The Writers' Seminar with Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon
The Department of English Literary Studies and the Institute for Creative Arts warmly invite you to join us on Friday August 12th from 16h00-17h30pm (Hiddingh Hall) for the next instalment of our 2022 edition of The Writers’ Seminar.
South African writer and academic Dr Matthew Wilhelm-Solomon will be in conversation with Dr Oliver Melvill (UCT) and Dr Polo Moji (UCT) about his recently published book, The Blinded City: Ten Years in Inner-City Johannesburg (poster attached).
Matthew is a writer, educator and editor. He is currently working as a Senior Writing Fellow in Anthropology and a visiting researcher at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand, where he has worked since 2011. He holds a doctorate from the University of Oxford and has published widely in international journals and the South African media, as well as speaking internationally on his research on Johannesburg. His publications include Writing Invisibility: Conversations on the Hidden City (2013), Routes and Rites to the City: Mobility, Diversity and Religious Space in Johannesburg (2016), and Affective Trajectories: Religion and Emotion in African Cityscapes (2020).
Please note that this will be an in person event and that the talk will be held at Hiddingh Campus in the Hiddingh Hall above the library.
We hope that you will be able to join us, all are welcome.
If you have any questions about the event please direct them to Dr Oliver Melvill at oliver.melvill@uct.ac.za.