That Area of Experience That We Term the New World: Introducing Sylvia Wynter's Black Metamorphosis

UHURU Theory & Event Workshop – 2016

The Theory & Event workshop, which will be held in the Humanities Seminar room every Tuesday from 3:00 – 4:30, is open to all.  It offers graduate students, staff and visitors an opportunity to participate in a structured discussion on emancipatory thought and action in the modern world. The set of topics is not comprehensive, and thinkers and events that have already been widely discussed in post-graduate courses, the UHURU reading group etc – like Frantz Fanon, Lewis Gordon, Mahmood Mamdani, Achille Mbembe, Gayatri Spivak etc – are not repeated here. Also some major emancipatory events are not dealt with e.g. the Spartacus uprising in Rome, the 16^thc Peasant War in Germany, the Mexican Revolution of 1910 and many others.  Readings (divided into core and supplementary readings) will be circulated a week before each meeting. All participants will be expected to have read at least the core readings.

Salim Vally on Neville Alexander and the National Question

The Grahamstown launch of Lewis Gordon's "What Fanon Said"

Nivedita Menon: Women's Rights to Land - The challenge of the commons.

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

Toward a Political Economy of Death OR The Threat/Fear of Death as the Fundamental Mode of Coercion

Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar on 'The community reproduction of life: Thinking of social trans-formation in the present'

Hlonipha Mokoena: Public Lecture & Masterclass

Michael Neocosmos on the Thought of Politics

A Masterclass with Raquel Gutiérrez Aguilar

The Manifold of the Commons: A Masterclass with Peter Linebaugh

Riason Naidoo: Decolonising the South African National Gallery

Firoze Manji: What's Left in Africa? Reflections on the failures of left movements to take root in Africa

Understanding and Overcoming Xenophobia: A One Day Colloquium - Presentation by Michael Neocosmos

Blackness and Its Double: A Response to the Debates on the 'Crisis' of Representation in Black South African Protest Literature

Understanding and Overcoming Xenophobia: A One Day Colloquium - Presentation by Ernest Wamba-dia-Wamba

Popular Struggles Then and Now - Second Panel (27 March 2015)

Popular Struggles Then and Now - First Panel (27 March 2015)

Interrogating the Grand Narratives about Zimbabwe: the case of the Shamvu District