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Die Zeit interviews Achille Mbembe on the German translation of Critique de la raison nègre - Kritik der schwarzen Vernunft. (In German.)

Die Zeit interviews Achille Mbembe. (In German.)

Our final Public Positions event for 2014 on the Matric as Metric drew a large and enthusiastic audience. Media coverage includes articles in:

The Mail and Guardian,

The Daily Maverick,

Research Associate Lisa Vetten on South Africa's floundering gender equality project.

In Unreasonable Histories, Christopher J. Lee unsettles the parameters and content of African studies as currently understood. At the book's core are the experiences of multiracial Africans in British Central Africa—contemporary Malawi, Zimbabwe, and Zambia—from the 1910s to the 1960s.

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A WORKSHOP ON

Building the Critical Health Social Sciences in Southern Africa

Hosted by the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences,
School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town,
in partnership with the Institute for Development Studies at Sussex University

9 – 13 March 2015, Malmesbury, South Africa (near Cape Town)

Application deadline: 20 December 2014

The Steve Biko School of Bioethics, the South African Medical Association (Gauteng branch), the Wits Students Bioethics society and the Institute for Security Studies invite you to join us for a screening of a short film inspired by a recent visit to Roodeplaat Research Laboratories, where during apartheid scientists undertook animal experiments to, amongst other things, find toxins and chemicals that could be used to kill without leaving a trace, and where work was done to find an anti-fertility vaccine that could be administered to black women without their knowledge.

WiSER-Duke Writing Fellows Events in November 

For more information, see here. 

Christopher J. Lee discusses the politics - or lack thereof - in Legend, Bob Marley's posthumous greatest hits collection.

A review of Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving, edited by Carol Levine (Vanderbilt University Press, 2014).