A Conversation in the Humanities in Session Series at the Centre for Humanities Research, part of the Advanced Research Seminar. Hosted under the auspices of the UK-SA Bilateral Digital humanities chair in culture and technics.
Date:
Tuesday 5 August
Time:
2:00pm – 4:00pm
Venue:
The CHR’s Iyatsiba Lab,
66 Greatmore Street, Woodstock
(enter via Regents St)
Speaker:
Professor Mark Sanders
Mark Sanders is Professor of Comparative Literature and English at New York University, and Extraordinary Professor of Afrikaans and Dutch at Stellenbosch University. He is the author of several books, including A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa; Learning Zulu: A Secret History of Language in South Africa; Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission; and Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid.
In this talk, Mark Sanders will preview his book, A Will for the Machine: Computerization, Automation, and the Arts in South Africa, which appears in early 2026 from the University of Chicago Press. This Humanities in Session event is jointly hosted under the SA-UK Digital Humanities Chair in Culture & Technics, and is moderated by Premesh Lalu.