Sophie Peters
Sophie Peters
Afems 2021 - In search of our Shrines: Feminist healing and the Politics of Love
Monday, 1 November 2021
Monday, 1 November 2021, 9.30 - 10.30
Institutional Welcome: Shose Kessi
Opening Keynote Address: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard | From Black Woman Worker to Speak to We Are Those Girls: The Writerly Life of Black Women’s Politics in South Africa
Chair: Barbara Boswell
Monday, 1 November 2021, 10.30 - 11.0
Recorded Book Launch 1
Pumla Dineo Gqola: The Female Fear Factor
Discussant: Lenina Rasool
Monday, 1 November 2021, 11 - 12
Panel 1: (Un)Silenced Bodies
Gertrude Fester | The Spirit Cannot Be Caged
Mlamli Tyulu | The Reimagination of Love, Healing and Memory
Miscka Jade Lewis | Plantation for The Nation: Archive of Body and Sacredness
Chair: Yvette Abrahams
Monday, 1 November 2021, 12 - 13
Panel 2: Decolonial Praxis
Kate Jennings | Rwandan Attitudes Towards Gacaca Courts
Pearl Munemo | Love and Healing in Barbara Boswell’s Grace
Sandra Young | Intimate Archives and The Representation of Pain
Chair: Gertrude Fester-Wicomb
Online Session
Monday, 1 November 2021, 15 - 16
Activists In Conversation 1
Title: Pregs Govender Roundtable
Panellists: Pregs Govender, Tlaleng Mofokeng, Siphokazi Mthathi
Chair: Kharnita Mohamed
Monday, 1 November 2021, 16 - 16.30
Recorded Performance 1
Qondiswa James | Radical Softness
Monday, 1 November 2021, 16.30 - 17.30
Panel 3: Feminist Archives
Uhuru Phalafala | The Matriarchive in Radical Political Imaginaries of Southern Africa
Zvisinei Moyo & Juliet Perumal | Understanding African W omen’s Experiences
Faith Mkwesha | Decoloniality: Prophesy and Haunting in Gender and the Nation Constructions in Zimbabwe
Chair: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Monday, 1 November 2021, 17.30 - 18.30
Featured Discussion: Blxck, Queer and Non-Binary Spirituality
Lakhiyia Hicks | Sermon I Wish I'd Heard (Incl Film)
Chair: Mandisa Haarhoff