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SUMMARY:Performance in the Aftermath: Mourning and Memorialising District S
 ix - Nadia Davids
DESCRIPTION:Performance in the Aftermath: Mourning and Memorialising Distri
 ct Six\nPublic lecture by Nadia Davids\nTue.\, March 25\, 4:00pm-5:30pm ES
 T\nLocation: Smith warehouse\, Bay 4\, Ahmadieh lecture hall\n&amp\; via Z
 oom: register at duke.is/aftermath\nNadia Davids is a multi-hyphenate Sout
 h African writer\, scholar and former President of PEN South Africa\, who 
 works across a range of forms: novels\, short-stories theatre and research
 . Her plays\, At Her Feet\, What Remains\, Cissie and Hold Still have been
  staged throughout Southern Africa and in Europe. She has won the Olive Sc
 hreiner Prize for Drama and has twice won the Fleur du Cap for Best New So
 uth African Play.\n\nHer debut novel\, An Imperfect Blessing\, was shortl
 isted for the Etisalat Prize for Literature and her writing has been publi
 shed in The American Scholar\, Astra Magazine\, The Georgia Review\,  Zyz
 zyva Magazine and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She was a 2023 Aspen Wr
 iter in Residence and won the 2024 Caine Prize for her short story ‘Brid
 ling’. Her novel\, Cape Fever Simon and Schuster (US) and Scribner (UK)
 - will publish in 2025.\n\nNadia was awarded the University of Cape Town
 ’s first doctorate in Drama for a thesis entitled\, Inherited Memories: 
 Performing the Archive\, on performative engagements with the archives of 
 Apartheid Forced Removals in District Six. As an A.W. Mellon Fellow\, she 
 has been a visiting scholar/artist at the University of California Berkele
 y\, at New York University and at the Royal Central School of Speech and D
 rama in London. She taught drama at Queen Mary University of London where 
 she was a recipient of the Philip Leverhulme Prize and until 2022\, was As
 sociate Professor at the University of Cape Town where she now holds an Ho
 norary Research Associateship at UCT. Nadia lives in California.\n\nCo-spo
 nsors: Black Archival Imagination Lab\, Franklin Humanities Institute\, Of
 fice of Global Affairs\, Concilium on Southern Africa\, Africa Initiative\
 , AAAS\, English Department
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