The Centre for Humanities Research (CHR) is honored to host an online and in person Humanities in Session seminar on "Repair in 'the After': A conversation between Prof Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela and Prof Patricia Parker".
Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Director of the Centre for the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest, Stellenbosch University and SARChI Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma, and Patricia Parker is Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Ruel W. Tyson Distinguished Professor of Humanities, and Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The session asks, What does it mean to abide by a concept like “repair”, especially when this comes to function as a term that allows a different intervention in our time? What comes after repair? Is repair something that is only ever in “the after”, in the wake, or perhaps, the “hold” (Sharpe)? What does it mean to do repair from that vantage point, and how might this be a method for coming to terms with the legacies of partition that scar our time? Repair, in this instance, would be a coming after, a pursuit, not an arrival.
The session takes place at the CHR on Thursday, 13th of April and is a much anticipated conversation between two leading scholars, who bring expertise from very different, yet resonant locations. See attached for further details. Online registration is available and the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes will stream the event live in the US.
Professor Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela is Director of the Centre for the Afterlife of Violence and the Reparative Quest, Stellenbosch University and SARChI Chair in Violent Histories and Transgenerational Trauma, and Patricia Parker is Director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Ruel W. Tyson Distinguished Professor of Humanities, and Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The session asks, What does it mean to abide by a concept like “repair”, especially when this comes to function as a term that allows a different intervention in our time? What comes after repair? Is repair something that is only ever in “the after”, in the wake, or perhaps, the “hold” (Sharpe)? What does it mean to do repair from that vantage point, and how might this be a method for coming to terms with the legacies of partition that scar our time? Repair, in this instance, would be a coming after, a pursuit, not an arrival.
The session takes place at the CHR on Thursday, 13th of April and is a much anticipated conversation between two leading scholars, who bring expertise from very different, yet resonant locations. See attached for further details. Online registration is available and the Consortium of Humanities Centres and Institutes will stream the event live in the US.
