was the occasion? Already done?
Are you serious?!? 😱
📚 Book Launch | Thinking Through Fashion🌟Join editors Agnès Rocamora & Anneke Smelik in conversation w/ Tommy Tse, Roberto Filippello, Diego Semerene, and Jane Tynan. Expect lively dialogue on fashion, theory & culture.
🗓14 Nov 2025 | 15:00–16:30 CET
📍UB D2.08 (UvA Library) & Zoom
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hahahaaaa brilliant!
Over 2 days we hosted Prof. Alf Gunvald Nilsen at UvA - Packed workshop on turning a PhD into a book, leaving young scholars energised; Lecture on the “Southern interregnum” - elites reanimate neoliberalism, while protests reshape futures across the Global South. #ERC #CAFP #ASCA #GlobalAfrica
🚨 Postdoc Alert! 🚨 Join ERC project China (Africa) Fashion Power @uvahumanities.bsky.social U of Amsterdam Media Studies/ASCA. Ethnography in Guangzhou’s fashion hubs + digital sustainability strategies. 9-mo contract (extendable 6 - 12-mo). Apply by 30 Sept 2025 👉 werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
🌟We are thrilled to present this semester’s #UvA #ASCA #GlobalAfricaSeminar lineup! Join us for a series of fascinating discussions featuring renowned scholars from around the world (details in the poster). Drinks & snacks will be served!
#ERC #ChinaAfricaFashionPower
@uvahumanities.bsky.social
✨ Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines is here!
Explore how machines reshape intimacy. Submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025.
Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️
👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com
#digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines
📣New Pub! Pls share 🗯️ What do forgotten clothes say about us—and fashion’s future? In #EJCS, we explore 21 HK men’s “limbo wardrobes” to rethink waste, value & fashion competence.🍀 What if sustainability not begins with buying less, but knowing what we keep? ⬇️👇🏻
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✨ That’s a wrap on our #ASCA #GlobalAfrica book salon with Dr. Andrea Pollio’s “Silicon Elsewhere” and Dr. Maria Repnikova’s “China’s Image-Making in Africa”, moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris. We ended with Hangfeng Chen’s poetic film “I Swam to Africa in My Dream”. #ERC #UvA #ChinaAfricaFashionPower
Our #ChinaAfricaFashionPower team had such a great experience at the Africa-Asia 3 ConFest at Universite Cheikh Anta Diop in Dakar, Senegal. Salute to the amazing #IIAS team who spent over a year to put these meaningful collaborations together. #ERC #ASCA #UvAMediaStudies
#GoréeIsland #HouseOfSlaves
@carwynmorris.bsky.social @andretwp.bsky.social @uvahumanities.bsky.social
📢 Upcoming Global Africa Seminar @Rm0.16, BG1, Univ of Amsterdam. Join us on 20 Jun | 15:00 – 16:30 CEST. Speakers: Dr. Andrea Pollio (Turin) & Dr. Maria Repnikova (GSU). Moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris
Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220
Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...
In "The cloak of creativity", Pei-Sze Chow and Claudio Celis Bueno critique the ways ‘creativity’ is harnessed to justify a sense of urgency around the adoption of artificial intelligence tools in creative work. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Dr. Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) delivered a compelling talk titled “Other Futures? Afro-Sino Entanglements in the Digital Age.” Drawing from her multi-sited ethnographic research across Africa, China, and the United States, she critically examined prevailing narratives that champion digital technologies as universal solutions for a better life. Dr. Avle challenged this optimism by highlighting the often-overlooked consequences of such technologies, including environmental degradation, excessive consumption, pervasive datafication, and a constrained imagination regarding alternative technological futures.
Complementing this perspective, Dr. Wei Wang (UvA) presented “Data Grabbing or Deep Datafication? Rethinking SHEIN’s Data Colonialism.” His talk delved into the inner workings of SHEIN, the China-based e-commerce giant and the world’s largest online-only fast fashion retailer. Through interviews with SHEIN employees and suppliers, Dr. Wang illuminated the complexities of platform capitalism. He shed light on the practical challenges faced by SHEIN’s data analysts during multi-level data processing, revealing the intricate dynamics and limitations of the company’s data-centric operations.
In today’s #ASCA #GlobalAfrica 3rd research seminar, Dr. Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) and Dr. Wei Wang’s (UvA) talks offered a nuanced exploration of Afro-Sino technological entanglements, urging a critical reassessment of dominant tech narratives and their implications for global futures.
#ERC #CAFP
The 3rd #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar “Afro-Sino Tech Futures” will be held on 11 Apr 2025 (3 - 4:30pm, CEST). Seyram Avle (UMass Amherst) & Jupiter Wei Wang (UvA) will present in person. You can also join us on Zoom (QR code below). Drinks & snacks @ the networking session - see you there! #ERC #CAFP
The 2nd #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar “Global Africa/Global China” will be held on 28 Mar 2025 (3 - 4:30pm, CET). Miriam Driessen (Oxford) & Nicholas Loubere (Lund) will come to Ams in person. You can also join us on Zoom (QR code below). Drinks & snacks @ the networking session - see you there! #ERC
See you all this summer at our panel “Interdependence, autonomy and friction in inter-Asian fashion, craft and design economies”, in Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand from July 23 to 25 2025!
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#InterAsiaCulturalStudies #IACS2025Conference
#WalailakUniversity
#NakhonSiThammarat
Wrapping up this extraordinary journey to Naples, where we have experimented all the creative twists & thrills of academic writing together. Not only calming our monkey mind, the unique writing space also reworks its contours: the triangles and squares, circles and holes, lines and dots. #ERC #CAFP
🌟💡Join our 1st #ASCA #GlobalAfrica seminar event this year: “Building Futures, Shaping Resistance: Nairobi in Focus” (In-person only)!
Speakers: Dr. Elisa Tamburo (Harvard/Oxford) & Fairuzah Atchulo (UvA)
Time: Fri, 14 Feb 2025 (3-4:30pm CET) at Rm D1.18A, OMHP 4-6, 1012 CN Amsterdam.
#ERC #CAFP
It’s been an awesome year in different cities, with so many of you. Will hold these memories dear to my heart, and keep creating more in 2025. 🙂🌸🎄
#HK #Shenzhen #London #Maputo #Taipei #Guangzhou #Shanghai #Basel #Zurich #Pretoria #Surabaya #Porto #Nairobi #Edinburgh #Amsterdam #MerryXmas24
#HNY25
Thank you International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS)! It’s my pleasure being part of the IIAS Board and in particular, joining the ICAS 13 Conf-Fest in Surabaya, Indonesia this summer. See you all in Dakar, Senegal next June! #MerryChristmas #IIAS #Africa–AsiaANewAxisofKnowledge #11-14June2025
The book “It’s My Party” is Open Acces, see below:
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This will be a seminal book on the politics of Hong Kong pop music & its colonial, postcolonial & recolonial trajectories thru the analytical optics of Tatming Pair 達明一派, the legendary experimental Cantopop duo. Such a touching talk - congrats @jeroendekloet.bsky.social Yiu Fai & Leonie!
#ERCResCue
