June 2021

In 2021, the APC welcomed several new students.We are also joined by Richard Higgs, a colleague from the department of Knowledge and information Stewardship at UCT, whose PhD i

The NRF-funded South African Research Chair in Archive and Public Culture, Faculty of Humanities, University of Cape Town, offers a number of bursaries each year to postgraduate students at Honours, Masters, Doctoral...

The APC’s first Research Development Workshop of 2021 took place from 5 to 7 May on Zoom, in the aftermath of the Table Mountain fire, and in the midst of efforts to salvage materials from the Jagger Library...

On 30 and 31 March 2021, the APC’s Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) project participated in the fourth of a series of African Digital Humanities workshops together with its consortium partners, the Digital Bleek and Lloyd...

Rachel King’s Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa: Material Histories of the Maloti-Drakensberg, published in 2019 by Palgrave Macmillan, is a proof that, indeed, archaeologists can write excellent history. In little less

On Thursday 18 March, the APC formally welcomed its new cohort of students and hosted its inaugural event for 2021. The Research Lab, in the format of a lunchtime discussion with APC’s new postdoctoral fellow...

The AtoM-based 500 Year Archive, one of the digital outputs of the APC’s Five Hundred Year Archive (FHYA) project, was launched publicly in September 2020, after a test period of being open to APC r

On 25 and 26 February 2021, APC sent two of its members, Carolyn Hamilton and Ettore Morelli, to the virtual symposium “Contested Spaces: Epistemic (a)symmetries, mobilities, identit

Debra Pryor and Dr Grant McNulty were invited to present on the FHYA at a Virtual Colloquium held by the DSI-NRF Centre in Indigenous Knowledge Systems (University of Kwa-Zulu Natal) International Platform on 11-12 February 2021...

In November 2020, the APC welcomed postdoctoral fellow Dr Alirio Karina. They have a PhD in History of Consciousness, with designated emphases in Feminist Studies and Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, from the University of California...