Visual Arts Open Lecture Series: MaÏa Tellit Hawad

Join them for an afternoon Visual Arts talk with Paris-based artist-scholar Maïa Tellit Hawad. What does it mean to inhabit the Sahara nomadically today? How are futures dreamed and invented from territories marked by environmental catastrophe and territorial dispossession? Drawing on Tuareg nomadic imaginaries of land and relation, this talk focuses on counter-fields, expressed through gestures of ambush, camouflage, and the mending of a wounded desert. Through decolonial literary and artistic works that reclaim confiscated horizons, it examines Indigenous gestures of resistance, resilience, and fugitivity as ways of resignifying the desert as a space of possibility, creativity, and transnational solidarity. Professional Development Centre Room 103