The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
18:00 – 21:00 | The Vineyard Hotel, Colinton Road, Newlands, Cape Town
HUMANITIES BOOK AWARDS CEREMONY
2023
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30 March
2023
PROGRAMME
18:00 – 18:10 Opening and Welcome
Prof Neil Roos, Chair of the Humanities Review Panel
18:10 – 18:20 Background and Process
Prof Crain Soudien, Humanities Review Panel Member
18:20 – 18:35 Honourable mention of shortlisted books
Prof John Higgins, Humanities Review Panel Member
18:35 – 18:45 Introduction of joint winners of the Emerging Researchers Category Prof Neil Roos, Chair of the Humanities Review Panel
18:45 – 18:50 Book Award and Acceptance
(Emerging Researchers)
Prof Jonathan Jansen, President, ASSAf
18:50 – 19:00 Transgender refugees and the imagined South Africa: Bodies over borders and borders over bodies
Dr B Camminga (Video)
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19:00 – 19:10 Gang Entry and Exit in Cape Town:
Getting Beyond the Streets in Africa’s Deadliest City
Dr Dariusz Dziewanski 19:10 – 19:20 Discussion
19:20 – 19:30 Starters
19:30 – 19:35 Introduction of the Established
Researcher Winner
Prof Neil Roos, Chair of the Humanities Review Panel
19:35 – 19:40 Book Award and Acceptance Prof Jonathan Jansen, President, ASSAf
19:40 – 19:50 Rock|Water|Life: Ecology and Humanities for a Decolonial South Africa
Prof Lesley Green 19:50 – 20:00 Discussion
20:00 – 20:45 Dinner
20:45 – 21:00 Closure
Prof Jonathan Jansen, President, ASSAf
21:00 – 21:15 Dessert
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Winners
ABOUT THE WINNERS
Lesley Green is a Professor of Anthropology and the Director of Environmental Humanities South at the University of Cape Town. She has recently been awarded a US$4.4m grant by Science For Africa Foundation to develop a social science of the African anthropocene in partnership with universities in Ethiopia, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and the HSRC and Leeds University.
B Camminga is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the African Centre for Migration & Society at the University of the Witwatersrand.
Dariusz Dziewanski holds a doctorate from SOAS in London, and is currently an Honorary Research Affiliate at the Centre of Criminology in the law faculty at the University of Cape Town.
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