Sophie Peters
Sophie Peters
Afems 2019 - Theorising from the Epicentres of our Agency
Saturday, 7 September 2019
Keynote: Lynda Gichanda Spencer and Sharlene Khan
Theorising from the Epicentres of our Agencies: A Tribute to Molara and Toni
Saturday, 7 September 2019, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Loss, Hope and Feminist Affective Engagements
Chair: Tiffany Willoughby-Herard
Jenny B du Preez | Female Agency in Contemporary South African Erotic Writing
Manoko Tlhako | Bafetile, Baretlogetsˇe: Grief and Mourning in Cynthia Jele’s The Ones With Purpose
Noluthando Mpho Sibisi | Black (Female) Joy: Koleka Putuma and Mmatumisang Motsisi Writing, Staging, and (Re)defining Joy
Mercy Mujakachi | ‘Female Fear Factory’: Rape as a Male Instrument for Female Subjugation in South Africa
Saturday, 7 September 2019, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Engaging Femininities, Unburdening Patriarchies
Chair: Wacango Kimani
Siphokazi Tau | Women: Agents and Gatekeepers of Patriarchy
Same Mdluli: Flowers for the Nation | A Rendition of Chairman Mao Zedong’s Let A Hundred Flowers Blossom
Joy Joseph | Marginalized Masculinity in Ramonu Sanusi’s Un Nègre a Violé Une Blonde à Dallas
Saturday, 7 September 2019, 12.00-13.30
Panel: Doo-Wop That Thang: Re-Inventing Feminist Imagination Through Feminist Creativity, Chair: Siphokazi Tau
Philiswa Lila | Skin, Bone and Fire: My First Album
Slindile Mthembu | Mapping out Intersectionality in Playwriting Praxis to Claim the Voices of Black Women in Contemporary South African Theatre
Katerina Genidogan | Towards a Blackosmopolitical Proposal: Decolonization Perspectives through the Shift to Singular Knowledges
Shveta Naidoo | Identity Through a Diasporic Lens: An Analysis of the Hybridity and Intersectionality of the Indian Diaspora
Saturday, 7 September 2019, 12.00-13.30
Panel: Agency and Mapping of Decolonial Interventions
Chair: Fouad Asfour
Lerato Nkadimeng | A Reading of African Posthumanist Agency in Freshwater
Saneze Tshayana | ‘The Collector of Treasures’: Black Womxn and Decolonisation
Nkgopoleng Moloi | Narratives of Mobility - Understanding the Movement of Womxn in and around Johannesburg
Saturday, 7 September 2019, 14.30-16.00
Panel: When Women Have Reached Their End
Chair: Deborah Adeojo
Gcotyelwa Jimlongo | When Women Have Reached the End of Their Politics: Nakedness As Resistance
Mpho Mathebula | Nakedness as Decolonial Praxis
Rendani Molubo: | A Critical Unmasking of the Myth, ‘Umfazi Uyanyamezela Emzini,’ in Inkululeko Isentabeni: The Case of Boniswa
Sharlene Khan | In-Memorium/Memento Mori: How Narrativisation and ‘Lines of Proximity’ Shift Thinking on Gendered Violence
Saturday, 7 September 2019, 14.30-16.00
Panel: The Art of Healing
Chair: Beverley Barry
Sekai Makoni | Misodzi – Tears: Keeping the Trauma at Bay. Southern African Healing Approaches Through Song
Kgaogelo Mashilo | Analysis of the Cow as a Metaphor in Selected Work by South African Artists: a Black Feminist Perspective
Tebogo Buntu/Margaret Chandia | Kandaka: Womanism and Sankofa Theory as a Celebration of Femininity in a Patriarchal World
Fouad Asfour | There Is No ‘Broken’ English: Memory Work, Language Biography Writing and Self-Translation as Processes of Healing
