New Year Lecture 2024 - Prof. Dr. Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Abstract
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Each year, the Africa Multiple Cluster of Excellence starts its line of annual activities and events with the New Year Lecture open to the interested public, featuring prominent speakers who address questions and concepts central to the Cluster’s agenda.
The fifth annual New Year was held by Prof. Dr. Akosua Adomako Ampofo, Professor for Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Ghana, and was entitled: "Crazy Tings: Can we be true to an African Agenda and Survive in today's Academy?"
About the Lecture:
Music is experienced and understood as an integral part of our self identity; it is closely linked with personal memories and significant moments of history, it is a form of self-expression of who we how we feel. Taking a slice out of Nigerian singer Tems’ book, Prof. Ampofo employed Tems' song, "Crazy Tings", as a metaphor to evoke the image of the multiple crazy things that abound in the academy, which is situated in a crazy world. She also reflected on how we might seek an intellectual engagement that serves Global Africa’s interests while ensuring that we are not destroyed in the process, and can hopefully even thrive.
THE LECTURE IS TRANSLATED IN BRITISH SIGN LANGUAGE!
People & roles
- speaker
- Adomako Ampofo, Akosua
Origins & context
- Title
- New Year Lecture 2024 - Prof. Dr. Akosua Adomako Ampofo
- Language
- English
- YouTube playlist
- New Year Lecture
- Date
- February 22, 2024
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- dear friends so um I see the socializing in the room as um indication that um it is a great tradition to have a new year lecture where everyone can get together and uh chat and um catch up so this is um the fourth or even the fifth I'm not even sure New Year lecture of the cluster but there's one number I'm very sure of and that is 1844 that is the number of days we've had the Africa multiple cluster of excellence and um today I think we'll go down as a special day in the history of our cluster because we have uh the unique pleasure pleasure and honor to have two topnotch speakers here in the room Professor akosa adaro U and Professor Grace musila who will give a lecture and a response uh at today's event and they are both members also of our Advisory Board The Advisory Board meets tomorrow and we are tremendously pleased and honored to have you both here at the same time at the same place in the no so please join me in welcoming uh our two speakers I'm not going to take a lot of uh the time now just a few words uh what you are going to expect or what you can expect today and that is uh an introduction of our um lecturer by Dr isaka uh fera isaka T who is a scholar of Islamic Studies at the University of Ghana and also a research fellow at the University of broid um and she will also after the lecture give a formal introduction to professor moila and then we'll devote uh maybe a quarter of an hour perhaps a little more a little less uh to a Q&A session uh together with our uh listeners in the zoom who also uh welcome very warmly I think we are now ready to go and I would like to ask Dr isaka uh to come to the podium thank [Applause] [Music] [Applause] you hello yeah good evening ladies and gentlemen um it is with honor that I present our speaker in the annual New Year lecture series of the African multiple cluster of Excellence of none other than the University of bid a university in a small City in Bavaria yet known and attracts the entire world of African studies… Read the full text about 15,460 words
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