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

November 2021

Associate Professor Christopher Ouma receives College of Fellows Young Researcher Award - 8 Nov 2021 - 12:30

October 2021

Research Seminar: Associate Professor Rosanne Kennedy on the role of activism in shaping cultural memory - 25 Oct 2021 - 10:15
The Konstantin Sofianos Scholarship 2022 essay topic has been released - 21 Oct 2021 - 11:00
The Writers' Seminar with Damon Galgut - 20 Oct 2021 - 09:45
Research Seminar: Leon Bomela on "Nationalism in Nyamnjoh's Fiction" - 19 Oct 2021 - 12:15
Launching monthly 'The Writer's Seminar' Series - 15 Oct 2021 - 09:00
The Konstantin Sofianos Scholarship applications open for 2022 - 5 Oct 2021 - 09:30
Associate Professor Nadia Davids' latest play, Hold Still, premieres this month - 4 Oct 2021 - 16:15

March 2021

Associate Professor Nadia Davids wins UCT Creative Art Works Award - 19 Mar 2021 - 18:15

February 2021

Virtual Event: Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature BOOK LAUNCH - 17 Feb 2021 - 11:30

September 2020

Online Event: African Feminisms 2020 - 7 Sep 2020 - 14:00

August 2020

Christopher Ouma launches Childhood in Contemporary Diasporic African Literature: Memories and Futures Past - 28 Aug 2020 - 14:00

July 2020

Webinar to unpack racism and inequality amid COVID-19 - 13 Jul 2020 - 13:15

March 2020

In memoriam: Professor Harry Garuba - 3 Mar 2020 - 12:00

February 2020

Barbara Boswell hosts Professor Elleke Boehmer's book launch - 28 Feb 2020 - 12:00
Hedley Twidle participated in the Bergen Literary Festival in Norway - 28 Feb 2020 - 12:00
Sandra Young, keynote speaker at the University of Bayreuth in Germany - 28 Feb 2020 - 12:00

December 2019

End of year party 2019 - 6 Dec 2019 - 12:30

October 2019

Postgraduate Conference 2019 - 31 Oct 2019 - 10:15
Applications open for the Konstantin Sofianos Scholarship - 22 Oct 2019 - 12:15

August 2019

Hedley Twidle launches Experiments with Truth: Narrative Non-Fiction and the Coming of Democracy in South Africa - 28 Aug 2019 - 10:45
Dr Polo Moji co-edits new publication on the study of blackness in contemporary Europe - 28 Aug 2019 - 10:15

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

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