CGAS Africa Dialogue Series  

2024


2023

  • 20 October, presentation made to Dutch Minister of Defence Kajsa Ollongren and members of the Royal Dutch Ministry of Defence. Stellenbosch.
  • 27 September, presented lecture at Department of Women’s and Gender Studies, UWC. Title: ‘(Inter)disciplinary and other stories: From women’s peace movements to the Women, Peace and Security Agenda’.
  • 20 September, keynote address delivered to the ‘International Conference on Counter Terrorism, Technology and Development in Africa’ co-hosted by the Africa Institute of Obuda University, Hungary and the Centre for Military Studies, Stellenbosch University. Title: ‘Terrorism in the Sahel after the coup in Niger’.
  • 24 August, paper presented to the seminar, ‘Trajectories of Conflict and Transitional Justice in Africa’ co-hosted by the Centre for Gender and Africa Studies, University of the Free State and the Centre for Security, Peace and Conflict Resolution, Nelson Mandela University.
  • 23 August, paper presented to the 2023 Summer School on EU Counter-Terrorism co-hosted by the Jean Monet Network on EU Counter-Terrorism, City University of Dublin and the University of South Wales. Dublin. Title: ‘Terrorism and Counter-Terrorism in the Sahel’.
  • 21 July, paper presented to the webinar ‘Emerging security threats in Africa’ hosted by the Department of Political Studies (UFS). Title: ‘Terrorism in the Sahel’.
  • 4 April, paper presented in UFS Thought Leader Webinar Series. Title: Threats to South Africa’s domestic stability and security challenges’.

Gender Talks webinar/seminar series  

 

2024
Gender Talks schedule and guest speakers

  • 23 February 2024 - Prof Deidre Byrne - “Horses are just men extenders” Feminism in Barbie
  • 15 March 2024 - Dr Robert Zuber - “Gender and peace keeping’ Atrocity and crime prevention
  • 26 April 2024 - Dr Jessica Lyn and Debi Jackson - A little about me: Transgender Awareness
  • 17 May 2024 - Prof Grider - Manliness at Sea: The Atlantic Origins of Pacific Pacific Sailors' Masculine Identity
  • 23 August 2024 - Dr Tarminder Kaur - Soccer masculinities and Personhood: A South African Subaltern Story
  • 20 September 2024 - Prof Marlize Rabe - The prisoner, the breadwinner, the man, the father
  • 25 October 2024 - Neo Motaung - African spirituality makes space for my divinity and queerness


2023
The Gender Talks seminar series continued coordinated by Dr Juliet Kamwendo during her term as Acting Programme Director: Gender Studies (1 September 2022-31 August 2023).

  • Friday, 24 February 2023: Prof Michelle Gay, ‘Queering Digital (IM) Mortality, or, How to think about mourning and our cyberselves’.
  • Friday, 24 March 2023: Dr Bimha Primrose, ‘African women leaders international relations: Spotlight on Ngozi Okonjo Iweala’.
  • Friday, 14 April 2023: Prof Hussein Solomon, ‘Being Gay in Al-Sisi’s Egypt’.
  • Friday, 19 May 2023: Dr Zamambo Mkhize, ‘Transformation, race, gender and STEM in South African Universities’.
  • Friday, 25 August 2023: Prof Pamila Gupta, ‘Fields of Marigold: Makers and weavers of luxury African beaded necklaces’.
  • Friday, 22 September 2023: Prof Billy Huff, ‘Thinking Trans/Sex: Erotic Justice and the Trans-Subject’.
  • Friday, 13 October 2023: Prof John Grider, ‘Manliness at sea: The Atlantic origins of Pacific sailors’ masculine identity’.

2022
The Gender Talks seminar series continued as a webinar series through the involvement of Dr Nadine Lake.

  • Friday, 25 February 2022: Dr Munyaradzi Mushonga, ‘You have to pay with your body’: Women’s experiences of sexual assault and rape at the Lesotho-South Africa ‘paqama gates’.
  • Friday, 11 March 2022: Prof Deirdre Byrne, ‘Tell the truth, but tell it slant’: Ways of thinking about South African women’s poetry.
  • Friday, 22 April 2022: Jessica Lynn, Awareness and support for Transgender Individuals: Working with young people.
  • Friday, 20 May 2022: Nonhlanhla Dlamini, Fictions of femininity and masculinity construction in the ‘The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’.
  • Friday, 26 August 2022: Dr Stephanie Cawood, Gendered (in)securities and the memorialisation of struggle in postliberation Africa.
  • Friday, 9 September 2022: Prof Amanda Gouws, ‘Shadows of Agamben’: Gender-based violence and bare life in South Africa.
  • Friday, 28 October 2022: Dr Mias van Jaarsveld, ‘Intersections of religious agency, gender-based violence and African masculinities’.
 
 
 
 

FACULTY CONTACT

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Postgraduate:
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Undergraduate:
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Phyllis Masilo: +27 51 401 9683

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