{"id":52725,"date":"2023-05-25T09:02:37","date_gmt":"2023-05-25T07:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/a-fun-autumn-day-at-the-inaugural-campus-life-festival-copy\/"},"modified":"2023-05-25T17:14:44","modified_gmt":"2023-05-25T15:14:44","slug":"memorial-public-lecture-in-honour-of-prof-karen-haire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/memorial-public-lecture-in-honour-of-prof-karen-haire\/","title":{"rendered":"Memorial Public Lecture in Honour of Prof Karen Haire"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"52725\" class=\"elementor elementor-52725\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-4c891cce elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"4c891cce\" data-element_type=\"section\" data-e-type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-6a345ff7\" data-id=\"6a345ff7\" data-element_type=\"column\" data-e-type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-71cfc1c2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"71cfc1c2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Professor Karen Haire was originally from Ireland and holds an Ed.D (International Education: Language and Literacy) obtained from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.columbia.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Columbia University<\/span><\/a>, USA; MA (International Political Economy of Development), <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fordham.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Fordham University<\/span><\/a>, USA; BA Honours (French and German), <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.durham.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Durham University<\/a><\/span>, England.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Haire taught English and Communication and briefly served as the acting Head of School in the School of Humanities in 2021 at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Sol Plaatje University<\/span><\/a>.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her area of research and passion focused on the South African man of letters, Sol Tshekisho Plaatje. She has published two co-authored works on Sol T Plaatje: the first, Lover of His People (2012), a translation into English of S.M. Molema\u2019s Setswana biography, with two researched essays and the second co-authored work, Bringing Plaatje Back Home. Ga E Phetsolele Nageng (2015), the first book-length critical work on Plaatje\u2019s oeuvre.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her publications in literary journals, Alternation, English Studies in Africa, Tydskrif vir Letterkunde, South African Journal of African Languages and Journal of Black Studies epitomize her decolonising thrust: the (re)writing\/telling of African peoples, cultures, stories and history from a postcolonial, non-Western and Afrocentric perspective.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As an educator, Prof Haire\u2019s experience included design and delivery of undergraduate courses in African Studies: Postcolonial (African) Literature; African Cultures; South African History and Apartheid and The Struggle (United States 2013-2019), as well as building academic\/research writing capacity at tertiary institutions (South Africa 2008-2012).<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prof Haire was more than a colleague; she was a mentor and friend with a kind heart who truly lived to serve. She will be remembered for her creative and intellectual contribution to key processes and programmes development.<\/p><p style=\"text-align: justify;\">From your SPU family, fly high Prof Haire, we are confident that you and Sol T Plaatje are enjoying a cup of tea and having hearty conversations. You will be forever missed.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Karen Haire was originally from Ireland and holds an Ed.D (International Education: Language and Literacy) obtained from Columbia University, USA; MA (International Political Economy of Development), Fordham University, USA; BA Honours (French and German), Durham University, England. Prof Haire <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/memorial-public-lecture-in-honour-of-prof-karen-haire\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":52833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,54,4],"tags":[],"post_folder":[],"coauthors":[241],"class_list":["post-52725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-humanities-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52838,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52725\/revisions\/52838"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52725"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=52725"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.spu.ac.za\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=52725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}