Poetry reading and seminar | Yvette Christiansë: 'Words on Water: Southern African Literatures and the Oceans'
13 – 14 September 2018
WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand
Yvette Christiansë, Ann Whitney Olin Chair, is a Professor of Africana Studies and English and Chair of Africana Studies at Barnard College at Columbia University in New York. She is an award-winning poet, novelist, librettist and scholar with interests in the poetry and prose of African diaspora in former English colonies. She is the author of Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics. For some twenty-seven years, she has been researching the stall in the abolition of slavery in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
13 September: Poetry Reading
Yvette Christiansë reads from her work.
14 September: Words on Water: Southern African Literatures and the Oceans
Yvette Christiansë will talk about her work on slave registers. This will be followed by a discussion with Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr.
These events form part of WATERSHED: Art, Science and Elemental Politics, a programme of exhibitions and scholarly panels to provoke new thinking about water. WATERSHED takes place from 10 to 21 September 2018. It includes interactive art installations, engineering and scientific displays, and academic symposia across disciplines and faculties.
Please visit the website for full details: https://www.wits.ac.za/watershed/
Yvette Christiansë, Ann Whitney Olin Chair, is a Professor of Africana Studies and English and Chair of Africana Studies at Barnard College at Columbia University in New York. She is an award-winning poet, novelist, librettist and scholar with interests in the poetry and prose of African diaspora in former English colonies. She is the author of Toni Morrison: An Ethical Poetics. For some twenty-seven years, she has been researching the stall in the abolition of slavery in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans.
13 September: Poetry Reading
Yvette Christiansë reads from her work.
14 September: Words on Water: Southern African Literatures and the Oceans
Yvette Christiansë will talk about her work on slave registers. This will be followed by a discussion with Charne Lavery, Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr.
These events form part of WATERSHED: Art, Science and Elemental Politics, a programme of exhibitions and scholarly panels to provoke new thinking about water. WATERSHED takes place from 10 to 21 September 2018. It includes interactive art installations, engineering and scientific displays, and academic symposia across disciplines and faculties.
Please visit the website for full details: https://www.wits.ac.za/watershed/
