2004 AFSAAP Conference Final Timetable. Friday November 26th
9.00am – 10.30am:
Welcome and Keynote Speech.
Alexander Lecture Theatre
Saul Dubow,
Professor of History, University of Sussex
will present a paper entitled
"South Africa and South Africans"
10.30am – 11am:
Morning Tea
11am – 12.45pm:
Room 1: Alexander Lecture Theatre
Africa/Asia – Connections and Comparisons.
Chair: Peter Yearwood
Hamidin Abd Hamid
University Malaya
‘“We Go A Long Way Back”: Ethicity and Identity in Malaysia-South Africa Relations’
Kamini Krishna [c]
University of Zambia
‘CONTRIBUTION OF ZAMBIAN WOMEN AND INDIAN WOMEN TO THE STRUGGLE FOR FREEDOM: A LEGEND OF COURAGE AND COMPASSION’
Dr. Jacqueline Knörr
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
“Comparing Creole Ethnographies of Historicity in (Post)Colonial Settler Societies: The Cases of the Krio (Freetown/Sierra Leone) and the Betawi (Jakarta/Indonesia)”
11am – 12.45pm continued:
Room 2: Fox Lecture Theatre
Art and Culture, Session 1.
Chair: Michael Titlestad
Violetta Jojo Verge
Universidad de La Laguna,
“Ben Okri’s Inscription In Arcadia: An Epiphany of Life and Art”
Tom Odhiambo
WISER
University of the Witwatersrand
‘Multiple Modernities in Africa through the Medium of Drum Magazine’
Tony Moodie
University of KwaZulu-Natal
‘Re-evaluating the idea of Indigenous Knowledge: implications of anti-dualism in African philosophy and theology’
Daniela Baratieri
" Hunting and the Appropriation of Africa in two Italian films: Il sentiero delle belve (1932) and Africa Addio (1966)”
Room 3: Murdoch Lecture Theatre
South Africa, Histories of Political Organisation.
Chair: David Philips
Patricia van der Spuy
Emory University
“Engendering ‘Race’ in the Struggle for Men’s Enfranchisement: Dr Abdurahman and the African Political Organization, Cape Town, South Africa, c1910.”
Raymond Suttner
University of South Africa
“Masculinities and Feminities in the ANC-led Liberation Movement in South Africa.”
Barbara Caine,
“‘A South African Revolutionary, but a Lady of the British Empire’: Helen Joseph and the Anti-Apartheid Movement”.
1pm - 2pm:
Lunch
2pm – 3.45pm:
Room 1: Alexander Lecture Theatre
Cities and Settlements in Africa.
Chair: Mucha Musemwa
Bill Freund
University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
‘GLOBALISATION AND THE AFRICAN CITY’
Stéphane Vermeulin [c]
IRD, Paris & University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
“New socio spatial dynamics in the post-apartheid city: the case of the eThekwini Municipality Area”
Dawne Y. Curry
Doctoral Student, African History, Michigan State University
‘“Squatters Dumped on the Township’s Doorstep”: Spatial Resistance in The 1946 Squatters Movement in Alexandra, South Africa’
Room 2: Fox Lecture Theatre
South Africa, Reconciliation and Transformation.
Chair: Raymond Suttner
David Philips
University of Melbourne
'Understandings of 'Reconciliation' in the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission'
Lesley-Anne Katz
University of the Witwatersrand
“Serving Whose Ends? Psychology and the Study of Justice in South Africa.”
3.45pm – 4.15pm:
Afternoon Tea
4.15pm – 6pm:
Room 1: Alexander Lecture Theatre
Power and Development.
Chair: Roy May
Lindsay Stringer [c]
University of Sheffield
“Challenging the balance of power in combating desertification: power relations, institutions and environmental change in Swaziland"
Fernanda Claudio. “Drought and Identity: Building Upon Trauma and Suffering”.
Patrick McAllister.
“Ten Years On: Rural Development in South Africa’s Eastern Province”.
Room 2: Fox Lecture Theatre
Gender Politics and Power Relations.
Chair: Jeremy Martens
Ssaalongo Mulindwa Luzuka [c]
University of Transkei
“Male-Female Power Relations in Contemporary African Dance Songs”
Christine Cheater
University of Newcastle, NSW
‘Anthropology and Gender Politics: the representation of African women in the ethnography of Phyllis Kaberry’
Clare Buswell
“Controlling Sexuality: Women, Men and the Colonial Administration in Kenya.”
Mia Roth,
“The Prostitute, the Convent Girl and the Political Activist – How Three African Women Bamboozled Colonial Governments in the 1930s.”
