Join EHS fortnightly seminar series
Environmental Humanities South (EHS) is excited to announce our Seminar Series for the second semester of 2024 academic calendar. Describing the aims of this Seminar Series, Dr. Anselmo Mattuse who currently serves as its coordinator shared the below:
The Environmental Humanities South (EHS) Seminar Series serves as a platform for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary engagement, aligning with EHS's mission to reconceptualize and pursue justice in African environmentalism and climate interventions amidst the ongoing poly-crises across the continent. Understanding that these crises necessitate transcending academic, departmental, and societal boundaries, the EHS Seminar Series aims to support generative dialogue across all faculties—sciences, engineering, health, law, economics, social sciences, and humanities.
The seminars will take place fortnightly on Thursday mornings and are open to all. Each session will feature a guest presenter paired with an EHS researcher. The guest presenter will introduce their topic and work, while the participants will explore points of connection and seek clarification based on their own work as activists, practitioners, and researchers. Following these presentations, the audience will be encouraged to ask questions and share comments.
The first Seminar, which took place on August 08, 2024, was kickstarted by Dr. Philip Aghoghovwia who discussed his book Violent Ecotropes: Petroculture in the Niger Delta (HSRC Press, 2022). Set to be held in the Sir Richard Luyt room at UCT Upper campus, the upcoming Seminar, scheduled for 29 August 2024 at 10H00 AM, will see Dr. Phindile Sabela-Rikhotso from UCT's Environmental Geographical Science department give a seminar titled "Rethinking Spatial Development Process for Disaster Risk Reduction", with Dr. Nobukhosi Ngwenya as a discussant.
Dr. Sabela-Rikhotso is a disaster risk scientist passionate about issues pertaining to risk reduction, sustainable development, environmental management, and identifying new and innovative methods for mitigating everyday hazards, especially amongst vulnerable groups. In the past ten years, Dr. Sabela-Rikhotso worked for different spheres of government: Cape Winelands District municipality, the Department of Environmental Affairs, and the Western Cape Disaster Management Centre. This vast experience has fuelled Dr. Sabela-Rikhotso's desire to research further on theories of disaster management, emergency management, crisis management and various approaches to incident management systems. Dr. Sabela-Rikhotso is interested on finding integrated and collaborative ways that will enhance efficient and effective decision-making in strategic institutions in areas of disaster risk science and marine pollution management.
For more information, follow EHS across all social media platforms. And email zainab.adams@uct.ac.za to RSVP to any events you wish to attend and to stay abreast with the exciting gatherings planned for this Series.