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Centre for African Studies

Research Report 2006

Director: Professor Brenda Cooper
Centre Profile
The goals of the Centre are to encourage and co-ordinate teaching and research in the various fields concerned with people in Africa, as well as developing African Studies graduate courses and programmes. We also provide service courses for non-Humanities students, such as Engineers and Architects, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. At the core of our teaching and research is our intellectual project of examining the ways in which knowledge of Africa has been constructed in a range of discourses that cut across a number of disciplines. Within this forum, our courses cover themes such as the representation of Africa across a number of media in both popular culture and in academic disciplines. In this regard, we provide a critical understanding of how knowledge in and about Africa has been filtered through the colonial library. In addition, the Centre’s activities include producing our journal, Social Dynamics, holding regular seminars, workshops and forums for debate and providing a venue for performances, art exhibitions and film.

Centre Statistics
Permanent and long-term contract staff

Professors	1
Associate Professors	1
Senior Lecturers	1
Senior Secretary	1
Permanent Administrative Staff	1
Total	5

Students

Diploma	3
Honours	5
Masters	11
Doctoral	1
Postgraduate	125
Undergraduate	204
Total	349

Research Fields and Staff
Permanent and long-term contract staff

Professor Brenda Cooper

African fiction; representations of Africa; literary theory quite broadly defined; including postcolonial studies and African studies
Associate Professor Harry Garuba

Postcolonial theory and criticism; African and African diasporic literature; cultural studies

Dr Nick Shepherd

Archaeology; cultural studies; African and African Diaporic studies; heritage studies

Postdoctoral fellows
Dr Louise Green

Cultural studies; critical theory; heritage studies

Research Associates
Associate Professor Steven Robins

University of Stellenbosch. Research Associate from January 2002 to 31 December 2006

Dr Geri Augusto (Brown University, USA)

Research Project: “Epistemic tensions in Khoikhoi, Sankwe, slave and European knowledges of medicinal plants at the Cape in the 17^th and 18^th centuries”

Associate Professor Lundy Braun (Brown University, USA)

Research Projects: The history of race and technology in medicine, and race and the new genomics

Mary Burton (Former Trustee of the Black Sash)

Research Project: Compiling a book on the history of the Black Sash, with a particular focus on the period 1965-1995

Professor Mario Di Gregorio (University of L’Aquila, Italy)

Research Project: “The Force of Destiny: Race, Nation, and the Roots of Apartheid”

Dr Sam Durrant (Leeds University, UK)

Research Project: Working on monograph entitled The Invention of Mourning in Postapartheid Literature

Professor Yehoshua Gitay (Haifa University, Israel)

Research Project: The South African Public Speech: Social, Political and Rhetorical Concerns

Professor Peter Heywood (Brown University, USA)

Research Project: “Food Plants: Their Origins, Modifications, Cultivation and Uses”

Associate Professor Nancy Jacobs (Brown University, USA)

Research Project: Research for a book entitled Birders of a Feather: People, Birds, and Other People in Africa, which uses people’s relations with birds to tell the story of environment, society and science in sub-Saharan Africa

Dr Neelika Jayawardene (State University of New York, Oswego)

Research Project: Research on emerging South African literature; research on District Six Museum as part of world-wide ‘academic tourism’

Dr Joyce Kirk (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)

Research Projects: Sangomas and their possible role in HIV/AIDS treatment and prevention; the use of drugs and alcohol by young women and its relationship to the spread of HIV/AIDS

Professor Kogila Moodley (University of British Columbia, Canada)

Research Project: “Political Literacy and Citizenship in South Africa”

Professor Frances Murphy (Eastern Illinois University, USA)

Research Project: Investigating programs related to loss and bereavement for families who have members suffering from HIV/AIDS and the availability of after-care following the death of a family member

Assistant Professor Catherine Taylor (Ohio University, USA)

Research projects: essay on the Black Sash; academic article on representations of political violence to be presented at Modern Language Association conference in December 2006

Assistant Professor Theresa Tobin (Marquette University, USA)

Research Project: “Applied Ethics in a Global Context: How Should we Reason About Female Genital Cutting?”

