Gary Minkley
Date: Thursday, October 9, 2008
Time: 4:00pm-6:00pm
Location: ICIS Conference Room 108
Pre-circulated paper: South Africa and the Spectacle of Public Pasts: Public Histories and Heritage in Post Anti-Apartheid South Africa
Gary Minkley is Professor of History at the University of Fort Hare (UFH), South Africa and Director of Postgraduate Studies, associated with the Govan Mbeki Research and Development Centre (GMRDC) at UFH.
He has a PhD from the University of Cape Town, entitled Border Dialogues: Race, Class and Space in the Industrialisation of East London and has published widely on various aspects of Eastern Cape history. More recently much of his research and teaching work has been in engaging with public pasts in South Africa and also in the field of visual histories. He is currently completing a book manuscript entitled Visual Histories, Performance and Public Culture in the Eastern Cape. He is also the leader of a South African National Research Foundation (NRF) institutional research and development Niche area, entitled Culture, Heritage and Social Transformation in the Eastern Cape, where many of these themes around public histories and cultures are explored in collaborative and inter-disciplinary ways, and actively engaged in the public arenas of heritage practice.
He is currently working on the completion of a co-authored book with colleagues Ciraj Rassool and Leslie Witz from the University of the Western Cape (UWC), where he also worked for fifteen years, entitled South Africa and the Spectacle of Public Pasts. The presentation forms part of this collaborative work.
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