STUDIES IN HISTORICAL TRAUMA AND TRANSFORMATION, INDEXING TRANSFORMATION, STIAS, AND PROF EUGENE CLOETE Dialogue, Writing, and Humanity in Troubled Times A Conversation between Homi Bhabha and Njabulo Ndebele Moderated by: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela PROF HOMI BHABHA PROF NJABULO NDEBELE Homi K. Bhabha is the Anne F. Rothenberg Professor Njabulo Ndebele is Chairman of Professor of the Humanities, Director of the The Nelson Mandela Foundation and The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard Mandela Rhodes Foundation. University. He is considered the world’s He has served in many leadership positions in premier post-colonial literary theorist. higher education, including as Vice-Chancellor His books include Nation and Narration and at the University of Limpopo and the The Location of Culture. University of Cape Town. He is currently His forthcoming book projects will be Chancellor of the University of Johannesburg. published by some of the leading university A poet, novelist and essayist who has received publishers in the United States: Harvard worldwide acclaim for his work, his books University Press will publish A Global Measure, include, Fools and Other Stories, which won and Columbia University Press will publish several awards in 1984: the Mofolo–Plomer The Right to Narrate. Prize, the Sanlam Award for outstanding Bhabha has developed a number of the field’s fiction, and the Noma Award, Africa’s highest key concepts that describe ways in which literary award for the best book published colonised peoples have resisted the power of in Africa. His other critically acclaimed books the coloniser. include the Rediscovery of the Ordinary, His honours include the Padma Bhushan The Cry of Winnie Mandela, and Fine Lines from award, a prestigious award from the Republic of the Box, which received the K. Sello Duiker India that recognizes outstanding contribution Memorial Literary Award. in literature and education, the Humboldt He has received several honorary doctorates, Research Prize, and honorary degrees from and is the recipient of the National Research Université Paris 8, University College London, Foundation’s Lifetime Achievement Award. and the Free University Berlin. Wednesday, 16 August 2017 17:30 - 19:00 Stellenbosch University, Wilcocks Building, Room 1001 52 Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch RSVP Jolene Pietersen email: [email protected].