Seminars & Conference Papers

Seminars, Colloquia & Conference Papers 

I have been active in disseminating my research outputs both locally and abroad since my appointment at UWC. Amongst recent presentations at seminars and conferences both locally and internationally are: 

International Seminars, Workshops  & Colloquia

• 6 July 2023: Invited workshop presentation, Gender Urban Research Workshop, VREF-funded project Investigating Young Men’s Experiences of Walking to the ‘bus’ in Low Income Neighbourhoods of Cape Town and London, hybrid event online and in-person at Cardiff University 6 - 7 July 2023.  

• 6 September 2019: Seminar entitled 'Space, race and mobility justice: Everyday micro-politics in South African public transport' presented as part of the Departmental Colloquium Series, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. 

• 5 April 2016: Seminar entitled ‘Mundane mobilities: Shaping cities and citizenship in the global South’ presented at the Department of Geography, University of North Carolina Charlotte (UNCC), USA. Jointly funded by the Forum on Education Abroad and UNCC Office for International Programs

• 8 June 2015: Presentation of UWC Research Profile at the workshop Remapping the Global South: Teaching-Researching-Exchanging, University of Cologne, Global South Studies Center (GSSC), Cologne, Germany. Funded by the GSSC

Invited Lectures

• 14 March 2022: Invited lecture at the Royal Geographical Society ‘Be Inspired’ Lecture Series.  Lecture entitled ‘Airmindedness redux: Growing tourism and worldliness through aeromobility in Africa’.

• 4 October 2017: Invited lecture at Rutgers University (Newark, USA) for the Global Urban Studies International Visiting Scholar Program. Lecture entitled ‘Mobility and stillness: Shaping cities and citizenship in the global South’.

• 7 December 2016: Invited lecture at Ghent University (Belgium) in advance of GAPSYM10, the 10th Ghent Africa Platform Symposium. The lecture, entitled Architectures of mobility and enclosure: City improvement districts and cultural quarters in the South African city, was the second event in a lecture series on the theme “Architectural and Urban Sustainability in Africa. Current discourses and practices. A critical evaluation”, which is initiated by Johan Lagae & Michiel Dehaene, with the support of VLIR-UOS, the Department of Architecture and Urban Planning (UGent) and the Ghent Africa Platform(GAP).  The lecture interrogated architectures of enclosure in the contemporary African city, investigating the role of city improvement districts (CIDs) and cultural quarters in the intervention and management of mobility as evidenced by the Groote Schuur City Improvement District (GSCID) in Cape Town’s southern suburbs, and the urban quarter of De Waterkant in the central business district.

Local Seminars and Colloquia (recent)

• 20-21 February 2020: Literary Pedagogy: Confronting Colonisation, colloquium hosted by the Centre for Humanities Research and the Jackman Humanities Institute, University of Toronto. 

• 1 March 2018: Centre for Innovation in Learning and Teaching, University of Cape Town. Seminar entitled 'Mobilising theory through practice: Authentic learning through student-centred, socially-embedded pedagogies'. 

• 20 May 2016: Department of Environmental & Geographical Science, University of Cape Town seminar entitled ‘Relational practice and the micro-politics of mobility: Mobile auto-ethnography on a South African bus service’.

• 6 August 2015: UWC Department of Geography, Environmental Studies & Tourism seminar entitled ‘Relational practice and the micro-politics of mobility: Mobile auto-ethnography on a South African bus service’

• 4 August 2015: UWC Women’s & Gender Studies seminar and panel discussion, paper entitled ‘Consumption as the new queer social text’ on a panel entitled ‘Postcoloniality, Assemblage and Queer Studies’

• 26 February 2015: UWC Department of Geography, Environmental Studies & Tourism seminar entitled ‘Mobility and the City Improvement District: Frictions in the human-capital mobile assemblage’ 

International Conference Papers (recent)

• 31 May 2023: International conference paper entitled ‘Sonic urbanism(s): Listening to the city’, presented on a themed panel ‘Peripheral Pedagogical Practices’, European Conference on African Studies (ECAS) 2023, 31 May to 3 June 2023 Cologne, Germany. 

• 21 April 2022: International conference paper entitled ‘Sound-tracks on the bus Listening to bus encounters in Cape Town’, presented on the panel The bus as a space of encounters, PUTSPACE Conference, Brussels, Belgium, 20-22 April 2022.

