Seminar series

2026 Schedule

All seminars: Thursdays, 14:00–16:00
Edit-a-thon: whole day event

Teams link for online attendance: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/33954899303426?p=OdORWLP88qObSkLLGr

JULY

2026-07-23: Reading Seminar

Reading: Hugo ka Canham, ‘Introduction’, Riotous Deathscapes (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2023), pp. 1-36.

2026-07-30: Guest Speaker, Dr Janne Rantala

Reading: Janne Rantala’s draft article, ‘From memory to mobilisation: The layered revolt in Mozambique’ (2023-2025).

AUGUST

2026-08-06: SoniXplorations – Thursday event

Time and presenter tbc, Venue: Duikboot, Department of Music (follow signage when you enter the building from Neethling Street).

2026-08-13: Reading Seminar

Reading: Ben Spatz What a body can do, (London and New York: Routledge) Chapter 5 ‘Embodied research in the university’, pp.                    217-252.

2026-08-20: Artistic Component of PhD, Alida Van der Walt

Venue: AVREQ, Note the change in time: 12:30-14:00 (tbc).

2026-08-27: Sasrim Conference – Bloemfontein

Student presentations for those not attending Sasrim, presenters to be confirmed

SEPTEMBER

2026-09-03: Reading Seminar

Reading: Dylan Robinson, Hungry Listening: Resonant theory for Indigenous sound studies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), Chapter 1, pp. 37-73.

2026-09-10: RECESS

2026-09-17: Student Presentations

Presenters to be confirmed.

2026-09-24: Heritage Day public holiday – no seminar

OCTOBER

2026-10-01: Reading Seminar

Reading: Juliana M. Pistorius, Postcolonial opera: William Kentridge and the unbounded work of art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), Chapters 1 and 2.

2026-10-08: Reading Seminar

Reading: Juliana M. Pistorius, Postcolonial opera: William Kentridge and the unbounded work of art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), Chapters 3 and 4.

2026-10-15: Edit-a-thon

Southern African Encyclopaedia of Music and Sound (whole day event).

2026-10-22: Reading Seminar

Reading: Juliana M. Pistorius, Postcolonial opera: William Kentridge and the unbounded work of art (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), Chapters 5, 6 and Conclusion.

Texts available here: Readings – Google Drive