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2018
AUGUST
‘Decolonisation in Practice: What Does Teaching and Learning Decolonised Knowledge Mean?’
The AfroAsia UCT Project, in collaboration with the Struggle and Culture National Student Forum, presented on Thursday, 30 August 2018 a new interdisciplinary seminar series that brings together scholars from across multiple departments who share an interest in decolonial scholarship from different methodological perspectives.
This seminar series aims to provide an opportunity for graduate students and academics at any stage of their careers to test new ideas and writing, whether for publication or thesis chapters that they would like feedback on. The Decolonisation in Practice seminar series will take place once every month, typically on a Thursday afternoon. Each month will feature presentations from a trio of scholars from three different departments or universities. The inaugural seminar features distinguished academics who need no introduction to the South African academy:
Women, Literary Novels and Social Enquiry
This event was held on 29 August 2018
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Seminar
‘Assessing the National Gender Machinery: Achievements, Challenges or time for other Structures or Strategies?’
Date: 24 August, 8.30 -12noon.
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Harry Oppenheimer Institute Building
Engineering Mall road, UCT. Upper Campus
Memorial lecture
JULY
National Land Colloquium on Friday, 27 July 2018
The event attracted and involved a huge number of civic activists and organisations. Speakers included Professor Nomalanga Mkhize, Justice Albie Sachs, Professor Ruth Hall, Prof Nomboniso Gasa, Prof Fred Hendricks and Adv Tembeka Ngcukaitobi.
2017
A Drain on our Dignity: An Insider's Perspective
The Centre of African Studies invites you to the exhibition opening and book launch.
Masixole Feni, the winner of the Ernest Cole Award 2015, focuses his camera on the lack of service delivery and the life of the marginalised in Cape Town's local townships.
Venue: CAS Gallery, 2nd Floor Harry Oppenheimer Building
Date/Time of Event: 3 August 2017, 6pm
Contact: Paul.Weinberg@uct.ac.za
The Mendi Centenary Conference
This conference, hosted by the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, commemorates the sinking of the SS Mendi that occurred during the First World War, on 21 February 1917. It pays tribute to the South African Native Labour Contingent, and the men on the Mendi who died en route to fight for their dignity and human rights through service to the war effort.
Event Type: Exhibition and conference
Date of Event: 28 - 30 March 2017
2016
Upcoming Events
Beyond Boundaries
Two exhibitions, Encounters and Dialogues and Christmas Bands, will be showing at CAS Gallery as part of the Contemporary Ethnography Congress Across the Disciplines (CEAD) Conference, explore and make visible in different ways, worlds that are hidden.
Event Type: Exhibition and conference
Date of Event: 15 - 18 November 2016
Venue: CAS Gallery, Harry Oppenheimer Building, UCT Upper Campus
RSVP: Paul.Weinberg@uct.ac.za
'So you think you can play with me' - Louis Moholo-Moholo Legacy Project
The Centre for African Studies in association with South African Jazz Cultures and the Archive invites you to a celebration of the musical legacy of Louis Moholo-Moholo. The Project features an eclectic programme that includes a virtual exhibition, symposium and a musical concert featuring Louis Moholo-Moholo and a UCT student orchestra.
Event Type: Symposium and performance
Date of Event: 7 October 2016
Time: 17h30 - 22h00
Venue: St. Peter's Church Hall, 3 Church Street, Mowbray
RSVP: Paul.Weinberg@uct.ac.za
Sound Travels: Music Connections between Asia and Africa
You are invited to an exhibition that searches for connections and synergies between Africa and Asia as part of a major research project between scholars across these two continents called "Recentering AfroAsia" funded by the A.W.Mellon Foundation. Part of the exhibition is from the Kirby Collection of Musical instruments at the South African College of Music, UCT. This selection of images presented suggests and at times establishes connections, echoes and resonances across the lands and seas between and across Africa and Asia.
