b"1515.0016.00 Keynote SpeakersKeynote Speaker: Emma DabiriDont Touch My Hair(released as Twistedin the US) takes the reader on a journey of identity that includes the authorsexperiences growing up in predominantly white Ireland where her hair was a constant source of deep, deep shame.Emma will read a short passage from her first book followed by a Q&A session. Emma Dabiri documentary, Journeys in Afrofuturism as well as EXPOSED:Young Female Photographers which explores the work ofListed as one of the BBCs broadcasting three exciting, emerging photographers. Both are availablestars of the future, Emma Dabiri is a on BBC Sounds. She is also developing a documentary onpresenter, social historian and writer. Haitian Surrealism. Emma currently co-presents Britain's Emma's debut book Dont Touch My Hair was published inLost Masterpieces on BBC4 and Virtually History on 2019. She was a columnist for The Dublin Inquirer and isYouTube Originals, a ground-breaking new series which one of the BBC's Expert Voices. She has also had workuses virtual reality technology to re-live dramatic events in published in a number of academic journals andhistory.newspapers. Emma's interdisciplinary work crosses AfricanStudies, art, sociology, history, film, literature, theatre,Emma has previously presented Back in Time for Brixton popular culture and music. She is a teaching fellow in theand the Back in Time Confectioners series (BBC Two), Is Africa department at SOAS.Love Racist? (Channel 4) and has done a number of socialhistory films for The One Show (BBC). In 2020 Emma Emma gives regular talks and takes part on panels atpresented the Channel 4 documentary Hair Power: My Afro festivals and arts venues. and Me, in which she explored hair's extraordinary history.On radio she has hosted BBC Radio 4s Saturday Reviewand Front Row. She has authored a landmark Radio 4"