Khadija Patel and Neo Muyanga visit Duke

WiSER-Duke Writing Fellows Events in November 

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The Franklin Humanities Institute and the Forum for Scholars and Publics are pleased to announce a set exciting of events in November featuring two young writers from South Africa: NEO MUYANGA (website)  a composer working on a libretto that reimagines South African protest music for the present, and KHADIJA PATEL (website/twitter), a journalist/blogger writing a history of the Johannesburg suburb Mayfair, as its multiethnic residents negotiate newly Afropolitan identities while battling legacies of segregation.

Muyanga and Patel are visiting Duke as fellows in a new international, cross-institutional program for non-academic writers wishing to work in a university setting, jointly supported by WiSER (Wits Institute for Social and Econoomic Research) at the University of Witwatersrand and the FHI and the Forum for Scholars and Publics at Duke. They have spent the last 5 months at WiSER developing their projects and will spend the final month of their fellowships here in Durham. The WiSER-Duke Writing Fellowships extend the FHI's ongoing partnership with WiSER and support for the annual Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism.

Here's a quick line-up of the WiSER-Duke Fellows events in the coming weeks, which will also feature WiSER faculty SARAH NUTTALL and ACHILLE MBEMBE:

Thursday, November 6, 12pm, FHI Garage
Khadija Patel, "Re-inventing Suburbia in Johannesburg" - with responses from Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe

Tuesday, November 11, 5pm, Nelson Music Room
Neo Muyanga, "Revolting Music"

Thursday, November 13, 12pm, Forum for Scholars and Publics
Neo Muyanga and Khadija Patel, "Black Money from Johannesburg to Durham" - in conversation with Sarah Nuttall

Monday, November 17, 12pm, FHI Garage
Neo Muyanga and Khadija Patel, "Living Together/Living Apart and the Complexity of Home" - in convesation with Achille Mbembe