Tonje Vold (University of Oslo, Norway)

Research Project: “Masculinity and Whiteness in J.M. Coetzee’s novel Disgrace”

Contact Details

Postal Address: Centre for African Studies, Harry Oppenheimer Institute Building, University of Cape Town, Private Bag X3, Rondebosch, 7701

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Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/cas/

Research Output
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
Cooper, B.L. 2006. Look who's talking? Multiple worlds, migration and translation in Leila Aboulela's 'The Translator'. Translator: Studies in Intercultural Communication, 12(2): 323-344.
Cooper, B.L. 2006. Parallel universes and denotating words. Journal for the Study of Religion, 19(2): 17-40.
Green, L. 2006. The language of dogs: Intermediate forms in global culture. Current Writing, 18(1): 103-118.
Shepherd, N. 2006. Local practise, global discipline. Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress, 2(1): 1-2.
Weintroub, J. 2006. 'Some sort of mania': Otto Hartung Spohr and the making of the Bleek Collection. Kronos, 32: 114-138.

CHAPTERS IN BOOKS
Cooper, B.L. 2006. The power of the pink hat: Research in arts and culture towards alleviating spiritual poverty. In T. Marcus and A. Hofmaenner (eds), Shifting boundaries of knowledge: A view on social sciences, law and humanities in South Africa: 79-97. South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.
Shepherd, N. 2006. Historical archaeology and colonialism. In M.C. Beaudry and D. Hicks (eds), The Cambridge companion to historical archaeology: 69-86. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Shepherd, N. 2006. Roots and wings: Heritage studies in the humanities. In A. Hofmaenner and T. Marcus (eds), Shifting boundaries of knowledge: A view on social sciences, law and humanities in South Africa: 125-140. South Africa: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press.

THESES AND DISSERTATIONS PASSED FOR HIGHER DEGREES
Ernsten, C. 2006. Stylizing Cape Town: Problematising the heritage management of Prestwich Street: 1-92. M.Phil in African Studies (Public Culture).
Gibson, K. 2006. "Utopian fantasies of the perfected imperial prospect and fractured images of unresolved ambivalence and unsuppressed resistance": The Groote Schuur landscape considered as an imperial topography of Cecil John Rhodes, 1890-1929: 1-103. M.Phil in African Studies (Public Culture).
Himmelman, N. 2006. Madness in African Literature: Ambivalence, Fluidity, and Play: 1-139. M.Phil in African Studies.
Ramakau-Ntene, M. 2006. Investigating tourism development plan for Botha-Bothe Platau: An inquiry into heritage management and poverty relief: 1-126. M.Phil in African Studies (Public Culture).
Weintroub, F. 2006. From tin trunk to worldwide memory: The making and re-making of the Bleek-Lloyd archives: 1-105. M.Phil in African Studies (Public Culture).

UNIVERSITY PUBLICATIONS AND WORKS OF A POPULAR NATURE
Garuba, H.O. 2006. Book Review: "Relocating Agency: Modernity and African Letters" by Olakunle George. Interventions 8 (1): 137-139
Garuba, H.O. 2006. Book Review: Scholarship in African Universities. African Literature Today 25: 128-132

Creative Work
Second Time Broken. Production and choreography by Adam Benjamin, music by Neo Muyanga. Performed at The Little Theatre Cape Town on 2,3,4,8,9,10,11 February 2006; National Arts Festival Grahamstown, Centenary Hall 5-8 July 2006; Out of the Box Festival, The Little Theatre, Cape Town 12 & 13 September 2006.
Iyo. Production and choreography by Ina Wiechterich, music by Neo Muyanga. Performed at Baxter Dance Festival 4 October 2006; Noluthando School for the Deaf; Mowbray Teacher Training College; Astra School.
Bluebeard. Directed by Jacqueline Dommisse, movement direction by Tossie van Tonder, and music by James Webb. Performed at the Lions Den, Rhodes Memorial Estate on 22-26, 28-30 November and 1-2 December 2006.
Matsogo. Choreographed by Mpho Masilela. Performed at Wits University Theatre, Johannesburg, as part of the New Moves dance festival on 14 &15 August 2006.