

Time & Location
25 May 2022, 16:30
Online
About the event
GIfA is inviting you to join us for a Heritage Guest Lecture
Presented by:
Professor Katherine Munro
Bio:
Katherine Munro chairs the Heritage Association of South Africa ( since 2021 ) and is active in the Johannesburg Heritage Foundation ( she is currently the Vice-Chair) and is particularly keen on promoting and documenting blue plaques throughout greater Johannesburg. She researches, lectures, and publishes heritage and architectural history. She holds the position of Honorary Associate Professor in the School of Architecture and Planning at Wits University ( 2011 to the present ). She was educated in Johannesburg and at the University of Edinburgh. She enjoyed a four-decade working career at Wits in the fields of economic history and economic studies; she was the founding director of Wits Plus, the nighttime studies center enabling working adults to study for a degree. She founded the first multi-racial child care center at the university…