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2023 Great Texts/Big Questions Lecture Series

Tue May 16, 17:30 - Tue Jun 13, 19:00

UCT Hiddingh Campus

ABOUT

The Institute for Creative Arts (ICA) is proud to announce the launch of the 2023 Great Texts/Big Questions lecture series on Tuesday 16 May at 5.30 pm at the Little Theatre on Hiddingh Campus.

 

In late 2022, The Institute for Humanities in Africa at UCT (HUMA) convened researchers and thinkers around the theme of ‘epistemic disobedience’ or disobedient ways of knowing, aimed at grounding critical thinking and engagement with the sociology of ideas, philosophy and historical development of human, Southern, marginalised and African/Africa centred epistemologies. 


Through the Great Texts/Big Questions Public Lecture Series, the ICA wishes to extend the thinking around the theme of disobedience. Drawing on work by writers of novels, plays, performances, memoirs and academic texts who theorise and practice various modes of disobedience and resistance, the public lecture series explores the grammar and texture of disobedience. Disobedience is reflected on as a refusal to engage conventional systems, epistemologies and practices of being — that which scholar Saidiya Hartman contemplates as waywardness; “related to the family of words: errant, fugitive, recalcitrant, anarchic, wilful, reckless, troublesome, riotous, tumultuous, rebellious and wild.” In this sense, disobedience reflects an ability to inhabit the world in ways inimical to those deemed proper and respectable. 


Through the work of award-winning scholars, historians, poets, academics and artists, the 2023 Great Texts/Big Questions will tease out different ways of thinking "disobedience". The roster features artists Chuma Sopotela and Qondiswa James, in conversation with director of the ICA Jay Pather, interdisciplinary theatre practitioner Tamara Guhrs, writer and editor Stacy Hardy, authors Zikhona Valela and Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah, historians Dr Joel Cabrita and Kwasi Konadu and writer and critic Dr Wamuwi Mbao.


Programme:

Hiddingh Hall, UCT Hiddingh Campus at 17h30.


  • Tue 16th May, Jay Pather, Chuma Sopotela and Qondiswa James


The Little Theatre, Hiddingh Campus at 17h30.


  • Thurs 18th May, Tamara Guhrs & Stacy Hardy
  • Tues 23rd May, Zikhona Valela
  • Tue 30th May, Dr Wamuwi Mbao


15th till 19th May, Installation at the Ritchie Gallery, “Disobedient Eye”.


Online, Zoom at 17h30.


  • Tues 6th June, Joel Cabrita
  • Thurs 8th June, Kwasi Konadu
  • Tues 13th June, Nana Darkoa Sekyiamah


More info: www.ica.uct.ac.za

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2023 Great Texts/Big Questions Lecture Series
UCT Hiddingh Campus
31 Orange St, Cape Town City Centre, Cape Town, 8000
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