Visual Politics: Navigating Violent Histories
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 [...]
“White Work”: Engaging with the Violence of Racism
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 [...]
Theatrical Politics: Ubu and the Truth Commission Revisited
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 [...]
Tamar Garb and Homi Bhabha
Professor Tamar Garb Art Historian, University College London) and Homi Bhabha in conversation with Siya Mgoduka (below centre) and Candice Mama (right), whose fathers were killed by Eugene de Kock. Pumla [...]
The Meaning of Frantz Fanon Today
A Conversation with Professor Homi Bhabha (English Department, Harvard University) Research Meetings