TSU Seminar Series 2025
Overview
The 2025 TSU Seminar Series runs between January and March 2025. Recorded talks may be available to watch below after the event.
For more information about the seminar series, please contact Kirsty Ray
Seminar 1: Transport Aliveness and Social Imagination in an African Megacity
2-3.30pm, 23 January 2025, Online.
- Dr Daniel Agbiboa, Harvard University
What does it mean to theorize popular transport as embodied, experiential, reflective, and aspirational? By examining Lagos, Africa’s most populous city, through its popular transport systems and visual subculture, this talk aims to reclaim new critical aesthetics of perception and imagination. It seeks to move beyond the perfunctory narrative of transportation as crisis and instead encourages a social reimagining of Africa’s popular transport as vibrant spaces of aliveness—sites of inventive and affective responses to precarity.