Waterstones Gower St and SOAS present: Gender & Generation in South Africa

Join us for an evening with Cato Pedder, Professor Saul Dubow and Professor Emily Bridger for a discussion on Gender and Generation in South Africa, in partnership with SOAS, University of London.

Cato Pedder was born into the Quaker Clark shoe family and is a former newspaper reporter with 15 years of experience in South Africa and the UK, including at the Johannesburg Star and The Sun. She graduated from Cambridge University in English Literature and holds further degrees in African Studies from SOAS and Creative Writing from Kingston University, where she won the academic prize. She is a published poet, was born in California and brought up in England. She has lived in South Africa and returns there regularly. In , Cato Pedder takes us on an eye-opening journey through South Africa across four centuries, tracing the country's turbulent past and the rise and fall of apartheid (and her family's charged legacy) through the lives of nine very different women.

Saul Dubow is a South African historian and academic, specialising in the history of South Africa in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Since 2016, he has been the Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He previously taught at University of Sussex and Queen Mary, University of London. He is the author of several publications and books, including .

Emily Bridger is a Senior Lecturer in Global and Imperial History, University of Exeter. A social and cultural historian of modern South Africa, her work has been published in the Journal of Southern African Studies, Journal of World History, and Gender & History. Her book provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender equality, sexual violence and the legacies of the liberation struggle.

Tickets cost £5 and include drinks, we look forward to seeing you here!

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Waterstones, 82 Gower Street, London, United Kingdom