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Letters of Stone: a podcast interview with Steve Robins
Steve Robins Letters of Stone: From Nazi Germany to South Africa (Penguin Books, 2016) Interviewed by Roni Mikel-Arieli, Ph.D. Candidate...
Making History with Music: Miriam Makeba in Guinea
Listening to music is not the action most commonly associated with the work of the historian. While the history of music is certainly...
Call For Papers: Interdisciplinary Workshop, “Celebrity and Protest in Africa and in the Anti-Aparth
Deadline for submission: 30 November 2017 Confirmed Keynote speakers: Prof. Lisa Ann Richey, Roskilde University, Denmark Prof. Louise...
Reflections on a Feminist Now in Places of Undying Colonialism
The recent conference staged as a collaboration between our ERC project, APARTHEID-STOPS, The World Literatures: Cosmopolitan and...
Celebrity and Solidarity in the Struggle against Apartheid
At the beginning of May, the project held a special event at the Centre for Contemporary Art in Tel Aviv in conjunction with an...
Good Hope? South Africa-The Netherlands
On the morning of April 9, 2017, I landed in a sunny Amsterdam. After a quick stop at the hotel to drop off my luggage, I set out for the...
"A Logo Should Tell a Story": The Symbols of Pan-Africanism
The threat of commoditization – the process by which commodities lose their singularity and are then regarded in the eyes of consumers as...
Passages: On the Genesis of “Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Tr
In 1996, Leon de Kock and Ian Tromp published an anthology entitled The Heart in Exile: South African Poetry in English, 1990-1995. The...
Tracing the Footprints of Ghosts in Johannesburg’s Sophiatown
This July, I arrived in Johannesburg for the first time. A historian of Modern Britain, I had recently begun researching British...
Interviewing Ahmed Kathrada: Inspirational!
In the opening paragraph of Shirli Gilbert's (2012) article about representations of Anne Frank in South Africa, she describes how Ahmed...
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