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\nBOOKS (single author)
\n<\/strong>2023:
\nSacks, R. Congo Style: From Art Nouveau to African Independence, <\/em>Anne Arbor: Michigan University Press.
\nDOI: 10.3998\/mpub.11519375<\/a><\/p>\n

BOOK CHAPTERS (single author)<\/strong><\/p>\n

2023:<\/p>\n

Sacks, R. (2023) \u2018Behind Johannesburg: Plants and Possible Futures in an Industrialised Hinterland\u2019 In Gupta et al (eds.) Planetary Hinterlands: Extraction, Abandonment and Care, <\/em>Palgrave Macmillan.<\/p>\n

DOI: 10.1007\/978-3-031-24243-4_18<\/a><\/p>\n

JOURNAL ARTICLES
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

2022:
\n<\/span>Sacks R. and Thumbran, J. ‘Rethinking Resilience: South Africa and Self Reliance’, In Sacks, R and Thumbran, J. (eds) <\/span>Social Dynamics, Special Issue: Rethinking Resilience,\u00a0<\/span><\/i>Taylor & Francis. https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02533952.2022.2054145\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2020:<\/span>
\n<\/strong>Sacks, R. (2020) \u2018Sites of Unfinished Independence in Johannesburg and Kinshasa\u2019, Murray, N., Pyper, B. and Weintraub, J. (eds.) Critical African Studies Vol. 11, Issue I, Special Edition Secret Affinities, <\/em>Taylor & Francis. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/21681392.2020.1724808<\/a><\/p>\n

2018:
\nSacks, R. (2018) \u2018Lived Remainders: The contemporary lives of iron hotels in the Congo\u2019, In Douchet, I., Frichot, H. and Smith, C. (eds.) Architectural Theory Review Vol. 22, Issue I, Special Edition Resist, Reclaim, Speculate: Situated Perspectives on Architecture in the City<\/em>, Taylor & Francis. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/13264826.2018.1412331<\/a><\/p>\n

Koide, Sacks<\/strong>, De Groof et al, (2018) \u2018Mediating Past, Present and Future of D.R.Congo\u2019s Historical Narratives on Art in a Global South Dialogue\u2019, Artl@s Bulletin<\/em>, Vol. 7. Issue 1.
\nhttps:\/\/docs.lib.purdue.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1186&context=artlas<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

Sacks, R. (2018) ‘Retour \u00e0 l\u2019authenticit\u00e9 in the City: A Photo Essay’ Artl@s Bulletin<\/em>, Vol. 7. Issue 1.
\nhttps:\/\/docs.lib.purdue.edu\/artlas\/vol7\/iss1\/4\/<\/p>\n

2016:
\nSacks, R. \u2018Anonymous Objects as Exhibition Organisms\u2019, In Bowker, S. and Bremner, C. (eds.) Fusion Journal 09,<\/em> Anonymous. The Void in Visual Culture, <\/em>Charles Stuart University.
\nhttp:\/\/www.fusion-journal.com\/issue\/009-anonymous-the-void-in-visual-culture\/anonymous-objects-as-exhibition-organisms\/<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n

PUBLISHED CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
\n<\/strong>2019:
\nSacks, R. \u2018The City Can Speak for Itself\u2019, In Liebow, E., Proceedings of the African Futures Conference<\/em>, Vol 2, Issue 1.
\nhttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/j.2573-508X.2018.tb00007.x<\/u><\/p>\n

<\/u>2015:
\nSacks, R. \u2018Looking for the Congo in Congo Style\u2019, Proceedings of the conference:<\/em> Admired as well as Overlooked Beauty: Architecture and Urbanism of Historicism, Art Nouveau, Early Modern and Traditionalism<\/em>, \u010ce\u0161ka, Brno: Barrister & Principle, Masarykova Universita, pp. 231 \u2013 243.<\/p>\n

Journal Editing
\n<\/strong><\/p>\n

2022:<\/p>\n

Sacks, R. and Thumbran, J. (eds) (2022), \u2018Rethinking Resilience\u2019, <\/span>Social Dynamics, Special Issue: Rethinking Resilience, Taylor & Francis.
\n<\/span><\/i>https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/full\/10.1080\/02533952.2022.2054145\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/a>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2021:
\n<\/span><\/span>Johannesburg Lasts Collective (eds) (2021), \u2018Johannesburg Lasts: Last, Lasting, Lost\u2019, \u2026 Ellipses. Journal for Creative Practice<\/i>, Issue 4. [Online ]https:\/\/www.ellipses.org.za<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2018:
\nKoide, E, De Groof, M. and Sacks, R.<\/strong> (eds)\u00a0A Global South Dialogue on African Art and Historical Narratives from DR Congo<\/em>, Artl@s Bulletin, Vol. 7. Issue 1.
\nhttps:\/\/docs.lib.purdue.edu\/cgi\/viewcontent.cgi?article=1186&context=artlas<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

