This should be interesting

The UT Peace and Conflict Studies and the Department of Sociology are sponsoring a talk by Professor Liz Gunner of the University of Natal at Durban (South Africa) on 'Those dying generations at their song': Youth, Isicathamiya and singing of Life, Death and AIDS in Today's KwaZulu-Natal." The talk will be based on fieldwork in 2002 in Durban and parts of the Valley of a Thousand Hills. Prof Gunner is the author of several studies of oral and written African literatures, including Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature; Politics and Performance: Theatre, Poetry And Song In Southern Africa. The talk will be given on Monday, 20th of October at 4pm in Burdine 602. All students are encouraged to attend.

Thanks to Noreen for the heads up.