Sophie Peters
Sophie Peters
Afems 2019 - Theorising from the Epicentres of our Agency
Friday, 6 September 2019
Keynote: Kharnita Mohamed
Epistemic Uncertainty as Decolonial Praxis
Friday, 6 September 2019, 10.15-11.45
Panel: A Story of Pain
Chair: Faith Mkwesha
Natalia Flores-Garrido | Experiences of Precarity and Practices of Resistance of Young Feminists from South Africa
Mathabo Mahlo | ‘Anything Dead Coming Back to Life Hurts’: An Understanding of Intergenerational Repressed Pain and the Body
Refiloe Makama | Romancing the Pain
Dominique Mcfall | Of Mountains and (Almost) Men: Cultural Perspectives on Initiation into Manhood in K. Sello Duiker’s Novel Thirteen Cents
Friday, 6 September 2019, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Urbanity: Living Life in the City
Chair: Same Mdluli
Melissa Fuhner | Meg Vandermerwe’s Portrayal of the Effects of Migration on Women in Zebra Crossing
Polo B Moji | Black Flâneuse: Black Women Strolling in Cecile Emeke’s Flâneur (2015)
Viraj Suparsad | Influence in the Diaspora. Theorising Love in Contemporary Urban India
Friday, 6 September 2019, 12.00-13.30
Panel: Unhomed: Labour, Citizenship and Belonging
Chair: Dee Marco
Robtel Neajai Pailey | Women, Equality, and Citizenship in Contemporary Africa
Jodie Pather | Situating Black Feminism as Theory-Praxis in Relation to Women and Land
Deborah Adeojo | Women’s Political Communication and Feminist (Re)Construction of Geographies of Power in Africa: Insights from Wives on Strike
Danille Elize Arendse/Fatima Peters | ‘Where Are You From?’: Reflections on Being Coloured Females in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Friday, 6 September 2019, 12.00-13.30
Panel: Once Upon a Time There Was: Writing Herstory
Chair: Lynda Spencer
Ramona Baijnath | Writing Her In: An African Feminist Exploration into the Life Herstory Narrative of Dimakatso, a Woman Participant in the Expanded Public Works Programme (EPWP) at Leratong Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa
Beverley Barry | Exploring the Formation of Khoisan Works of Imagination
Boledi R Petja/Isaac Ndlovu | ‘Different, Not Needy and Clinging or Weepy’: Depictions of Female Characters in C.M. Elliot’s Trilogy
Ditshego Masete | Fault-Lines in the Depiction of Gender Subversions in Angela Makholwa’s Two Novels
Friday, 6 September 2019, 14.30-16.00
Panel: Mothering, Motherhood and the Intricacies of Care
Chair: Philiswa Lila
Hanta Henning | Mothering and Othering: Reading Fiela’s Child as an Adoption Narrative
Wacango Kimani | The Discourse on Young Pregnancy in Research and Education: Options for Constructive Engagement and Inclusion
Nomancotsho Pakade | Revisiting Motherhood as Solidarity
Faith Mkwesha | Postcolonial Black-African Activism in Europe: Your Child Is My Child Sahwira
Friday, 6 September 2019, 14,30-16.00
Panel: Queer, Queering, and Queered Performances
Chair: Amie Soudien
Kamogelo Molobye | Black Queer Feminism and the Questioning of Being and Belonging
Evaan Ferreira | Queer Black South African Representation: An Analysis of YouTube as a Platform of Self Expression for Queer Communities
Susan Adaora Okpala | Resisting Othering and Affirming Sexual Diversity in Selected Contemporary African Women’s Writing
Siseko H. Kumalo | Aligning the Ethical With Aesthetics – Possibilities of Hope Through Radical Black Negativity
