Invitation | Literary studies, decolonization and climate-transformed scholarship | 7 June | 1pm (online)

WiSER invites you to an online discussion

Literary studies, decolonization and climate-transformed scholarship  

What can literature and the humanities more generally bring to dual debates about decolonization and environmental crisis, via the question of water?  Through the launch of a special journal issue entitled “Reading for Water”, this session will demonstrate how literary studies can be deployed towards a climate-transformed and decolonized scholarship. Contributors Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Nafisa Essop Sheik, Simon van Schalkwyk and Michael Titlestad will discuss the topic, in conversation with the editors Isabel Hofmeyr, Charne Lavery and Sarah Nuttall, followed by a discussion.

This session forms part of a series of discussions WiSER is hosting across the year on the theme of decolonization and the futures of  research in the African humanities and social sciences.

June 7
1:00 - 2:10pm

Zoom link : https://wits-za.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYqdeCrrTMvGdS2K9TelmYy3q--59j66zbb