Arthur Rose on “Dwelling in Triomf; or Building the Infrastructure for Postapartheid Dasein”

May 21, 2015September 25, 2016 Finding Africa Abstracts, Featured Papers #Africa, Arthur Rose, Marlene van Niekerk, Martin Heidegger, Philosophy, Post-Apartheid Literature, Postcolonial Africa, South Africa, Triomf, University of Leeds

The next seminar in the Philosophy and Literature stream of Finding Africa entitled, Dwelling in Triomf; or Building the Infrastructure for Postapartheid Dasein will be given by Dr. Arthur Rose.

Rose recently completed his PhD thesis, Cynical Cosmopolitans? Borges, Beckett, Coetzee, at the University of Leeds. It argued that the integration of politics, aesthetics and subjectivity in the late works of these writers may best be understood through the lens of Ancient Cynicism. He is currently thinking about the thematic and structural use of strike in English, French and Spanish mining literatures.

The seminar will be at 6pm in the BS/008 seminar room of the Berrick Saul Building at the University of York on 8 June 2015. Entrance is free and all are welcome. Continue reading →

Furman and O’Connell on HIV/AIDS, Moral Responsibility, and South African Literature (Rescheduled for 1 June 2015)

March 22, 2015September 25, 2016 Finding Africa Abstracts, Featured Papers, Speaker Profiles #Africa, AIDS Denialism, AIDS Histories, Country of my Skull, Grainne O'Connell, Katherine Furman, Khabzela, LSE, Phaswane Mpe, Post-Apartheid Literature, South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, Three Letter Plague, University of London, University of Sussex, Welcome to Our Hillbrow

Finding Africa is pleased to announce that the theme for the next seminar in the Philosophy and Literature stream will be HIV and AIDS. Katherine Furman, from the London School of Economics and Political Sciences will tackle the controversial question, “Is Thabo Mbeki Morally Responsible for his AIDS Denialism?” Furman’s paper will be followed by a presentation by Dr. Gráinne O’Connell from the University of Sussex on “‘Post-AIDS’ Futures, Global Health Governance and Representations of HIV and AIDS in Post-Apartheid Literary Fiction”. The seminar will take place on 1 June 2015 at 5.30pm in The Treehouse at the University of York’s Berrick Saul Building. The event is both free and open to all. Continue reading →

March 19, 2015October 6, 2016 Finding Africa Seminar Dates and Topics A Question of Power, AIDS Denialism, Arthur Rose, Bessie Head, Botswana, Dwelling, Elinor Rooks, Fiction, Grainne O'Connell, Katherine Furman, Post-AIDS, Post-Apartheid Dasien, Post-Apartheid Literature, Ruth Daly, Ryan Topper, South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, Thando Njovane, The Stone Virgins, Triomf, Under the Tongue, Yvonne Vera, Zimbabwe

24 May 2016

Ruth Daly (University of Leeds) on Liberating the Female Voice from the Patriarchal Order of the South African Pastoral Tradition.

25 November 2015

Ryan Topper (University of Leeds) on Life Beyond the Archive: Yvonne Vera’s The Stone Virgins and Thando Njovane (Rhodes University) on Architectures of Voice and Language in Yvonne Vera’s Under the Tongue

30 September 2015

Elinor Rooks (University of Leeds) on Cattle, Gardens and the Madness of Power:The Radical Developmental Politics of Bessie Head’s A Question of Power

12 June 2015

Yorkshire African Studies Network: Culture and Politics in Africa Workshop (University of York)

08 June 2015

Arthur Rose (University of Leeds) on Dwelling in Triomf; or Building the Infrastructure for Postapartheid Dasein

1 June 2015

Katherine Furman (London School of Economics and Political Science) on Is Thabo Mbeki Morally Responsible for his AIDS Denialism? and Gráinne O’Connell (University of Sussex) on ‘Post-AIDS’ Futures, Global Health Governance and Representations of HIV and AIDS in Post-Apartheid Literary Fiction

7 February 2015

African Intellectual Mobilities Conference (University of York)

21 January 2015

Richard Stupart (Erfürt University) on “Compassion Fatigue, the ‘CNN Effect’ and the Need for Better Media-Humanitarian Theory”

29 October 2014

Brendon Nicholls (University of Leeds) on “Ken Saro-Wiwa’s Sozaboy: Environment, Psyche and Objects”

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