Upcoming workshop to explore art and literary research in post-disciplinary times

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On Tuesday, 28 February, Mellon Senior Research Mentor Susan van Zyl will be giving a workshop on the theme of 'Researching Art and Literature' in which she will be exploring questions of theory and method in post-disciplinary times.

Professor Van Zyl currently teaches qualitative research methodology and advanced academic writing at the University of the Witwatersrand. She is also involved in a number of similar, research-related projects at other South African and African universities. Her own research interests are in the fields of psychoanalysis, literary theory and cultural analysis.

The workshop will include a discussion of the meaning of the term 'post-disciplinary' and characterise the particular challenges to research that arise in post-disciplinary times. The discussion will explore why challenges of the post-disciplinary moment might take a particular form in the Humanities and investigate the implications for theory and method of the series of identifiable 'turns' that have played a role in the direction taken by research in the Humanities in post-disciplinary times.

The workshop is designed to give Archive & Public Culture associates - veteran and novice researchers alike - an opportunity to reflect on their trans-disciplinary approach and on how to handle it in their specific projects. Although registration for the workshop is now closed, APC researchers registered in Fine Art and Literature were especially encouraged to attend.

Students participating in the workshop will have the further opportunity of sending a component of their work to Professor van Zyl in advance of the workshop and of having a one-on-one consultation with her the next day about their own work.

The workshop will take place from 10am to 3pm on Tuesday, 28 February in the Jon Berndt Think Space, Arts Block, Room A17, University of Cape Town.