4.15pm – 6pm continued:
Room 3: Murdoch Lecture Theatre
Identity in the New South Africa
Chair: Andrew Foley
Kim Wildman [c]
University of Cape Town
“I Dreamed of South Africa: History, Memory and Identity”
Dr Rebecca J Davies
Macquarie University
'Renewing the Consensus? The global political economy and contemporary manifestations of Afrikaner identity in a post-apartheid era'
David Lucas
"Packing for Perth, Papatoetoe and Other Parts of the World: recent White emigration from Africa."
Friday Evening, from 7.30pm: Alexander Lecture Theatre
Screening of African Movie.
Villon Films presents:
A Bamako, les femmes sont belles (Women of Bamako are Beautiful)
A film by Christiane Succab-Goldman
French with English subtitles, Documentary, 1998, 61 minutes.
"From a photographer's studio in Bamako, this documentary sets out to
look at some women of Mali. Energetic, articulate, resourceful, and
always beautiful, they continue their struggle for human rights in
one of the poorest countries in Africa"
Thanks to Villon Films for their sponsorship of this screening.
Please consult the Villon Films catalogue in your conference pack or
contact <peter@villonfilms.com>.
Saturday November 27th
9.00am – 10.30am:
Keynote Speech.
Alexander Lecture Theatre
Peter Vale,
Nelson Mandela Chair of Politics, Rhodes University
will present a paper entitled
"Whatever happened to the post-apartheid moment?"
10.30am – 11am:
Morning Tea
11am – 12.45pm:
Room 1: Alexander Lecture Theatre
Diasporas.
Chair: Rebecca Davies
Tim Mechlinski [c]
University of California Santa Barbara
"Burkinabe Experiences of Migration to and from Cote d'Ivoire."
Yusuf Sheikh Omar.
“Challenges that Face Somali Young People in Australia.”
Apollo Nsubuga-Kyobe [c]
"Africans in Australia/Australians in Africa: Possible Antecedents and Implications to African-Australians Participating in the Proposed Pilot Program of Settlement in Rural Victoria: A Critical View.”
11am – 12.45pm continued:
Room 2: Fox Lecture Theatre
Political Repression in Zimbabwe and Swaziland.
Chair: Ssaalongo Luzuka
Jabu Matsebula
"Partners in political corruption: the role of the Commonwealth Secretariat in sustaining political repression in Swaziland".
Mucha Musemwa
“Disciplining a dissident City”: Hydropolitics in the City of Bulawayo, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe,1980 to 1992”
David Moore
"ZANU-PF and the Ghosts of Foreign Funding"
Room 3: Murdoch Lecture Theatre
Art and Culture, Session 2.
Chair: Violetta Jojo Verge
Michael Titlestad.
“‘I have Always Known Shipwreck’: Whiteness in Sheila Fugard’s The Castaways.”
Peter Alexander
UNSW
“Biographical Juvenilia: New light on a remarkable South Africa child autobiographer
Andrew Foley [c]
University of the Witwatersrand
“TEN YEARS AFTER: SOUTH AFRICAN ENGLISH LITERATURE AFTER APARTHEID”
Theophilus Ogbhemhe,
“Patriarchal Construction of African Feminism”.
1pm – 2pm:
Lunch.
2pm – 3.45pm:
Room 1: Alexander Lecture Theatre
Conflict and Political Economy, Session 1.
Chair: Patrick McAllister
Samuel M. Makinda, [c]
“How Africa can benefit from knowledge”
Angelique Harsant
University of the Free State
“THE IMPACT OF GLOBAL CIVIL SOCIETY ON AFRICA: THE KEY TO PROGRESSIVE CHANGE?”
Zein Kebonang
The Australian National University
‘THE NEW PARTNERSHIP FOR AFRICA’S DEVELOPMENT: PROMOTING FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT TRHOUGH MORAL LEADERSHIP.”
Room 2: Fox Lecture Theatre
Saharan Conflict and Politics.
Chair: Gerhard Seibert
Noah Bassil, Geoffrey Hawker & Andrew Vincent
Macquarie University
“The African Union, The Sudan and Darfur”,
Simon Massey and Roy May
Coventry University
‘Petrol, Power and Politics: A New Era for Chad?
2pm – 3.45pm continued:
Room 3: Murdoch Lecture Theatre
Maps and the Colonial Conquest of Southern Africa.
A panel presentation and discussion. Norman Etherington (UWA), Jane Carruthers (UNISA) and Lindy Stiebel (U of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban).
Jane Carruthers will talk about her work on early Transvaal Map Makers, Lindy Stiebel will discuss the Parliamentary Millennium Map Project, and Norman Etherington will present some of his work on maps that aimed to visualize history and ethnicity. This will be followed by a general discussion involving members of the audience.
3.45pm – 4.15pm:
Afternoon Tea
4.15pm – 6pm:
AFSAAP Annual General Meeting.