Event Type: Exhibition
Date of Event: 18th September, 2016
Time: 18h00 for 18h30
Venue: CAS Gallery, Oppenheimer Building, Upper Campus
RSVP: Paul.Weinberg@uct.ac.za
4th Annual Neville Alexander Seminar
The Centre for African Studies and the Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD) will be hosting the 4th Annual Neville Alexander Seminar as well as the launch of Non-Racialism in South Africa: The life and times of Neville Alexander.
Panelists and respondents include: Lydia Cairncross (UCT), Salim Vally (UJ), Alan Zinn (CANRAD), Elelwani Ramugondo (UCT), Eugene Cairncross (CPUT) and Thieve Reddy (UCT).
Event Type: Seminar and Book Launch
Date of Event: 26 August 2016
Time: 18h00
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery
Contact: carolyn.letang@uct.ac.za or 021 650 2308
Colloquium: Professor Sam Moyo
Call for Papers: Land, the State and Decolonising the Agrarian Structure in Africa
The Centre for African Studies (CAS) at the University of Cape Town and the Centre for African Area Studies (CAAS) at Kyoto University, would like to invite you to submit abstracts of papers to be presented at a colloquium organised to honour and celebrate the life and work of the late professor Sam Moyo. The colloquium will be held at the University of Cape Town, on November 28 and 29, 2016. The best way to honour and celebrate the life and work of Sam Moyo is to continue reflecting on the issues which were close to Sam’s heart.
Event type: Colloquium
Date of Event: 28 & 29 November 2016
Time: TBC
Venue: Centre for African Studies Seminar Room
Contact: A/Prof Horman Chitonge (horman.chitonge@uct.ac.za) or Nkululeko Mabandla (kuluart@gmail.com)
Multi Agency Grants Initiative
Participants are invited to attend a dialogue session and workshop on the state of rural governance, land restitution, communal land, and land and agrarian reform in the Eastern Cape. The dialogue intends to engage with recent developments in relevant legislation, policy and litigation in order to understand what has been achieved and what the challenges for civil society action are going forward. This will be done through the participants’ presentations and inputs – these inputs will create a platform for civil society organisations, traditional authority representatives and government to engage and find amicable solutions that can shape a future agenda on legislation, policy and litigation.
Event type: Workshop
Date of event: 16 - 18 August 2016
Time: 12h30 start on 16th August 2016. 13h00 end-time on 18th August 2016
Venue: Chatha Hall, Chatha village, Keiskammahoek
RSVP: Mkhululi Mazula on mmazula@hivos.org
CANRAD NMMU Seminar 2016
The Centre for the Advancement of Non-racialism and Democracy will be hosting a seminar with the director of the Centre for African Studies, Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza entitled, 'Afrikan Activist Intellectuals: Then and Now?'.
Professor Ntsebeza is the holder of the AC Jordan Chair in African Studies at the University of Cape Town. He is also the holder of the National Research Foundation (NRF) Research Chair in Land Reform and Democracy in South Africa.
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Tuesday, 19th July 2016
Time: 16h00 - 18h00
Venue: Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, Senate Hall, North Campus
RSVP: Thabang.Queench@nmmu.ac.za or 041 504 3115
1976/360 Exhibition
An exhibition to mark the forty year anniversary of June 16 student uprisings, at Centre for African Studies (CAS) Gallery, UCT. The 1976 moment is deeply etched in most South African minds. 1976/360 intersects with the iconic imagery of the time by photographers like Sam Nzima and Peter Magubane, as well as lesser known archives, in particular from the Independent archive in Cape Town and Special Collections, UCT Libraries. Besides photographs there will also be installations that will reflect a range of voices from a UCT perspective as well as those engaged in national dialogue about reconciliation and healing. The exhibition will showcase a selected collection of artwork from the UCT Works of Art Collection that directly speaks to this iconic moment. The exhibition will be opened by former Soweto student activist, Murphy Morobe and will launch veteran photographer Peter Magubane's most recent book, June 16 Soweto.
Event type: Exhibition
Date of event: Monday to Friday until 18 August 2016.
