Our Women’s Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC) is organizing a hybrid seminar come August 9, 2024, titled ‘Digital Wombs and Foetal Subjectivities Or Talking Futures with Culture as Wombiture’.
This seminar will feature discussions of some of the cutting-edge African feminist theories being produced by the Ibadan School in collaboration with other significant voices across the continent and in the diaspora.
Centred around the neologistic concept ‘Wombiture’, first proposed by Prof Sola Olorunyomi, ‘Digital Wombs and Foetal Subjectivities’ affords an opportunity for discussants and participants to probe and problematize the possibilities in the age of digital technologies of creating narrative self-awareness starting even from the earliest stages of existence. The concept itself encompasses and unsettles the historical process of the quest for evidential memorialization first birthed in the imagination of orality, and now increasingly made manifest in digital multimedia forms.
It promises to be an exciting engagement. The date is Friday, August 9, 2024; venue Lady Bank-Anthony Hall, IAS-UI; time 14:00-15:30 (Nigeria).
