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The news archive for the UCT Department of English.  The articles are listed from latest to oldest.

May 2019

Public event: Shakespeare and Social Justice panel discussion and book launch, 18 May 2019 - 16 May 2019 - 10:15
Shakespeare and Social Justice keynote address by Professor Ayanna Thompson: 5pm, 16 May 2019 - 15 May 2019 - 11:30

March 2019

Event: Andrew van der Vlies in conversation with Erica Lombard at UCT on 4 April - 27 Mar 2019 - 13:30
English Honours students Daniela Friedman and Tasneem Allybokus have been made interns at PEN SA - 27 Mar 2019 - 11:30

February 2019

Book launch: The Zulus of New York, by Zakes Mda. In conversation with Nadia Davids - 21 Feb 2019 - 11:00
Institute for Creative Arts Book Launch - Acts of Transgression: Contemporary Live Art in South Africa - 15 Feb 2019 - 12:30

November 2018

Dr Mandisa Haarhoff at Northwestern University - 29 Nov 2018 - 10:45
Associate Professor Nadia Davids' play At Her Feet returns to the Baxter Golden Arrow Studio from 22 November to 8 December 2018 – for the first time in 14 years - 19 Nov 2018 - 11:00
Associate Professor Barbara Boswell has been awarded the coveted Debut Award for South African Writing in English from the University of Johannesburg for her novel Grace - 12 Nov 2018 - 12:00

September 2018

Black Archives and Intellectual Histories Seminar Series - Archive in the Wake - 25 Sep 2018 - 09:45
Barbara Boswell’s novel, Grace has been shortlisted for the UJ Debut Literary Prize for South African Writing in English - 13 Sep 2018 - 12:45
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories - Embodied Epistemes: Disappearance and the Archive - 13 Sep 2018 - 11:15

August 2018

Associate Professor Barbara Boswell's interview for the Cheeky Natives Podcast - 31 Aug 2018 - 09:45
Professor Carrol Clarkson wins UCT Meritorious Book Award - 27 Aug 2018 - 14:30
TB Davie pre-lecture dinner - 21 Aug 2018 - 11:15
Black Archives and Intellectual Histories - 6 Aug 2018 - 10:45

June 2018

The Department celebrates the graduation of two of our PhD students this month - 27 Jun 2018 - 12:45
Assoc. Prof. Harry Garuba’s poem gets published as the poem of the week in the Guardian newspaper - 13 Jun 2018 - 12:30

March 2018

Assoc. Prof. Nadia Davids' play What Remains received 5 awards at the 2018 Fleur du Cap awards - 19 Mar 2018 - 11:30

November 2017

The Afrows Anthology – Propelling Young Black Writers - 22 Nov 2017 - 12:00
Hedley Twidle's new book Firepool: Experiences in an Abnormal World - 9 Nov 2017 - 13:15

March 2016

Talking the WALK with Dr Barbara Boswell - 23 Mar 2016 - 12:45
Welcome new Postgradute Students - 23 Mar 2016 - 11:30
International Journal of Arts and Humanities in Higher Education - 23 Mar 2016 - 11:15
Professor Imraan Coovadia - 23 Mar 2016 - 10:00

January 2016

Posgraduate conference 2016 - 19 Jan 2016 - 16:00

March 2015

Locating the Gothic Conference Review - 11 Mar 2015 - 11:15
New Voices New Spaces - 6 Mar 2015 - 13:15
Beyond the Surf: Sara Blecher’s Otelo Burning (2011) - 6 Mar 2015 - 12:30

February 2015

Remembering Andre Brink - 27 Feb 2015 - 21:15
Drawing the Line with Professor Carrol Clarkson - 24 Feb 2015 - 11:45
UCT English Department showcases some of its skills at annual Open Book Festival - 24 Feb 2015 - 11:30
A Win for the Institute of Taxi Poetry - 24 Feb 2015 - 11:15
English Department in the World QS Rankings - 20 Feb 2015 - 13:45
Reading Gandhi - 18 Feb 2015 - 18:00
English department first in Africa to host Man Booker Prize in 2015 - 18 Feb 2015 - 17:15
ARH Framing the Beach 30th September 2014 - 17 Feb 2015 - 12:30