From Chicago to Lagos: Festac 77, Cold War Diplomacy, and the Transnational Parameters of Black Activism

Suzanne Enzerink is assistant professor of American Studies at the University of Sankt Gallen, Switzerland. Her current research broadly engages questions of triangular cultural contact between the U.S., Africa, and Europe established outside of formal political networks, from the early Cold War to the present moment. Her first monograph, in manuscript form, is on subversive Cold War cultural circuits, with a focus on unfinished and marginal film. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in publications including American Quarterly, Journal for Transnational American Studies, Verge: Studies in Global Asias, and Feminist Formations. She was previously based at the American University of Beirut, and received her PhD in American Studies from Brown University.