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Julie MacArthur is an Assistant Professor of African History at the University of Toronto. She holds a PhD in African history from the University of Cambridge and has taught African history and culture at universities across Canada, the UK, and eastern Africa. Her first book manuscript on mapping, ethnogenesis, and dissent in colonial Kenya is forthcoming in Spring 2016 with Ohio University Press. Currently, she is working on two new projects: one on the mapping of decolonization, sovereignty, and border conflicts in eastern Africa; and the other on the trial of the Mau Mau rebel Field Marshal Dedan Kimathi. She has also worked extensively in the field of African cinema, both as a curator and as an academic, exploring film as a central technology through which Africans compose, edit, and consolidate their pasts, and as a means to express and engage with pressing social and political concerns in contemporary Africa. She has worked as a programming associate with the Toronto International Film Festival and Film Africa in London as well as serving as the Director of the Cambridge African Film Festival for several years. She is the curator of "We Must Invent": Film and the Unfinished Project of Decolonization, a film programme presented at the Blackwood Gallery in conjunction with Maryam Jafri’s exhibition The Day After.