The 2016 LECTURE SERIES is presented by Sindiwe Magona and Bill Nasson.
In 2015, the inaugural André Brink Memorial Lecture was presented by Prof. Harry Garuba.
This year, South African writer Sindiwe Magona will do the honours.
She will offer an outsider’s take on this giant of South African letters in a talk titled André Brink: enigma, betrayer, villain or hero?
This lecture will be presented on Saturday 14 May at 13h00 in the Congregational Church.
Also this year, the FLF is offering a second lecture to those who welcome the opportunity to listen to experts in their fields.
Bill Nasson, a Distinguished Professor in the Department of History at Stellenbosch University, will deliver a lecture first presented in Dublin, marking the centenary of the 1916 Easter Uprising in Ireland, titled Unbalanced emotionalism or republican romance: The 1916 Easter Rising in South African Eyes.
It is not uncommon for historians of Ireland to point to the symbolic importance of South Africa’s Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 for Irish history.
The lecture will be given on Sunday 15 May at 11h30 in the Congregational Church.
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