WINGFIELD, MATTHEW. 2023. Hydropolitical activism: from urban Cape Town to arid Graaff-Reinet, and back. Presentation at Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA). Houw Hoek Hotel. 7-9th September.

MYBURGH, LIZÉ. 2023. Hondeklipbaai and Marine Seismic Surveys: Considering the Symbolic Value of Fishing.Paper Presentation. Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) Annual Conference 2023: Joy, Promise and Future in the negative moment! Houw Hoek Hotel, Grabouw, 7-9 September 2023.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2023. REIPPPPing the Benefits? The disjuncture between the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producers’ development programmes and household energy poverty. Paper Presentation. Anthropology Southern Africa (ASnA) Annual Conference 2023: Joy, Promise and Future in the negative moment! Houw Hoek Hotel, Grabouw, 7-9 September 2023.

ROBINS, STEVEN. 2023. Karoo Futures and Resource Frontiers in the Northern Cape Province, South Africa. South African Sociological Association (SASA) 28th Annual Congress 2023, University of Zululand, 5 – 7 July 2023

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2023. Unsustainable Development?’ South Africa’s Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme and local community development in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa. Paper presentation. South African Sociological Association (SASA) Annual conference 2023: Sociologies from the Global South and Beyond: Teaching, Learning, Research and Social Engagement. The University of Zululand, KwaZulu-Natal, 5th -7th July 2023.

MALOPE, BOITUMELO. 2023. Just struggles: How a just transition could look like in a small Karoo town, South Africa. Presentation at the German Anthropological Association (GAA) Conference 2023 workshop: Just Transition? Post Carbon Democracy in the Making. Germany, Muich, 25-28 July 2023.

MALOPE, BOITUMELO. 2023. Cash transfer for the just transition: A case of small towns in the Northern Cape. South African Sociological Association (SASA) 28th Annual Congress 2023, University of Zululand, 5 – 7 July 2023

WINGFIELD, MATTHEW. 2023. Leveraging the ‘Day Zero’ crisis to rework nature-human relations: the case of the Cape Flats Aquifer. Presentation at the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN) Conference, University of KwaZulu Natal. 27-29th June 2023.

ROBINS, STEVEN. 2023. “’Is this the future of sustainability?’: Boom to bust narratives of mining, renewable energy and Big Science in the Karoo”. Presentation on the panel Panel: Boom to bust: the end of industrial mining in South Africa, at the ECAS Conference in Cologne, 31 May-3 June, 2023.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2023. ‘Fractured accountability and uncoordinated community development in a South African renewable energy hub: A case study of the Emthanjeni Local Municipality in Northern Cape Province’. Paper presentation at the European Conference of African Studies (ECAS): African Futures 2023. University of Cologne, Germany, 31st May – 3rd June 2023.

MALOPE, BOITUMELO.2022. ‘Case findings on the extent to which renewable energy projects deliver on a decent-work agenda and possible key demands for worker-led engagements on a just energy transition’, presentation at the IEJ/CAAP Symposium: Advancing a human-rights and gender equity lens in climate policy and the Just Transition in South Africa, Johannesburg, 16 September 2022.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2022. Keeping the lights on: An exploration of the energy challenges in a small town in the semi-arid Karoo region of South Africa. Paper Presentation. Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology Postgraduate Conference, Stellenbosch University Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch, 5 August 2022

MALOPE, BOITUMELO.2022.‘Unpacking the extent to which renewable energy community projects positively contribute to social reproduction: case findings’, presentation at the IEJ/CAAP Symposium: Advancing a human-rights and gender equity lens in climate policy and the Just Transition in South Africa, Johannesburg, 16 September 2022.

MARCATERLLI, MICHELA. 2022. ‘Green extractivism and the new politics of distribution in South Africa’ at the International Initiative for Promoting Political Economy (IIPPE) Annual Conference 2022 in Bologna, 7-9 September.

XABA, MZINGAYE BRILLIANT. 2022. ‘Post-Cold War dynamics and land reforms in southern Africa: The case of Zimbabwe and South Africa’. Contemporary Issues on Conflict and Security in Africa, Workshop at The Sheraton Hotel, Arcadia, Pretoria, South Africa on 10-11 March 2022. 

