Research Projects
Memory and Reconciliation
Related events:
Summer School 2016: "Truth Commissions and the Culture of Dissenting Memory in the Global South", 25-29 July 2016 (programme)
Media and Representation
- Sebastian Thies
- Fernando Resende (UFF)
- Mehita Iqani (WITS)
- Roberto Robalinho Lima (UFF)
- Beatriz Polianov (UFF)
- Peter Krieger (UNAM)
- David Wood (UNAM)
Related events:
PhD Students' Workshop: "Southern Gaze(s) in Audiovisual Narratives", April 2017
Gender and Genre
- Ute Seydel (UNAM)
- Ingrid Hotz-Davies
Related events:
International Conference: “Rethinking Gender from the Global South(s)”, 26-29 September 2016, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Mexico-City
Migratory Texts
- Amadou Ba (UCAD)
- Ute Seydel (UNAM)
- Robert Muponde (WITS)
- Merle Williams (WITS)
- Dorothee Kimmich
Related events:
Workshop: "Translating South Africa: Home and Away", 16 September 2016
Thinking the Global South
- Achille Mbembe
- Sarah Nuttall (WITS)
- Dan Ojwang (WITS)
- Makarand Panajape (JNU)
Related events:
Lecture: Achille Mbembe: "Time on the Move", 8 April 2017, ICI Berlin
Megaurban Formations
- Sebastian Thies
- Amadou Ba (UCAD)
- Russell West-Pavlov
- Kerry Bystrom (Bard College Berlin)
- Andrew Webber (Cambridge)
Related events:
Symposium: "Cities of the South, Cities of the North", 14 December 2015, ICI Berlin
Conference: "Diálogos sobre la megaurbe: Cultura, comunicación y participación ciudadana en la ciudad de México", 12-13 January 2017 (video)
A planned series of volumes to be published with Routledge will reflect the projects' research on Memory, Media, Gender and Genre, and Magacities. Two books (one a collection with Routledge and one a book with Cambridge University Press) are currently in planning on Thinking the Global South.