Centre for Law and the Humanities Book Launch Roundtable: Jaco Barnard-Naude, Spectres of Reparation in South Africa: Re-encountering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Routledge, 2024).
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Venue:
Birkbeck Central
This is a book launch roundtable of Jaco Barnard-Naude's book Spectres of Reparation in South Africa: Re-encountering the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. The discussants are Maria Aristodemou, Oscar Guardiola-Rivera and Adam Gearey.
Contact name: Patrick Hanafin
Speakers-
Jaco Barnard-Naude
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Jaco Barnard-Naudé (BCom(Law)(cum laude) LLB(summa cum laude)LLD(UP)MA(UCT)) is Professor of Jurisprudence and Co-Director of the Centre for Rhetoric Studies in the Department of Private Law. In the Faculty, Professor Barnard-Naudé currently serves as the Director of Research. He holds a B1-rating from the National Research Foundation (NRF) and is a past recipient of the UCT Fellows Award. In the United Kingdom, Prof Barnard-Naudé was the British Academy’s Newton Advanced Fellow in the Westminster Law & Theory Lab, School of Law at the University of Westminster between 2017 and 2020, and Honorary Research Fellow in the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London in 2019 and most recently in 2025, when he was at the same time a member of the team of tutors for the London Critical Theory Summer School, organised annually by the Institute. Prof Barnard-Naudé was appointed to the position of Visiting Professor in the Birkbeck Law School, Birkbeck College, University of London from 1 June 2025 and he was admitted to the UCT College of Fellows in September 2025, in recognition of the originality, quality and international impact of his research. He is, in addition, the 2025 recipient of the Ingrid Jonker Prize for his debut poetry collection, om my kastele in Spanje te sloop (Human & Rousseau, 2024), which is currently in the process of translation into English and due for publication under the title to demolish my castles in Spain late in 2026.
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