Amina Soulimani

Excited to learn and engage in Phase 2 of "The #futureofhospitals, from the South. Epistemologies & Experimentations" Workshop next week in Paris 😊

💭 Workshopping a paper "A Hard Believe Future: When the utopia of rules takes over medical care" in #Morocco.

My first book is called "The Walls Have Eyes: Surviving Migration in the Age of AI."

Based on 6 years of work from Mexico to Greece to Palestine, it shares stories of people hurt by #bordertech

More info: thenewpress.com/books/walls-...

Some photos: www.petramolnar.com/the-walls-ha... 💙📚 #booksky

We’re excited to kick off the 2025 Summer School in Responsible AI and Human Rights with an incredible new cohort of participants! From insightful keynotes to hands-on workshops, the energy and curiosity in the room are already setting the tone for a transformative week. @umontreal-en.bsky.social

📚 Apply for the HUMA Visiting Fellowship Programme

The HUMA #VisitingFellowship Programme is intended to create supportive and productive relationships with a particular emphasis on appropriate partnerships in other parts of the #South.

Visit our website: humanities.uct.ac.za/huma/huma-vi...

Our Director, Assoc. Prof @divinefuh.bsky.social inaugurated the 40th Anniversary of the Centre of African Studies at the
#UniversityofCopenhagen with a keynote lecture "Africa as Theory: A Proposition for #AfricanStudies"

Photo credits: Freja Wille

Is AI Worth It? A Growing Number of Artificial-Intelligence Skeptics Is Raising Doubts About a Utopian Future If you listen to the heads of artificial-intelligence companies, the venture capitalists investing in them, the researchers and software engineers developing new models and apps, or the numerous techn...

"Is AI Worth It?" @jathansadowski.com @wolvendamien.bsky.social @danmcquillan.bsky.social and I say... hrmmm, maybe?

Just kidding, we say definitely not.

www.nobhillgazette.com/feature/is-a...

We are pleased to announce that @humauct.bsky.social
Director @divinefuh.bsky.social will be delivering the keynote lecture of the #Universityofcopenhagen Centre for #AfricanStudies' 40th Anniversary on April 25 💫

Read more: teol.ku.dk/cas/news/cal...

Reminder 📣📣 Only 3 days left to send your submissions for the #ASAA2025 6th Biennale | Come join us in Praia #CaboVerde this September 🌍

📝 CfP Submissions:
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♦️ Creative Submissions:
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Our upcoming Ataya Seminar will host Marcelo C. Rosa ( #UFRRJ - Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro) | Ontoformativity: ontological politics, land struggles and theoretical challenges for the social sciences

🟥 March 13 | 13:00 SAST
Read more: humanities.uct.ac.za/.../marcelo-....

In this op-ed our #HUMATeam Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tigist Shewarega Hussen and co-author Munira Abdelmenan reflect on their participation at the AfWID Conference in January

Published in Feminist Internet Research Network
🔗Read: firn.genderit.org/blog/african...

YouTube video by HUMA Thank You from HUMA!

The #HUMATeam would like to send a big thank you to all who make our work and research possible -- especially to our funders and supporters💫

Watch the full video on the HUMA YouTube channel!

youtu.be/Bghdt8h9EqE?...

Digital Humanities Tackling Discrimination and Racism: Brazilian Professor Matheus Gato Speaks to the HUMA Team On Tuesday, 11th of February, Professor Matheus Gato presented two research and public intervention projects he initiated in São Paulo to the HUMA Team.

This week at #HUMA, Professor Matheus Gato (University of Campinas) presented research & public intervention projects he initiated in #SãoPaulo aiming to disrupt #Eurocentric curriculums and deploy the #digitalhumanities to rethink anti-biased technologies for the welfare of #blackBrazilians.

Review: Africa at Sundance: libraries, war, and road trips Of the 94 feature films at the festival, only three were African – and yet, vital voices still emerged.

Review: Coming right after the Los Angeles fires rattled the film community, the vibe at this year’s Sundance Film Festival at the weekend was understandably muted. With features from Kenya, Sudan, and Tunisia, Africa had a charming, if sparse, showing.

ASAA2025 Call for Submissions ASAA2025: 6th Biennial Conference of the African Studies Association of Africa Uni-CV – Praia – Cabo Verde, 24–27 September 2025 Deadline: March 15, 2025

Have you submitted your panel, abstract or workshop proposal to #ASAA2025? The 6th Biennial Conference of the #AfricanStudies Association of #Africa is hosted by the University of #CaboVerde (Uni-CV), in Praia.

