Virtual Humanities Conference
Virtual Humanities Conference 17–19 November 2021 Submission closing date: 15 September 2021 Hosted by Critical Food Studies together with the University of the Western Cape (UWC), University of Pretoria (UP)…
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Attend our virtual seminar: New Generation Scholars Researching Food on 31 August 2021
Virtual Seminar 4 Panelists: Ms Rachel Botes, Dr Evans Ondigi, Dr Sheetal Bhoola New Generation Scholars Researching Food 31 August 2021, 14:00 – 16:00 (Pretoria) This session airs new research driven by…
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Violence, Hunger and Seeds of Care
Violence, Hunger and Seeds of Care By Sanelisiwe Nyaba and Haidee Swanby August 2021 In 2020, when the Covid 19 pandemic struck, the South African government implemented some of the…
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Attend our virtual seminar: Centering African feminism in food cultures and politics on 27 July 2021
Virtual seminar 3 Panelists: Pat McFadden, Yvette Abrahams, Ruth Nyambura and Mercia Andrews Centering African feminism in food cultures and politics: 27 July 2021 2-4pm (Pretoria) Although African women are…
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“We Eat Sushi Now”: Targeting Hungry Students at 2 South African Universities
“We Eat Sushi Now”: Targeting Hungry Students at South African Universities By Mary Hames and Desiree Lewis. Media reports, research, and student support services are paying an increasing amount of attention to…
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Attend our virtual seminar: In search of the perfect curry in two contemporary cookbooks on 29 June 2021
Virtual Seminar 2: In search of the perfect curry in two contemporary cookbooks Date and time: June 29, 2021 13:30PM – 15:30PM Johannesburg Meeting ID: 912 1835 5844 Zoom link:…
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Attend our virtual Seminar: Corporate fast food advertising targeting children on 25 May 2021
This seminar is based on interdisciplinary research in cultural studies, anthropology and linguistics and is presented by CFS scholars at UWC and UKZN. It raises the way that a transnational…
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Corporate fast-food advertising targeting children in South Africa
Corporate fast-food advertising targeting children in South Africa by Desiree Lewis, Sheetal Bhoola and Lynn Mafofo (This chapter will be published in the Child Gauge, (UCT) in 2020) The health…
Read MoreYOUTUBE – Virtual Seminar: Embracing Contemporarity: Theorising and Living Our Feminist Futures’ by Patricia McFadden
Women’s and Gender Studies Department and South African Association of Gender Studies presents a discussion on the context of the so-called “decolonial turn” and the frequently mechanical embrace of “political correctness”, what are the legacies and possibilities for radical feminist imagining. Themes explored include:
- Herstories, Legacies and Political shifts in feminism
- Crafting new language and feminist imaginaries to respond to contemporary challenges
- Resisting ecocide – living an ecofeminist vegan life
This virtual event took place on 29 September 2021, 5 – 7 PM (Johannesburg)
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