BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Sabre//Sabre VObject 4.5.8//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Zurich X-LIC-LOCATION:Europe/Zurich TZURL:http://tzurl.org/zoneinfo/Europe/Zurich BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:19810329T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=-1SU END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:19961027T030000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=10;BYDAY=-1SU END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:news4082@zasb.unibas.ch DTSTAMP;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240619T152100 DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20240620T180000 SUMMARY:Athambile Masola: "Invisibility\, Hyper-visibility\, Erasure\, and Elsewhereness: Working with Black Women’s Life-Stories" DESCRIPTION:Using Noni Jabavu (1919–2008) as a starting point for the lec ture\, Athambile Masola will consider the ways in which biographical writi ng is central to responding to the complex ways in which black women’s h istories in particular are rendered. Despite her hypervisible writing care er\, a transnational experience\, her story is about invisibility\, hyperv isibility\, erasure and elsewhereness. The lecture will explore the archiv al and methodological challenges of writing histories in this context.\\r\ \nAthambile Masola is a writer\, researcher and an award-winning poet base d at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her debut collection of poetry\, Ilifa (Uhlanga Press\, 2021)\, is written in isiXhosa. She is the co-author of the children’s history book series \, Imbokodo: Women Who Shape Us (Jacana Media\, 2022)\, with Dr Xolisa Guz ula. Her latest book is a collaboration with Makhosazana Xaba\; a collecti on of Noni Jabavu’s columns from 1977\, A Stranger at Home (Tafelberg\, 2023).\\r\\nThis event is part of the 6th Biennial AEGIS CRG African Histo ry Conference [https://zasb.unibas.ch/en/events/details/crg-african-histor y-conference/]\, hosted in collaboration with the Department of History at the University of Basel and the Basler Afrika Bibliographien. X-ALT-DESC:

Using Noni Jabavu (1919–2008) as a starting point for the l ecture\, Athambile Masola will consider the ways in which biographical wri ting is central to responding to the complex ways in which black women’s histories in particular are rendered. Despite her hypervisible writing ca reer\, a transnational experience\, her story is about invisibility\, hype rvisibility\, erasure and elsewhereness. The lecture will explore the arch ival and
methodological challenges of writing histories in this cont ext.

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Athambile Masola is a writer\, researcher and an award-winnin g poet based at the Department of Historical Studies at the University of Cape Town. Her debut collection of poetry\, Ilifa (Uhlanga Press\, 2021)\, is written in isiXhosa. She is the co-author of the children’s history book series\, Imbokodo: Women Who Shape Us (Jacana Media\, 2022)\, with Dr Xolisa Guzula. Her latest book is a collaboration with Makhosazana Xaba\; a collection of Noni Jabavu’s columns from 1977\, A Stranger at Home (T afelberg\, 2023).

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This event is part of the 6th Bienn ial AEGIS CRG African History Conference\, hosted in collaboration wit h the Department of History at the University of Basel and the Basler Afri ka Bibliographien.

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