Future Pasts

“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-Fiction Edited Volume. The awards were held at the John Kani Theatre at The Market Theatre in Johannesburg on 15 March 2018. Congratulations to the editors, Rick Rohde and Siona O’Connell, as well as to the photographer Sophia Klaase (“Vytjie”), who sadly passed away at the beginning of 2017. Photograph [left to right]:

In November 2016 the Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines (CEAD) Conference took place in Cape Town. The conference focus was Ethnographic Imaginings: Place, Space, and Time. In response, Sian Sullivan, Rick Rohde and Chris Low of the Future Pasts research team developed a panel with the title Encountering Each Other: Agencies, (Im)possibilities, and Reciprocities in Dryland Southern Africa – A Sharing of Co-created Works and Experiences. A key intention of our pan