💡Theme: African Responses to Global Vulnerabilities: Building Hope for the Future

Heartfelt congratulations to our #HUMATeam Doctoral Research Fellow Naledi Maponopono on her appointment as a board member of the PAN #SouthAfrican Language Board (PanSALB) 🎊 🎊 🎊

Read about Naledi's Appointment: humanities.uct.ac.za/huma/article...

Doctoral Research Fellow Billan Omar published her first book: "Soomaali Mi'yaa? Exploring Somalinimo in South Africa" through Langaa RPCIG.📚
The book is based on fieldwork in the #Somali community in Cape Town.

@carnegiecorp.bsky.social

africanbookscollective.com/books/soomaa...

It occurs to me, for no reason in particular, that I should put this starter pack back in circulation

go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC

What an incredible thinking and growth journey! You can find my book chapter 'We Sent Your Blood to France’: A Moroccan Study Case of Genomic (Im)mobility as part of the Future Hospitals: #4IR and ethics of care in Africa research cluster- exploring #Datamobility & French-Morocco biomedical politics

Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech From jealous spouses to paranoid bosses, 19th-century pedometers quantified suspicion and reshaped the dynamics of surveillance.

A delightful thing to have Reader (MIT Press) publish this excerpt from Numbered Lives and to have Pop Sci, The Verge, and Slate pick it up! thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/surveillance...

one of the beautiful but difficult aspects of doing really great anti-colonial interdisciplinary work is knowing and sharing your limits without hiding your rigour and love of reading and research. it is a painful requirement: one must hit a wall and also keep moving, lovingly.

I couldn’t agree more. What a beautiful read!

DEAR SCIENCE and Other Stories KATHERINE MCKITTRICK

Every time I think I have a grip on how genius this book is, it turns out there’s more and more and more

Endlessly thankful for @demonicgrounds.bsky.social

📚📚📚New Book Review! 📚📚📚

Tomoki Fukui reviews //Nuclear Ghost: Atomic livelihoods in Fukushima's gray zone// by Ryo Morimoto 2023 @ucpress.bsky.social #AnthroSky #Anthropology

Find it here: ⬇️
americanethnologist.org/journal/issu...

Laleh Khalili | Trump’s Trade Routes While Trump’s schemes to impose tariffs on Chinese, Canadian, Mexican and European imports have been taken seriously...

‘Around 5 per cent of global trade goes through the Panama Canal, 2400 miles south-east of the southern tip of Texas, and 74 per cent of the total volume of cargo is carried to or from the US.’

@lalehkhalili.bsky.social on Trump’s trade routes, from the blog: www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/ja...

Why we should talk about invisible matter, not dark matter The word "dark" is misleading when it comes to dark matter, because it suggests there is some kind of absorption of light happening, says Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

My latest for @newscientist.bsky.social is a response to a reader question about how we know that dark matter isn't just dust! It's a nice thing to take a break with, given everything else happening in our corner of the universe.

Ask your library for access!

www.newscientist.com/article/mg26...

If you're an academic who might like to write a longform essay for @aeon.co, I'm accepting pitches! I specialise in physics/astronomy/space, earth science, environment, and technology + more. #science, #physics ⚛️, #geosciences, #paleontology #astronomy, #philtech, #histsci, #SciComm #science

Report: Danish company Maersk exports cargo from illegal Israeli settlements to the U.S. A new report details a shipping and logistics giant’s role in sustaining illegal Israeli settlements in occupied Palestine and Syrian territories.

"Maersk helps both to arm the Israeli regime and export the spoils of its colonial project."

The Palestinian Youth Movement reveal the global shipping giant's role in sustaining illegal Israeli settlements in Mondoweiss.

Genocide has rendered Gaza a space-time exception The Israeli onslaught has disfigured space and time in Gaza leaving a physicist like me no other choice but to use my understanding of the universe, as well as the wisdom of the ages, to navigate and ...

🔭🧪⚛️

mondoweiss.net/2025/01/geno...

The Digital Health Summit was organized by the Hasso Plattner d-school Afrika at the University of Cape Town, @humauct.bsky.social, UCT School of IT, and the School of Public Health and Family Medicine. Thanks to Melissa Densmore for faciliting our panel, to @divinefuh.bsky.social & the organizers