The Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA) hosted a book launch for Impossible Return: Harfield Village Forced Removals. which isa multi-faceted research project at the CCA focused on forced removals in the Harfield and Claremont areas. The project began with a collection of photographs by South African artist, David Brown, who, whilst a Fine Art student at Michaelis in the 1970s, photographed the Harfield community just before and during the apartheid-era forced removals.
What does the global fertility industry reproduce – apart from babies? Associate Professor Amrita Pande, a sociologist and feminist ethnographer at the University of Cape Town (UCT), seeks to answer this central question through her research on the global fertility market.
The Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa and the Unsettling Knowledge Production on Gendered and Sexual Violence Project hosted an exhibition which centres on the work that has come out of multiple projects exploring different intersecting violences. This exhibition brings together five years of participatory research engaged with different communities in capturing their negotiations of the varying terrains of violence.
A farewell event for Professor Johnn Higgins, Arderne Chair of Literature, was hosted at the Irma Stern Museum. At this event, Prof Higgins gave a lecture, 'The Professor of Received Ideas: knowledge versus opinion in a time of climate change'.