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Mixing Africa’s Disciplines Workshop at Center for African Studies
November 17, 2020 at 11:00 am
Meeting ID: 920 8648 7960
Passcode: 996421
Please join the Center for African Studies for a special Fall Lecture, hosted by the Mixing Africa’s Disciplines workshop, titled “Orienting Frames: New Thoughts on (African) Psychologies.” The event will feature renowned South African psychologist Kopano Ratele.
Professor Kopano Ratele is the Director of the South African Medical Research Council Men, Injury and Violence Research Unit and Professor at the University of South Africa where he runs the Transdisciplinary African Psychologies Programme. His research, teaching, social-political activism and community mobilization has focused on men and masculinity, African psychology, violence, class, traditions, sexuality, fatherhood and race.
He is currently a member of the Ministerial Committee on Transformation in South African Universities, former convener of the National Research Foundation’s Specialist Committee for Psychology Rating Panel, former president of the Psychological Society of South Africa, and former chairperson of Sonke Gender Justice. His recent research interests are in African-situated decolonizing psychology as well as masculinities, femininities at home, and masculinities at university.
His recent books include There Was This Goat: Investigating the Truth Commission Testimony of Notrose Nobomvu Konile (2009, co-authored with Antjie Krog and Nosisi Mpolweni), Liberating Masculinities (2016), Engaging Youth in Activism, Research and Pedagogical Praxis: Transnational and Intersectional Perspectives on Gender, Sex, and Race (2018, co-edited with Jeff Hearn, Tammy Shefer, and Floretta Boonzaier) and The World Looks Like This From Here: Thoughts on African Psychology (2019).