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Memorials beyond apartheid at universities in South Africa
Start: 07/10/2021, 14:00
End: 07/10/2021, 15:30
Contact:Dr Geraldine Frieslaar - 021 808 2002
Location: MS Teams

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The Stellenbosch University Museum invites you to a panel discussion on: “Memorials beyond apartheid at universities in South Africa"

Presenters

Prof Leslie Witz (Senior Professor, Department of History, University of the Western Cape)

Leslie Witz's major research centres on how different histories are created and represented in the public domain through memorials, museums, festivals and tourism. He is the author of: Write Your Own History and Apartheid's Festival: Contesting South Africa's National Pasts. Leslie Witz co-authored Hostels, Homes Museum: Memorialising Migrant Labour Pasts in Lwandle, South Africa and Unsettled History: Making South African Public Pasts that reflects on public history in South Africa since the 1990s.

 

Prof Lize van Robbroeck (Professor in Visual Studies, Stellenbosch University)

Lize van Robbroeck's research focuses on postcoloniality and settler subjectivities in South African visual arts. Her research interests include psychoanalytic theories of subjectivity and race, and she works at the intersection of Lacanian psychoanalysis and Feminist New Materialism. She teaches, inter alia, on decoloniality, ecocriticism and posthumanism in the visual arts.

 

Ms Pia Bombardella (Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the North-West University)

Pia Bombardella is interested in bringing urban and environmental anthropology into conversation and is working on a project asking questions about settler intimacies, gardening and property-making practices. Her teaching builds upon her early research on shopping malls and casinos in Cape Town, and is the foundation of an ongoing collaborative research and teaching project asking questions about the city (and the university's) present, past, social change, belonging and transformation.

 

Prof Noor Nieftagodien (SARCHI, Local Histories, Present Realities, University of the Witwatersrand)

Noor Nieftagodien is the Head of the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he also lectures in the Department of History. He is the co-author, with Phil Bonner, of books on the history of Alexandra, Ekurhuleni and Kathorus, and has published books on the history of Orlando West and the Soweto uprising, as well as co-edited books on the history of the ANC and student movements.

 

Moderator

Dr Geraldine Frieslaar (Curator of Research, Dialogue and Social Justice, Stellenbosch University Museum)


Date: Thursday, 7 October 2021 

Time: 14:00-15:30 (SAST)

Webinar: MS Teams


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