Department of African literature public events

The Department of African Literature at Wits will host Professor Nicole Fleetwood to present at four of their public events.

Nicole Fleetwood, Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies and Director of the Institute for Research on Women at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, will be a presenter at four public events hosted by the Department of African Literature at Wits.

Fleetwood researches and teaches in the areas of visual culture and media studies, black cultural studies, ethnography, gender theory, and culture and technology studies. Her book: Troubling Vision: Performance, Visuality, and Blackness, is the recipient of the 2012 Lora Romero First Book Publication Prize of the American Studies Association.

Her book On Racial Icons, which is part of Rutgers University Press’s Pinpoint series, will be released in 2015. Currently, she is completing Carceral Aesthetics: Prison Art and Public Culture, a study of prison art and visuality.

In it, she examines a range of visual art and practices emerging inside prisons and about prison life, including photography, painting, and collaborative works with arts organisations and commissioned artists.

Public events:

Carceral Aesthetics: Prison Art and Public Culture

Date: 14 April 2016

Time: 13:00

Venue: WiSER Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building, Braamfontein Campus East

Keynote address: Democracy's Promise: Visual Genealogies of Black Male Leaders

Date: 16 April 2016

Time: 17:00

Venue: The Point of Order, Braamfontein

Roundtable discussion: Gender and Visual Culture

Date: 18 April 2016

Venue: Venue: Seminar Room, Humanities Graduate Centre, South West Engineering Building, Braamfontein Campus East

DIVA Talk: Home/Away: Domestic Visions and Carceral Space/Time

Date: 21 April 2016

Time: 13:00

Venue: Apollonia Theatre, Braamfontein Campus East

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