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2022. ’Land reform and beyond in times of social-ecological change: Perspectives from the Karoo’, Conference on ‘Compensation through Expropriation without Compensation? Constitutional Amendment, Land Reform and the Future of Redistributive Justice in South Africa’, STIAS, Stellenbosch, 17-18 February 2022.

MARCATELLI, MICHELA. 2021 ‘New extractivism and surplus populations in South Africa’, Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (online event), 16-20 November 2021.

MARCATELLI, MICHELA. 2021. Co-organization (with N Wiegink, Utrecht University) of the panel ‘Green Extractivism in Africa’, Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association (online event), 16-20 November 2021.

MARCATELLI, MICHELA, BÜSCHER, BRAM, ROBINS, STEVEN, WALKER, CHERRYL. 2021. Panel discussion, Book launch of Naturalizing inequality: Water, race and biopolitics in South Africa, Indexing Transformation seminar, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, 18 November 2021.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2021. ‘Future of Karoo research’, Roundtable discussion on Future research directions, Karoo Futures Colloquium 2021, Social and environmental justice in the Karoo: Interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, STIAS, Stellenbosch, 11-12 November 2021.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE. 2021. ‘The SKA and knowledge frontiers’, Karoo Futures Colloquium 2021, Social and environmental justice in the Karoo: Interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, STIAS, Stellenbosch, 11-12 November 2021.

MALOPE, BOITUMELO. 2021. ‘Renewable energy and the just transition from the vantage point of Loeriesfontein in the Karoo’, Karoo Futures Colloquium 2021, Social and environmental justice in the Karoo: Interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, STIAS, Stellenbosch, 11-12 November 2021.

XABA, MZINGAYE BRILLIANT. 2021. ‘Could this be the end of fracking? Examining the dynamics around anti-fracking activism & environmentalism in South Africa (2008-2021)’, Karoo Futures Colloquium 2021, Social and environmental justice in the Karoo: Interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, STIAS, Stellenbosch, 11-12 November 2021.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2021.’Land, environment and sustainable development: Reflections on the ‘Cosmopolitan Karoo’ research programme, 2016 – 2021’, Opening address, Karoo Futures Colloquium 2021, Social and environmental justice in the Karoo: Interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives, STIAS, Stellenbosch, 11-12 November 2021.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2021. ‘Shedding some light on energy poverty: The historic inequality of electricity distribution and household energy poverty in South Africa’. Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), University of Manchester, Lunchtime seminar series, virtual presentation, 12 October 2021.

XABA, MZINGAYE BRILLIANT. 2021. ‘Environmentalism emboldened? Exploring the effectiveness of anti-fracking groups in the fracking struggle in post-apartheid South Africa (2008-2021)’, Conference on Good Governance, Participatory Democracy, and Social Justice: Civil Society as Agents of Change and Innovation in Africa, Johannesburg, South Africa, 31 August-1 September 2021.

XABA, MZINGAYE BRILLIANT. 2021. ‘The extractive industry as an imposition: a sociological examination of the proposed shale gas mining industry in South Africa’, Annual Conference of the South Africa Sociological Association (SASA), 28-29 June 2021.

XABA, MZINGAYE BRILLIANT. 2021. ‘Ceasefire arrangements as pre-conditions for independences in Southern Africa and the implications for land reforms’, African Association of Political Science (AAPS): Rethinking African Politics Conference, 25-27 March 2021.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2021. ‘Scavenging for wood around the solar panels’, the 5th Energy and Society conference-Energy transition: Does the mountain give birth to a mouse?, virtual conference, 10th-12th February 2021.

XABA, MZINGAYE BRILLIANT. 2020. ‘Bringing development or sacrifice zone? Engaging the debates on the proposed shale gas mining and local development challenges in the Central Karoo district’, Postdoctoral Research Summit 2020, 29th to 30th October 2020.

TERBLANCHE, RENELLE. 2020. “Learn to live with the jackal”: Fences and predation management around South Africa’s Square Kilometre Array core site’, Arid Zones Ecology Forum (AZEF) virtual conference, 5 – 8 October 2020.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2020. ‘Shedding some light: Energy poverty in a town surrounded by renewable energy projects’, The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), virtual conference, 22-25 September 2020.

