Events - Wits University

Seminar series - February to May 2024

Date	Speaker	Title
21 February	Mesrob Vartavarian (Harvard)	Oligarchic Dialectics: South Africa's Power Elites from the Mineral Revolution to the Present
28 February	Linda Chisholm (UJ) and Elaine Unterhalter (UCL) hybrid	Transnational dimensions of the National Education Coordinating Committee’s funding networks and educational ideas (1985-1995)
6 March	Johannes Machinya (Wits)	Mobile health applications in South Africa: The power and pitfalls of user data marketisation
13 March	Yasmina Martin (Yale) 15h00-16h15 online	Contested Solidarities: The ANC in 1960s Tanzania.
20 March	Thomas Hartley (NMU)	The South African Institute for Maritime Research: Coups, Commodores and the plot to spread AIDS throughout Southern Africa
27 March	Tokelo Nhlapo (Wits)	Contesting Memory, Monuments, In Pursuit of Reconciliation: Narratives from the University of Free State (UFS)
10 April	Kebotlhale Motseothata (Wits)	The Sonic Activism and the Affective Labour of the Women of the Amandla Cultural Ensemble
17 April	Erin Hazan (Wits)	Penal Reform in Interwar South Africa, 1920s-1950s
24 April	Rico D. Chapman (Jackson State University)	Building bridges and strengthening the connection between students in Africa and the Diaspora
8 May	Matseliso Motsoane (Wits)	Co-creation and the photographers of City Centre Studio in Maseru, 1960s-1980s
15 May	Maanda Mulaudzi (UCT) online	“Between the Sun and Fire” – “New Christian” and Interlocutor: Mashambe (Mugivhi).
22 May	Edwin Smith (UP)	Dig where you stand: an antithesis to hegemony? SOMAFCO’s insider history

2024 Seminar Series, first semester programme

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