Humanities
Deans' Association) invite you to attend the following:
LINEAGES OF FREEDOM LUNCH TIME LECTURES 15-19 OCTOBER 2012
Venue: Eden Grove Blue
Time: 13h05
Discussant for all talks: Nomalanga Mkhize
LINEAGES OF FREEDOM LUNCH TIME LECTURES 15-19 OCTOBER 2012
Venue: Eden Grove Blue
Time: 13h05
Discussant for all talks: Nomalanga Mkhize
The idea behind these dialogues is to trace our various trajectories of
liberation and repression and to reflect critically on our past as well as
our present. The intention is to highlight the ongoing problems confronted
by a post-apartheid South Africa. It is clear to all that formal apartheid
is dead. Yet, in very many ways, apartheid continues to linger on in all
spheres of our body politic. Hence, the proposed three sets of events will
subject to critical scrutiny the contemporary relevance of the questions
about change and building a new society which animated the struggle against
apartheid.
Of course, the massacre at Marikana looms large as an example of an
increasingly repressive state, notwithstanding the democratic changes since
1994. It is critical that the humanities should be centrally involved in
analyzing these crucial events in our contemporary history. Inasmuch as the
humanities played a role against apartheid, there is now an urgent need for
an engaged scholarship which takes the struggles and problems of ordinary
people seriously.
LINEAGES OF FREEDOM LUNCH TIME LECTURES 15-19 OCTOBER 2012
Venue: Eden Grove Blue
Time: 13h05
Discussant for all talks: Nomalanga Mkhize
15 OCTOBER
John Holloway, Andrew W. Mellon Senior Scholar
Topic: We are the crisis of capitalism and proud of it
16 OCTOBER
Andrew Nash, Politics UCT
Topic: Marxism in South Africa: Crisis and Renewal
17 OCTOBER
Firoze Manji, Former Director: Pambazuka
Topic: Pan-African perspectives on contemporary struggles
18 OCTOBER
Nombonisa Gasa, Independent analyst and gender activist
Topic: Patriarchy in current South African leadership: on-going gender
questions
19 OCTOBER
Mark Hunter, Research Associate, Population Studies and Development Studies,
UKZN
Topic: Circuits of schooling and the production of space: the family,
education and symbolic struggles after apartheid
AND
LINEAGES OF FREEDOM COLLOQUIUM
SATURDAY 20 OCTOBER 2012
Venue: Faculty of Humanities Seminar Room
08h15
Welcome: Prof Fred Hendricks
Conceptual Introduction: John Holloway
08h30-10h00
Session 1
Jacques Depelchin: Silences in African Histories of Liberation
Discussant: Vashna Jagarnath
Firoze Manji: Pan African Perspectives on Current Struggles
Discussant: Pauline Wynter
10h00-10h30
Tea
10h30-12h45
Session 2
Darlene Miller: Hidden Women in Leadership
Discussant: Jacques Depelchin
Lungisile Ntsebeza: Rural Struggles in South Africa
Discussant: Babalwa Magoqwana
Jane Duncan: The Role of the Media in Contemporary South African struggles
Discussant: Lynette Steenveld
12h45-13h30
Lunch
13h30-15h00
Session 3
Richard Pithouse: Community Politics in South Africa
Discussant: Fred Hendricks
Nomboniso Gasa: Women in Tradition and Democracy
Discussant: Nomalanga Mkhize
15h00-15h30
Tea
15h30-17h00
Session 4
Lucien van der Walt: Anarchism in South Africa
Discussant: Tarryn Alexander
Barney Pityana: The Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
Discussant: Robbie van Niekerk
For catering purposes please RSVP for the Saturday Colloquium only to Karen
Kouari: k.kouari@ru.ac.za
