Sian Sullivan
Lands That History Forgot – Three Journeys with Nami-Daman Elders in North-west Namibia
Our film Lands That History Forgot – Three Journeys With Nami-Daman Elders in North-west Namibia is now out! Created from oral history...
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Sian Sullivan
- Apr 28
A Bee Song by Banco de Gaia and Future Pasts
We're happy to announce the pre-release A Bee Song 🐝 A new single by recording artist Banco de Gaia and Future Pasts, researching...
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Sian Sullivan
- Feb 1
Repatriating Musics Digitised by the British Library to the Nami-Daman Traditional Authority, North-west Namibia
Digitised recordings of five Nami-Daman musical forms from Sesfontein, Namibia, have recently been repatriated from the British Library.
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Sian Sullivan
- Jun 14, 2021
"Densities of meaning in west Namibian landscapes": new book chapter from Future Pasts research
Future Pasts researchers Sian Sullivan and Welhemina Suro Ganuses have had a new book chapter published from their collaborative research...
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Sian Sullivan
- Mar 28, 2021
"The Music Returns to Kai-as" – a film by Future Pasts
"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...
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Sian Sullivan
- Nov 15, 2020
Future Pasts scholarship is praised by Damara traditional leader in Namibia
Sian Sullivan and Welhemina Suro Ganuses have been praised for their research by Gaob (King) Justus ||Garoëb.
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Sian Sullivan
- Nov 15, 2020
Perceptions and histories of black rhino in west Namibia
Future Pasts publishes new Working Paper on local attitutes towards rhino introductions - by Simson !Uri≠khob, CEO of Save the Rhino Trust.
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Sian Sullivan
- Feb 17, 2020
Future Pasts and a new research project on Etosha-Kunene histories in Namibia
The Future Pasts project has contributed to a new research grant – one of 19 from more than 170 applications submitted in February 2019...
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Sian Sullivan
- Dec 19, 2019
Celebrating Hildegaart |Nuas of Sesfontein - 90 years still dancing
On 21 December 2019 the people of Sesfontein / !Nani-|aus in north-west Namibia celebrate the 90th year of an elder of their community -...
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Sian Sullivan
- Dec 19, 2019
Giving back
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...
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Sian Sullivan
- Jul 4, 2019
Future Pasts exhibition curated in Namibia
Swakopmund residents from Sesfontein visiting our research exhibition on 15 June 2019. Back left are Future Pasts researchers Mike...
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Sian Sullivan
- Oct 16, 2018
Crossing continents with Future Pasts: a tale of three conferences
Sian Sullivan (L) and Welhemina Suro Ganuses (R) present 'Tasting the lost flute music of Sesfontein: histories, continuities,...
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Rick Rohde
- Jun 14, 2018
Hanging on a Wire, edited by Rick Rohde, Wins Best Non-Fiction Edited Volume in South African Award
“Hanging on a Wire: Photographs by Sophia Klaase” was shortlisted for, and subsequently won, the 2018 Humanities and Social Sciences...
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Chris Low
- Mar 18, 2018
Storytelling at Sorris Sorris
Louise ||Areses tells where the folk figure Haiseb came from. Photo: Sylvia Diez, Sorris Sorris, March 2016. In 2016 I was collecting...
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Mike Hannis and Sian Sullivan
- Mar 4, 2018
Extraction old and new: mining the desert in southwestern Africa
At the extreme southern tip of Africa in 1652, the world’s first trans-national corporation began establishing a new port. The powerful...
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Sian Sullivan
- Sep 25, 2017
Damara King's Festival Film shortlisted for major Research in Film Award
Press Release! A film made by the Future Pasts research project has been shortlisted for the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s[1]...
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Rick Rohde
- Sep 14, 2017
The wonder of digital archives
On Monday 11 September 2017, I attended SCOLMA’s (Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa) annual conference at the National...
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Sian Sullivan
- Jul 22, 2017
Future Pasts exhibition hosts private view (and is visited by a special guest!)
On Tues 18th July, the Future Pasts research project hosted a private view of our exhibition Future Pasts: Landscape, Memory and Music in...
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Rick Rohde, Timm Hoffman
- Jul 9, 2017
Climate change complexity: repeat landscape photographs of the Pro-Namib and Namib Desert
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...
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Sian Sullivan
- Mar 19, 2017
‘Our hearts were happy here’ - recollecting acts of dwelling and acts of clearance through oral hist
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...
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