NMMU NDEPARTMENT OF ARTS & CULTURE:PUBLIC LECTURE

The NMMU Department of Arts & Culture in collaboration with the Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism and Democracy (CANRAD) will host a public lecture By Dr Daniel Yon, Anthropologist and filmmaker, on Thursday, 28 May 2015 at 18h00 at the South End Museum.   Entrance is free.

Dr Daniel Yon, is Associate Professor, jointly appointed to the Faculty of Education and the Faculty of Liberal Arts and Professional Studies, York University, Toronto, Canada, and is Honorary Research Associate at the University of Cape Town. He is a former Director of York’s Graduate Programme in Social Anthropology. His teaching and research interests include, anthropology of schooling; race and racism; diasporas and cosmopolitanisms; ethnographic film.  Prior to going into academia, he taught history in post-independence Zimbabwe and was employed as lecturer-writer for the Ministry of Educations. His current

In his presentation Dr Yon draws upon his on-going project on the St Helena presence in South Africa, and the memory it provoked and provokes.  At the start of the 19^th century, the movement of people between the Island of St Helena and the Cape was well established but, with opportunities shrinking on the island as the century progressed, emigration to South Africa increased dramatically.

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