DISTRICT 9 Speakers include: Liz Gunner (WISER) ‘District 9’: The Fascination of the Local Fantas
The Life and Death of Dr.
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Book Launch and Conversation Elleke Boehmer’s Sharmilla, and other Portraits David Medalie’s The
Intertextuality, Violence and Memory in Yizo Yizo Youth Drama Muff Andersson Panelists: Bheki Pet
Soccer and Social Change Klaus Theweleit (University of Freiburg) Achille Mbembe (WISER) Abebe Ze
Screening of a documentary, Cemetery State directed by Filip de Boeck, Institute for Anthropologi
Managing uncertainty: Death and Loss in Africa An international conference Co-hosted by: Faculty
Work colonies for white men and the historiography of apartheid Neil Roos (University of Pretoria
The Road, the Song and the Citizen: Singing after Violence in KwaZulu-Natal Liz Gunner (WISER) ch
