ICA’s 2022 Great Texts/Big Questions audio recordings
Listen to the audio recordings from the ICA’s 2022 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series!
This year’s theme, Love as ethic; love as action, took its departure from the writing of the late bell hooks, and in particular her proposal of an “ethic of love” as working against our “allegiance to systems of domination”. Read more about the vision for the series here.
Presented live, in person, from 19 May–7 June in UCT’s Hiddingh Hall, the 2022 series featured acclaimed and award-winning novelists, poets and academics, including: educator, writer, speaker and intersectional scholar, Landa Mabenge; writer and author of Those Who Live in Cages, Terry-Ann Adams; poet and author of the poetry collection Unam Wena, Mthunzikazi Mbungwana; Professor in the Women’s and Gender Studies Department at the University of the Western Cape, Desiree Lewis who was in conversation with poet and academic, Gabeba Baderoon; scholar, columnist and author, Jamil F. Khan; and writer and Head of the Department of English Literary Studies at UCT, Barbara Boswell.
Re-listen to your favourite lectures and catch up on any you may have missed by downloading the files below!
Landa Mabenge, Intention-fuelled purpose: A love language
Terry-Ann Adams, Love Thy Neighbour: An exploration of friendship and the importance of place in Those Who Live in Cages
Mthunzikazi Mbungwana, Things without names: Izinto ezingenamagama ziduka nomoya
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Desiree Lewis & Gabeba Baderoon, Surfacing Black Feminist Knowledge in South Africa
Jamil F. Khan, And sometimes, love kills us
Barbara Boswell, On love and insubordination: The Ethics of Love in Pregs Govender’s Love and Courage: A Story of Insubordination
Photo credits:
Landa Mabenge, credit: Jacob Lund Photography; Terry-Ann Adams; Gabeba Baderoon, credit: Victor Dlamini; Desiree Lewis; Barbara Boswell, credit: Yazeed Kamaldien; Jamil F. Khan. Credit: @bestfriends_za; Mthunzikazi Mbungwana. Credit: Oz.