Attribution: Sarah Nuttall, WiSER – Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg in “Usmaradio” for the radio program “Scuola di pensiero” by Iolanda Pensa, recorded during the conference Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa, Madeira Portugal, September 2017, cc by-sa all.

La direttrice di WiSER – il Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research dell’Università di Witwatersrand di Johannesburg in Sudafrica – presenta il suo centro di ricerca e spiega in che modo discussioni e riflessioni sul mondo a partire dall’Africa sono sostenute da questa istituzione.

Sarah Nuttall è dal 2013 direttrice di WiSER, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research dell’Università di Witwatersrand di Johannesburg in Sudafrica. È una studiosa di letteratura con approccio interdisciplinare e un’attenzione particolare per il ruolo politico e sociale di arte a cultura. Tra le sue pubblicazioni la monografia Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-apartheid e la raccolta di testi Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics.

Intervista realizzata a Madeira nell’ambito della conferenza Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa, 2 settembre 2017.

The director of WiSER – the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa – presents her research center and explains how discussions and reflections about the world are supported by this African-based institution.

Sarah Nuttall has been since 2013 the director of WiSER, Witser Institute for Social and Economic Research at Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa. She is a literary scholar with an interdisciplinary approach and a special focus on the political and social role of art and culture. Among her publications there is is the monograph Entanglement: Literary and Cultural Reflections on Post-apartheid and the edited book Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics.

Interview made in Madeira at the conference Strategic Narratives of Technology and Africa, 2 September 2017.