Seminars take place via Zoom on Wednesdays at 1pm SAST (GMT + 2)

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Seminar Detail Video Paper
7th April 2021: Lis Lange (DVC University of Cape Town) Decentring academics: Preliminary reflections on the impact of COVID- 19 on academic identity. 

14th April 2021: Laura Phillips (Fellow History Workshop University of Witwatersrand) Below the Land Deals: Land and Mineral Property in the Making of the Ga-Mphahlele Territory, 1882 – 1993.

 
21st April 2021: Thuto Thipe (Lecturer, Centre for African Studies, University of Cape Town) The Enduring Architecture of Native Administration. *postponed to 29th April 2021 due to the events that took place on 18 April 2021

 
28th April 2021: Tara Weinberg (Doctoral Candidate, History Department University of Michigan) Making Collective Property: Land Buying Syndicates and the Native Farmers Association of South Africa in early 20th century Transvaal.

 
12th May 2021: Lloyd Melusi Maphosa (Post-Doctoral Fellow Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town) People's capitalism? Investors in the private capital market at the Cape, 1892–1902.

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19th May 2021: Matthew Shutzer (Fellow, Weatherhead Centre for International Affair, Harvard University) Against Sovereignty: Oil, Money, and Decolonization in South Asia.

 
26th May 2021: Emery Kalema (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Stellenbosch University) Space, Mobility and Displacement: The Mulele Rebellion in Postcolonial Congo.

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2nd June 2021: Bernard C. Moore (Doctoral Candidate, Michigan State University) ‘Their Days Are Numbered’: Shepherds, Jackals, and Apartheid in Southern Namibia

 
9th June 2021: Hayley Hayes Roberts (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town) District Six Museum image making: mapping memories and design at Harrington Square during Cape Town World Design Capital 2014

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18 August 2021: Athambile Masola (Lecturer, Department of Historical Studies, UCT) The Poetics of History: Reading History Between the Lines

 
1 September 2021: Thato Magano (Doctoral Candidate, Rutgers University, and University of Leiden) Sex, Sin, Desire, and the Homosexual Species at the Cape of Good Hope

 

 

8 September 2021:Alírio Karina (Postdoctoral Fellow, Archive and Public Culture, UCT) Reading the ‘Native’: The Ruse of Ethnology in Post-abolition Zanzibar

 

This seminar was not recorded.  

 

15 September 2021: Ziyanda Stuurman (Policy Manager: J-PAL Africa,Faculty of Commerce, UCT) The long history of the South African Police Service and the future of policing in South Africa

 

 

 

6 October 2021: Thembi Luckett (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town) Hauntings in Lephalale: dislocation, death and unrealised possibilities

 

This seminar was not recorded.  

 

13 October 2021: Mandisa Mbali (Senior Lecturer, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town) The End of the Beginning? Historicising AIDS and COVID-19 in South Africa

 

 

 

20 October 2021: Shamil Jeppie (Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town) Scholar in Exile: Ahmad Baba in Marrakesh, 1593 -1606

 

 
27 October 2021: Sean Field (Associate Professor, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town) Intersubjectivity Illuminates  
3 November 2021: Lloyd Melusi Maphosa (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Historical Studies, University of Cape Town) Faithpreneurship and Africa’s religious corporations: A History of the evolution of Christian faith in Zimbabwe