• 3 September 2021: International conference paper entitled ‘A more human geography: Slow teaching in a massified world’, presented on the panel Teaching and Learning in Geography: inspiring courage and compassion in the pedagogic borderlands, Royal Geographical Society Annual International Conference, on-line 31 August – 3 September 2021.

• 8 July 2021: International conference paper entitled ‘Sonic methods in mobilities research: Sensing beyond movement and stillness’, at Im/mobile Lives in Turbulent Times, Northumbria University, on-line 8-9 July 2021.

• 5 November 2020: Invited participant for inaugural African Urban Mobility Network workshop (online), paper entitled Evolution of the cockroach: Amaphela taxis and the (past, present &) future of paratransit in South African townships.

• 15 September 2020: Invited panelist for Royal Anthropological Institute 2020 Conference (online): Anthropology and Geography: Dialogues Past, Present and Future for the session 'Stories in the archives'. Presentation entitled ‘Airmindedness redux: Growing tourism and worldliness through aeromobility in Africa.

• 16-19 October 2019:  International conference paper entitled 'Negotiating the ‘public’ in public transportation: Transgression and normativity within bus passengering in Cape Town', Presented on the panel Public Transport as Public Space  at the International Conference of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T²M), Paris, France 18 October 2019. 

• 11-14 June 2019: International conference paper entitled ‘Encountering the city through mobility and mobile methods’, presented at ECAS 2019 Africa: Connections and Disruptions, in a session panel on Encountering Publics in African Cities, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

• 08-10 November 2018: International conference paper entitled 'Capturing the amaphela: Informal and shared mobilities in South African townships', presented at the Marshrutka Project Conference on Spatial dynamics of informal and shared mobilities, Technical University of Berlin, Germany.

• 24 March 2018: #MobPed2018, Paper entitled, ‘Mobilising theory through practice: Authentic learning in teaching mobilities’, Wilfred Laurier University, Waterloo, Canada.

• 01-03 February 2018: International conference paper entitled 'Animated stillness: place ballet and city-making in a South African mini-bus taxi rank' presented at the African Centre for Cities International Urban Conference, Cape Town.

• 30 November-3 December 2017: International conference paper entitled 'Queer cartographies: Psychogeographic pink maps of Cape Town' presented at the Global Partnership for Better Cities Hong Kong Sandpit in Hong Kong.

• 31 August-1 September 2017: International Conference paper entitled 'Mobilising theory through practice: Mobile diaries as a teaching and learning tool' presented at the Royal Geographical Society in a session entitled Teaching Mobilities: Practice, Pedagogies, Power.  Organised by leading scholars in the field Peter Adey (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK); Simon Cook (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK); and Justin Spinney (Cardiff University, UK).  A draft version of the paper can be found here.

• 27-29 October 2016: International conference paper entitled 'The aeromobile gaze: Tourism 'from above' in Cape Town 1932-2016' presented  at the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) in Mexico City, Mexico.

• 14-17 September 2015: International conference paper entitled ‘Relational practice and micro-politics of mobility: Mobile auto-ethnography on a South African bus service’ presented at the joint Conference of the International Association for the History of Transport, Traffic and Mobility (T2M) and the Cosmobilities Network in Santa Maria Capua Vetere (Caserta), Italy. Funded by UWC Senate Research Committee

Local Conference Papers (recent)

• 2 September 2020: Regional conference paper entitled ‘Sensing The Sonic in Urban Mobilities: Exploring The Role of Sound Beyond Movement and Stillness’, Presented on the panel Innovative Urban Research Methods at the Southern African Cities Studies Conference, on-line 31 August—4 September 2020.

• 28 September 2016: Paper entitled ‘Living with aeromobility: Relational geographies of flying and informality in Freedom Farm, Cape Town’ based on an article to be co-published with former honours student Lwando Klaas presented at the 10th Biennial Conference of the Society of South African Geographers.

• 23 August 2016: Paper entitled ‘Understanding internationalization inequalities through a new paradigm: Mobility, moorings, frictions and fixities’  presented at the Global Conference on The Internationalisation of Higher Education, organised by the International Education Association of South Africa. Conference funded by the Forum on Education Abroad (USA).

• 7 July 2016: Invited speaker, CHR Winter School for paper entitled ‘Obligations of presence: Mobility and network capital in the university of austerity’, presented at the Centre for Humanities Research Winter School 2016.