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Introduction of new student and postdoc

In 2022, the APC welcomed Masters student Sihle Motsa and Postdoctoral fellow Nina Liebenberg. Master’s student and History Access Scholar, Sihle Motsa, is a writer and art practitioner interested in curatorial and archival research methodologie

March 2022 Research Development Workshop

The APC’s 2022 Research Development Workshop took place over Zoom, with hybrid affordances particularly on the first day, over the 23th-25th of March. Following the model of preceding Zoom workshops, 26 papers by 28 authors

After the Fire: Loss Archive and African Studies

The hybrid symposium, ‘After the Fire: Loss, Archive and African Studies’ took place on the 18th and 19th of April, organised by APC Associate Duane Jethro and APC Postdoc Alírio Karina, with collaborative supp

Lexicons of African Freedoms

In his role as Researcher at the PRIN Genealogies of African Freedoms, Università di Pavia, APC Research Associate Dr. Ettore Morelli organised the symposium, Lexicons of African Freedoms, 29-30 April 2022. The Symposium hosted contributions de

Basotho and the Bantustans

On April 14th, APC welcomed Dr. John Aerni-Flessner, Associate Professor of African and World History at Michigan State University, who presented a paper co-authored with Dr. Grey Magaiza, Lecturer and Head of the Community Development Prog

EMANDULO’s ‘Nongqawuse and the Great Xhosa Cattle Killing’

EMANDULO now features an exciting new offering which takes on the history of

Jeff Peires Reprises 'The Dead Will Arise' for History in Public Life

We invited well-known historian Jeff Peires to address students in the History in Public Life MA course on the 7th of April this year. Members of History Access and the APC joined us in a hybrid class with Prof Peires himself speaking to us

APC Associate and Historical Studies lecturer awarded NIHSS 2022 Humanities and Social Sciences Awards

Dr Athambile Masola has been awarded one of the NIHSS awards for her book Ilifa in the Best Fiction Poetry category. According to Prof Pumla Dineo Gqola in her review for the New Frame, the publication “interrogates Black South

When Rain Clouds Gather: A Quest to (Re)Imagine muted Black Women’s Artistic and Intellectual Legacies Anew

When Rain Clouds Gather: Black South African Women artists, 1940-2000, is a cross-generational meditation on Black womanhood in South Africa. It is thunderous, and is aptly titled gesturing to the novel of the same name, by the banned and exi

Sonic interview with a burned loan card from the African Studies Library in Jagger

In 2021, FHYA’s Digital Archival Manager, Debra Pryor enrolled in the BA Honours in Curatorship programme at the Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA). The research assignment was to choose an object from any collection (formal or informal) and

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