Time: 10h00 to 16h00
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery
A Stygian Darkness: Destruction and Detritus in the South African Mining Industry
This Friday, the 27th of May, an exhibition of photographs on destruction and detritus in the South African mining industry, curated by Dr Siona O’Connell, will open at the Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT Upper Campus at 6pm.
The exhibition follows a day seminar hosted by UCT in collaboration with the Minerals to Metals initiative, to celebrate the launch of the South African Research Chair: Mineral Law in Africa. The topic of the seminar is: The Law’s Reponses to Mining and Waste.
Event type: Exhibition
Date of event: 27 May 2016
Time: 18h00
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery
'Echoing Voices from Within': A Rhodes Must Fall Exhibition
The Centre for African Studies Gallery is hosting an ‘Echoing Voices from Within’ exhibition from 9 March 2016 – 9 May 2016. The exhibition is primarily a moment of reflection and commemoration of a movement that impacted significantly on UCT and potentially other universities forever. More than an exhibition, it is a thorough archive and a record produced by the Rhodes Must Fall movement. It is a body of work that drew its content from photographs, videos, banners and artefacts from a climactic year of activism. Many of the photographs and videos were taken by the students themselves who also assembled a significant and important archive of this moment in history. It is in itself a record of the events that began on March 9 2015.
Event type: Exhibition Opening
Date of event: 9 March 2016
Time: TBC
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery
Philosophy in Africa, Africa in Philosophy
A fortnightly series of academic research seminars hosted jointly by the Centre for African Studies and the Philosophy Department, University of Cape Town with convenors Prof. Lungisile Ntsebeza and Dr. George Hull
Recent months have seen renewed interest in questions about the role which academic philosophy can play in solving problems specific to Africa, including South Africa, and about the role which indigenous African traditions of thought and practice can play in enriching the academic discipline of philosophy. These questions are central to debates about what positive change in teaching and research in humanities faculties, both in South Africa and further afield, would look like; but they are also the focus of on-going research by both academic philosophers and academics from other disciplines.
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Tuesdays
Time: 13h00 - 14h30 beginning March 2016
Venue: Centre for African Studies Seminar Room
Beyond Parliament: Human Rights and the Politics of Social Change in the Global South by Horman Chitonge
In Beyond Parliament Horman Chitonge offers a unique combination of the conceptual dimensions with the practical examples of human rights discourse deployed as an instrument for social change in the global south. He uses the right to water and the right to food to illustrate that human rights are never given on a silver platter; giving effect to human rights is always an outcome of a continuous struggle to protect human dignity and value. To implement this view of human rights, the book argues, requires going beyond the parliamentary politics of recognising and acknowledging human rights in statutes and bill of rights to the radical democratic politics of giving effect to the recognised rights, especially among the poor and marginalised.
Event type: Book Launch
Date of event: Tuesday, 09 February 2016
Time: 16h00 to 17h30
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery
ǂKhomani San Hugh Brody Archive
The ǂKhomani San are the first people of the southern Kgalagadi. They lived as hunters and gatherers in the immense desert in the northwest corner of South Africa. For them it was a land rich in wildlife, plants, trees, great sand dunes and dry riverbeds.
When the ǂKhomani San share their history, they tell a story of dispossession from their lands, erasure of their way of life, disappearance of their language. To speak of their past is to search in memory for all that was taken from them in the colonial, apartheid and post-apartheid era. But they also tell a story of reclamation and recovery of lands, language and even of memory itself. They tell a story of struggle to emerge from the losses of the past, to put in place a new story.
Event type: Exhibition Opening
Date of event: Tuesday, 09 February 2016
Time: 17h30 for 18h00
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery
2015
Event archive
Insurrections III: The Storming
Stormings and Tempests
Prepare for some Stormy Weather - the Insurrections Ensemble is returning for two performances on the 25th and 26th of September at the Homecoming Centre of District Six.
UCT’s Centre for African Studies is co-hosting this loose adaptation of Aimé Césaire’s a Tempest, once more involving, lyricists, performers and composers from South Africa and India.
