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Discipline of the Screen: Cinema and public order in South Africa
This project departs from the emergence of cinema in early 20th century South Africa, and its role in constituting a new public sphere around this form of leisure.
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Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
The Indian Ocean has been called the ocean of the South, as well as the ocean of the future.
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PAGASA
Prompted by Roland Barthes’ The Preparation of a Novel, this presentation outlines how in the course of pursuing the creative life as a poet, a translator, an independent filmmaker and as a small press publisher from one of the regions of the Philippines, I now cast myself to another kind of vita nova, by wanting-to-write this tetralogy, which I have happily conceived during my STIAS residency.
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Decoding the Ancient Sacred Landscapes of the Arid Southern Levant (Southern Jordan/Israel): The Desert Cults Mapping Project
The proposed project investigates the sacred landscapes of the southern arid margins of the Levant (now southern Jordan/Israel), as observed by the spatial distribution and the material culture of the cultic and funerary sites of the mostly semi-pastoral peoples that lived in the area from the Neolithic to the Early Islamic period (ca.
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Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Culture
Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first great film, D.
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Genealogies of music accompanied narratives in South Africa: Choral tradition, music theatre and opera
The multivalent opportunities provided by the post-apartheid policy-led transforming cultural scene saw an intensification of cultural activities mushrooming throughout the country.
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Metaphors of identity, recognition and connection in the 20th century - cell biology and literature
Every knowledge-based discipline proceeds trough history by coining new terms.
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A History of the Nighttime in South Africa
This project is a book-length study of the history of the nighttime in South Africa during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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The Wind Scatters
This envisaged collection will comprise of short stories set in different periods over a century, beginning from the 1920s to the 2020s.
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The African Resistance Movement: A Cultural History
This project (and the book that will follow) is a cultural history of the ARM, the African Resistance Movement, which despite the elevation of its name, was a group of no more than fifty mainly liberal , anti - communist idealists who formed an underground movement in South Africa in 1960 and embarked on a campaign of sabotage aimed at government installations (pylons and railway lines).
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Mad Men: A South African Media History The aspirational syntax of men’s magazines: A South African media history, 1910 to the present
Men’s magazines had their official start in South Africa in 1910 with the inception of publications aimed at asserting the continued role of the Empire in establishing a benchmark of good taste.
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Sealing the Female Body Before Marriage: Cultural Debates about Hymeneal Signs
This project asks how reflections on the female body part called the hymen or maidenhead in early modern English texts (produced from 1500-1700) can illuminate modern debates about the set of modern surgical practices called hymenoplasty.
