PhD student
Research
- History of South Africa
- Postcolonial studies
- Racial representations
Siècles d’étude
20th & 21st centuries
Dissertation: From District Six to Mitchells Plain: spatiality and identities of the Cape Coloured community in South Africa.
Under the supervision of Professor Gilles Teulié (LERMA, Aix-Marseille université)
- June 2024 : Congrès SAES, Nancy. From District Six to Mitchells Plain: crossing the urban boundaries of apartheid.
- March 2025 : Séminaire BABEL, University of Toulon. From District Six to Mitchells Plain: (re)imagining nationhood through the identity of Cape Town’s Coloured community.
- March 2025 : Séminaire du GRER (Groupe de Recherche sur l’Eugénisme et le Racisme), Paris-Cité, Paris. Welcome To Fairyland: District Six, an imaginary place that has become a symbol of Cape Town’s Coloured community.
- Juin 2025 : Congrès SAES, Toulouse. From apartheid to freedom: transitioning Cape Coloured identities through the history of the Kaapse Klopse.
- June 2025 : IAMHIST (International Association for Media and History), UCT Graduate School of Business (University of Cape Town), Cape Town, South Africa. The history of District Six told my its former inhabitants, a distorted narrative of loss and topophilia.