Sophie Peters
Sophie Peters
Day 1
School of Fine Art Seminar Room
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9:30 – 9:50:Welcome and Opening - Thando Njovane (UCKAR)
10:10 – 11:00: Keynote Address - Dr Danai Mupotsa (Wits University): Feminism as Pedagogy
11:00 – 13:00: Women and Visual Arts
English Department Seminar Room
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An African feminist conversation about the KhoiKhoi and San women in the Rock Art of South Africa – Beverly Barry (UCKAR)
Feminisms in Visual Culture; Un- silencing historically marginalized artists – Amy von Witt (UCKAR)
‘Defining ambiguity’: Theorising a politics of affectivity in contemporary South Africa through Mary Sibande’s ‘Sophie’ – Erin de Kock (UCKAR)
Chair: Sharlene Khan
11:00 – 13:00: African Feminist Thought
School of Fine Art Seminar Room
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A Stiwanist Study of Selected Works of Francophone Authors – Joy Joseph (UCKAR)
Womanism and Critical Method in African Diaspora Writing – Brendon Nicholls (Leeds)
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The re-articulation of a holistic African female subjectivity in Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia – Manthipe Moila (Rhodes)
Chair: Betty Govinden
14:00 – 16:00: Intersectionality
School of Fine Art Seminar Room
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Pompoms and Struggle Songs: The Limited Space for Feminism in #feesmustfall – Chelsey Wilken (Rhodes)
Towards a Decolonial Feminist Disability Studies for Southern Africa – Kharnita Mohamed (UCT)
Patriarchy Masked as Decoloniality: Problematizing ‘Decolonial’ Masculinist Critiques of Intersectionality – Marzia Milazzo (Rhodes/ Vanderbilt)
Chair: Danai Mupotsa
14:00 – 16:00: Alternative Spaces
English Department Seminar Room
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The politics of erasure and exposure of the black female bodies in site- specific performances. Discussing Woman in a Passage (2014) - Pumelela Nqelenga
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Chair: Siphokazi Jonas
16:15 – 18:15: Thinking Through, Talking Back: Creative Theorisation as Sites of Praxis-Theory
An Art on our Mind public conversation between Dr Sharlene Khan, Prof Pumla Dineo Gqola , Dr Yvette Abrams, Prof Neelika Jayawardene and Dr Betty Govinden.
18:30 – 22:00: Launch of artist book I Make Art (2017) by Sharlene Khan. Poetry by Betty Govinden
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Exhibition Opening: Being Here, Becoming Her
Curated by Refilwe Nkomo and Thato Mogotsi in conversation with with UCKAR performances and artwork by Heidi Sincuba, Erin de Kock, Khwezi Zungu and Samkela Stampe (co-curated by Buhle Siwendu and Sharlene Khan).
School of Fine Art Gallery
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Perfomance by Siphokazi Jonas
