Colonial Adventurer or Loyal Follower?

[Origins Centre]

Dr Jill Weintroub has spent almost a decade focusing on the biography
and scholarship of Dorothea Bleek, the daughter of Wilhelm Bleek and
niece of Lucy Lloyd, pioneers in research on the Bushmen or San. On
March 27, she will deliver a lecture entitled ‘Colonial Adventurer or
Loyal Follower? Revisiting the life and scholarship of Dorothea
Bleek’.

How, if at all, has history treated Dorothea Bleek? Comments
Weintroub: “In general, she is seen as an enigmatic figure who lacked
the insight her father displayed. In much of current scholarship on
the celebrated Bleek-Lloyd research project and its archive, Dorothea
Bleek rarely warrants close attention. But a close reading of her
field notebooks, personal correspondence and published and unpublished
materials reveals a complex character whose scholarship and research
is complicated by idiosyncratic personal and intellectual contexts.”

Dr Weintroub, Research Fellow at the Rock Art Research Institute at
Wits University, has written an illustrated book describing one of
Dorothea Bleek’s early trips through the South African landscape,
called ‘By Small Wagon with Full Tent.’

Date: Tuesday 27 March 2012
Venue: Origins Centre
Time: 18h00 for 18h30
Cost: R45/R35 Wits students and staff
Bookings essential: a...@origins.org.za or call 011 717 4700.


REMINDERS:
Saturday 17 March: Walkabout of the Pippa Skotnes exhibition
‘Landscape to literature’ led by author Dr Jill Weintroub. 10h00 for
10h30. R50/R40 Wits staff & students. To book: a...@origins.org.za.
Limited to 50 places.

Tuesday 20 March: Public Lecture by David Lewis-Williams entitled
‘What is Religion? An Archaeologist’s Answer'. 18h00 for 18h30. R45/
R35 Wits staff & students. To book: a...@origins.org.za.