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Bam-Hutchison was invited to address practising history teachers from a number of countries globally on 4 May 2021. Her talk focused on the post-2015 'spectre' of Rhodes and its metaphor within the spatiality of the recent fire that devastated the African Studies Library and Collections. The talk included the story of the renaming of Jameson Hall and its implications for decolonising curricula and the ethos of educational spaces within a South African context.
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Dr June Bam-Hutchison, Interim Director of the San and Khoi Unit, African Studies was invited and appointed to moderate an African Union and United Nations Panel discussion within the African Diaspora on 'Culture in a Time of Crisis' on 25th March 2021. Please click on the link below to watch the live discussion:
The Khoi-San Unit (Centre for African Studies), University of Cape Town hosted the "Rethinking Africa: Indigenous Women Re-interpret Southern Africa' Pasts" virtual book announcement on the 26 January 2021. The book is a compilation of essays and poems by indigenous women from southern Africa. See livestream of the event below: