(videos are listed in the order in which the panels took place)

Wednesday, June 3, 2015

Introduction: Sarah Nuttall

Panel One: Africa in Diasporic and Continental Imagination

Xolela Mangcu, "The Idea of Africa in Black South African Political Thought"

Achille Mbembe, "Futures of Pan-Africanism"

International Symposium
Reinventing Pan-Africanism in the Age of Xenophobia
4th June 2015

International Symposium
Reinventing Pan-Africanism in the Age of Xenophobia

3rd June 2015

We are very pleased that Yasmina Martin, a recent recipient of a Fulbright scholarship currently based at Amhest College in the US, will be joining the Wits History Department and WiSER to do research on LGBT rights in South Africa. She describes her project:

Black Music and the Aesthetics of Protest

Co-presented with the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Department of Musicology

Neo Muyanga’s opera The Struggle serves as a departure point for a panel discussion exploring the role of Black opera and other genres of Black music in achieving racial justice and social change, the persistent exclusionary politics of musical genres, and the future revolutionary potential of historically defined Black genres.

Neo Muyanga, WiSER's composer-in-residence, reflects on work done during April and May 2015.

WiSER is proud to announce the publication of Sarah Emily Duff's monograph Changing Childhoods in the Cape Colony: Dutch Reformed Church Evangelicalism and Colonial Childhood, 1860-1895. The first full-length study of the history of childhood in South Africa, it has been published in Palgrave Macmillan's new Studies in the History of Childhood series.

The Wits Vuvuzela on Hlonipha Mokoena's move to WiSER later this year.

Sarah Emily Duff writes about sex education in South Africa during the 1920s and 1930s for The Conversation.