Gauteng Anthropology

Powerful article by ’s on the Johannesburg fires. Kathi argues for “comprehensive urban development policy that prioritises the provision of safe and affordable housing but also addresses the regeneration of neglected city centres”

The vilifying of victims in the aftermath of the Johannesburg fires The vilifying of victims in the aftermath of the Johannesburg fires Author(s) Thandeka Kathi Posted 13 February 2024 Time to read 3 Minutes This blogpost explores the complexities of the Marshalltown fires that occurred on 31 August 2023 in Johannesburg, South Africa. It is argued that the historica...

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Re-worlding Reproduction Re-worlding Reproduction: Navigating Emerging Knowledges, Politics, and JusticeThe inspiration for our conference title, “Re-worlding Reproduction: Navigating Emerging Knowledge, Politics, and Justice,” springs from the recent essay by Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni (2023). In his insightful piece, Nd...

These amazing fellowships are taking application until 11 February.

See the link in my stories and the Jan 2024 To Do Highlights

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ASNA has put together a beautiful throwback as a thank you.

Enjoy below.

See you all at and .

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One of our highlights for the year? Successfully hosting largest ASnA, ever. #ASNA2023 Thank you to everyone who was able to join, and if you couldn’t, we hope you will commune with us at #ASNA2024 and #WAU2024 at the University of Johannesburg. Happy holidays, friends. 💫🥂

Anthropology Southern Africa has released a statement concerning Israeli state violence in Gaza.

It is available for download here:

Anthropology Southern Africa statement on Israeli state violence in Gaza Published in Anthropology Southern Africa (Ahead of Print, 2023)

Senior Lecturer: Sociology post available at Stellenbosch University in the Sociology and Social Anthropology department.

The closing date is 15 January 2024.

All the best!

Check my stories and the ‘Jan 2024 To Do’ for the link

is also hosting the World Anthropological Union Congress 2024.

They seek panels that speak, but are not limited, to:

• Changing fields of anthropological subdisciplines;

• The politics of producing social, cultural, linguistic, biological and paleo- anthropological knowledge;

• Ideas and ideals of ethnographic and ethnological practice;

• Post-covid practices in anthropological knowledge making;

• Digital worlds and the role of new technologies in fieldwork;

• The legitimacy of museums and collections as knowledge repositories;

• Ideas of truth and/ or post-truth in knowledge-making and representation;

• Anthropology as the humbling practice of learning;

• Tensions between local knowledge production and academic knowledge production;

• Disaggregating local knowledges in light of critical decolonial perspectives;

• Challenges and successes of the decolonial imperative;

• Decoloniality and criticality: overlaps, tensions, and differences;

• The politics of disseminating knowledges;

• Manifestations of hegemony in knowledge production, and their dangers;

• The knowledges which one can’t quite see, hear, touch, feel, smell;

• Survival, revival and flourishing in a “post”- catastrophic world;

• Changing ethics, methods and techniques in ethnographic research;

• (Re)production of hegemony and hierarchy in anthropological research;

• Pleasure, joy and fun in anthropological research;

• Anthropology out of the “Ivory towers”;

• “Studying up” and anthropology of institutions/elites etc;

• Creativity and the art in/of/as research.

Call closes on 22 January 2024.

See stories and the ‘Jan 2024 To Do’ for link.

“In a widely circulated talk, Nobel Laureate, Toni Morrison is asked by an audience member: “how [do you] survive whole in a world where [we] are all victims of something?” Morrison responds, “sometimes you don’t survive whole, you survive in part”. Morrison reminds us of the tough work of repair after events or incidents that threaten to splinter our minds, bodies and souls.

For the 2024 conference, we invite anthropological and ethnographically grounded explorations of repair, restoration and reparation.”

See my stories and the ‘Jan 2024 To Do’ highlight for the link.

The portal is now open to accept submissions for the conference “Re-worlding Reproduction: Emerging Knowledges, Politics, and Practices of Justice” 16-19 September 2024 in Pretoria, South Africa.

This international conference aims to include a multiplicity of reproductive worlds, practices, and futures, alongside a reflexive analysis of the structures and politics that shape reproductive studies itself. The title of the conference takes its name from Sabelo J Ndlovu-Gatsheni’s recent essay, where he points to the reproduction of the “coloniser’s model of the world” through a cognitive empire. We take inspiration from his appeal to “re-world” from the Global South, a process and practice of world-making (worlding) via knowledge, power, resistance, and dreams of freedom. We welcome contributions across a range of disciplines in reproductive studies, including anthropology, sociology, public health, science and technology studies, and q***r, ethnic, and gender studies. We aim to foreground Global South scholarship, their/our contributions to challenging hegemonic framings of reproduction in social theory, and highlighting work that disrupts powerful narratives in biomedicine, health policy, and social discourse.

Please see my stories and the “2024 January To Do list” for the link

As you make your final plans before you go on holiday and throw most things in the “January 2024 to do list”, I have few things that need to be top of that list.

Conferences:

1. SASA congress
2. Pan Africanism, Afrocentricity, and Afrofuturism in the 21st Century: Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Centenary International Conference
3. Re-Worlding Reproduction Conference
4. Anthropology Southern Africa Conference
5. World Anthropological Union Congress

Jobs/fellowships:

1. Senior Lecturer in Sociology - Stellenbosch University
2. Postdoctoral Fellow- Tshwane University of Technology

Look out for the calls and links in my next posts and my stories.

