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Urban Humanities Seminar Series 2018

Environmental and Geographical Science Building South Lane, Upper Campus, UCT, Cape Town

Academic Seminars (15:00 - 16:30) 7 August High Stakes, High Hopes: Creating Collaborative Urban Theory - Prof Sophie Oldfield 16 August Inclusive Cultural Governance: Integrating artistic and cultural practices into national urban frameworks - Avril Joffe with respondent Zayd Minty 30 August in search of thick mapping: listening to Cape Town's cities - Dr Sabina Favaro 18 September Vital Geopolitics - Gerry Kearns 20 September The invention of the 'Sink Estate': Consequential Categorization and the UK Housing Crisis - Dr Tom Slater 18 October Storytelling as method: migration, gender and inclusion in Durban - Dr Kira Erwin 1 November: Contextualising strategies to enable LGBT rights in Africa: legitimacies, spatial inequalities and socio-spatial relationships - Dr Andy Tucker 15 November Representing urban life in Africa and its diasporas - Dr Shari Daya and Dr Rike Sitas Brown Bags (13:00-14:00) 23 August 'Auditing' vernacular Cape Town as a sonic city - Valmont Layne 6 September pumflet: art, architecture and stuff - Ilze Wolff 27 September Speculative Indigeneity - A (K)new Now - heeten bhagat 11 October Conversations on cultural mapping and planning - Alicia Fortuin, Vaughn Sadie and Shamila Rahim 25 October False Bay - Dr Hedley Twidle

2018 Open Book Festival

ACC at the Open Book Festival 2018

African Centre for Cities (ACC) teams up with The Book Lounge to present five urban-focussed events at the forthcoming 2018 Open Book Festival, which takes place from 5 to 9 September, Cape Town. The five events draws on the ACC community to engage and interrogate a series of topics ranging from inclusive urban development and issues of mobility to urban activism and blackness in the city.   5 September 2018 12.00 - 13.00 Fugard Studio, Corner Caledon & Lower Buitenkant Street, Cape Town Kigali to Cape Town: Tomá Berlanda and Rick de Satge speak to Philippa Tumubweinee about inclusive urban development. 6 September 2018 10.00 - 11.00 A4 Arts Foundation - Ground, 23 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town Mobility and the City:  Phumeza Mlungwana for UniteBehind and Cllr Brett Herron, City of Cape Town join David Schmidt in conversation with Pippa Green about getting from A - B. 12.00 - 13.00 A4 Arts Foundation - Ground, 23 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town Activist Cities: Richard Dyantyi, Axolile Notywala and Ichumile Gqada speak to Ella Scheepers about militant urbanism. 14.00 - 15.00 A4 Arts Foundation - Ground, 23 Buitenkant Street, Cape Town Integration Syndicate Provocations: Tracy Jooste, Nishendra Moodley and Kate Philip speak to Andrew Gasnolar about the findings of the Integration Syndicate over the past year. 7 September 10.00 - 11.00 Homecoming Centre Workshop, 15A Buitenkant Street, Cape Town Urbanity, Blackness & Mobilities: Mpho Matsipa and Sammy Baloji speak to Mokena Makeka.   For the full festival programme click here. To purchase tickets for these events go here.