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Join us this Wednesday (21 October, 2020) at 13:00 (GMT+2) for the 3rd session of this year’s Lesser Violence Reading Group. 

VIAD & GALA are honoured to welcome Dee Marco and Kathleen Eberson as our facilitators for the session! As co-hosts of the Mamas with Attitude podcast, Dee and Kathleen will be speaking to feminist parenting and radical and everyday practices of care.    

  “Dee Marco and Kathleen Ebersohn come at the project of mothering with mutual curiosity, but with different modalities and approaches. This is celebrated in their podcast, Mamas with Attitude (MWA) where there are many intersecting elements, themes and positions, yet they muse about mothering and the project of mothering in its multitude of capacities, differently”   

  Kathleen is currently interested in the ways in which motherhood can be experienced as a trauma or a wound, especially in matrescence, the transition in becoming a mother, and whether stories can be used as a balm for trauma. Dee’s interest in the broad topic of motherhood centers on motherhood as performance and as action. This action, best described as motherhood as verb and action, takes on various forms of radical and everyday care seen in experiences and practices.
PLAYLIST: Click here to access the playlist of media and readings Dee and Kathleen have assigned for the session. Please remember to engage with the playlist before attending the live chat session.  

REGISTRATION: please note that in keeping with the group’s intention to create enabling and caring discursive spaces, the online chat room will be limited to 25 people or fewer. Please click on the button below to register. ! Register Here 

SUBMISSIONS DEADLINE EXTENDED TO OCTOBER 15 

The Aidoo-Snyder book prize is awarded by the Women’s Caucus of the African Studies Association for an outstanding book that prioritizes African women’s experiences. Named in honor of Ama Ata Aidoo, the celebrated Ghanaian novelist and short story writer, and Margaret Snyder the founding Director of UNIFEM, this $500 prize seeks to acknowledge the excellence of contemporary scholarship being produced by women about African women. In alternate years, the prize is awarded for the best scholarly book, or for the best creative work.

The 2020 Aidoo-Snyder scholarly book prize will be given for the best original creative work written by a woman (or women) that prioritizes African women’s experience. To this end, the committee invites nominations from publishers or authors. Books should be submitted based on publication date rather than copyright date. Self-published books are not eligible, and entries may only be submitted for consideration once. The prize is open to authors who have published books in English and English translation in the two years preceding the award year. The books must significantly deal with Africa (including Cape Verde, and the Islands off the West Coast of Africa; Madagascar; and the Indian Ocean Islands of the East African Coast).

To nominate a publication, please send one electronic copy of the publication to asawomensc@gmail.com accompanied by the form. All nominations must be emailed on or before October 15, 2020. The winner will be notified in early November. For more information on the book prize, please visit https://www.asawomenscaucus.com/

*All award recipients are required to be current WC members.

Power & Loss in South African Journalism: News in the age of social media

Without a strong independent media and in-depth investigative journalism, South Africa’s democracy is in grave danger. The media’s long-held position as the fourth estate of political life is buffeted by market forces and contested by social media, while the digital networks struggle to manage hate speech and misinformation. All of these pressures have been accelerated by Covid-19, as seen by the tsunami of job losses amongst journalists. Is the decline of the media in South Africa irreversible?

When: Tuesday 22 September at 16:00 Zoom Link

Please register for this Zoom event in advance of the meeting. Speakers: Mahlatse Mahlase (EyeWitness News) will discuss with author Glenda Daniels. Moderator is Kate Skinner (director of SANEF). Bios: Glenda Daniels is an associate professor in the Department of Media Studies at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. She is a media-freedom activist and journalist and author of Power & Loss in South African journalism (Wits University Press:2020)

Mahlatse Mahlase is Editor-in-Chief for EyeWitness News and Secretary General of the South African National Editors’ Forum (SANEF).

for 2021 AGENDA Journal – BEIJING + 25

Contributors are invited to submit manuscripts on the above topic from the point of view either of researchers or activists. Abstracts and contributions must be written in English and in a style accessible to a wide audience. Please submit abstracts to Lou Haysom : louhaysom@mweb.co.za or admin@agenda.org.za.

GUEST EDITORS: Editors: Amanda Gouws (SARChI Chair in Gender Politics) and Diana Hojlund Madsen (Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, Sweden)

No later than 27 August 2020

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