Seminar series to round off APC's first five years

To cap the first five-year cycle of the NRF Research Chair to which it is linked, the Archive and Public Culture research initiative will be running a weekly seminar series from 4 October 2012 to the end of April 2013.

Temporarily replacing the tri-annual workshops that have, over the past few years, served as a nursery for research project development, the seminar series is slated to be a platform for the robust discussion of papers in an advanced state of development. 

Strategically drawing on the intellectual energies generated by both the tri-annual workshops and the occasional seminars that have been hosted since 2009, the new seminar series is aimed at providing a space in which to mature a diversity of innovative work that explores the conjunctions of archives and public culture.

A colourful range of papers that address archives and memory, historical-anthropological fieldwork, text as archive in Afrikaans literature, sources for pre-colonial histories - to mention just a few illustrative examples - have been lined up. The seminars will be held in the Jon Berndt Thought Space (A17 Arts Block) on Thursday afternoons (3 to 4.30pm).

For more details, contact Dr Glen Ncube: glen.ncube@uct.ac.za.