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INVITATION

UBUNTU DIALOGUES AT STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY

Stellenbosch University Museum, the Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert Institute and the Transformation Office, in partnership with Michigan State University, cordially invite you to participate in the Ubuntu Dialogues.

Tiffany D Caesar, PhD candidate at Michigan State University, will be in conversation with Nomzamo Ntombela, former President of the Students' Representative Council at Stellenbosch University, on the role of black women and youth in current and past activist movements, focusing on the United States while drawing connections to South Africa. Tiffany will present personal experiences from the Black Lives Matter Movement as it relates to victims of gun violence Trayvon Martin and Renisha McBride. Her presentation will be entitled Black women, activism and youth empowerment – Stories from South Africa to the United States.

Date:     16 August 2018

Time:     18:00

Venue:  University Museum, 52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch

RSVP: Natasha Coltman at 021 808 3691 or ncoltman@sun.ac.za

Light refreshments will be served after the dialogue.

Black Women, Activism and Youth Empowerment – Stories from South Africa to the United States

The Ubuntu Dialogues are a series of student-driven conversations held in South Africa and in the United States that delves into issues of cultural heritage and social justice. Stemming from an online conversation that began in 2016 between students at Stellenbosch University and Michigan State University, the Ubuntu Dialogues continue to expand to reach more students and participants. The last Ubuntu Dialogues featured Siyabulela Mandela, diplomat, scholar and lecturer from Nelson Mandela University in Port Elizabeth, who spoke to students and staff at Michigan State concerning issues of student activism, politics and cultural heritage in South Africa. These cross-cultural and inter-continental dialogues continue with our guest Tiffany D Caesar, PhD candidate at Michigan State University in African American and African Studies. In this session of the Ubuntu Dialogues, she will discuss the role of black women and youth in current and past activist movements, focusing on the United States while drawing connections to South Africa. She will present personal experiences from the Black Lives Matter Movement as it relates to victims of gun violence Trayvon Martin and Renisha McBride. She will also illustrate how global movements converge and how black women play a leading role in creating and sustaining these movements. She will discuss the importance of the youth and of youth empowerment in current movements, which continue to marginalise people of colour. Her goal is to create a dialogue, sharing her experience and encouraging positive change in the world.

Biography of Tiffany D Caesar

Tiffany D Caesar is a PhD candidate in African American and African Studies, specialising in Urban Education, at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan, in the United States. Her research interests include Africana women in educational leadership in South Africa and the United States, African-centred education, womanism, pan-Africanism and black culture. Additionally, she participates in cultural heritage preservation initiatives in the United States and South Africa. She has collaborated with Michigan State University Museum, Stellenbosch Museum and the Nelson Mandela Museum in the Eastern Cape on educational programming and international partnerships. Tiffany is a Cultural Heritage Fellow for the Ubuntu Museums and Communities Connect Project, which continues to create cultural heritage partnerships between the United States and South Africa. In continued advocacy of black people's equality and civil rights, she has also written a children's book called Where Is Bobby? in response to police brutality in the United States. Forthcoming is her published chapter “African women leaders of African centered education: A portraiture of mothering, pan-Africanism, and nation-building in Africa" in the book New frontiers in the study of the global African diaspora: Between uncharted themes and alternative representation (MSU Press, forthcoming 2018).