Future Pasts

The Future Pasts project has contributed to a new research grant – one of 19 from more than 170 applications submitted in February 2019 to a new bilateral Hu...

On 21 December 2019 the people of Sesfontein / !Nani-|aus in north-west Namibia celebrate the 90th year of an elder of their community - Hildegaart |Gugowa |...

By Chris Low In May 2019 I wound up my Future Pasts research by heading back to the Sorris Sorris and Sesfontein Conservancies with the aim of locating those...

Swakopmund residents from Sesfontein visiting our research exhibition on 15 June 2019 - at left of the image are Future Pasts researchers Mike Hannis, Sian S...

Sian Sullivan (L) and Welhemina Suro Ganuses (R) present 'Tasting the lost flute music of Sesfontein: histories, continuities, possibilities' at the conferen...

“Hanging on a Wire: Photographs by Sophia Klaase” was shortlisted for, and subsequently won, the 2018 Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Award for Best Non...

Louise ||Areses tells where the folk figure Haiseb came from. Photo: Sylvia Diez, Sorris Sorris, March 2016. In 2016 I was collecting KhoeSan trickster folkt...

At the extreme southern tip of Africa in 1652, the world’s first trans-national corporation began establishing a new port. The powerful Dutch East India Comp...

Press Release! A film made by the Future Pasts research project led from Bath Spa University’s Research Centre for Environmental Humanities has been shortlis...

On Monday 11 September 2017, I attended SCOLMA’s (Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa) annual conference at the National Library of Scotland i...

On Tues 18th July, the Future Pasts research project hosted a private view of our exhibition Future Pasts: Landscape, Memory and Music in West Namibia. Held ...

by Rohde, R., Hoffman, M.T., Jack, S. and Sullivan, S. The above composite image illustrates a key method we are drawing on in Future Pasts for exploring env...

It was when doing field research for my PhD in the mid-1990s that I first learned of local histories embedded in the broader landscape around the settlement ...

In November 2016 the Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines (CEAD) Conference took place in Cape Town. The conference focus was Ethnographic Imagini...

Perhaps it should be unsurprising that tracking such a slippery character as ‘Haiseb’ is proving less straightforward than I initially imagined. Scholars typ...

At the beginning of November, Angela Impey went to Namibia with the acclaimed BBC journalist, Robin Denselow, to make a radio documentary about the Damara Ki...

Imagine that years of drought have forced you to graze your cattle on sparse grass in the open desert, far from permanent settlements. The nearest small shop...

Next week, on the 23-24th November, the World Forum on Natural Capital takes place for a second time in Edinburgh. Given some of its framing assertions - tha...