Sophie Peters
Sophie Peters
Afems 2019 - Theorising from the Epicentres of our Agency
Thursday, 5 September 2019
Keynote: Patricia McFadden
Beyond Nationalist Patriarchy
Thursday, 5 September 2019, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Performances of Self
Chair: Polo B Moji
Dina Ligaga | Beyond Shame Culture? Desire and Kenyan Women’s Self-Presentations Online
Nonhlanhla Ndlovu | The Discursive Construction of Zimbabwean Women’s Femininities Online
Londiwe Mntambo | ‘All Your Faves Are Problematic’: Understanding feminism in its Contradictions
Lynda Gichanda Spencer | ‘Don’t Mess With Kansiime’: The Cultural Economy of Transgressive Female Humour
Thursday, 5 September 2019, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Feminist Epistemologies and the Repositioning of Praxis
Chair: Kharnita Mohamed
Maria Martin | Legbism: Non-Political Nationalism, Cosmology, and Inductive Theoretical Development in Nigerian Women’s Intellectual History
Dominic Griffiths | Decoloniality and the (im)possibility of an African Feminist Philosophy
Dee Marco and Tiffany Willoughby-Herard | Reflections on Processes, Method and Feminist Positions – ‘Still Here: Black Feminist Approaches to Cultural Studies in South Africa’s Twenty-Five Years since 1994’
Thursday, 5 September 2019, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Inside-Outsiders, Outside-Insiders
Chair: Mpho Mathebula
Motlatsi Khosi | The Power of Myth, Magic and the Plotting Witch: A Critique of a Euro-modern Understandings of African Knowledge and the Spiritual
Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani | Zundiqondisise!: Voice, Visibility and Agency in the Works of Xhosa Women Crafters in the Eastern Cape
Tumi Mampane | Pentecostal Charismatic Constructions of Female Gender Identities in Alexandra Township
Youlendree Appasamy | Who Takes Care of Temple Aunty?
Thursday, 5 September 2019, 12.00-13.30
Panel: The Politics of Refusal
Chair: Lynda Gichanda Spencer
Siyathokoza Mtolo | ‘Anything can happen’: Feminism Ripples in the Phenomenological Experiences of Safety Realities by Female Students During Habitual Walking at a South African University
Thembakazi Matroshe | Unraveled: A Re-Imagination of the Fallist Archive
Rodwell Makombe/Saneliso Thambo | Patriarchy, Unfeminine Femininities and Violent Masculinities in Kopano Matlwa’s Period Pain (2016)
Thursday, 5 September 2019, 12.00-13.30
Panel: Histories of Embodied Entanglements
Chair: Patricia McFadden
Helena Uambembe | Performing Normalcy in Time of Conflict: A Focus on the Women of 32 Battalion
Amie Soudien | Following Angela van Bengale/Ansla van Bengalen/Maai Ansiela: An Exploration of the Legacies of the First Enslaved Women in Contemporary Cape Town
Mmatumisang Kgosigadi ya ga Motsisi | Killing Joy: Performing the Female Trouble-maker in Cult Clit, Seeing Red and Dumela Mosadi
Marilú Mapengo Námoda | Bleeding Black Feminist Pastopias: Defining Development from the Perspective of our Bodies
Art on our Mind Dialogue with Natasha Becker hosted by Sharlene Khan
Afems Book Launches
Reshma Chhiba, Nontobeko Ntombela & Betty Govinden | The Yoni Book (2019)
Nedine Moonsamy | The Unfamous Five (2019)
Sharlene Khan | When the moon waxes red...Negotiating Subjective Terrain as an ‘Inside-Outsider’ (2019)
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard & Derilene Marco | (Still Here): Studies of Culture in South Africa’s Twenty-Five years since 1994 (due out 2020)
Afems Exhibition: Creating from the Epicentres of our Agency
Co-curated by Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani and Sharlene Khan at the The Point of Order, Wits University
Artists: Kama La Mackerel; Thembakazi Matroshe; Georgia Herron Lekorotsoana; Katleho Mosehle, Nokuthula Mabuza, Vuyolwethu Majeke; Ayathandwa Gcali, Makhosazana Maduna, Rotondwa Ravele, Matsi Wa Lesego, Rosinah Dumelang Ntlhane; Mmatumisang Kgosigadi ya ga Motsisi; Zama Cebisile Mwandla; Buhle Siwendu; Kundai Moyo; Shannen Ayla Marks, Kate Northmore, Ginger Snap; Saajidah Madhi
