Future Pasts

Our film Lands That History Forgot – Three Journeys With Nami-Daman Elders in North-west Namibia is now out! Created from oral history...

We're happy to announce the pre-release A Bee Song 🐝 A new single by recording artist Banco de Gaia and Future Pasts, researching...

Digitised recordings of five Nami-Daman musical forms from Sesfontein, Namibia, have recently been repatriated from the British Library.

Future Pasts researchers Sian Sullivan and Welhemina Suro Ganuses have had a new book chapter published from their collaborative research...

"Good day, I am happy to report to you that we are now busy watching the Kai-as video with members of the cultural group" (WhatsApp...

Sian Sullivan and Welhemina Suro Ganuses have been praised for their research by Gaob (King) Justus ||Garoëb.

Future Pasts publishes new Working Paper on local attitutes towards rhino introductions - by Simson !Uri≠khob, CEO of Save the Rhino Trust.

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

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

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...

Swakopmund residents from Sesfontein visiting our research exhibition on 15 June 2019. Back left are Future Pasts researchers Mike...

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

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

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

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

Press Release! A film made by the Future Pasts research project has been shortlisted for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s[1]...

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

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

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...

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...