The presentation by Kylie Thomas (University College Cork) is part of the Namibian and Southern African Studies Research Colloquium by the Basler Afrika Bibliographien, the Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, and the University of Namibia.

Kylie Thomas is a Senior Lecturer in History of Art at the Radical Humanities Laboratory, University College Cork, Ireland, and also Guest Researcher at NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, the Netherlands, where she co-directs the NIOD ImageLab, a project on war and visual culture. She is the author of numeours books and essays, amongst them “Women and Photography in Africa: Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges” (2020). In her presentation she focuses on the photographic representation of two key events in the history of South Africa – the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960 and the Marikana Massacre of 2012. To see these two massacres in relation is to see how impunity casts a dark shadow over the present, and how the failure to hold perpetrators to account for the crime of humanity that was apartheid is bound to the persistence of racial capitalism and the forms of violence it produces and upon which it depends.

This is a hybrid event. Contact for registration and zoom link: julia.rensing@unibas.ch and makawa@unam.na

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