Presentations
Lectureship/Seminar and Visiting Professorship
Thriving in Ghana’s Creative Industry for British Council Ghana, Accra. Presenter
Benagr, S. (2016). Shakespeare Live in Ghana Project. British Council Ghana, Accra. Presenter.
Benagr, S. (2015). ‘Cross Platform Uses and Adaptations of the Works of Abibigromma’ at the Abibigromma Theatre Group Workshop: themed Abibigromma at 32, Strategies to Meet the Exigencies of the Collegiate System and Modernisation of African Culture’. Presenter
Benagr, S., Roussounov, O. (2015). ‘RTVF (Radio, Television, Video & Film)
As a Special Area Elective Course’. Department of Theatre Arts Weekly Seminar. Co-presenter.
Benagr, S. (2012). ‘Cinema and Filmmaking in West Africa’ as part of teaching
the MA World Cinema & Global Media Module for Masters Students, School of Media, University of Bedfordshire. Presenter.
Benagr, S. (2010). ‘Resources for teaching African Cinema and Enhance delivery of MA Global Media Module’. RiT Project of RIMAD. School of Media, University of Bedfordshire. Presenter.
Invitation to National, International Conferences, Workshops and Festivals
Benagr, S. (2021). ‘Staging Silence: Echoes of a Pandemic’. Collective/Collecting Intelligence – Explorations of Artistic Intelligence A/I in the context of Artificial Intelligence (AI). A BrAInsTOrm session organised by Digital Dramaturgy Lab_squared, University of Toronto, Canada. 27th March, 2021. Presenter [a Zoom Event].
Benagr, S. (2018). National Workshop on the Beijing Treaty on Audiovisual Performances: Stakeholder Sensitization workshop – organized by the Copyright Office of Ghana and Ministry of Justice: 28th November, 2018 – Accra. Participant from Academia
Benagr, S. (2018). Reinvigorating Humanities Research At University Of Ghana
(Rehure-Ug) Inception Workshop – College of Humanities: 19th September, 2018 – Legon. SPA Mellon project team participant
Benagr, S. (2018). MTN Shortz Shortz Challenge for Content Developers
Launch/Workshop – stakeholder engagement and sensitization on a competition to monetize the creativity of content developers in the country – MTN Ghana: 8th August, 2018 – Accra. Training Institution cum Industry Representative – SPA
Benagr, S. (2017). Sixth CODESRIA International Workshop at FESPACO on Emergence on screen and on stage – organized in conjunction with FESPACO Secretariat, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: February 2017. Participant
Benagr, S. (2015). ‘Re-Reading the Early Days of the Ghanaian Video Practice from a Neorealist Perspective’. International Conference themed Cinema/History: Time, Memory, Identity in the Images of the New Millennium. Rome, Universita Roma Tre, Italy. Presenter
Benagr, S. & Dartey, S. (2013). ‘A Humble Plea To Whom It May Concern’; Kwaw Ansah’s … Love of AA, an allegory for negotiating peace between feuding factions (in Ghana). International Conference themed African Film & Politics Conference. London, University of Westminster. Co presenter.
Benagr, S. (2013). ‘Subjectivity and Objectivity: the Central Tension in Camera Generated Images’. University of Ghana Faculty of Arts 11th Annual Colloquium. Legon, University of Ghana. Presenter.
Benagr, S. (2010). ‘Vestiges of the postcolonial in Ghanaian video film practice’. Africa Media & Democracy Conference themed Mediating Democracy in Africa. International Conference Centre, Accra. Presenter.
Benagr, S. (2009). ‘The Political and Social Context of the Development of the Film/Video Technology in West Africa’. Journalism and New Media Technologies in Africa Conference, themed New Technologies, New Practices and the Renewal of Media Training in Africa. School of Media and Communication, Pan African University, Lagos. Presenter.