2024 Seminar Series, first semester programme
Venue: RS 207, 2nd floor, Robert Sobukwe block, East campus, Wits University | Wednesdays, 13h15-14h30, in person (unless otherwise stated)
All welcome
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Seminar series - February to May 2024
Date
Speaker
Title
21 FebruaryMesrob Vartavarian (Harvard)Oligarchic Dialectics: South Africa's Power Elites from the Mineral Revolution to the Present28 FebruaryLinda Chisholm (UJ) and Elaine Unterhalter (UCL)hybridTransnational dimensions of the National Education Coordinating Committee’s funding networks and educational ideas (1985-1995)6 MarchJohannes Machinya (Wits)Mobile health applications in South Africa: The power and pitfalls of user data marketisation13 MarchYasmina Martin (Yale)15h00-16h15 onlineContested Solidarities: The ANC in 1960s Tanzania.20 MarchThomas Hartley (NMU)The South African Institute for Maritime Research: Coups, Commodores and the plot to spread AIDS throughout Southern Africa27 MarchTokelo Nhlapo (Wits)Contesting Memory, Monuments, In Pursuit of Reconciliation: Narratives from the University of Free State (UFS)10 AprilKebotlhale Motseothata (Wits)The Sonic Activism and the Affective Labour of the Women of the Amandla Cultural Ensemble17 AprilErin Hazan (Wits)Penal Reform in Interwar South Africa, 1920s-1950s24 AprilRico D. Chapman (Jackson State University)Building bridges and strengthening the connection between students in Africa and the Diaspora8 MayMatseliso Motsoane (Wits)Co-creation and the photographers of City Centre Studio in Maseru, 1960s-1980s15 MayMaanda Mulaudzi (UCT)online“Between the Sun and Fire” – “New Christian” and Interlocutor: Mashambe (Mugivhi).22 MayEdwin Smith (UP)Dig where you stand: an antithesis to hegemony?SOMAFCO’s insider history