This event is hosted in association with The Wits City Institute and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS). Wits University Press has the pleasure of inviting you to the launch of Mark Sanders’ new book. This book, with its extraordinary mix of linguistics, literary criticism, cultural studies, psychoanalytic theory, and autobiography/memoir analysis will be discussed in conversation with the author, Mark Sanders (New York University), Hlonipha Mokoena (historian and researcher - WiSER) and Dilip Menon (Director of the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) at Wits)

Ostensibly about one man’s quest to acquire a language, Learning Zulu is a clever, surprising, and enlightening journey into 150 years of South African history. Nobody has written quite this subtly about race and language in South Africa in a long while.  — Jonny Steinberg, University of Oxford

Mark Sanders is professor of comparative literature at New York University. His books include Complicities: The Intellectual and Apartheid and Ambiguities of Witnessing: Law and Literature in the Time of a Truth Commission.

WHEN: Thursday 6th October 2016, 5:30 for 6pm.

WHERE: Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS)

1 Tolip Street, Westdene, Johannesburg (Map)  Safe street parking

RSVP: Corina.vanderspoel@wits.ac.za     (by Wednesday 5 Oct)

Space is limited and RSVP is essential