Rhodes University will be hosting a Histories, Aesthetics and Politics of South African Jazz Symposium from 17 – 18 January 2012. The conference will take place in the Beethoven Room and will be officially opened by the Vice-Chancellor, Dr Saleem Badat.
A masters student, Camalita Naicker has been awarded R80 000 Ruth First Scholarship to study towards the field of emancipatory politics at Rhodes. Naicker is the first recipient to receive the coveted and prestigious scholarship.
Musical Echoes will be launched in South Africa on Wednesday January 18, as part of the Rhodes University international conference Histories, Aesthetics and Politics of Jazz.
Musical Echoes by Carol Ann Muller and Sathima Bea Benjamin (Duke University Press).
Rhodes University will formally honour heroes and heroines in March by naming a brand-new Hall and four students’ residences after Desmond Tutu, Ellen Kuzwayo, Amina Cachalia, James and Fort Calata and Rosa Parks for their courageous and outspoken stand against racial discrimination and their determined fight for human rights.