MALOPE, BOITUMELO.  2020. ‘A ‘Just Transition’ paradox: Transparency, accountability and socio-economic development in a rural Karoo town, South Africa’, The Third Biennial Conference of the Political Ecology Network (POLLEN), virtual conference, 22-25 September 2020.

WALKER, CHERRYL., 2020. ‘Feminist policy responses to the covid-19 pandemic’, presentation, Social Justice Café, Law Trust Chair in Social Justice, Stellenbosch University, 13 May 2020.

MALOPE, BOITUMELO. 2019. ‘Renewable energy for development? The South African case’, African Studies Association of Africa Conference on African and Africana Knowledges: Past Representations, Current Discourses, Future Communities, United States International University-Africa, Nairobi, Kenya, 24 – 26 October 2019.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2019. ‘Land, Space and Place in the Shadow of the SKA’, Symposium on Karoo Futures: Astronomy in Place and Space, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK, 25 October 2019.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE. ‘Land and Identity in the Karoo Astronomy Advantage Areas’, Symposium on Karoo Futures: Astronomy in Place and Space, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge, UK, 25 October 2019.

MARCATELLI, MICHELA. 2019. ‘Farm evictions and access to services in Limpopo Province’, National conference on The Future of Farm Workers in South Africa, University of the Western Cape, 14-16 October 2019.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2019. ‘Power to the People?: A case-study of local household energy needs in a town surrounded by renewable energy sites’. Paper Presentation. Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology Postgraduate Conference, Stellenbosch University Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch, 02 August 2019.

MOODLEY, NISHAI & ARRIES, BASHEER. 2019. ‘Responsibility and the politics of water infrastructure in Williston and Vanwyksvlei: a report on the national State and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA)’. Paper Presentation. Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology Postgraduate Conference, Stellenbosch University Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch, 02 August 2019.

ZANTSI, ZUKISWA. 2019. ‘Women in the Stars’. Paper Presentation. South African Sociological Association (SASA) XXVI Annual Congress, Southern Sun Hotel, Pretoria, 15 – 17 July 2019.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2019. ‘Burning the Midnight Oil: An Exploration of Local Energy Challenges of Household Residents in the Karoo Region of South Africa’. Paper Presentation. South African Sociological Association (SASA) XXVI Annual Congress, Southern Sun Hotel, Pretoria, 15 – 17 July 2019.

XABA, MZINGAYE BRILLIANT. 2019. ‘The Interface Between Land Reform Officials and Beneficiaries: New Evidence on Land Governance in the Eastern Cape, South Africa’. Paper Presentation. South African Sociological Association (SASA) XXVI Annual Congress, Southern Sun Hotel, Pretoria, 15 – 17 July 2019.

WALKER, CHERRYL & DAVIDE CHINIGÒ. 2019. ‘Knowledge frontiers. Shaping African futures through the Square Kilometre Array’, paper presented in panel on ‘Space infrastructures, science and technology in Africa’, 8th European Conference on African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 11 – 14 June 2019.

MARCATELLI, MICHELA. 2019. ‘Surplus population in the Northern Cape Karoo, South Africa: A conceptual framework”, paper presented in panel on ‘ New surplus populations in Africa: Ruptures and continuities in rural transitions’, 8th European Conference on African Studies, University of Edinburgh, 11 – 14 June 2019.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2019. ‘Watt is going on?: an exploration of local household energy needs in a renewable-energy hub in the Karoo region of South Africa’. International Conference on Renewable Energy (ICREN), France, Paris, 24 -26 April 2019.

COETZEE, MELISSA. 2018. The role of the state support and employment in the livelihoods of young women in Sutherland. Poster Presentation. Arid Zones Ecology Forum (AZEF), Robertson, 15-18 October 2018.

TERBLANCHE, RENELLE . 2018. Two sides to a fence: Disputing the (re-)establishment of vermin-proof  fencing around the SKA core site. Poster Presentation. Arid Zones Ecology Forum (AZEF), Robertson, 15-18 October 2018.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2018. Whats Watt in De Aar? An exploration of local energy needs and challengers in a renewable-energy hub in the Karoo region of South Africa’. Paper Presentation. Arid Zones Ecology Forum (AZEF), Robertson, 15-18 October 2018.

