Broadcasting Apartheid with Tal Zalmanovich

Join NACBS to discuss Tal Zalmanovich’s recent book, Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990. Rachel Sandwell will join Tal for discussion.  

May 7 at 12pm EST/ 11am CST/ 10am MST / 9am PST / 5pm GMT

Tal Zalmanovich is a historian of media and modern Britain, and the author of the recent book, Broadcasting Apartheid: British Television and the Anti-Apartheid Campaign, 1950-1990, published by Oxford University Press in 2025. She earned her PhD at Rutgers University after a career in journalism and has held positions at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and the University of Haifa. Her work appears in journals such as Critical Arts, Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies, and Post-Colonial Studies. Her research has received support from the ERC grant “Apartheid: A Global Itinerary” and the Byrne-Bussey Marconi Visiting Fellowship at the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Rachel Sandwell is assistant professor of history at Cornell University. Her work focuses on the intellectual and social history of African decolonization, with a particular interest in women and gender politics. Her first book, National Liberation and the Political Life of Exile, looks at everyday life within the exiled African National Congress of South Africa (ANC), and examines the intersections of politics, familial intimacies, and nation-making that unfolded as the ANC tried to make its way home to South Africa.