Date: 3 July 2018
Time: 12:30 – 14:30
Venues: Pretoria, Durban and Cape Town
Speakers:
Professor Dan Yon, Dept of Social Anthropology and Faculty of Education, York University
On May 21st 1907, one hundred men left the Island of St Helena aboard the RMS Galician Castle, bound for Port Nolloth and Concordia beyond, to take up employment in the copper mines. Mining Memory, shot in and around Concordia, with flashbacks to the island and the ocean, is a meditation on this journey and on the presence of St Helena in Namaqualand today. Fragmented inherited memory of St Helena are interwoven with the mining remains on the landscape such that mining memory is also a meditation on the social and ecological legacy of copper mining in Concordia and beyond.
Daniel Yon, anthropologist, filmmaker, and native of the Island of St Helena, lives in Toronto, Canada, where he is Associate Professor at York University, jointly appointed to the Dept. of Anthropology and the Faculty of Education. His film work, attempts to ‘think with the sea’, focuses on journeys and migrations of the South Atlantic World and the related themes of place-making, and displacement, identity and belonging, race and racism. His Sathima’s Windsong, about the life and times of the South African jazz vocalist Sathima Bea Benjamin, was runner-up for the audience award, Encounters, 2010.
Pretoria: HSRC Video Conference, 1st floor HSRC Library Human Sciences Research Council, 134 Pretorius Street, Pretoria. Contact : Arlene Grossberg, Tel: (012) 302 2811, e-mail: acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za
Cape Town: HSRC, Merchant House 116-118 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town. Contact : Carmen Erasmus, Tel: (021) 466 7827, e-mail: CErasmus@hsrc.ac.za
Durban: The Atrium, 5th Floor, 430 Peter Mokaba Ridge, Berea, 4001. Contact Ridhwaan Khan, Tel: (031) 242 5400, cell: 083 788 2786, e-mail: RKhan@hsrc.ac.za
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