Fellow in Focus: Professor Premesh Lalu

Recorded April 30, 2020. Former Trinity Long Room Hub Visiting
Fellow Professor Premesh Lalu (University of the Western Cape) will
sit down for a virtual 'in conversation' with Professor Jane
Ohlmeyer, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub, to discuss the
impact of COVID19 in South Africa and Cape Town. What have the
humanities and the arts to offer during this extraordinary time?


Professor Premesh Lalu 
is Professor of History and the Former
Director of the Centre for Humanities Research at the University of
the Western Cape. He has published widely in academic journals on
historical discourse and the Humanities in Africa and is a regular
contributor of public opinion pieces in local and international
newspapers. His book, The Deaths of Hintsa: Postapartheid South
Africa and the Shape of Recurring Pasts (2009) argues that in order
to forge a concept of apartheid that allows us to properly
formulate a deeper meaning of the post-apartheid, what is necessary
is a postcolonial critique of apartheid. Lalu is a board member of
the international Consortium of Humanities Centers and Institutes.
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