Selected Conference Presentations

Suglo, I.G.D. 2024 “Knowledge Production and Circulation of Africa in Mao China” Invited talk at Georgetown University, DC. April 29

Suglo, I.G.D. 2024 Chair of Panel “Violence and Construction of Narratives” In Journalism and the Politics of Narrating African Suffering,” Harvard University, April 25

Suglo, I.G.D. 2024. “ Transcultural Sonic Encounters: Music, Music Iconography, and Knowledge Production in 20th Century Africa-China Relations” Yale Africa-China Symposium, Maputo, Mozambique. March 14-15

Suglo, I.G.D. 2024. “ ‘The Sound of Friendship’: Music and Music Iconography in 20th Century Africa–China Relations.” In Making Friends and Studying Friendship. American Historical Association Annual Conference, San Francisco. January 4-7

Suglo, I.G.D. 2023. “Centering Africa and China in Global Transformations.” Executive roundtable at The American Anthropological Association Annual Conference, Toronto, November 20-24.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2023. “Transregional Media Flows and Knowledge Production of Africa in Nineteenth and Twentieth-Century Chinese Periodicals.” Center for Advanced Research on Global Communication Postdoctoral Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, May 5.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2023. “ Memory and Materiality: Propaganda Posters and Memorialization of Africa in (Mao’s) China.” In The Material Transpacific: Histories, Mobilities, Agencies. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA. March.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2022. “Documenting Africa on Reel: The Moving-image and Knowledge Production of Africa in China 1970s-2010s.” Paper presented at the International Symposium: Africa-China Relations in the Post COVID-19 Era, 12-13 May.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2021. “Music Iconography in 20th Century Africa-China Relations.” In Jamie Monson (Chair) New Africa-China Research, Part One: Contested Framings of Africa-China Relations. Paper presented at the 2021 African Studies Association Annual Meeting, 16-20 November.

Suglo | 2Suglo, I.G.D. 2021. “Visualizing Africa in Chinese Propaganda Posters.” Featured panel presented at the Chinese in Africa/Africans in China Research Network Mini-conference series, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, 5 May.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2020. “ ‘The Sound of Friendship’: The Role of Music in Cultural Understanding in Africa-China Relations.” In Lydia Liu (Chair), Sound and Somatosensory Experience: Sino-Afro Cultural Exchange in the Twentieth Century. Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference, Boston, MA. Accepted

Workshops

Suglo, I.G.D. 2024. “Georgetown’s Africa-China Initiative Transregional Studies Workshop” Georgetown University, DC. April 29.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2021. “Chinese-in-Africa/Africans in China (CA/AC),” Early Career Workshop, 6–8 September.

Selected Guest Lectures

Suglo, I.G.D. 2023. “Mao China: Nation Building and the Image of the Foreign” Invited Lecture for “History of Modern China” at University of Pennsylvania, May.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2023. “Transcultural Sonic Encounters and Knowledge Production in Africa-China Relations.” Invited Lecture for “Cross-Media Representations of African-Chinese Encounters” at University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, March.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2022. “Africa in Global Media Imaginaries: Representations, Contestations, Agency.” Public Lecture at Vilnius University, Lithuania, November.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2022. “Media and Africa-China Relations.” Invited Lecture for “International Media and Entertainment” course, University of Georgia, Atlanta October.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2022. “Africa in Global China Imaginaries: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Realities.” Invited Lecture for “Issues and Perspectives: Contemporary China Studies” course, The University of Hong Kong, February.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2021. “Research Methods: Archival Research and Textual/Visual Analysis.” Invited Lecture for “Research Skills for China Studies” course, The University of Hong Kong, October.

Suglo, I.G.D. 2019. “Aspects of Africa-China Relations in the 20th & 21st Century.” Invited Lecture for “Globalization: African Experiences” course, The University of Hong Kong, October.