Phd and Masters Scholarships available

The Centre for Critical Research on Race Identity has a number of scholarships available for Phd and Masters students, for their project Education and Emancipation: a critical, intervention-oriented investigation of obstacles and opportunities within the higher-education-and-training sector in South Africa. More on the project here … More on the scholarships here …

ARCHIVAL ASPIRATIONS AND ANXIETIES

CONTEMPORARY PRESERVATION AND PRODUCTION OF THE PAST IN UMBUMBULU, KWAZULU-NATAL Grant McNulty is presenting a paper at the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity seminar. This paper offers an ethnographic investigation of the contemporary preservation and production of the past in Umbumbulu, a peri-urban area to the south of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. As …

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 …

Revisiting Apartheid Race Categories: A Colloquium

We’re attending this colloquium at Wits next week – as associates of the Centre for Critical Research on Race and Identity (we develop digital research resources for them).  Should be interesting and there is a public lecture with Professors Jonathan Jansen and  Steven Friedman on Thursday night – see you there! The post-1994 South African government requires …