Neville
Alexander Commemorative Conference Programme
Theme:
‘The Life and Times of Neville Alexander’ 6 – 8 July 2013
Nelson
Mandela Metropolitan University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa
Day 1
Saturday 6th July 2013
15:00-16:00
Registration
16:00-16:15
Opening and Welcoming
Derrick
Swartz, Vice-Chancellor Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
16:30-17:10
THE NATIONAL QUESTION RECONSIDERED: Keynote Address
Speaker:
Pallo Jordan
Facilitator:
Denise Zinn, NMMU
17:10-17:20
17:20-17:30
Respondents
Lybon
Mabasa
Enver
Motala, NMMU
17:30-18:00
Questions & Answers
Conference
Outline & Logistics
Allan
Zinn, CANRAD, NMMU
18:00-20:00
Finger Supper, Book Launches and Exhibition
Day 2
Sunday 7th July 2013
07:30-08:00
Registration
08:00-08:30
THE NATIONAL QUESTION RECONSIDERED
Keynote
Address: Lungisile Ntsebeza – The Land Question
Facilitator:
Sophia Kisting
Paper
Presentations: Session 1
08:30-08:45
08:45-09:00
09:00-09:15
1.
Na-iem Dollie, UNISA
‘Imagination
in Neville Alexander’s Work’
2.
Wendy Isaacs-Martin, NMMU
The
National Identity: Can we raise the Issue of Nationalism in South
Africa?
3.
Roland Czada, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
‘Neville
Alexander’s Anti-Racist and Non-Discriminatory Sense of
Nationhood’
09:15-09:45
Questions & Answers
09:45-10:15
TEA
Paper
Presentations: Session 2
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45
1.
Toussaint Losier, University of Chicago, USA
‘No
Land! No House! No Vote!: National Liberation and the Practice of
Non-Collaboration in South Africa’s Past and Present’
2.
Michael Cloete, UNISA
Neville
Alexander: Towards overcoming the legacy of “racial capitalism”
in post-apartheid South Africa
10:45-11:15
Questions & Answers
Paper
Presentations: Session 3
11:15-11:30
11:30-11:45
11:45-12:00
1. A
J Rice, Chicago, IL, USA
‘On
the Political Revolution: Johannesburg, Unemployment and the ANC’
2.
Bill Freund, WITS
‘Nationalisms
inclusive and exclusive: A Comparison of the Indian Congress movement
and the African National Congress of South Africa’
3.
Shaun Whittaker, Namibia
Namibian
moments in the life of a socialist educator
12:00-12:30
Questions & Answers
12:30-13:30
LUNCH
13:30-14:10
EDUCATION & LIBERATION Keynote Address
Speaker:
Kim Porteus (UFH)
Facilitator:
Jean Baxen (Rhodes)
14:10-14:20
14:20-14:30
Respondents:
Darryl
Braam, ECSECC
Allistair
Witten, CCS NMMU
14:30-15:00
Questions & Answers
15:00-15:30
TEA
Paper
Presentations: Session 5
15:30-15:45
15:45-16:00
1.
Beverly Thaver & Lionel Thaver (UWC)
“One
Azania, one Nation” beyond exceptionalism: Neville Alexander’s
ideas on ‘race’ and class for reimagining the transformation of
the university, in an “ordinary”, ‘New South Africa’
2.
Nangamso Koza (UFS)
The
South African Education System post-apartheid: The nonliberation of
the formerly marginalized
16:15-16:45
Questions & Answers
Paper
Presentations: Session 6
16:45-17:00
17:00-17:15
1.
Vanessa-Jean Merckel (UJ)
Teaching
love that does justice: learning as “wisdom building”
2.
Catherine Odora Hoppers (UNISA) & Gert van der Westhuizen
(UJ)
“What
happened to emancipatory learning?”
17:15-17:45
Questions & Answers
17:45-19h00
DRINKS & CULTURAL PERFORMANCES
DAY 3
MONDAY 8th July 2013
07:30-08:00
Registration
08:00-08:40
LANGUAGE, IDENTITY & CULTURE Keynote Address
Speaker:
Brian Ramadiro (UFH)4
Facilitator:
Xolisa Guzula (NMI, UFH)
08:40-08:50
08:50-09:00
Respondents:
Elize
Koch (NMMU)
Carole
Bloch (PRAESA)
09:00-09:30
Questions & Answers
Paper
Presentations: Session 7
09:30-09:45
09:45-10:00
1.
Peter Pluddemann (UWC)
‘Language,
Culture and Heterogeneity in the work of Neville Alexander’
2.
Anne-Marie Beukes (UJ) & Marne Pienaar (UJ)
“Ek
is ‘n Swart Afrikaner”: Identities in Onverwacht
10:00-10:20
Questions & Answers
10:20-10:50
TEA
Paper
Presentations: Session 8
10:50-11:05
11:05-11:20
1.
Geneva Smitherman (Michigan State University, USA)
“The
Power Of Language and The Language of Power”: On Language,
Liberation and Transformation
2.
Alon Serper (Fulbright Scholar, NMMU)
Anthropological,
Phenominological Reflections of A Foreign
Educator
for A Participative Democracy For All on the South
Africa
Culture, Values, Identity and Life
11:20-11:40
Questions & Answers
Paper
Presentations: Session 9
11:40-11:55
11:55-12:10
12:10-12:25
1.
Michael Joseph & Esther Ramani (Rhodes)
English
unassailable but unattainable: why Neville Alexander’s views on
mother-tongue-based bilingual education (MTBBE) needs to be urgently
implemented
2.
Rockie Sibanda (UJ)
The
impact of the social environment of Afrikaans-speaking learners on
their learning of English as a second language
3.
Mariana Kriel (UFS)
Neville
Alexander and the Afrikaners, 1989-2012: anatomy of an alliance
12:25-13:00
Questions & Answers
13:00-14:00
LUNCH5
14:00
ETHICS, MORALITY AND VALUES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA –
TOWARDS A REVOLUTIONARY PRACTICE
Facilitator:
Crain Soudien (UCT)
Paper
Presentations: Session 10
14:00-14:15
14:15-14:30
1.
Allison Drew (University of York, UK)
Neville
Alexander and Socialist History
2,
Kende Kefale (UJ) and Ken Jubber (UJ)
The
Life and Times of Neville Alexander: Against the Continued
Reproduction of the Privileged Class
14:30-15:10
Keynote Panelists
Speakers:
Eugene Cairncross and Lydia Cairncross
15:10-15:30
Respondent: Salim Vally (UJ)
15:30-16:00
TEA
16:00-16:30
Questions & Answers wrt all afternoon sessions
16:30-17:00
Closing Summation
John
Samuel
17:00
ANNOUNCEMENTS AND DEPARTURE
