On May 9, 2017, Professor Jonathan Haynes (English) will give an invited presentation, "Nollywood: Trajectories of the Nigerian film industry," at Ben Gurion University in Israel.
On June 7, he will give the keynote address, "Keeping Up: Paradigms for studying Nollywood and African screen media," at a conference in Berlin sponsored by Humboldt University, the University of Bayreuth, and Indiana University's New Media and Literary Initiatives in Africa program.
On June 15th, he will present "Lagos and the Nollywood Imaginary" at the Second Lagos Studies Association Conference at the University of Lagos. The same day, there will be a special panel devoted to his new book, Nollywood: The creation of Nigerian film genres.