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SUMMARY:Du Bois Center Graduate Fellow Lecture: Wilton Schereka
DESCRIPTION:Register here.\n\n"Sound\, Spirit\, Struggle: Du Bois and South 
 Africa"\n\nI come from a place and came up in a time where the work of 
 black sonic and aural traditions are vital to the continued work of 
 resistance in struggles toward liberation. South Africa’s history and 
 present is rich in constant return to the concrete ways in which sound can 
 move struggle beyond concept\, into practice. Spirit\, the abstraction of 
 our constant strain to achieve liberation and transcendence\, becomes 
 material and tactile\, in my argument\, through the work of sound. In this 
 talk I audit the ways in which Du Bois’s correspondences with South 
 African struggle and sonic icons\, Charlotte Maxeke and Sol Plaatje\, 
 reflect the depth of his commitment to the relational work of sound and 
 resistance struggle in his own political and philosophical imaginary. This 
 talk\, in part a communal listening session\, is a chance to think aloud 
 about the work of sound in the continued efforts of people of South Africa 
 in our anticolonial\, antigenocidal\, antiapartheid\, and anticapitalist 
 struggle.\n\nBio\n\nWilton Schereka is a scholar\, archivist\, activist\, 
 and writer from Cape Town\, South Africa. He has two MA degrees- one from 
 the University of the Western Cape in History on questions of blackness\, 
 Afrofuturism\, and black electronic music. The second is from Brown 
 University in Africana studies. He is in the final stages of his PhD at the 
 University of the Western Cape on the work of struggle song and sound in 
 the history of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. As 
 archivist\, Wilton has worked in the archives of the District Six Museum in 
 Cape Town. In 2025 he was awarded a Graduate Fellowship at the W. E. B. Du 
 Bois Center at UMass Amherst.\n\n"This event is the first expression of the 
 new partnership between the W. E. B. Du Bois Center at UMass Amherst 
 (Amherst\, Massachusetts) and the Centre for Humanities Research at the 
 University of the Western Cape (Cape Town\, South Africa)." \n\n\nLocation: 
 W. E. B. Du Bois Library\, Floor 22\, Room 2220\, Du Bois Center
LOCATION:W. E. B. Du Bois Library\, Room 2220 (Floor 22)
ORGANIZER;CN="UMass Amherst Libraries":MAILTO:ref@library.umass.edu
CATEGORIES:Lectures, W. E. B. Du Bois Center
CONTACT;CN="UMass Amherst Libraries":MAILTO:ref@library.umass.edu
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