Previous Smuts Lecture Series
If needs be: South Africa's freedom struggles and the cult of death, Professor Jacob Dlamini (Princeton) October 2022
In October 2022 Professor Jacob Dlamini delivered three lectures on the following themes:
Lecture 1: Dying for Freedom
Lecture 2: Defying death
Lecture 3: A dignified corpse
Slum Acts in Three Scenes, Professor Veena Das (Johns Hopkins) October 2019
In October 2019 Professor Veena Das delivered three lectures:
Lecture 1: Inordinate Knowledge and Self Making
Lecture 2: The Dispersed Body of the Police: Cascading Scales
Lecture 3: Detecting the Human: Under Which Skies Do We Theorize?
The Uninhabitable: Afterlives of the Urban South, AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) November 2017
In November 2017 the inaugural After the Postcolonial Lecture Series was hosted by the Smuts Memorial Fund in association with Polity. AbdouMaliq Simone (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity) delivered three lectures titled The Uninhabitable: Afterlives of the Urban South.
These lectures are available for viewing using the following links:
Lecture 1: Ensembles of the Uninhabitable
Lecture 2: Looking out for the Dark: Navigating contemporary complexities in Jakarta and Hyderabad
Lecture 3: On the Way Home without a World – the Case of Delhi
