tuesday / 13 december 2011

THINKING AFRICA DIFFERENTLY 

language, history, subjectivities + the imaginary

08h30 / centre for african studies

registration begins

09h00-09h15 / cas gallery

formal welcome

dvc professor crain soudien

11h00-11h15 / cas gallery

grappling with language formations on the continent: languages of knowledge, translation + episteme              

moderator: geri augusto

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thinking through language + thinking beyond recognition: african languages as archives

semeneh ayalew asfaw + binyam sisay mendisu, addis ababa university

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memories of pain: language endangerment, language death? residues, traces + masking(s)

bradley van sitters, university of namibia

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11h00-11h15

tea break 

11h15-13h15 / cas gallery

imagination, diaspora, diasporic (re)imaginings

moderator: heregowan asefa

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body as archive, yearnings for a new africana paradigm 

victoria collis-buthelezi, columbia university + university of cape town

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escaping the enemy from within: the political economy of 

postcolonial african diasporas, lessons from liberia 

siphokazi magadla, rhodes university

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pan-africanism as a category of intellectual thought in african studies

chambi chachage, harvard university

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11h15-13h15 / cas seminar room

memory, subjectivity – public/private imaginings

moderator: meg samuelson

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"leaking meanings", bodies + contested south african feminist imagination

pumla dineo-gqola, university of witwatersrand

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forgetting responsibility: hannah arendt + the work of 

(undoing) psychic resistance in post-apartheid south africa 

sergio alloggio + kylie thomas, university of cape town

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revisiting some transnational + pan-african ideals of the '50s +'60s in the african media

tom odhiambo, university of nairobi

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13h15-14h15

lunch break

14h15-16h15 / cas gallery

histories of the impossible/epistemically excluded archives

moderator: jay pather

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writing a history of the impossible: the haitian revolution, africa + reframing the african  diaspora 

anthony bogues, brown university 

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rendering africa knowable: leo africanus + the shaping of “aphrique” as an object of knowledge

sandra young, university of cape town

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struggles against the self: negotiations of power in the women’s national coalition

thuto thipe, university of cape town

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a history re-imagined: an interrogation of the frameworks available to 

historians in understanding “pre-capitalist” african societies 

natasha shivji, university of dodoma

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19h00-21h00

keynote: umthwakazi

venue: idasa

wednesday / 14 december 2011

THINKING AFRICA DIFFERENTLY 

racial knowledge, popular culture, 

performance + practices of curation

09h00-11h00 / cas gallery

island imaginaries/oceanic paradigms – rethinking diasporic configurations

moderator: nick shepherd

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sovereignty of the imagination + the invention of africa

jermaine mccalpin, university of the west indies, mona 

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bodies + princes under the tropics

teena dewoo, university of cape town

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oceanic africa: thinking from the cape

meg samuelson, stellenbosch university

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11h00-11h15

tea break

11h15-13h15 / cas gallery

performative acts – a transdisciplinary discussion on popular culture

moderator: tba

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staging dissemblance: the performativity of the “white wedding”

danai mupotsa, university of witwatersrand

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the performativity of “community” in environmental conservation + tourism

nqobile zulu, university of witwatersrand 

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black bodies in space

mpho matsipa, university of witwatersrand

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vacationing in africa: the age of point-and-shoot imaginaries

jonathan wang, artist + co-founder/co-director of FOTO project space 

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11h15-13h15 / cas seminar room

biopolitics, medicalisation, discourses on race – power, knowledge, archive

moderator: harry garuba

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from clinical evidence to evidence of medical immorality: 

changing views on colonial african patient photographs

glen ncube, university of cape town

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thinking differently about race in africa + in the diaspora

sabelo mcinziba, university of cape town

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constructions of race in north africa 1820 + 1850: 

french portrayals of the indigenous in popular + scientific texts

edna bonhomme, princeton university

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13h15-13h45

rhodes memorial hike

13h45-15h00

the last offering at rhodes memorial + lunch 

15h30-17h30 / cas gallery

african visualities: new ways of figuring + imagining (a conversation)

moderator: kylie thomas

participants: rael salley, zanele muholi, thembinkosi goniwe, gabi ngcobo 

17h45-19h00 / cas gallery

book launch: Biko Speaks!

andile mngxitama 

20h00-23h00

after party @ tagore’s

thursday / 15 december 2011

THINKING AFRICA DIFFERENTLY

towards new knowledge practices

10h00-11h20 / cas gallery

part I: disciplinary entrapments – undisciplining “african studies”

moderator: getachew sahlemariam

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undisciplining archaeology

nick shepherd, university of cape town

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tba

harry garuba, university of cape town

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the conundrum of gate-keeping in contemporary african humanities 

okello ogwang, makerere university

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11h00-13h00 / cas seminar room

performance, spoken word + contestatory voices

participants: croc-e moses, urbanscapes, jethrow louw

11h40-13h00 / cas gallery

part II: disciplinary entrapments – undisciplining “african studies”

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suturing africa in basel: opportunities, constraints + challenges in the making of the ZASB

divine fuh, university of basel

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what ought to be the role of universities in the production of an inclusive post-apartheid social experience? an analysis of njabulo ndebele's reflections in fine lines from the box (2007) 

mxolisi malimela, university of cape town

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of proverbs, postproverbials + knowledge production in african studies 

aderemi raji-oyelade, university of ibadan

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13h00-14h00

lunch break

14h00-16h00 / cas gallery

film, photography + the archive of the ordinary

moderator: emma o’shaughnessy

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whispers in the darkroom: towards a theory of oppression 

through the family album of roger street, district six

siona o’connell, university of cape town

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re-signifying hollywood films in uganda from indigenous perspectives

benge okot, makerere university

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repositioning african video films as a pedagogical institution

vicensia shule, university of dar es salaam

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peripherality, nollywood + the notion of

independent african cinematic image

onookome okome, university of alberta, edmonton

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14h00-16h00 / cas seminar room

refiguring archive: the visual, performative + embodied

moderator: rael salley

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construing a disavowed archive:

the dead of the shashe-limpopo cultural landscape

xolelwa kashe-katiya, university of cape town

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isalwa kutyelwa sibonwa ngolophu

mawande zenzile, university of cape town

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“if the skulls are buried, our history will be buried” 

the first return of human bodies from germany to namibia

memory biwa, university of the western cape 

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nationalism and manhood in ethiopia:

revisiting masculinities through theatre 

surafel wondimu, addis ababa university

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“and the drums were as loud as gospel to a believer’s ears”

nicole sarmiento, university of cape town

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16h00-16h15

tea break

16h15-18h15 / cas gallery

thinking africa, diaspora differently:

practices, projects + openings (a conversation)

moderator: jermaine mccalpin

participants: pumla dineo-gqola, anthony bogues, peter simatei

18h15 / cas gallery

closing

dvc professor thandabantu nhlapo

wine, juice, refreshments