Conference Presentations<\/b><\/p>\n

2023: ‘What do we mean when we say ‘interdisciplinary?’, African Studies Association Annual Meeting<\/em>, San Francisco.<\/p>\n

2022: \u2018The Everyday Materiality of Colonial Buildings\u2019, <\/span>Lagos Studies Association<\/span><\/i>, University of Lagos [online]
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2022: \u2018What Can Art Bring to African Studies on a Wounded Planet?\u2019, <\/span>Africa-Europe: Reciprocal Perspectives<\/span><\/i>, Albert Ludwig University, Freiburg, Germany<\/span><\/p>\n

2021: Inner City Planting in Dialogue with the Hinterland
\n<\/em>Hinterlands, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research and Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis [online].<\/p>\n

2021: <\/span>Unnatural Nature: Reimagining the Colonial Greenhouse
\n<\/span><\/i>In Whose Place? Vestiges of the Colonial Landscape in Africa, Wits History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand [online].\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2019: Questioning Resilience
\n<\/i>The Third African Studies Association in Africa (ASAA), Nairobi, Kenya. <\/span><\/p>\n

2018: Loaded Inheritance: African Art and Decolonisation
\n<\/i>African Studies Association Annual Conference, Atlanta, USA.<\/span><\/p>\n

2017: <\/span>The City Can Speak for Itself<\/span><\/i>
\nAfrica in the World: Shifting Boundaries and Knowledge Production, African Studies Association, Johannesburg, South Africa.
\n<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

2017: Tracing Art Nouveau in Mbanza Ngungu<\/i>
\n<\/span>III\u00a0coupDefouet\u00a0International Congress<\/span>, Institut del Paisatge Urb\u00e0, <\/span>Barcelona, <\/span>Spain. <\/span><\/p>\n

2017: Designing Congolese Modernism
\n<\/i>17th<\/sup> Arts Council of the African Studies Association (ACASA) Triennial, Accra, Ghana.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2017: Creative Practice in the Nervous University<\/i>
\nArtsearch Symposium, <\/i>Wits School Of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: New Urban Epistemologies<\/i>
\n<\/span>Decolonising the University in Africa,\u00a0University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, South Africa.<\/p>\n

2016: Revisiting \u2018Magiciens de la Terre\u2019 via the colonial exhibition
\n<\/i><\/span>Biblioth\u00e8que Kandinsky Summer University, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.<\/p>\n

2016: \u2018Style Congo\u2019 in the Post Colony<\/span><\/i>
\nCollege Arts Association (CAA), Washington DC, USA.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2015: Object Agencies<\/i>, <\/span>M\u00e9diation pass\u00e9e, pr\u00e9sente et future, Acad\u00e9mie des Beaux-Arts de Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)<\/span>.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2014: Art Nouveau Dreamscapes and the Nightmare of the African Colony
\n<\/i>WiSER WISH seminar (Writing from the Global South<\/i> workshop), Johannesburg.
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2014: Fictional hierarchies in the fin de si\u00e8cle total artwork
\n<\/i>Gesamtkunstwerk. A Concept for all Times and Places Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal.<\/span><\/p>\n

SEMINAR PRESENTATIONS
\n<\/b><\/p>\n

2023: Congo Style: From Belgian Art Nouveau to African Independence
\n<\/em>University Seminar on Contemporary Africa, Institute for African Studies and the School of Arts, Columbia University, New York, USA.
\n
\n<\/em>\u00a02018: <\/span>The City Can Speak for Itself<\/span><\/i>
\nWits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER) WISH Seminar, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

2017: <\/span>Lived Remainders: The Contemporary Lives of Iron Hotels in the Congo<\/span><\/i>
\nWits City Institute Fellows Seminar, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa<\/span><\/p>\n

2016: Anonymous Objects as Exhibition Organisms<\/i>
\nWiSER WISH Seminar, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa\u00a0 <\/span><\/p>\n

2014: Looking for the Congo in \u2018Congo Style,\u2019
\n<\/i>CCAA Seminar, Wits Art Museum, Johannesburg, South Africa
\n<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

2013: Approaches from the Global South
\n<\/i>BIGSAS Seminar at Iwalewa-Haus, University of Bayreuth, Germany<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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