Conferences Organization

Science Education Centre, University of Limpopo, 10-13 March 2026. In planning.
Art/Science Perspectives on Water, Energy, and Food.
, Origins Centre, University of the Witwatersrand, 1-3 October (symposium); Exhibition 29 September – 12 December 2025. In planning.
WEF Symposium, Exhibition and Stakeholder Engagement.
University of Fort Hare, South Africa, 19-21 February 2025.
Exhibition, Stakeholder meeting (regional- Eastern Cape), Colloquium and Workshop.
Exhibition catalogue: Click Here
De Fruitvis, Rotterdam and Wereldmuseum Leiden, 1-2 July 2024.
Eileen Moyer for the Dutch Research Council and the National Research Foundation of South Africa.
Johannesburg, 1-2 March 2024.
Lenore Manderson for the Dutch Research Council and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand.
MBH Hall, University of Limpopo, 22 September 2023.
Sandra Zaroufis for the Eco-Imagining Project PhD.
Centre Rural Community Empowerment (CRCE), University of Limpopo, 24 August 2023.
Sandra Zaroufis for the Eco-Imagining Project PhD.
Centre for Rural Community Empowerment (CRCE), Department of Geography and Environmental Studies, University of Limpopo, 17 August 2023.
Marius Marais for the Eco-Imagining Project.
Science Centre, Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, University of Limpopo, 13-15 February 2023.
Marius Marais for the Eco-Imagining Project.

Conference and Seminar Presentations

Bezuidenhout, A. and Marias, M. Alice and Turfloop.
Panel: Living African urban peripheries: social infrastructures and spatial connections. 10th European Conference for African Studies (ECAS), Prague, Czech Republic, 25-28 June 2025.
Bezuidenhout, A. and Makanjee, V.
10th European Conference for African Studies (ECAS), Prague, Czech Republic, 25-28 June 2025.
Mokoena, A.
European Conference for African Studies (ECAS), Prague, 25-28 June 2025.
Reid, M. and Musariri, L.
Juxtaposition and Value: Critical perspectives on the WEF Nexus. University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa, 20 February 2025.
Khofi, L.
Juxtaposition and Value: Critical perspectives on the WEF Nexus. University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa, 20 February 2025.
Mokoena, A.
Juxtaposition and Value: Critical perspectives on the WEF Nexus. University of Fort Hare, Alice, South Africa, 20 February 2025.
Khofi, L. Inputs from Nolwenn Bühler, Lucy Khofi, Emma Mavidza.
Medical Anthropology in Global Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. Basel, Switzerland, 21 November 2024.
Khofi, L.
Woman and Gender in Global Health, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute. Basel, Switzerland, 20 November 2024.
Mokoena, A.
SPUI25, Amsterdam, Netherlands, 24 October 2024.
Zaroufis, S.
Anthropology Department Panorama Day, University of Amsterdam, 10 October 2024.
Reid, M.
EASA2024: European Association of Social Anthropologists, Barcelona, Spain, 23– 26 July 2024.
Zaroufis, S.
European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), Barcelona, Spain, 26 July 2024
Khofi, L., Manderson, L., and Moyer, E.
EASA2024: European Association of Social Anthropologists; Barcelona, Spain, 23– 26 July 2024.
Ragus, E.
EASA2024: European Association of Social Anthropologists; Barcelona, Spain, 23– 26 July 2024.
Reid, M.
EASA2024: European Association of Social Anthropologists; Barcelona, Spain, 23– 26 July 2024.
Mokoena, A.
EASA2024: European Association of Social Anthropologists; Barcelona, Spain, 23– 26 July 2024.
Zaroufis, S.
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)(EASST-4S), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 17 July 2024.
Mokoena, A.
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S)(EASST-4S), Amsterdam, Netherlands, 16 July 2024
Reid, M.
Port of Amsterdam, Netherlands, 4 July 2024.
Mokoena, A.
NWO-NRF Midterm Panorama Day, Leiden, Netherlands, 2 July 2024.
Zaroufis, S.
Joint Mid-term Project Meeting and Workshop for the Dutch Research Council and the National Research Foundation of South Africa. Leiden, 2 July 2024.
Manderson, L.
Inaugural event, The anthropology of the future: An art world perspective, University of Vienna, 13 June 2024.
Reid, M.
Integrated Responses to the Intensification of Extreme Climate & Weather Events in Developing Economies, Cape Town, 22-24 May 2024.
Mokoena, A.
STS Austria, Vienna, 27 November 2023.
Ragus, E.
Visual Anthropology Conference, Toronto, Canada, 14 November, 2023.
Ragus, E.
Northern European Emergency and Disaster Studies, Twente, Netherlands, 31 October-3 November, 2023.
Reid, M.
SAWEA WindAC, Cape Town, 3-5 October 2023.
Khofi, L.
4th African Philanthropy Conference: Dakar, Senegal – 29 July 2023 – 2 August 2023.
Khofi, L.
Discussant in a plenary session (on The Role of Traditional Food Systems in Rapid Urbanization. Hosted by the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) in Pretoria, South Africa. June 23, 2023.
Manderson, L.
Uppsala University, 23 May 2023.
Manderson, L.
Department of Social Anthropology, University of Oslo, 10 May 2023.
Manderson, L.
Department of Cultural Anthropology and Ethnology, Uppsala University, 26 April 2023.
Reid, M.
WEF Nexus seminar series (2023): Department of Development Studies, University of Fort Hare, Alice, 16 March 2023.
Zaroufis, S.
University of Limpopo, Science Centre. 13-15 February 2023.

