Sophie Peters
Sophie Peters
DAY 1: 27 September 2018
9.00 - 10.00
Institutional welcome: Noluxolo Nhlapo
Keynote: Dr Nthabiseng Motsemme: "Reimagining the African’s women’s archive"
Fine Art Department
10.15 - 11.45
Jiva Babes: Popular Music and Culture
Chair: Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani
Fine Art Seminar Room
Kerry Burns: Resisting, Reworking and Reclamation of Coloured Masculine Identity: Youngsta CPT, the Hip Hop Icon of the ‘Mother City’
Lerato Nkadimeng: Imagining Affective Futures in Kelela’s Work
Thulisile Msezane: Lebo Mathosa: Genre as a Compass for Gender Performance
Siphokazi Tau: An inquiry on the generational philosophy of Brenda Fassie: a comparison between Brenda Fassie and Busiswa Gqulu
10.15 - 11.45
Feminisms is...
Chair: Grace Musila
English Seminar Room
Koaile Monaheng: Fractures within fractures: In what way is mainstream/western feminism as theoretical & normative framework limited? How have African-American and African feminists sought to overcome these limitations?
Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula and Evelyn Nwachukwu Urama: African Feminisms: Paradigms, Problems and Prospects
12.00 - 13.30
Shhh: Voicing and Vocality
Chair: Nkule Mabaso
Fine Art Seminar Room
Lungelwa Phakathi: Agentic silence: Rediscovering Margaret in Bessie Head’s Maru
Tarryn Frankish: Silence and its dis/contents: (Inter)generational talk and mothering after Apartheid
Nwabisa Bangeni: Speaking through the silences in Rachel Weeping: The reconfiguration of the everyday
12.00 - 13.30
Violent Violences
Chair: Tina Steiner
English Seminar Room
Kharnita Mohamed: Creating Disability in Time: Epistemic Fallacies’ Temporal Stakes
Cullen Goldblatt: Reading African Gender and Thinking about Rape
Puleng Segalo & Theresa Ennin: Struggles of the ‘grass-roots people’: In conversation with Amma Darko’s Faceless
14.30 - 16.00
Invisible Economies: Migration and Labour
Chair: Cullen Goldblatt
Fine Art Seminar Room
Sam Naidu and Andrea Thorpe: Vulnerability and Complicity: The Figure of the Black Migrant Woman in Miriam Tlali’s Devil at a Dead
End and Chimamanda Adichie’s On Monday of Last Week
Ntokozo Yingwana: “We Fit in the Society by Force”: Sex Work and Feminism in Africa
Tinika Nuen: Self-identification as resistant strategy against the stigmatisation of African diasporic women - an analysis of Chika
Unigwe’s On Black Sister Street
Polo Moji: Oceanic Bellies and Liquid Feminism in Fatou Diome’s Belly of the Atlantic (France / Senegal 2004)
14.30 - 16.00
A Man who is Not a Man
Chair: Fouad Asfour
English Seminar Room
Marjorie Namara Rugunda: An Exploration of Manhood, Sexuality and Culture in Thando Mqolozana’s A man who is not a man and
John Trengove’s Inxeba
Joy Ifeanyichukwu Joseph: Exploitation of the White/Black Woman in Mariama Ba’s Un Chant Ecarlate
Tahzeeb Akram and Jodi Bloem: The Inherited Toxic Masculinities and Forced Creation of Toxic Bodies in the Conservative Nigerian Landscape
16.15 - 18.00
Fine Art Department
Book Launches
Danai Mupotsa (2018) feeling and ugly. Johannesburg, impepho press
Gabeba Baderoon (2018) The History of Intimacy: Poems. Cape Town, Kwela
Kharnita Mohamed (2018) Called to Song. Cape Town, Kwela
Exhibitions
Voice/Over: A Shelley Barry Film Retrospective
When the moon waxes red. Visual Art exhibition by Sharlene Khan
The Mute Always Speak: A Performative Response by students from the Department of Fine Art and Drama (co-curated by Sharlene Khan and Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani, Curatorial Assistance: Ropafadzo Mandiveyi)
Carol Nelson/Eric de Kock, Buhle Siwendu, Philiswa Lila, Imaan Latif, Manoko Thlako, Micayla Sam, Viwe, Madinda, Chrizelda Garnett-Bennett, Phemelo Hellemann, Uvile Ximba, Eva Notoane, Katlego Gabashane, and Nompumelelo Kubheka
