Bibi Burger speaks at ‘Ordinary and Overlooked Cities in Conversation’

Poster for Symposium

Bibi Burger speaks at 'Ordinary and Overlooked Cities in Conversation', hosted by the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa.

On 17 October 2023 Bibi Burger spoke at a hybrid symposium titled ‘Ordinary and Overlooked Cities in Conversation‘, hosted by the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein, South Africa. Bibi drew on the work of Jennifer Robinson, Achille Mbembe and Sarah Nuttall to speak about the representation of Pretoria/Tshwane in novels and film and what this representation can tell us about the ordinariness of this particular city.