9h Registration
9.30-9.50h Welcome and Opening – Thando Njovane (UCKAR)
10.10h-11h Keynote Address: Feminism as Pedagogy
Dr Danai Mupotsa (Wits University)
PANELS
English Department Seminar Room
11-13h Women and Visual Arts
An African feminist conversation about the KhoiKhoi and San women in the Rock Art of South Africa – Beverly Barry (UCKAR)
Feminisms in Visual Culture; Un- silencing historically marginalized artists – Amy von Witt (UCKAR)
‘Defining ambiguity’: Theorising a politics of a ectivity in contem- porary South Africa through Mary Sibande’s ‘Sophie’– Erin de Kock (UCKAR)
Chair: Dr Sharlene Khan
Fine Arts Department Seminar Room
11-13h African Feminist Thought
A Stiwanist Study of Selected Works of Francophone Authors – Joy Joseph (UCKAR)
Womanism and Critical Method in African Diaspora Writing – Brendon Nicholls (Leeds)
The re-articulation of a holistic African female subjectivity in Koleka Putuma’s Collective Amnesia – Manthipe Moila (Rhodes)
Chair: Dr Betty Govinden
English Department Seminar Room
14-16h Intersectionality
Pompoms and Struggle Songs: The Limited Space for Feminism in #feesmustfall – Chelsey Wilken (Rhodes)
Towards a Decolonial Feminist Disability Studies for Southern Africa – Kharnita Mohamed (UCT)
Patriarchy Masked as Decoloniality: Problematizing ‘Decolonial’ Masculinist Critiques of Intersectionality – Marzia Milazzo (Rhodes/Vanderbijlt)
Chair: Dr Danai Mupotsa
Fine Arts Department Seminar Room
14-16h Alternative Spaces
The politics of erasure and exposure of the black female bodies in site- specific performances. Discussing Woman in a Passage (2014) – Pumelela Nqelenga (UKZN)
Towards eradicating domestic violence in Nigeria: The peace education option – Chibuzor Nwobueze (Rivers State) and James Okolie-Osemene (Ibadan)
[Re]presenting Race, Rape and “white” justice: An auto-ethno- graphic study on the role of the Black female theatre-educator in Post-Madiba South Africa – Ayanda Khala-Phiri (UKZN)
Challenging sexism, misogyny and censorship: A search for alternative spaces for feminist discourses in Zimbabwe – Gibson Ncube (Stellenbosch)
Chair: Siphokazi Jonas
SATURDAY 22 JULY 2017
English Department Seminar Room
9-11h Labour
An intersectional analysis of work place discrimination in South African labour markets – Jamela Hoveni (Rhodes)
Perpetuation of female dependency syndrome in South Africa mirrors religious narratives: The case of Ruth – Thembinkosi Twalo (HSRC)
The unfolding of African feminism in CODESRIA – Nimi Hoffmann (ISER)
Chair: Prof Pumla Gqola
Fine Arts Department Seminar Room
9-11h African Feminist Literary Readings
Demolishing the mountain within: Debunking patriarchy and self-reflexivity in African Women’s Writing – Susan Okpala (North-West)
Queering Domestic Space and Reproductive Time in Zöe Wicomb’s “Mrs Pringle’s Bed” – Jenny du Preez (Rhodes)
The Future of African Feminisms/ Miriam Makeba and Cosmo-existential Feminism – Palesa Mokoena (UCKAR)
Chair: Thando Njovane
English Department Seminar Room
11.15 Economics and Policy
South African foreign policy and its implications for feminist Inter- national Relations: the legacies of Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma and Maite Nkoana-Mashabane – Siphokazi Magadla and Nica Cornell (Rhodes)
African Feminist Futures: Fashioning Life in a Neoliberal World – Miriam Kilimo (Emory)
Chair: Dr Yvette Abrahams
11.15-13.15h Imaging Women
Paw-Paw Politics: Lady Skollie and the Curating of Contradiction – Wamuwi Mbao (Stellenbosch)
Women in African Cinema: Female Identity on Screen – Lizelle Bisschof (Glasgow)
Re-imagining African feminism through the Afro-futuristic lens – Tshepiso Maleswena (Wits)
The Message of Misogyny in Hip- Hop Music and its Gender Dynamics – Mamaputle Boikanyo (Rhodes)
Chair: Prof M.Neelika Jayawardane
English Department Seminar Room
14.15-15.15h Sexuality
Looking at disruption within feminist and anti-rape activism – Gorata Chengeta (Wits)
Bisexuality in South Africa – Zuziwe Khuzwayo (HSRC)
Chair: Prof Pumla Gqola
Fine Arts Department Seminar Room
14.15-15.15h Life Writing
(Re)visiting writing raced queerness: a fictocritical exploration of writing the race-d queer South African Womxn – Chantelle Croeser (Stellenbosch)
A song in the night: the feminist ordeals of Norah Mumba – Ranka Primorac (Southampton)
Ekhaya nasemzini: Negotiating home in Noni Jabavu’s life narratives Drawn in Colour: African Contrasts and the Ochre People – Athambile Masola (Pretoria)
Chair: Dr Lynda Spencer
Closing Remarks – Dr Lynda Gichanda Spencer
* This event is funded by Finding Africa, UCAPI, The Andrew Mellon Foundation, the National Research Foundation, Art on Our Mind Research Project and Rhodes University.
