Organizers

The Curatorial Residency is a joint project of Nick Shepherd and Christian Ernsten of the Decolonial Thought and Practice initiative at the University of Cape Town in collaboration with Ingrid Martins Holmberg and Henric Benesch as well as Mikela Lundahl, Anna Bohlin and Staffan Appelgren of the Critical Heritage Studies initiative at the University of Gothenburg.

Updates

23 October 2015: a Daily Maverick op-ed arguing that The #feesMustFall fight is nog just about fees.

28 September 2015: GroundUp’s Barbara Maregele, Redhill’s ruins: Cape Town’s other District Six.

31 May 2015: The New York Times reports on the discovery of the remnants of a Portuguese slave ship near Cape Town.

4 May 2015: Christy Wampole’s “Conference Manifesto” in the New York Times.

9 March 2015: “#RhodesWillFall” – a report on the events leading to the removal of the Rhodes moment from UCT’s campus.

26 March 2015: “Should colonial history be removed” – an opinion piece in the Cape Argus.

25 March 2015: “Cecil Rhodes’ colonial legacy must fall – not his statue” – the Guardian comments on the SA debate on Rhodes.

23 March 2015: “Of Statues and history, or, how do you deal with a problem like Cecil Rhodes?” – read a opinion piece adding to the debate on the monuments of Rhodes.

5 March 2015: “Fire fighters fear south-easter” – read an update on the ongoing fires on the Cape peninsula.

27 February 2015: “The word-hoar” Macfarlane on words for nature and natural phenomenon in The Guardian.

19 May 2014: “A city designed to forget” – a blog post by The Con on Cape Town.

Calendar

13-14 April 2015: Global Critical Heritage Studies: A North/ South Conversation, with colleagues form Aarhus University and the University of Gothenburg

6 – 15 December 20 15: Cape Town residency #1.