The Stellenbosch University Museum invites you to a discussion
on: “Silences in African History”
Prof Jacques Depelchin (Visiting
scholar, Centre for African Studies, University of California, Berkley)
Prof Jacques Depelchin
is a committed intellectual, historian, poet, and activist for peace,
democracy, transparency and people-centred politics in the Democratic Republic
of the Congo. He was born in the Congo and educated at Lovanium University
(Kinshasa) in the DRC, the University of London, Johns Hopkins University in
Italy, and at Stanford, where he received his PhD in History. He has taught
African History and related subjects at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, San
Francisco State, Stanford, Syracuse, and universities in the DRC, Mozambique,
Tanzania and Brazil. Prof Depelchin has published a number of books throughout
his long career, some of which include The Peasant’s Tale, Reclaiming
African History and Silences in African History; between the
syndromes of discovery and abolition. He is the Co-Founder and Executive
Director of the Berkeley-based Ota Benga International Alliance for Peace in
the DRC. Under its umbrella, he is researching American and Congolese social
healing and bringing together the healers, as well as lecturing and writing on
the DRC to improve American understanding of its history and present realities.
Moderator
Dr Geraldine Frieslaar
(Curator of Research, Dialogue and Social Justice, Stellenbosch University
Museum)
Date: Wednesday, 24
November 2021
Time: 15:00-16:00 (SAST)
Webinar: MS Teams
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