Conferences Organization

Hope, Youth and Imagined Futures

Agency and Advocacy

Juxtaposition and Value: Critical approaches to the WEF Nexus.

Joint Project Meeting and Workshop

Joint WEF Nexus Meeting

Digital Storytelling and Mapping Workshop: My story, my voice

Mankweng Smallholder Farmers’ Digital Storytelling Workshop

Roundtable: Comparative Eastern Cape / Limpopo development perspectives as exploratory & participative conversation.

Qualitative Research Workshop in Arts Expression.

Conference and Seminar Presentations

Peripheral university towns before and after apartheid

Between Monumental Failure and Organic Growth: An Ethnographic Account of South Africa’s Presidential Employment Programme

Hydro-masculinities: Gendering an illicit water economy in rural South Africa

Parallel worlds of energy transitions

Food and gender in the Eastern Cape

Infrastructuring Water in Eastern Cape

Trajectories of Gender in Global Health: Where are we going? Revisiting critical, engaged, and action research: insights from feminist approaches in Global Health

Menstrual health and activism

Rethinking gender through African lenses

Present pasts: Traditional authorities, traditional healers and resource access in a former Bantustan.

Enhancing Urban Food Security: Redirecting Food Pathways Through Surplus Natural Preservation

Doing Fieldwork ‘Back Home’ as a Transnational African Scholar: Decolonisation, Positionality and Social Responsibility

Strengthening Community Ties: The Role of Social Capital and Network Structures in Underserved Areas

Rubbish Deaths: Violent Entanglements in Disasters

Enhancing Urban Food Security: Redirecting Food Pathways Through Surplus Natural Preservation

Down to the Last Straw: Climate Change As Epistemicide

A mosaic of methods to represent a “mosaic of development”: the case of Mankweng, South Africa

Claiming epistemic significance: south perspectives in global STS scholarship.

H2A Hydrogen: Making hydrogen import corridors a reality

Infrastructuring Water in Eastern Cape

A piece of land, a piece of WEF: How access to land influences social relations, governance and access to resources, in Mankweng.

Ecological Community Engagements (Eco-Imagining) Research on Water, Energy and Food

Temperature, precipitation, land cover - land use change, and runoff nexus, and its implications on hydropower generation in the Kariba sub-basin

Politicizing and Personalizing Climate Science in Africa

Tracing Precarity: Arts-Based Research in Disasters

Community-Led Early Warning Systems: The Case Study of Quarry Road West

Financing renewable energy in South Africa’s wind industry

Local Initiatives on Urban Gardens, Lorentzville and Mnqanduli

Community engagement and the role of community-based NGOs

Public Lecture, Quintessence: Art, the Elements and Environmental Change

Quintessence: Art, the Elements and Environmental Change

Ecological community engagements: Imagining sustainability and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus in urban South African environments (Eco-imagining)

Exploring the Water-Energy-Food Nexus and Climate Change through a Case Study of Energy Insecurity

The influence of historical and political factors on urban growth, access to land and water-energy-food (WEF) resources, in Mankweng, South Africa. Qualitative Research Workshop in Arts Expression.

Eco-imagining