The Empty Chair by PEN SA
By PEN South Africa
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Episodes: 63
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In The Empty Chair Podcast: A Transatlantic Conversation, PEN South Africa hosts authors, academics and activists based in South Africa and the USA. The podcast focuses on books, writing, social justice, freedom of expression, shared histories and possible futures. Each of our episodes is dedicated to an imprisoned writer or a writer who has been harassed by the state.
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S9 E7 Hugo ka Canham & Grace A. Musila: Death, Life & Mpondo Theory
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Sep 28, 2023 |
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S9 E6 Gabeba Baderoon, Roger Reeves & Bongani Kona: Intimacy & Interiority
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Sep 21, 2023 |
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S9 E5 John Marnell, Alejandra Oliva & Kudakwashe Vanyoro: Migration, Refuge & Solidarity
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Sep 14, 2023 |
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S9 E4 Camille T. Dungy & Yewande Omotoso: Gardening & Creating a Space of Welcome
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Sep 07, 2023 |
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S9 E3 LaTasha N. Nevada Diggs, Sihle Ntuli & Vuyokazi Ngemntu: Tracing Lineages & Imagining Futures
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Aug 31, 2023 |
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S9 E2 Ashwin Desai, Goolam Vahed & Betty Govinden: Durban’s Casbah – “A City Within a City”
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Aug 24, 2023 |
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S9 E1: Sarah Lubala, Mahtem Shiferraw & Phillippa Yaa de Villiers: Writing Across Time
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Aug 17, 2023 |
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S8 E7 Jade Song & Mia Arderne: Mermaids, Body Horror & Becoming
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Jul 27, 2023 |
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S8 E6 Jarred Thompson, Tyriek White & Khanya Mtshali: Debut Novels, Social Critique & Mortality
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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S8 E5 KB Brookins & Maneo Mohale: Dreaming of Freedom & Centring Trans Joy
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Jul 13, 2023 |
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S8E4 Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Idra Novey & Sean O’Toole: The Exhilaration of Visual Art
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Jul 06, 2023 |
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S8E3 Manuel Muñoz and Lester Walbrugh: "The Real Mystery of Everyday Stories"
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Jun 22, 2023 |
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S8E2 Cristina Rivera Garza and Stacy Hardy: Femicide, Justice and Love
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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S8E1 Charif Shanahan and Bongani Kona: Racism, Positionality and A Life in Poetry
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Jun 08, 2023 |
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S7E8: Noni Jabavu - Hiding in Plain Sight
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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S7E7: Darryl Pinckney Remembers Elizabeth Hardwick and 1970s New York
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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S7E6 Barbara Masekela and Sisonke Msimang in Conversation: “The Great Secret of History”
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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S7E5: Robin Coste Lewis and Bongani Kona in Conversation: “Exploding the Myth of Time”
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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S7E4: Celebrating Keorapetse Kgositsile: “Without Love There Is No Revolution That Matters”
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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S7E3: Steve Biko, Black Consciousness and the SASO/BPC Trial
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Mar 24, 2023 |
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S7E2: Remembering Regina Gelana Twala
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Mar 09, 2023 |
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S7E1: Reflections on Black History Month
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Feb 28, 2023 |
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S6E4 Historical Fiction and Complicated Families
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Dec 15, 2022 |
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S6E3 Crime Fiction: Searching for a Resolution
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Dec 07, 2022 |
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S6E2: Climate Crisis & Compassion in the Digital Age
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Dec 01, 2022 |
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S6E1: Storytelling: A Way to Make Sense of the World
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Nov 24, 2022 |
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S5E8: Queer Utopia and Activism
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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S5E7: Visual Memory, Artistic Practice & Haunted Spaces
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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S5E6: A Language of the Otherwise & the Meaning of Home
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Sep 22, 2022 |
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S5E5: The Jail Diary of Albie Sachs
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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S5E4 Writing Water
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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S5E3 Remembrance and Justice
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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S5E2 The Art of Paying Attention
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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S5E1 Girlhood, Bodies and New Possibilities of Being
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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S5 Bonus Episode: Readings by Venita Blackburn, Thenjiwe Mswane & Lindiwe Nkutha
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Grassroots Movements, Housing and Hope
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Jun 15, 2022 |
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Behind the Scenes at Africa Is a Country & The Johannesburg Review of Books
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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A Language for Healing and Tenderness
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Resistance, Revolts and Resilience in Graphic Novels
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May 26, 2022 |
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The 70th Anniversary of Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man
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May 19, 2022 |
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SA and US Foreign Policy, the Russia-Ukraine war and the United Nations
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May 11, 2022 |
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District Six: A Landscape Of Memory
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May 05, 2022 |
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Moving Through Cities and Sentences
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Mar 10, 2022 |
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Community Radio: WRFG Atlanta, Bush Radio and Alex FM
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Mar 03, 2022 |
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Home, Identity and Belonging
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Feb 24, 2022 |
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Photography and History
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Feb 17, 2022 |
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Jazz and Freedom
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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Revolutionary Reading
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Feb 08, 2022 |
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Black History Month and Children's Literature
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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The Empty Chair Season Three Trailer
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Feb 02, 2022 |
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Poetry and Social Justice: Writing to ease the weight of silence
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Theatre and Social Justice: Creating a Sense of Belonging and a Space to Dream
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Environmental Journalism and Social Justice
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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Bongani Kona & Tope Folarin in Conversation: Constructing New Realities
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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The Legacy of Charlotte Maxeke: Black women's lives as a site of creative inspiration
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Dec 15, 2021 |
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Nadia Davids & Ma Thida in Conversation: On Freedom and Being a Good Citizen
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Dec 09, 2021 |
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The Empty Chair - A Transatlantic Conversation
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Dec 07, 2021 |
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Zubeida Jaffer and Sisonke Msimang in Conversation
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Reading The Plague
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May 27, 2021 |
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Constitutional Rights in the Pandemic
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May 13, 2021 |
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Journalism in the Pandemic
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Apr 29, 2021 |
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Young Writers in the Pandemic
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Apr 15, 2021 |
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The Empty Chair Trailer
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Apr 06, 2021 |