INVITE | Heated Conversations by Gabeba Baderoon | 11 Oct | 6pm (Johannesburg time)
You are warmly invited to the next session of WiSER’s online seminar series
Heated Conversations
Gabeba Baderoon will speak on
Autobiography of Sand: Relief Map of a Drifting Mind
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Africans are routinely associated with disease, but we are rarely invited to reflect on the subtleties of illness and healing. Reversing this, I am writing a fractured verse memoir about concussion.
In this session, Gabeba Baderoon will discuss this new writing project and read a selection of her poems. An introductory piece and several of her poems are attached here.
Gabeba Baderoon is an Associate Professor of Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, African Studies, and Comparative Literature at Penn State University, where she co-directs the African Feminist Initiative. She is the author of the monograph, Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-Apartheid, and the poetry collections, The Dream in the Next Body, A hundred silences and The History of Intimacy. She also co-edited the essay collection, Surfacing: on Being Black and Feminist in South Africa, with Desiree Lewis. Baderoon held the 2023 Sarah Baartman Senior Fellowship at the University of Cape Town and was an Extraordinary Professor of English at Stellenbosch University from 2012 to 2022. Her books have received the Daimler Award for South African Poetry, the University of Johannesburg Prize, the Elisabeth Eybers Poetry Prize and three Best Book awards from the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Wednesday, 11th October 2023
6pm (Johannesburg time)
Register here:
https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwlcO-srzgtHN3ITaJ6sNJr2gTmvz2xKOWl
Heated Conversations is a seminar series convened by Isabel Hofmeyr and Sarah Nuttall
As global warming produces rising seas, falling dam levels and excessive droughts, generating new levels of multi-crisis in the world-now, so too are our conversations and discourses heating up in multiple ways. This seminar series takes up these questions of anthropogenic escalation and pedagogical shifts of gear. It does so in a context in which strengthening Southern bodies of knowledge is ever more crucial to engaging collectively with and comprehending these complex new rubrics and material dimensions. A forum broadly dedicated to the literary and cultural humanities, the seminar is hospitably open to wide participation from as many parts of the world as possible and will invite speakers to offer generative interventions for discussion and debate.
Isabel Hofmeyr is Professor Emeritus at Wits University; Sarah Nuttall is Professor of Literary and Cultural Studies at WiSER, Wits.