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Katie (AiW co-founder) likes thinking and talking about global literary and cultural studies and/as activism - in many of its brows, high and low - and critical theory to anyone who will listen. Does a lot of reading and writing, loves a bit of theatre and is known to be partial to ("rubbish") TV. Research tends to be on overlaps of visual and literary production; my biggest thing (the PhD, 2017), looked at contexts of reception of post-apartheid literature through the various modes of the work of Ivan Vladislavić, a writer, editor, and reflexive art-essayist, whose time as Social Studies and Fiction Editor for radical publisher Ravan Press in the 80s included editing the groundbreaking magazine Staffrider.

• Q&A: Poet, writer and educator Warsan Shire

  By Katie Reid on 21 June , 2013 • ( 34 )

  

  Warsan Shire is a Kenyan-born Somali poet, writer and educator based in London. Her poetry reads as both artistic and activist practice, documenting stories of journey, trauma and sexual violence, alienation, assimilation, transformation and recuperation. Warsan’s début book, Teaching My Mother… Read More ›

• Writing South Africa Now: A Colloquium. University of Cambridge, 2 July.

  By Katie Reid on 19 June , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Writing South Africa Now: A Colloquium, July 2nd, 2013 Faculty of English, University of Cambridge Tuesday, July 2nd 2013 Confirmed Plenary speaker: Dr Nadia Davids (Queen Mary, University of London) ‘Writing and Performing South Africa’s Past in the Present: an Exploration of… Read More ›

• Short Story Day Africa 2013

  By Katie Reid on 13 June , 2013 • ( 5 )

  

  “Short Story Day Africa exists because we have something to tell the world. About us. In our own voices.” Now in its third year, Short Story Day Africa sets aside the shortest day (or night) of the year – this year it’s… Read More ›

• Blogging the Caine Prize – Pede Hollist’s ‘Foreign Aid’

  By Katie Reid on 7 June , 2013 • ( 11 )

  

  Coming to the Caine Prize blog party late in terms of Pede Hollist’s ‘Foreign Aid’, I’m aware that a lot of the ground on this story has already been covered – see the end of this post for links to… Read More ›

• Pulp what? At the Franschhoek Literary Festival – 17-19 May

  By Katie Reid on 2 May , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Looking forward to chatting about all things African pulp fiction (with pulp zine Jungle Jim in the main frame from at least me) at this year’s Franschhoek Literary Festival – with Sean O’Toole, Jenna Bass (of Jungle Jim editorial fame, among a host of other fames), Stacy… Read More ›

• ‘A Universal Archive – William Kentridge as printmaker’: touring exhibition, available until Spring/Summer 2014.

  By Katie Reid on 10 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  The Hayward/South Bank are holding a major, touring exhibition of South African artist William Kentridge’s work, with its provocative title, ‘A Universal Archive’, promising a trove-like collection of Kentridge’s innovative prints. With dates ranging from 1988 to new work, as… Read More ›

• Cameron Platter’s ‘Everyday Apocalypse’ @ Jack Bell Gallery, until April 20.

  By Katie Reid on 10 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Jack Bell Gallery 27 March – 20 April 2013 Artist’s Page (jackbellgallery.com) Jack Bell Gallery is pleased to present Cameron Platter’s Everyday Apocalypse, the artist’s first exhibition in the UK.

• CFP: ‘Displacements. Forced Migration and the Arts’, Aarhus/Denmark 3-5 October 2013 (deadline 15 April)

  By Katie Reid on 6 April , 2013 • ( 0 )

  Call for Papers Deadline for proposals: 15 April contact: displacements2013@hum.au.dk website: http://conferences.au.dk/displacements/ Displacements: Forced Migration and the Arts Aarhus University, Denmark October 3-5, 2013 Displacement is and has always been one of the fundamental forms of human existence. Throughout history and all over… Read More ›

• AiW live on SAfm’s ‘Word of Mouth’ feature prompts a revisit of our Q&A (Pt 2) with Jenna Bass – Editor and co-founder of African pulp fiction magazine Jungle Jim.

