Webinar series differential doings, europes in margins, session 2

We are excited to invite you to the next session of our webinar series, differential doings, europes in margins. Registration for the webinar series is open.

Date: 24th September 2025

Time: 15:30-17:00 (Dutch time)

The Five Crows of Jitsology: Occupation, Restoration, Healing, Negation, Visibility

The session brings Jitsvinger (word-architect) in conversation with Jody Metcalfe (Utrecht University).

Jitsvinger recently received the Neville Alexander Award for Outstanding Contribution towards the Promotion of Multilingualism by the Western Cape Cultural Affairs Awards 2023.He’s also the recipient of the multiple Kyknet Fiesta Awards for the theatre production Afrikaaps .  Jitsvinger is an established Cape Flats-born conceptual writer, composer, guitarist, educator, musician, poet and performing artist. He has released several albums – Skeletsleutel, Jitsologie EP, Knapgat and Jitsonova Vol. 1 (Compos Mentis) – and has collaborated with classical musicians, jazz pioneers and legends, and has performed on stages and in festivals both locally in his home country of South Africa and internationally including Taiwan, France, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Chilé. He has composed and written music for theatre productions and film. Jitsvinger is a social commentator on issues concerning heritage, culture and especially the Afrikaans language. Legendary theatre director Basil Appollis collaborated with Jitsvinger in a heritage celebration production titled Rainbow Rhythms at Artscape Theatre which saw Jitsvinger narrating South Africa’s cultural heritage to a captive audience.

Jody is the author of “Countering Colonial Memory Through Public and Popular Culture in Cape Town” (2025) and several other publications and collaborative works. She is also the co-editor of the edited volume, differential doings, europes in margins (forthcoming 2026).

Please join the webinar series via this link. Please be aware that the time of the event is based on Dutch time. This link will be valid throughout the series. If you have any technical issues please contact j.i.metcalfe@uu.nl.