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:16639-c32d608bea631a716d9fc50ad9c1d889@events.la.psu.edu DTSTAMP:20260417T113852Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20251011T110000 SUMMARY:African Studies Global Virtual Forum: Decoloniality and Southern Epistem ologies—Shose Kessi DESCRIPTION:\nAbstract\n\nThis lecture will focus on Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s meaning to South Africa and South Africa’s meaning to him. Lo ng established as an influential force on South African activists and sc holars for over fifty years\, this lecture will map and trace Professor Ngugi wa Thiongo’s influence on South Africa\, and South Africa’s influe nce on him based on his testimonies. It will principally focus on three interventions Professor Ngugi made in South Africa and particularly at t he University of Cape Town: the Steve Biko Lecture in 2003\, the Great T exts/Big Questions Lecture in 2017 and an interview he gave at UCT in 20 21. Collectively\, these insights provide rich points of meditation for the implications of his work on different fields in the humanities as we ll as youth activism in and around the Rhodes Must Fall student movement . The lecture will close with openings provided by Professor Ngugi wa Th iong’o’s work for current and future generations of African scholars.\n\ nBio\n\nShose Kessi is Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the Universi ty of Cape Town and Professor in the Department of Psychology. Her work in the field of political psychology explores the complex ways in which individuals construct their identities and shape their behaviors within society\, and how they join forces to drive change—whether through insti tutional reforms\, social movements\, or other forms of individual and c ollective action. She is co-founder of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist P sychologies in Africa\, a space for research and academic work that embr aces a decolonial and feminist aesthetic and praxis for psychological wo rk in South Africa\, Africa\, and the diaspora. She is also the co-found er and first chairperson of the UCT Black Academic Caucus. Shose has pub lished on the psychology of racism in higher education and other decolon ial and African-centered approaches to psychology.\n\nFor more details: https://events.la.psu.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-shose-kessi/ X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Abstract
T his lecture will focus on Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s meaning to South Africa and South Africa’s meaning to him. Long established as an influe ntial force on South African activists and scholars for over fifty years , this lecture will map and trace Professor Ngugi wa Thiongo’s influence on South Africa, and South Africa’s influence on him based on his testi monies. It will principally focus on three interventions Professor Ngugi made in South Africa and particularly at the University of Cape Town: t he Steve Biko Lecture in 2003, the Great Texts/Big Questions Lecture in 2017 and an interview he gave at UCT in 2021. Collectively, these insigh ts provide rich points of meditation for the implications of his work on different fields in the humanities as well as youth activism in and aro und the Rhodes Must Fall student movement. The lecture will close with o penings provided by Professor Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s work for current and f uture generations of African scholars.

Bio

Shose Kessi is De an of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Cape Town and Profe ssor in the Department of Psychology. Her work in the field of political psychology explores the complex ways in which individuals construct the ir identities and shape their behaviors within society, and how they joi n forces to drive change—whether through institutional reforms, social m ovements, or other forms of individual and collective action. She is co- founder of the Hub for Decolonial Feminist Psychologies in Africa, a spa ce for research and academic work that embraces a decolonial and feminis t aesthetic and praxis for psychological work in South Africa, Africa, a nd the diaspora. She is also the co-founder and first chairperson of the UCT Black Academic Caucus. Shose has published on the psychology of rac ism in higher education and other decolonial and African-centered approa ches to psychology.

For more details: https://events.la.ps u.edu/event/afr-global-virtual-forum-shose-kessi/

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