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Aesthetics of Cruelty: Representations of Violence and Dehumanisation in Russia and South Africa Aesthetics of Cruelty will engage an interdisciplinary lens to explore the intersection of the politics of memory and the arts in [...]
This conversation was a reflection on ways in which the students engaged with the stories and the storytellers in the digital exhibition titled The Things that Sit with Us. Dr. Marietjie Oelofsen, a post-doctoral fellow [...]
Prof. Cathy Caruth, professor of English literature, Cornell University in conversation with: Dr. Sakiru Adebayo (Assistant professor of English, University of British Columbia), Dr. Thando Njovane, lecturer in the English Department, Rhodes University, Lerato Machetela, [...]
Trauma Studies Group Seminar Series We curated a series of conversations between members of the Trauma Studies Group and leading scholars in the field of trauma and memory. Our goal is to articulate new [...]
“African Scholars Thinking with Cathy Caruth” Prof. Cathy Caruth, professor of English literature, Cornell University in conversation with: Dr. Sakiru Adebayo (Assistant professor of English, University of British Columbia), Dr. Thando Njovane, lecturer in the [...]
With Professors Deborah Willis and Tamar Garb Images of black social protest are forever fixed in the popular imagination through photography. From the medium’s beginning, race and gender have shaped and controlled the production and [...]
Co-investigators: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela; Melike FourieResearch Collaborators: Jean Decety; Philip Nel; Kim Wale Both popular and academic analysis demonstrates that South African society is currently facing a political and moral crisis. Despite the legacy and ideal [...]
The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study’s 2020-2021 cohort, was announced on the 22nd of May 2020, including 42 fellows representing six countries. The acceptance rate for the incoming class was 2.8 percent, from a pool [...]
Prof. Melissa Steyn, Wits University, in conversation with Dr Wilhelm Verwoerd, and Helgard Pretorius, on the topic of doing "white work" as a response to the violence of racism in South Africa today.
In a packed seminar room pre-Covid, Prof. Premesh Lalu, University of the Western Cape, discussed the theatrical co-production of Ubu and the Truth Commission by William Kentridge, Jane Taylor, and the Handspring Puppet Company.