Event type: Performance
Date of event: Friday, September 25, 2015 to Saturday, September 26, 2015
Venue: District Six Homecoming Centre
The Third Annual Neville Alexander Seminar
The Centre for African Studies invites you to The Third Annual Neville Alexander Seminar.
‘We need a new language: a dialogue with Neville Alexander on the Language Question’.
Panelists include Blaq Pearl, Imraan Coovadia, Ana Deumert (Moderator), Adam Haupt, Xolisa Guzula, Wandile Kasibe and live entertainment will be provided by local group Chapterz Jazz Band.
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Thursday, August 27, 2015
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery
A Failure of Economic Policy: Lessons from Zimbabwe’s Hyperinflation and Dollarization
Mark Ellyne, an American, has an undergraduate degree from Cornell University, a Master’s degree in Economics from University of London, and a PhD from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, where he specialized in the political economy of international finance.
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery
Outposts of Progress: Joseph Conrad, Modernism and Post-Colonialism
The first international conference ever held in Africa on the works of author Joseph Conrad took place in 1998, to mark the centenary of the publication of Heart of Darkness. This book draws its title from Conrad’s short story, ‘An Outpost of Progress’ which represented the responses of a European to colonial settler assumptions about progress and backwardness, in the light of his first-hand experience of Europeans in Africa at the end of the nineteenth century.
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Wednesday, July 22, 2015
Venue: Centre for African Studies, Harry Oppenheimer Institute, University of Cape Town
The Land Use and Rural Livelihood Project in Africa (LURLAP), which is a collaborative research project involving researchers in different African universities, had a workshop on April 1st and 2nd, 2015, held at the Centre for African Studies (CAS), University of Cape Town(UCT). The purpose of the workshop was to present the findings of a case study conducted in Zambia in 2013 and 2014. A total of 13 research papers, based on the data collected in 2014, were presented by members of the research team.
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Wednesday, April 1, 2015
Venue: Centre for African Studies
2014
Democracy, Land and Liberation in Africa Today: Bridging Past and Present Scholarship
The main focus of this colloquium is to celebrate and honour the life and work of one of Africa's longest serving scholar, teacher, researcher and activist, the late emeritus Professor, Lionel Cliffe, who passed away on 24 October 2013. Although Professor Lionel Cliffe's work on Africa encompassed a wide range of issues, the themes of this colloquium perfectly sum up the body of his work. Lionel's academic work on Africa can be grouped into three broad themes: Agrarian political Economy, Liberation Struggles and Democracy in Africa.
Event type: Seminar, Conference
Date of event: Monday, October 20, 2014 to Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Venue: Moot Court, Kramer Building, Middle Campus
Colonial Linguistics: Knowledges and Epistemes
Event type: Conference, Debate
Date of event: Thursday, October 16, 2014 to Friday, October 17, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
Janice Desire Busingye is a community/adult educator. She has been a lecturer at Makerere University, Uganda since 2002 and is now one of All Africa House fellows 2014 at University of Cape Town. Janice studied at Makerere University where she obtained a Bachelor of Adult & Community Education; later she joined the University of KwaZulu Natal and obtained her M. Education (2006) and subsequently did her doctoral studies there and graduated in 2012 with a PhD (Education).
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
The End of The Developmental State, edited by Michelle Williams
Michelle Williams received her BA (Political Economy of Industrial Societies and German), MA (Sociology), and PhD (Sociology) from the University of California, Berkeley. She was a Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Sociology and Political Studies at Wits University (August 2005-December 2006). She has published on communism in South Africa and India, the solidarity economy, social movements, labour, and the growing area of scholarship comparing and connecting India and South Africa.
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Thursday, September 18, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
Chair: Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza, Centre for African Studies, UCT.
Event type: Seminar Panel discussion
Date of event: Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Professor of African and Gender Studies, and Director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon. She received her PhD from Vanderbilt University, and holds an MSc in Development Planning from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, a Post-graduate Diploma in Spatial Planning from the University of Dortmund, and a BSc in Architectural Design, also from KNUST.