WALKER, CHERRYL & DAVIDE CHINIGÒ. 2018. ‘Shaping African futures through the Square Kilometre Array’, Workshop on Knowledge Societies in Africa, Stellenbosch University, 19-20 November 2018.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2018. ‘Drivers and trajectories of social and ecological change in the Karoo, South Africa’, Arid Zones Ecology Forum (AZEF) Annual Congress, Robertson, 16 – 18 October 2018.

WALKER, CHERRYL & DAVIDE CHINIGÒ. 2018. ‘The Future of Land Reform in South Africa. A view from the Northern Cape,’ 5^th conference of the Association for African Studies in Italy, University of Bologna, September 5 – 7 2018.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE. 2018. ‘Disassembling the Square Kilometre Array: Astronomy and development in South Africa’, Focus Meeting 15 (Astronomy for Development), XXXth General Assembly of the International Astronomical Union Vienna, 20-31 August 2018.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE. 2018. Navigating uncertain futures. Representations of time through the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope in South Africa, Centre for Humanities Research Seminar, University of the Western Cape, 14 August 2018.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2018.‘Cosmopolitan Karoo research: projects and key concepts’, Dialogue between astronomers and social scientists on what we do (and how)’, Cosmopolitan Kroo Research Forum, Stellenbosch University, 2 August 2018.

MOGASHOA, MONENE. 2018. ‘Land rights, identity and belonging: understanding of land and its multiple meanings in South Africa’s land restitution programme’. Paper presentation. South African Sociological Association (SASA) XXV Annual Congress, University of the Western Cape, 1-4 July 2018.

MALOPE, TUMI. 2018. ‘Precarious employment in energy transitions: From permanent jobs to job in years’. Paper presentation. South African Sociological Association (SASA) XXV Annual Congress, University of the Western Cape, 1-4 July 2018.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2018. ‘Whats Watt in De Aar? An exploration of local energy needs and challengers in a renewable-energy hub in the Karoo region of South Africa’. Paper Presentation. South African Sociological Association (SASA) XXV Annual Congress, University of the Western Cape, 1-4 July 2018.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2018. ‘PhD fundamentals: Some points for discussion’, South African Sociological Association (SASA) Doctoral School, University of the Western Cape, 30 June 2018.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE. 2018. ‘‘Discovering the unknown’: Envisioning the future through the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) radio telescope in South Africa’, Conference on ‘Global Connections and Comparisons’, biennial conference of the Association of African Studies in Germany, Leipzig University, 27-28 June.

WALKER, CHERRYL & DAVIDE CHINIGÒ. 2018. ‘Square Kilometer Array in South Africa: Land, scale and assemblage’, Special Seminar, Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana, 14 June 2018.

WALKER, CHERRYL & DAVIDE CHINIGÒ. 2018. ‘Astronomy and development’. Inter-disciplinary Research Laboratory on Astronomy and the Square Kilometre Array, with colleagues from the University of Basel and the Ghana Space Science and Technology Institute, Kuntunse, Ghana, 12 June 2018.

WALKER CHERRYL. 2018. ‘Space, place and the SKA in the Karoo’, PLAAS seminar, University of the Western Cape, 8 May 2018.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE. 2018. ‘Envisioning the future through the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope in South Africa’, Sociology Seminar Series, University of Cape Town, 7 May 2018.

TERBLANCHE, RENELLE. 2018. ‘Ongediertes around the Square Kilometre Array core site: The role of social capital and collective action in black-backed jackal management’. Unpublished paper. Pathways Africa 2018, Safari Hotels, Windhoek, Namibia, 8–11 January 2018.

TERBLANCHE, RENELLE. 2017.  ‘Ongediertes around the SKA core site: Preliminary findings on farmers’ views on the power relations around knowledge production in black-backed jackal management’. ‘speed presentation’. Southern African Wildlife Management Association (SAWMA), Goudini Spa, 10-14 September 2017.

