Sophie Peters
Sophie Peters
Afems 2023 - Our Sisters Killjoy
Friday, 7 July 2023
Keynote: Pumla Gqola
Creative Theorisation and the Post-Apartheid Feminist Imagination
Friday, 7 July 2023, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Queering Affect
Chair: Nomonde Ntsepo
Nono Mazibuko | “None of this is Normal”: The Potentiality of Queer Negation in “The Death of Vivek Oji”
Khanya Ngcuka | Reflections of Queer Anger through the Analysis of “Jikijela” the Play
Princess Sibanda | Queer Love as Killjoy Praxis
Friday, 7 July 2023, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Affective Economies
Chair: Lynda Gichanda Spencer
Mpho Mathebula | The Affective Afterlife of Naked Body Protests
Nokwanda Dlamini | The Use of Non-Verbal Language in the “The Promise” Analysing the Paradox of “the Unhappy Slave”
Brendon Nicholls | Hunhu, Racism and Revolution in Tsitsi Dangarembga’s “The Book of Not”
Danson Kahyana | Why Aren’t Our Voices on Peacebuilding Represented in this Place?” Female Students’ Critiques of Peace Messaging in the ‘Talking Compounds’ of Two Secondary Schools in Bididbidi Refugee Settlement in Yumbe District, Uganda
Friday, 7 July 2023, 10.15-11.45
Panel: Creative Wranglings
Chair: Philiswa Lila
Tiffani Dlamini and Mmatumisang Motsisi | Immersive Theatre as a Norm-Defying Practice: A Case Study of “At Her Feet” Written by Nadia Davids and Performed at Stellenbosch University Drama Department
Tumi Mampane | Proof of Address on “Scandal!” and “Gomora”: Proof of a Life Well-deserved by Township Women
Kudzai Barure | Perceptions of ‘the Unfaithful Lover’ and In/Vulnerability in the “Ztorie Bhuku” Blog
Friday, 7 July 2023, 12.00-13.30
Panel: Spiritual Resistances
Chair: Tumi Mampane
Khosi Motlatsi | The Witch as Resistance through her Contemporary Practices and Performance: Through the Lens of a Black Aesthetic
Dumelang Ntlhane | Dituku
Nomxolisi Albert | Ipotsoyi-KwaLanga: Black Joy Ngenkani
Friday, 7 July 2023, 12.00-13.30
Panel: Crime, Punishment and Labour
Chair: Polo Moji
Nedine Moonsamy | Fantastic Justice in South African crime thrillers: Mia Ardene’s “Mermaid Fillet” and Nechama Brodie’s “Three Bodies”.
Lynda Gichanda Spencer | Murder She Wrote: Creating Female Sleuths and Solving Crime
Mmapitso Sefhemo, Amos Muyambo | Experiences of Women in Historically Male Dominated Careers: A Case of the Mining, Construction and Energy Industries in Botswana
Duduzile Dlamini | When You Receive Give and When You Learn Teach ‘Theorizing from the Epicentres of our Agency’: A Feminist and Intersectional Study