The Department of Political & International Studies invites you to the weekly Friday lunchtime seminar with Prof Nthabiseng Motsemme.

SPEAKER:     Prof Nthabiseng Motsemme

TOPIC:          *Notes on Indigenous Healing Epistemologies and Methodologies*

CHAIR:          Megan Mannion

VENUE:          https://zoom.us/j/91408670017

TIME:            13h00 – 14h00

DATE:            Friday, 1 April 2022



*ABSTRACT*

Over the past few decades, I have been following and keenly observing a
growing indigenous conceptual framework taking shape and fast coalescing
into a coherent theoretical structure, authoured by Black South African
feminist and womanist scholars, healers and activists that I will call
*indigenous
healing epistemologies and methodologies*. This maturing framework
primarily draws and is embedded within maternal ancestral legacies of
knowledges and African womanist consciousness. As a way to begin to outline
this organically emerging conceptual framework, I will centre the lives and
writings of three women, namely Dr Nokuzola Mndende, Dr Yvette Abrahams, Dr
Matshillo Motsei. Based on these reflections we will begin to observe some
of the emerging coherent theoretical principles that underpin indigenous
healing epistemologies and methodologies, which challenge hegemonic forms
of feminisms and notions of healing.



*SPEAKER BIO*

*Prof Nthabiseng Motsemme *is currently Associate Professor at the
University of Johannesburg, Sociology Department. She previously served as
Academic Director at the National Institute for the Humanities and Social
Sciences (NIHSS), and Postgraduate Studies, and Research Capacity
Development Director at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her research
interests include African feminist/womanist theories; Cultures of Survival,
Death and Healing in Townships; African Truth and Reconciliation
Commissions and gendering memories; and Higher Education Transformation and
women’s experiences. She serves on the editorial board of the international
journal *African Identities*.





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