DUNCAN, MICHELLE. 2017. The Political Ecology of a Fence: An ethnographic account of socio-environmental conflict around biodiversity conservation in Prince Albert. Paper presentation. Arid Zones Ecology Forum (AZEF), Middelburg, 16-18 May 2017.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2017. What are we SEA-ing? An exploration of the communication strategies and extent of public participation at the Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) public briefings for Shale Gas Development in the Karoo. Paper presentation. Arid Zones Ecology Forum (AZEF), Middelburg, 16-18 May 2017.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2017. Sustainable Development in the Karoo: Reflections on a Research Agenda. Keynote Address. Arid Zones Ecology Forum (AZEF), Middelburg, 16 – 18 May 2017.

WALKER, CHERRYL & DAVIDE CHINIGÒ. 2017. Astronomy, Development, and the Square Kilometre Array (SKA). Exploring the challenges from a critical social science perspective. Fourth Middle East and African International Astronomy Union (IAU) Regional Meeting, Addis Ababa, 22 – 25 May 2017.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2017. Astronomy, Development & Disparity in South Africa’s Karoo region. Conference on ‘The Value of Life: Measurement, Stakes, Implications, Wageningen University, 28-30 June 2017.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE. 2016. Looking out: space, place and temporality in the Karoo. Paper presented at the 2016 Association of Social Anthropologists of the UK and Commonwealth Conference ‘Footprints and futures: the time of anthropology’, 4-7 July 2016.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2016. ‘Restitution reviewed: Reflections on South Africa’s land restitution programme in 2016’.  Keynote address,  the 2nd Symposium on Regional History Studies in South Africa (North West University), 25 November 2016.

BORCHARDT, STEPHANIE. 2016. ‘What are we SEA-ing? Emerging themes at the Strategic Environmental Assessment 2016 (SEA) public meetings for shale gas development in the Karoo’. Poster presentation, Arid Zone Ecology Forum (AZEF) at Prince Albert, 4-6 October 2016.

DUNCAN, MICHELLE. 2016. ‘The political ecology of Wolwekraal Nature Reserve and the status of nature conservation in Prince Albert’. Poster presentation, Arid Zone Ecology Forum (AZEF) at Prince Albert, 4-6 October 2016.

MANYANI, CHARMAINE. 2016. ‘From livestock to game farming: An exploration of farmers’ understandings of land use changes, sustainable agriculture and bio-diversity conservation in the Ubuntu Local Municipality, Northern Cape, South Africa’. Poster presentation, Arid Zone Ecology Forum (AZEF) at Prince Albert, 4-6 October 2016.

SCHOEMAN, NIELL. 2016.  ‘Water and its networks: A case study of Prince Albert. Poster presentation, Arid Zone Ecology Forum (AZEF) at Prince Albert, 4-6 October 2016.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE. 2016. Frontiers of anticipation. Envisioning the future in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope. Seminar presentation, New Social Forms Seminar, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, 1 September 2016.

TERBLANCHE, RENELLE. 2016. ‘Ongediertes: A critical qualitative study of the political ecology of black-backed jackal and their management around the Square Kilometre Array core site’. Poster presentation, the annual conference of the Southern African Wildlife Management Association, (SAWMA), Sustainable Wildlife Management: Striking a Balance?’ at Tzaneen, 18-21 September 2016.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE. 2016. Frontiers of anticipation. Envisioning the future in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope. Seminar presentation, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 20 September 2016.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE. 2016. ‘Frontiers of anticipation. Envisioning the future in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) Radio Telescope’. Seminar presentation, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 20 September 2016.

CHINIGÒ, DAVIDE and CECILIA NAVARRA. 2016. Small enterprises in urban areas between formalization policies and social protection needs. A discussion on the Ethiopian case. Paper presented at the Development Research Conference 2016 ‘Global Visions and Local Practices’, Stockholm, Sweden, 22–24 August 2016.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2016. Cosmopolitan Karoo? Rethinking relationships to land and identity in the South African countryside. Seminar presentation, PLAAS, University of the Western Cape, 12 April 2016.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2016. Cosmopolitan Karoo? Rethinking relationships to land and identity in the South African countryside. Seminar presentation, New Social Forms Seminar, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, 18 February 2016.

WALKER, CHERRYL. 2016. Cosmopolitan Countryside? A South African Research agenda. Seminar presentation, Wageningen University, 7 January 2016.