We recently went on a research trip down the KwaZulu-Natal South Coast, for a writers trail we are helping KZN Literary Tourism produce. Writers associated with the region include Ellen Kuzwayo, Es’kia Mpahlele, Roy Campbell, Laurens van der Post and Michael Green. We ended up at this beautiful church, set amongst the sugar cane fields, …
Category Archives: Research
Classification and its consequences
The Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity is holding a symposium on classification next week. Niall McNulty will be taking part in a session on classifying information, where he will discuss the Ulwazi programme and the process and purpose of classifying intangible heritage. Two sessions are also open to the public: Classifying …
ASJ Conference Proceedings
The proceedings of the Art and Social Justice Conference, held from 21-24 March 2010 at the Durban University of Technology, are now available for download at bit.ly/faHKAr. Niall McNulty presented a paper titled ‘Tribe of colours – reclaiming identity via the Web’.
Archive and Public Culture Workshop
I recently attended the Archives and Public Culture Research Initiative quarterly workshop held at the Jon Berndt Thought Space. It was an intensive three days in which a number of working papers from various disciplines, broadly relating to the archive, were presented. Papers included topics such as the early years of black radio broadcasts in …