Happy Holidays!

Rhodes Anthropology Dept are looking to fill a sabbatical relief teaching contract between February and June 2024.

Details and contacts below.

Don’t forget to submit your papers for and panels for

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Call for Contributions: Repair, Restoration and Reparation - Anthropology Southern Africa Annual Conference 2024

The council of Anthropology Southern Africa invites you to submit panels, papers, roundtables, films, workshops, art installations and other contributions for the annual conference being hosted by the University of Johannesburg, South Africa, from 6 - 8 November 2024.

Info: https://bit.ly/ASnA2024

Submissions: https://bit.ly/ASnA2024submissions

The Call for Panels for the inaugural World Anthropological Union - WAU to be hosted at UJ Department of Anthropology and Development Studies in November 2024 is out.

Please submit and join us at UJ for this history making congress at UJ in November 2024.

First deadline is 1 March 2024. Please keep to the deadline if you will need papers early in the year for funding applications.

See you all soon at UJ. 😎

Call for Panels: World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress 2024

Info: https://ow.ly/YbVk50Qef9t

Anthropology Southern Africa warmly invites you to join us in Mzansi/South Africa for the inaugural World Anthropological Union (WAU) Congress from November 11 to 15, 2024. Organized by Anthropology Southern Africa and hosted by the University of Johannesburg, this groundbreaking event promises a rich exploration of anthropological knowledge under the theme:

Reimagining Anthropological Knowledge: Perspectives, Practices, and Power

Submit a Panel Proposal: https://ow.ly/BozP50Qef9s

The Call for Papers and Panels for the annual Anthropology Southern Africa is out. The theme explores “repair” after events that threaten to splinter our minds, bodies and souls. The conference will be held in November 2024 at UJ Department of Anthropology and Development Studies.

You can submit your abstract here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSexWgdRcgk-zXIQRzmYpmUJIHa8MSHtYOeC9KyBG-W7hwFOew/viewform

Downloadable (PDF) :https://www.asnahome.org/images/ASnA_2024_Conference/ASnA_2024_Conference_call_for_contributions.pdf

Other details: https://www.asnahome.org

First deadline is 1st of March 2024. Please submit by then, especially if you’re intending to apply for funding.

Join in and bring your most wholesome self.

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Join in next week. You might recognise a Gauteng Anthropology(ist) on the panel 😉

De-colonizing Anthropology
WAU - World Anthropological Union Webinar
Organized by the World Council of Anthropological Associations (WCAA)

Tuesday, November 28, 2pm UTC
12 am, Australia (November 29); 10 pm, Hong Kong; 4 pm, Egypt, Palestine & South Africa; 8 am, Mexico

Registration: https://bit.ly/WCAAdecolonize

Live Stream: https://www.facebook.com/events/3441775426086156/

Clara Saraiva
WCAA/ ICS-Universidade de Lisboa
Convenor

Michel Bouchard
WCAA/ University of Northern British Columbia
Web Mediator

Participants:
Michael B. C. Rivera/ 趙凱聰, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Gcobani Qambela, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Anthony Redmond, University of Queensland, Australia
Khaled Furani, Insaniyyat Association, Palestine
Hania Sholkamy, American University Cairo, Egypt
Gabriela Zamorano, Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social, Mexico

Anthropology Southern Africa has released the promotional video for the World Anthropological Union Congress high with be hosted at UJ by the UJ Department of Anthropology and Development Studies

Watch below and join us next year at UJ.
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WAU2024 Promotional Video See you in Johannesburg South Africa in 2024!

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OPPORTUNITY

The LGBT+ Health Division of DTHF seeks to appoint two Postgraduate Research Fellows for a Fogarty fully funded research fellowship starting from January 2024.

One Postgraduate Research Fellow will be based at the LGBT+ Health Division at Groote Schuur Hospital, Observatory, Cape Town, Western Cape, and one will be based the DTHC research site in East London, Eastern Cape.

The research fellows will be expected to participate in a full-time research fellowship including conducting supervised research on one of the following topic areas:
• Access to gender-affirming care and HIV services for transgender and gender diverse populations
• System change to create inclusive LGBTQI+ health care environments
• Psychosocial support program for transgender and gender diverse populations

Amazing news for Gauteng Anthropology. Congratulations to our UJ colleagues. 💃🏾

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Welcome drinks yesterday evening at the 2023 Anthropology Southern Africa conference.

ALL Gauteng Anthropology institutions are here.

UNISA, Wits, UJ, UP and North West.

Thank you, Fam! We are going to have a good one. ✨

The second keynote for the Anthropology Southern Africa conference has been announced, and it’s the incomparable Dr Kharnita Mohamed. Dr Mohamed will be speaking on debilitating research and epistemic trauma.

Join in. Registration for presentations at the 2023 ASnA closes Monday the 28th of August at 12:00.

Get in your registration and join the festivities.

We know ALL Gauteng Anthropology departments are represented at the conference.

See you in a few in the Western Cape.

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The Department of Anthropology at UCT invites you to a talk by Professor Ross titled, ‘The Foetus: Time, space and matter’.

Anthropology Southern Africa is looking for Anthropologists to profile on their page