Contemporary South Africa. Relevance and Reflections 27 Years after the Fall of the Berlin Wall - Internationales Forum am ZAK, 15.11.2016

Author

Mike Graan

Editor

Zentrum für Angewandte Kulturwissenschaft und Studium Generale (ZAK)

Participating institute

KIT-Bibliothek (BIB)

Genre

Veranstaltung

Description

Dramatist Mike van Graan is giving a talk on social developments in his home country and the South African perspective.

Mike van Graan is a prominent South African dramatist, theatre director, cultural consultant and activist. He became a government advisor after South Africa held its first democratic elections in 1994. He played a key role in shaping the post-apartheid cultural landscape. In 2011, he was appointed by UNESCO as a Technical Adviser to assist governments in the global south to develop cultural policies aligned to the UNESCO Convention on the Protection and Promotion of the Diversity of Cultural Expressions. Mike van Graan is a Richard von Weizsäcker Fellow at the Robert Bosch Academy in 2016.

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Duration (hh:mm:ss)

01:04:16

Series

Internationales Forum am ZAK

Published on

12.01.2017

Subject area

Arts

License

KITopen Licence