  By Katie Reid on 5 March , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Chatting to Nancy Richards about AiW on SAfm’s Word of Mouth feature, part of the Literature show, on Sunday (03/03), I was struck once again by the significance of the generative potential of literary and intellectual networks across the continent,… Read More ›

• CFP: Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies, “Under Fire” section

  By Katie Reid on 26 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Critical Arts: south-north cultural and media studies CALL for UNDER FIRE ARTICLES The post-millennium world has seen a rapid escalation of violent conflicts in the Middle East, West, Central and some areas of Southern Africa, and ongoing civil wars and human rights… Read More ›

• Upcoming Africa-related and free exhibitions at the British Museum, both with associated events (Sowei mask event Feb 16).

  By Katie Reid on 15 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

   Sowei mask: spirit of Sierra Leone |14/02 – 28/04 14/02 – 21/04 | Social Fabric: African Textiles today 

• Extended CFP: Writing South Africa Now: A Colloquium. University of Cambridge. 08/04/13.

  By Katie Reid on 5 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Writing South Africa Now: A Colloquium.  University of Cambridge.  Tuesday, July 2nd 2013. writingsouthafricanow.wordpress.com The deadline for proposals is Friday, March 1st 2013 has been extended to: Monday 08 April 2013. Writing South Africa Now is a new collective of… Read More ›

• CFP: Constructions of Identity – Contemporary Challenges (Cluj-Napoca, 24-26 October 2013)

  By Katie Reid on 2 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  [For those post-millennialists among us?] The Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of Letters, “Babes-Bolyai” University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania) announces the 7th edition of its biennial conference: Constructions of Identity – Contemporary Challenges (Cluj-Napoca, 24-26 October 2013). Abstracts should be submitted by September 1,… Read More ›

• ASAUK Open Access meeting 18 March

  By Katie Reid on 2 February , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  Open Access and Research Publication: Making Sense of UK Government Proposals in African Studies.  Monday 18 March 2013, 1-5pm.  Dr Seng T Lee Centre for Manuscript and Book Studies, Senate House, Malet St, London, WC1E 7HU.  Since David Willetts, Minister of State… Read More ›

• CFP: On 20 Years of South African Democracy – St Antony’s College and the African Studies Centre, University of Oxford

  By Katie Reid on 31 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  1994-2014: 20 Years of South African Democracy.  St Antony’s College and the African Studies Centre (ASC) at the University of Oxford are planning a conference to be held on 25th/26th April 2014 on 20 Years of South African Democracy. Abstract… Read More ›

• CFP: Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures, PG Study Day

  By Katie Reid on 31 January , 2013 • ( 1 )

  Allah n’est pas obligé: The Location of Islam in Francophone Cultures.  SFPS Postgraduate Study Day. University of Stirling, 20 June 2013. Proposals of 250 words in English or French to be sent by 15 March 2013 (further details below). From France to… Read More ›

• CFP: 14th Annual Researching Africa Day Graduate Workshop, ‘Researching Africa: The Flow of Research?’

  By Katie Reid on 29 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  The RAS have just circulated a CFP on behalf of the 14th Annual Researching Africa Day Workshop, to be held on Saturday, 23rd February 2013, at St Antony’s College, Oxford. Abstracts are due by January 31, 2013. (Further details below). The title of this year’s workshop… Read More ›

• Tate: ‘Across the Board’ – modern and contemporary African art and related programme in Africa

  By Katie Reid on 28 January , 2013 • ( 1 )

  

  Tate are currently running a two-year project on African Art and its representation, with new acquisitions of modern and contemporary African art and a related programme in Africa. “The project invites local and international audiences to engage with artists, curators and… Read More ›

• Review: William Kentridge – I am not me, the horse is not mine. (@ Tate Modern, until Jan 20.)

  By Katie Reid on 14 January , 2013 • ( 2 )

  

  For those who can get to the Tanks at Tate Modern, there is still just time to catch South African artist William Kentridge’s I am not me, the horse is not mine (2008) which closes on Jan 20th. This eight-channel video… Read More ›

• CFP: Postcolonial Text – Special Issue: Situating Postcolonial Trauma Studies. Saadi Nikro (Guest Editor)

  By Katie Reid on 3 January , 2013 • ( 0 )

  Postcolonial Text is an open access, fully online journal, internationally peer-reviewed and accessible to a global audience. A quarterly journal, it is affiliated with the Open Humanities Press (OHP). The editors seek submissions for a special issue on postcolonial trauma studies…. Read More ›