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Tuesday, August 26, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
Annual Marikana Memorial Lecture: Professor Sakhela Buhlungu (UCT Dean of Humanities)
Event type: Seminar Debate Panel discussion
Date of event: Monday, August 18, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
Reflections on South Africa’s Agrarian Questions after 20 Years of Democracy
After 20 years of democracy, and 20 years of market-led land reform in South Africa, land and agrarian questions remain unresolved. This in many ways is evidenced by the increasingly rising discontent among landless people and the poor; ongoing “service delivery protests”, the farm worker “uprisings” in the Western Cape, Marikana shootings, the housing struggles waged by Abahlali Basemjondolo and the emergence of former ANC Youth League President, Julius Malema and his Ecomic Freedom Fighters who are now articulating grassroots struggles demanding economic justice.
Event type: Conference
Date of event: Thursday, August 14, 2014 to Friday, August 15, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
Professor Allison Drew teaches politics at the University of York, England. Her research concerns social and political movements in twentieth-century and contemporary Africa. She has spent many years researching and writing about the development of left politics in South Africa. She is now looking comparatively at Communism in colonial Algeria from 1920-1962.
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Tuesday, August 12, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
Gibbs gently upends the myth of a world of corrupted Bantustan bureaucrats and poor peasants, persuading us that we cannot understand contemporary South Africa until we come to terms with the importance of its “hinterland”. This book is bound to make you think about South Africa and the forces that have shaped it in ways you haven’t considered before.
Event type: Debate
Date of event: Tuesday, June 17, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
This seminar summarises some of the findings and arguments in William Beinart and Karen Brown, African Local Knowledge & Livestock Health: Diseases & Treatments in South Africa (James Currey and Wits University Pres, 2013/14). Understanding local knowledge has become a significant academic project amongst those interested in Africa and developing countries more generally – especially as part of the critique of top down development.
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
Barack Obama is widely considered one of the most powerful and charismatic speakers of our age. Without missing a beat, he often moves between Washington insider talk and culturally “Black” ways of speaking. But what does it mean to speak as a racialized subject in contemporary America? What does it mean to “sound presidential” in the New America? And what are the cultural, political, and educational implications of these shifting politics of language andrace?
Event type: Seminar
Date of event: Friday, March 14, 2014
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
2013
VISTAS – A project by Raél Jero Salley.
Vistas is a project about landscape. The project focuses on land, farm, territory and ways of seeing contemporary South Africa. The projects works with the Native’s Land Act of 1913 in mind, and is interested in land’s relationship to culture. ‘To landscape’, the active process of making space into place involves intersections between historical, aesthetic and concrete forms.
Event type: Exhibition
Date of event: Wednesday, September 18, 2013 to Friday, October 11, 2013
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT
TO LET by The Burning Museum Arts Collective.
How does one bring the outside into the inside? How does one bring in people to visit a gallery or museum space – more so, how does a gallery space in a university engage with people in the city besides the university staff and students?
Event type: Exhibition
Date of event: Friday, August 30, 2013 to Friday, September 13, 2013
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT.
Remembering Neville Alexander – Language, Power and Transformation.
Hosted by the Centre for African Studies and The School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics at UCT, and PRAESA
Event type:
Seminar
Conference
Date of event: Tuesday, August 27, 2013
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT.
Hosted by the Centre for African Studies, UCT
Event type:
Seminar
Debate
Date of event: Tuesday, August 20, 2013
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Upper Campus, UCT.
Debate – A century on from the 1913 Land Act : Where to from here?
Join the conversation as Dirk Hanekom, executive manager of Agri Gauteng, and Professor Lungisile Ntsebeza, director of the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town, seek common ground.
Event type:
Seminar
Debate
Date of event: Wednesday, August 7, 2013
Venue: Cosatu House, 110 Jorissen Street, Johannesburg.
women.object.corpse exhibition
The women.object.corpse exhibition is a collective expression of women artists, curated by Meghna Singh at the Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT.
Event type: Exhibition
Date of event: Wednesday, April 24, 2013 to Thursday, May 9, 2013
Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, UCT