Murdoch Lecture Theatre
Also 4.15pm:
Alexander Lecture Theatre
Screening of African Movie.
Villon Films presents:
Come Back, Africa
Producer and director: Lionel Rogosin with Zachariah Mgabi, Vinah
Bendile, Can Themba, Bloke Modisane, Lewis Nkosi, Miriam Makeba,
1959, 82 minutes.
"In the late 'Fifties, the maverick American film-maker Lionel
Rogosin traveled to South Africa to find out what apartheid was all
about. Teaming up with a group of African writers - Can Themba, Bloke
Modisane, Lewis Nkosi - and filming illicitly, he produced the
classic anti-apartheid docudrama Come Back, Africa"
Thanks to Villon Films for their sponsorship of this screening.
Please consult the Villon Films catalogue in your conference pack or
contact <peter@villonfilms.com>.
Saturday Evening: 7.00pm Conference Dinner at Hackett Hall, UWA.
Sunday November 28th.
9am – 10.45am:
Room 1: Alexander Lecture Theatre
Africa Under Colonialism.
Chair: A Ehlers
Peter J. Yearwood
University of Papua New Guinea
‘“Primary Regard to the Wishes and Interests of the Native Inhabitants”; The First World War and National Self-Determination in Tropical Africa’
Yasuo MIZOBE
Osaka University of Foreign Studies
“African Elites' View on the Colony in the latter half of the Nineteenth Century: the Case of British Gold Coast”
Pep Finaldi
"Tarantella nicche nicche, N'accidente Amenelicche: aspects of
popular culture and Italy's First African War"
Room 2: Fox Lecture Theatre
Lusophone Africa, Session 1.
Chair: Marzia Grassi
Cristina Udelsmann Rodrigues,
Université Montesquieu
Bordeaux IV ‘Recent Social Changes in Luanda – Angola’
Gerhard Seibert, [c]
Centro de Estudos Africanos e Asiáticos (CEAA) ‘‘São Tomé e Príncipe: The difficult transition from aid-dependent cocoa producer to petrol state’
Dr Nuno Vidal
University of Coimbra
‘Angola’s transition to a multiparty system and a market economy: a new cloth for an old patrimonial/distributive working logic’
10.45am – 11.15am:
Morning Tea
11.15am – 1pm:
Room 1: Alexander Lecture Theatre
Conflict and Political Economy, Session 2.
Chair: Kathryn Sturman
Heidi Hudson
University of the Free State
“GLOBALISATION AND FOREIGN POLICY-MAKING IN AFRICA: TOWARDS A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK”
Sam Makinda, [c]
“Aiming for the Great Prize: Africa and the Struggle for a Permanent Seat on the UN Security Council”.
Room 2: Fox Lecture Theatre
Lusophone Africa, Session 2.
Chair: Saskia van Hoyweghen
David Robinson.
University of Western Australia.
“Who Killed Samora Machel? A Theory of Mozambique’s Hidden History.”
Gerhard Seibert [c]
Centro de Estudos Africanos e Asiáticos (CEAA)
“The explosive growth of African Independent Churches in Post-War Mozambique”
Marzia Grassi
Universidade de Lisboa
“Rethinking Methodology in Economics as an Epistemological Need: Some Theoretical Issues Suggested from a Comparative Study in the New Cape Verdean Diasporas and its Transnational Migrants Networks.”
1pm – 2pm:
Lunch
2pm – 3.45pm:
Room 1: Alexander Lecture Theatre
From OAU to African Union.
Chair: Geoffrey Hawker
Susane WAIYEGO MWANGI
KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
“From OAU to AU: The Experience, the Promise, the Expectations”
Oladipo Olubomehin & Dayo Kawonishe
Olabisi Onabanjo University,
‘African Union and the Challenges of Regional Integration in Africa’
Kathryn Sturman
Macquarie University
“Five years of reintegration with Africa: the Mbeki presidency’s role in changing the OAU”
Room 2: Fox Lecture Theatre
Property, Business and Politics in Africa.
Chair: Fernanda Claudio
Dr A Ehlers, [c]
University of Stellenbosch
‘From Peptanic to Peptonic. A retailers response to the challenges of the New South Africa’
Dr. Saskia Van Hoyweghen
Brussels Centre of African Studies / VUB
“The crisis of post-colonial citizenship: Debates about political membership and economic ownership in present day Tanzania”
Sandra Swart
Stellenbosch University
‘The “ox that deceives” – horses, horse ownership and ownership regimes in Lesotho, 1870 to 2001’
Dr. A. Elamin
Ajman University of Science and Technology Network
“Strategic implications of personal networks (Ala’aqat) in the African context: the case of two Sudanese enterprises”
4pm:
Alexander Lecture Theatre
Conference Conclusion.
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