Upcoming Events
HOMO SARGASSUM Symposium
To mark the opening of the HOMO SARGASSUM Exhibition at FSU’s Museum of Fine Arts, and in collaboration with MoFA & the TOUT-MONDE Art FOUNDATION, this international symposium brings together Artists, Art Professionals, Scientists, and Humanities Scholars to explore the phenomenon of sargassum in the Circum-Caribbean and the ways in which a broad range of artists have engaged with it in their work.
“Io Capitano”
Directed by Matteo Garrone & released in 2023, Io Capitano is the story of two Senegalese cousins who leave Dakar aiming to escape poverty there and reach Italy.
Homo Sargassum Closing Symposium
The symposium will reflect on the exhibition, with contributions from artists, students, and scholars.
5th Global Africas: Afrotopias
In his 2016 essay Afrotopia, Senegalese scholar Felwine Sarr posits the African continent of the 21st century as poised to become “an active utopia” that engages critically with the past and draws extensively on and cultivates Africa’s own indigenous resources, both natural and cultural. Rather than describe what Afrotopia will be, Sarr foregrounds the multifaceted work required to first imagine it by focusing on what he calls “Afrotopos” or “Africa’s Atopos.”