BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//events.la.psu.edu//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20201101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=11;BYDAY=1SU END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20200308T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYMONTH=3;BYDAY=2SU END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:10405-c4afc566c6a2367f038eaf73461e616b@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260611T005814Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240205T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240205T090000 SUMMARY:AFI Feminist Book Talk Series: Hugo ka Canham and Thato Magano DESCRIPTION:\nIn Riotous Deathscapes\, Hugo ka Canham presents an unders tanding of life and death based on indigenous and Black ways of knowing that he terms Mpondo theory. Focusing on amaMpondo people from rural Mpo ndoland\, in South Africa&rsquo\;s Eastern Cape\, Canham outlines the me thodologies that have enabled the community&rsquo\;s resilience and surv ival. He assembles historical events and a cast of ancestral and living characters\, following the tenor of village life\, to offer a portrait o f how Mpondo people live and die in the face of centuries of abandonment \, trauma\, antiblackness\, and death.\n\nHugo ka Canham is a writer and professor at the Institute for Social and Health Sciences\, University of South Africa. His work is located along the fault lines of Black stud ies\, African feminism\, African and queer theorizations. His work is in vested in detonating the binaries between the human and the natural\, mu ltispecies world. It may be understood within the transdisciplinary fram ework of Black Planetary Studies. His latest book\, Riotous Deathscapes is published by Duke University Press and copublished by Wits University Press.\n\nThato Magano (pronouns: Thato) is a doctoral candidate in the program in comparative literature at Rutgers University and in medieval and early modern studies at Leiden University (The Netherlands). Thato holds a master of arts degree in comparative literature from Rutgers Uni versity and African literature from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). Thato&rsquo\;s work has appeared in platforms including Queer Africa\, Publica[c]tion\, and\, Contemporary And\, among others.\n \nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afi_feminist_book_ta lk_hugo_ka_canham_and_thato_magano/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

In Riotous D eathscapes, Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and dea th based on indigenous and Black ways of knowing that he terms Mpondo th eory. Focusing on amaMpondo people from rural Mpondoland, in South Afric a’s Eastern Cape, Canham outlines the methodologies that have enab led the community’s resilience and survival. He assembles historic al events and a cast of ancestral and living characters, following the t enor of village life, to offer a portrait of how Mpondo people live and die in the face of centuries of abandonment, trauma, antiblackness, and death.

Hugo ka Canham is a writer and professor at the Inst itute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa. His wo rk is located along the fault lines of Black studies, African feminism, African and queer theorizations. His work is invested in detonating the binaries between the human and the natural, multispecies world. It may b e understood within the transdisciplinary framework of Black Planetary S tudies. His latest book, Riotous Deathscapes is published by Duke University Press and copublished by Wits University Press.

Tha to Magano (pronouns: Thato) is a doctoral candidate in the program i n comparative literature at Rutgers University and in medieval and early modern studies at Leiden University (The Netherlands). Thato holds a ma ster of arts degree in comparative literature from Rutgers University an d African literature from the University of the Witwatersrand (South Afr ica). Thato’s work has appeared in platforms including Queer Af rica, Publica[c]tion, and, Contemporary And, among others.

For more details: https://events.la.psu.ed u/event/afi_feminist_book_talk_hugo_ka_canham_and_thato_magano/

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