Natasha Vally
Next Generation Scholar
South African Social Assistance and the 2012 Privatised National Payment System: An examination of insecurities and technopolitics in social grant administration and payment. She has undergraduate and honours degrees in mathematics and genetics and holds a Masters degree in history. She works, across disciplines, on the technopolitical in post-apartheid South Africa. Her favourite movie is Blade Runner, she awaits the sequel with anticipation.
Humanities in Sesssion, Artists’ Forum with Tshegofatso Moeng
This session will be led by Tshegofatso Moeng who is a versatile South African singer, arranger, composer, and music director.
Humanities in Sesssion: ‘Returning Transitions: Memories of Persistent Crises in South African and Russian Writing’, with Ksenia Robbe
In this seminar, Ksenia Robbe present the key questions and theoretical propositions concerning the possibility of reading comparatively and connectively memories of the post-apartheid and post-Soviet ‘transitions’ in contemporary South African and Russian writing.
Archive Lab: ‘Archiving Resistance: The VNS/AFRAVISION Collective’, with Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete
The New Archival Visions (NAV) Programme will host Brian Tilley and Makonenyana Molete, founder members of the VNS/Afravision video collective to share how they set up VNS/Afravision in the 1980s to document the struggles sweeping across South Africa.
Winter School 2026: Liminalities: Thinking, Thresholds
Liminality has been theorised as a condition of transition. Whether in its original anthropological form as a movement from one state to another through a rite of passage or in its postcolonial rendering via Homi Bhabha’s notion of hybridity, liminality has come to mark a condition of being “not quite” and “not yet.”
Call for Papers: International Workshop in Visual History and Theory, October 2026
Application deadline: 17 July
Public Lecture: ‘Moving Between Facts and Fabulations: Some Notes’ with Marcos Martins, State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
A public lecture in conjunction with the CHR annual Winter School Programme.
Film Screening and Lecture: Border? What Border?, with Morna Regan and Lynne Parker
A Charlotte Maxeke-Mary Robinson Research Chair film screening and lecture, in conjunction with the CHR’s annual Winter School Programme.
Technics and the Urban: UK-SA Chair in Culture and Technics annual workshop.
The UK-SA Chair in Culture & Technics, a bilateral programme between the British Academy and South Africa’s National Research Foundation, convenes an international study network that traces how the exercise of power relates to the co-evolution of the human and technology.
Humanities in Session: Indenture Aesthetics in South Africa with Jordache Ellapen
In this public conversation, Jordache Ellapen engages his newly published book, Indenture Aesthetics: Afro-Indian Femininities and the Queer Limits of South African Blackness.
Encounters Documentary Film Festival: Encounters Talks
We are delighted to once again collaborate with Encounters Documentary Film Festival, and will be hosting a series of Encounters Talks at Iyatsiba Lab on 5 and 6 June.