Pumla Gqola Book Launch: ''Rape: A South African Nightmare''

Book Launch: Lewis Gordon's 'What Fanon Said'

Mandla Langa - The Texture of Shadows: Launch at the Steven Biko Centre

'In Search of Equality' & 'Marriage, Land & Custom'

Intellectual Traditions in South Africa

I'm Not Your Weekend Special - Book Launch at the Steve Biko Centre

Welcome Remarks 'Memoirs of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation'

Mwelele Cele

Book Launch: Welcome Remarks

Memoirs of a Born Free: Reflections on the Rainbow Nation

Good evening honoured guests, ladies and gentlemen, colleagues … My name are Mwelela Cele, and I am the Librarian at the Steve Biko Centre Library and Archive. Our concern is with both the past and the future, honouring the legacy of Steve Biko and facilitating the application of his philosophy to help improve the prospects of our fellow South Africans, and the prospects of future generations.

It is indeed an honour to welcome you all this evening to the launch of a very significant new book: memoirs of a born free: reflections on the rainbow nation. Warmest greetings to the author Malaika Wa Azania, to Mama Biko, to representatives from government, friends of the author and friends of the Steve Biko Foundation and Centre. It is a particular pleasure to have with us our colleagues from heritage institutions in our region - librarians, archivists, curators, museum professionals. We appreciate the support of our friends and colleagues from Amathole museum here in King William’s Town eQonce. It is a pleasure to greet political and cultural activists, intellectuals and lovers of books and knowledge. I want to also welcome our partners in different projects, and welcome the neighbours of the Steve Biko Centre. I want to take this opportunity to thank Jacana Media, the publishers of memoirs of a born free: reflections on the rainbow nation, our partners in organising this event.

Book Launch: A Renegade Called Simphiwe

Schedule of Public Events for Silvia Federici's Visit to Rhodes University 18 – 21 September 2013

18 September

Launch of Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle and seminar presentation on Reproduction and Women's Struggles in an era of 'Primitive Accumulation.' - 5:00 p.m. - 6:30 p.m., Humanities Seminar Room

19 September

Seminar for postgrad students on 'Feminism & the Commons' - 10:00 a.m. – 12: 30 p.m., New Seminar Room, Politics Department

Academic Freedom Lecture “Academic freedom and the enclosure of knowledge in the global university” - 6:00 pm, Eden Grove Blue

20 September

Workshop with activists hosted by the Unemployed Peoples' Movement – 2:00 p.m., UPM Office

21 September

Student organised seminar - 2:00 pm. - 5:00 p.m. Sociology A

Siliva Federici's new book launched in Johannesburg

WiSER and JWTC invite you to the Launch of a new Book by Silvia Federici

Revolution at Point Zero: Housework, Reproduction, and Feminist Struggle

Written between 1975 and the present, the essays collected in this volume represent thirty years of research and theorizing on questions of social reproduction and the transformations which the globalization process has produced. Originally inspired by Federici’s organizational work in the Wages For Housework movement, topics discussed include the international restructuring of reproductive work and its effects on the sexual division of labor, the globalization of care work and sex work, the crisis of elder care, and the development of affective labor. Though theoretical in style, the book is written in an explanatory manner that makes it both accessible to a broad public and ideal for classroom use.

Speakers: Catherine Burns (WiSER) and Sharad Chari (CISA)
Tuesday, 17^th September 2013 6pm

The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa invites you to a book launch

New South Asian Feminisms: Paradoxes and Posibilities (Zed Books, 2012)

Edited by Srila Roy

University of Nottingham

  

In conversation with Shireen Hassim, Sharad Chari and Rebecca Walker

South Asian Feminism is in crisis. Once autonomous and radical forms of feminist mobilization have been ideologically fragmented and replaced. This has been the result of constant attack from right-wing nationalism and religious fundamentalism and co-option by 'NGO-ization' and neoliberal state agendas.

On African Fault Lines: V.Y. Mudimbe

On African Fault Lines

V-Y Mudimbe’s On African Fault Lines was launched by the Department of Political and International Studies’ Thinking Africa project on Tuesday evening. 

Described by Lewis Gordon as the African continent’s greatest thinker, Mudimbe, is this collection of meditations is concerned with three thematics: Africa’s place within today’s intellectual, economic and cultural configurations; the main axes that structure disciplinary practices concerned with African difference and the possibility of understanding being-in-the-world with reference to alienation, creativity and friendship.

There can be no doubt that On African Fault Lines is a brilliant and intensely thought assemblage of writings Intellectual good faith is the hallmark and true achievement of Valentin Mudimbe’s oeuvre, and it is spectacularly on display here. His good faith approach draws ‘Africa’ into the wide orbit of his thought as much as he draws his sources into ‘Africa’. The signal accomplishment of this book is that it teaches us how to learn.

— Grant Farred, professor of Africana Studies, Cornell University

Eusebius McKaiser Launches 'A Bantu In My Bathroom' at Rhodes on 3 May 2013

You are cordially invited to Eusebius McKaiser's launch for his book A Bantu In My Bathroom this Friday, 3 May 2013, at Eden Grove Blue, 14:00, Rhodes University. The book is a collection of essays about race, sexuality and other uncomfortable South African topics. A best-seller within a couple of weeks of publication, it has just been printed for the fourth time in six months.

Eusebius McKaiser, is a well-known political analyst who writes widely for local and international press. He is currently a columnist for The Star and Cape Times where his weekly column appears on Mondays. His work has appeared internationally in publications such as The New Republic, BBC, Focus on Africa and, also, The New York Times.

Eusebius studied law and philosophy at Rhodes University before spending time at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He also lectures part-time in philosophy. And he is a radio talk show host, most recently with Talk Radio 702 and soon with a new radio station about to be launched.

Frank Chikane Launches 'The Things That Could Not be Said' in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, 30 April 2013

Frank Chikane will launch his new book the The Things That Could Not be Said at The Herald/NMMU Community Dialogue at the Red Location Museum, New Brighton, Port Elizabeth, on 30 April 2013.  Richard Pithouse - writer, activist and lecturer at Rhodes University - will be the discussant. 

Class in Soweto Seminar & Book Launch with Peter Alexander 19 April 2013

Pallo Jordan & Xolela Mangcu on Biko

Discussion with Emma Mashinini in East London, 5 September 2012