In collaboration with the History Workshop of the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannersburg, September 1-6, 2025.
PROGRAMME
| Activity | Place | Time | Speakers | |
| Sep.1 | General Introductions | Wits University, Room RS 207 |
9:30 – 10:00 | All |
| Seminar: History Workshop and Social History | 10:00 – 12:00 | Noor Nieftagodien, Arianna Lissoni, Ali Hlongwane |
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| Presentation: Public History and Soweto History & Archives Project (SHAP) | 13:00 – 15:00 | Ali Hlongwane, Laurence Stewart, Nhlanhla Manana | ||
| Guided tour of the Origins Centre | Wits University | 15:30 – 17:00 | ||
| Sep.2 | Guided tour of the Funda Centre and the Hector Pieterson Museum | Soweto | 10:00 – 13:00 | Prince Dube, Ali Hlongwane
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| Guided tour of the Women’s Jail, Constitution Hill | Constitution Hill | 14:00 – 16:00 | ||
| Sep.3 | Presentations and discussions among PhD students | Wits University, Room RS 207 |
9:00 – 12:00 | Womatwork PhDs with Wits PhDs |
| Seminars:
Anne Hugon, A new profession in the Gold Coast? A history of colonial midwives 1930s-1950s
Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Multiracial identities in colonial French Africa. Race, childhood and citizienship |
13:00 – 14:30 | Anne Hugon and Rachel Jean-Baptiste | ||
| Guided tour of the Wits Art Museum | Wits University | 15:00 – 16:30 | ||
| Sep.4 | Guided tour of the South African History Archives (SAHA); The Historical Papers Research Archive | Wits University | 9:15 – 12:45 | Arianna Lissoni; Gabriele Mohale |
| Visit to the Apartheid Museum | Apartheid Museum | 14:00 – 17:00 | ||
| Sep.5 | Seminars on women in research: Inequality Studies, Trade Unions, Black Consciousness | University of Witwatersrand, Room RS 207 |
10:00 – 13:30 | Liesl Orr; Karabo-Maya Rodwell & Unjinee Poonan; Ruth Castell-Branco |
| Assessment of summer school | All | |||
| Jazz concert at the Afrikan Freedom Station | Evening | |||
| Sep. 6 | Johannesburg History Tour | 10:00 – 14:00 | Noor Nieftagodien | |
| Sep. 7 | Departures |
More information on the people of the History Workshop of the Wits University can be found here.
For more details on the archives and museums involved follow the links:
Soweto History and Archives Project (SHAP!)