The African Gender Institute, the Gender Equity Unit & the Women and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape are delighted to co-host a seminar by Associate Professor Pumla Gqola.

Seminar Title: “2013 is a bad year for gender struggle’: GBV, South Africa and feministing differently”

ABOUT ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR PUMLA GQOLA:

Associate Professor Pumla Gqola is acclaimed as one of South Africa’s most influential public intellectuals and feminist academics. She is known for her frank and finely analytic insights into issues of slavery, feminism, patriarchy and public culture in South Africa. Associate Professor Gqola is the author of What is Slavery to Me? Postcolonial /slave memory in post-apartheid South Africa, the first full-length study of slave memory in the South African context. Her work explores the relevance and effects of slave memory for contemporary negotiations of South African gendered as well as racial identities. Associate Professor Gqola has published extensively on topics such as slave memory in the African world, Black Consciousness literature, womanism and feminist literary studies, post-colonialism, post-apartheid public culture, and African feminist sexualities. Associate Professor Gqola is also a self-proclaimed writer, quirkophile, feminist, pan-afrikanist, postcolonial literature professor and can be followed at @feminist_rogue and at her blog http://www.pumlagqola.wordpress.com

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