Presenters
Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University
Richard Jankowsky, PhD, received his BA in Anthropology and Music from Tufts University and his PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Chicago.
UCLA
My research interests center around a range of issues relating to modernity and the arts in West and Central Africa.
Middlebury College
Professor Damascus Kafumbe is an ethnomusicologist, teacher, performer, composer, producer, filmmaker, and instrument technician.
Clark University
Nana Kesse is a historian of Africa and a Higgins/New Earth Conversation Faculty Fellow in Environmental Humanities at Clark University.
Music Department
Boston College
Timothy Mangin is an ethnomusicologist and musician researching the intersection of popular music, race, ethnicity, religion, and cosmopolitanism in West Africa and the African Diaspora.
Faculty of Arts & Sciences, Harvard University
She has served as Interim Dean of Arts and Humanities at Harvard and chair of the Department of Music.
Columbia University
Ruth Opara’s research centers on African and African diasporic music and knowledge production.
Stanford University
Ato Quayson is the Jean G. and Morris M. Doyle Professor in Interdisciplinary Studies and Professor of English and African and African American Studies.
University of Michigan
Raymond Silverman is Professor Emeritus in the Department of History of Art and the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies.
Composer Collaborations
Onche Rajesh Ugbabe is a Nigerian composer resident in Ghana, who is active on the cutting edge of the African art music scene.
Tulane University
Tony Yeboah is an expert on the histories of architecture and the built environment of West Africa. His research centers the city of Kumase, capital of the Asante Kingdom, in modern Ghana, where he was born and raised.
Performers
Tufts University
Emmanuel Attah Poku is a prominent master drummer from the Ashanti Region of Ghana, West Africa.
