What happens when we think through dance? Celebrate the culmination of former British Academy award holder Ananya Kabir’s ERC-funded research project, Modern Moves, as she leads a panel featuring two leading minds on postcoloniality, globalisation and transnationalism: Arjun Appadurai and Ato Quayson.

Speakers:
Professor Arjun Appadurai Goddard Professor of Media, Culture and Communication, New York University and Visiting Professor, Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt University (Berlin)
Professor Ananya Kabir King’s College London
Professor Ato Quayson University of Toronto and NYU

Modern Moves is funded by the European Research Council in collaboration with King’s College London

Modernity and movement: Thinking through dance

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