# Event Details - **Event Name**: Creative arts and the psychopolitics of global health in Africa - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 12 May, 2026 at 12:00 pm – Tue, 12 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm (+01:00) - **Event Description**: IAS Guest Speaker Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins delivers a seminar on their research, followed by a lunch.About this EventIAS Guest Speaker Professor Ama de-Graft Aikins (The London School of Economics and Political Science) delivers a seminar on their research -Arts-based global health interventions in African settings - for HIV/AIDS, malaria, Ebola, COVID-19 - employ conceptual approaches that have been described as ‘instrumental’. Typical projects lead communities (and artists) into ‘participatory’ and ‘co-created’ arts - dance, theatre, drawing - that have already been planned for them.I will argue these dominant global health approaches have roots in colonial medicine and deeply held representations of Africa as ‘a familiar alien threat’. Drawing on Fanon’s idea of the “psychic life of the colonial encounter” - how African psychological realities were conditioned by relations of racialized power and violence - and Ghanaian examples, I show how the “psychic life of the colonial encounter” has morphed into “the psychic life of the contemporary global health encounter”. Developing transformational approaches to global health interventions in African settings, whether mediated by arts or not, require that these psychopolitical dynamics are understood, worked through and transcended.Arrivals from 11:45 am for a 12:00 noon start. For those joining in-person, lunch will be served after the seminar from 1:00pm.International House can be found here on the campus map.If these in-person tickets have sold out, you can still join online by registering for the Teams webinar. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/loughborough/creative-arts-and-the-psychopolitics-of-global-health-in-africa/100001983631722881 - **Event Categories**: Art, health-wellness, Workshops, fine-arts, Theatre, virtual - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: GBP ## Event venue details - **city**: Loughborough - **state**: EN - **country**: United Kingdom - **location**: International House, Loughborough University - **lat**: 52.7650253 - **long**: -1.2320904 - **full address**: International House, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, United Kingdom ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: Creative arts and the psychopolitics of global health in Africa - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events9/banners/66dda24b52dac5ff8429fe638e491f96b515c9adde78dd33aca8fcde528385b6-rimg-w960-h540-dcd6612b-gmir.jpg?v=1772837855 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is Creative arts and the psychopolitics of global health in Africa being held? - **A:** Creative arts and the psychopolitics of global health in Africa takes place on Tue, 12 May, 2026 at 12:00 pm to Tue, 12 May, 2026 at 01:00 pm at International House, Loughborough University, Epinal Way, Loughborough, United Kingdom. - **Q**: Who is organizing Creative arts and the psychopolitics of global health in Africa? - **A:** Creative arts and the psychopolitics of global health in Africa is organized by Loughborough Institute of Advanced Studies. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** Creative arts and the psychopolitics of global health in Africa is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in Loughborough, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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