FrankTalk Dialogues: Lewis Gordon on 'What is Black Thought?'

Why Memory Matters: Gaza, Recent History & the Campaign Against Truth

Illan Pappe: The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - The Past & the Present

Achille Mbembe on Non-Racialism & Fanon at Rhodes - 6th, 7th & 8th August 2014

First Annual Neil Aggett Labour Studies Lecture: Beverley Naidoo

Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack Settlements in South Africa (video of a public lecture)

Abstract: Richard Pithouse discusses the political history of the shack settlement in South Africa and seeks to bring this history, as well the experience of contemporary shack dwellers’ struggles, into dialogue with an international debate about the prospects for an emancipatory politics in the shack settlement.

Title: Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack Settlements in South Africa

Speaker: Richard Pithouse, George A. Miller Visiting Professor of History, and Political and International Studies, Rhodes University

Public Lecture by Ananya Roy in Johannesburg: Making Slum-Free Cities: Global Urbanism in the Asian Century

The School of Architecture and Planning at the University of the Witwatersrand, invites you to attend the 2013 Rusty Bernstein Memorial Lecture.

Making Slum-Free Cities: Global Urbanism in the Asian Century

Delivered by Ananya Roy, Professor of City and Regional Planning and Distinguished Chair in Global Poverty and Practice at the University of California, Berkeley.

Date: 16 May 2013

Time: 17h30 for 18h00 to 20h30

Venue: Dorothy Susskind Auditorium, John Moffat Building, East Campus,

University of the Witwatersrand

Public Lecture: “Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack Settlements in South Africa" (Urbana, Illinois)

http://www.iprh.illinois.edu/news/iprhevents/default.aspx

Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, University of Illinois

“Revolution” Theme Lecture: Richard Pithouse

“Thought Amidst Waste: Politics in Shack Settlements in South Africa"

by Richard Pithouse (Political and International Studies, Rhodes University)

Date: March 7, 2013
Time: 4:00 p.m.
Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum

Co-sponsored by IPRH and the Spurlock Museum.

A reception will follow the lecture.

This event is free and open to the public.

Public Lecture: Mahmood Mamdani on the Arab Spring

Lineages of Freedom Catalytic Project

The Humanities Faculty at Rhodes University and SAHUDA (South African

Humanities Deans' Association) invite you to attend the following: 

LINEAGES OF FREEDOM LUNCH TIME LECTURES 15-19 OCTOBER 2012
Venue:  Eden Grove Blue 
Time: 13h05
Discussant for all talks:  Nomalanga Mkhize

The idea behind these dialogues is to trace our various trajectories of
liberation and repression and to reflect critically on our past as well as
our present.  The intention is to highlight the ongoing problems confronted
by a post-apartheid South Africa.  It is clear to all that formal apartheid
is dead.  Yet, in very many ways, apartheid continues to linger on in all
spheres of our body politic.  Hence, the proposed three sets of events will
subject to critical scrutiny the contemporary relevance of the questions
about change and building a new society which animated the struggle against
apartheid.  

Frantz Fanon and the Subject of Emancipation

The Institute for Comparative Modernities, Cornell University

Frantz Fanon is one of the very few thinkers to have risked something that resembles a theory of decolonization. The European game having finally ended, at least so he thought, he argued in The Wretched of the Earth that “we today can do everything.” In this lecture Mbembe will reflect on the dialectics of the end/closure and boundless possibility evoked by Fanon and the ways it is played out under contemporary conditions. Mbembe will also assess the place contemporary struggles for emancipation assign to the key Fanonian concepts of time, creation and reconstitution and the extent to which they truly transcend the “law of repetition,” which he foresaw as the biggest threat to newness.

Achille Mbembe is a Research Professor in History and Politics at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (South Africa), and a Visiting Professor in the Romance Studies Department and The Franklin Humanities Institute at Duke University. For ten years a contributing editor for the US-based journal Public Culture, he is also a Senior Researcher at the Witwatersrand Institute of Social and Economic Research (WISER). He is the author of numerous books in French. He is mostly known in the English-speaking world for his classic, On the Postcolony. His latest book, Sortir de la grande nuit (Editions La Decouverte, Paris, 2010), will be published in 2013 by Columbia University Press. 

We are the Crisis of Capital and Proud of It: A Public Lecture by John Holloway 15 October 2012

Democratic Republic of Congo: From Destructive to Healing Politics - A Public lecture by Jacques Depelchin - 11 October 2012

Reclaiming African History, Reclaiming Humanity

Two Days With the Spirit of C.L.R. James

The Humanities Graduate Centre Key Thinkers Series, in conjunction with
the Reading Group for African Critical Thought (RGFACT) and the Centre
for Indian Studies in Africa  (CISA) Presents:

TWO DAYS WITH THE SPIRIT OF C.L.R. JAMES

C.L.R James (1901-1989), originally from Trinidad, was among the most
original, wide-ranging and influential postcolonial thinkers and
activists of the 20th Century.  His work as a political theorist (e.g.
Notes on Dialectics: Hegel, Marx and Lenin), historian (The Black
Jacobins), literary critic (Mariners, Renegades and Castaways), cricket
journalist (Beyond a Boundary) and writer of fiction (Minty Alley) is
too little known in South Africa.

Programme for the Second Annual Thinking Africa Colloquium

1. The Second Annual Public Lecture delivered by: Achille Mbembe, Thursday

12 July, 2012. Eden Grove Red. 7pm.

Title: "Frantz Fanon on the Subject of Emancipation".

2. Thinking Africa Colloquium: Ubuntu: Curating the Archive

Dates: 13, 14 and 15 July 2012

Venue: Continuing Education Centre (CEC)

Time: 9am-5pm

Writing the Ungovernable

Lesego Rampolokeng

Lesego Rampolokeng, Public Lecture, Faculty of Humanities, Rhodes University, 12 June 2012

Artaud: ‘That trick you have of always turning your back on questions will not prevent the heavens from opening up on the appointed day and establishing a new language in the midst of your imbecile tracts. We mean the tracts of your ideas.’

Fanon: ‘My final prayer : oh my body, make of me, always, a man who questions.’

Pasolini: ‘The real Marxist must not be a good Marxist. his function is to put orthodoxy and codified certainties into crisis. His duty is to break the rules.’

Metrópolis. Urban crisis, peripheries and activist research. Public activities.

Type of activity: lectures and debates Dates: May 5, 17, 18, 19, 31, June 1, 2, 14, 15, 16, 2012 Place: Nouvel Building, Auditorium 200 and Traficantes de Sueños Admission: free of charge, limited seating Organized by: MuseoReina Sofía with the collaboration of Fundación Banco Santander

Activity included in: Metropolis. Urban crisis, peripheries and activist research. Program for Advanced Studies in Critical Practices

Thinking Fanon, 50 years later: Fanonian translations in and beyond “Fanon Studies"

by Nigel C. Gibson

This is the text of talk given sponsored by the African Studies Workshop, the Center for International Studies, the Social Theory Workshop, and the Reproduction of Race and Racial Ideologies Workshop at the University of Chicago, February 21, 2012.

 In the Cheikh Djemal’s film “Frantz Fanon: His Life, His Struggle, His Work,” Rehda Malek, one of the co-editors of El Moudjahid at the time, recalls how he was “impressed by Fanon’s intellectual vivacity and the speed in which he could write papers,” adding that “he could write an article almost without crossing out a word in a direct and spontaneous way.”

Judith Speaking in Stellenbosch in 2011