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Friday 16
2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

Panel: Feministing readings

Chair: Deborah Adeojo

“Problematic Solutions: An examination of African feminisms in the representation of gender in Adichie’s selected novels”. Lethabo Masha, University of Limpopo.

 

“An Afrofuturist reimagination of the African feminist. Analyzing Midnight Robber’s representation of Granny Nanny, the Matriarch: From Ancestor to a God”.  Elizabeth Abena Osei, University of Ghana. 

 

“Like someone who didn't yet exist": a feminist analysis of Etienne van Heerden's In love's place. Delia Rabie, University of Pretoria. 

 

“A/Wake(ning) South African Texts in Woke U.S. Contexts: Pedagogical Reflections on Teaching Lauren Beukes’ Glitterboys & Ganglands”. Jennifer Schmidt, North Hennepin Community College

2:00 to 3:30 p.m.

Roundtable: Bodies offline, online, on the line. Feminist decolonial discussions on resistance and solidarity in times of pandemic

Chair: Anaïs Nony

Participants: 

Salima Amari, Cresspa GTM

 

Kamila Bouchemal, LEGS

 

Jamie Herd, LEGS

 

Akila Kizzi, LEGS

 

Heta Rundgren, LEGS

4:10 to 5:40 p.m.

Panel: Feministing art

Chair: Motlatsi Khosi

“Transgender journeys: our hidden truths”. Leo Le Diouron.
 

‘Postcards: Bodily Preserves’ as a rogue archive in practice

Lepere Refiloe,  Tshwane University of Technology 


“Nobody’s Puppet, Seamstress or Sex Slave: Proclaiming the Present in the Wake of the Past in Lynthia Julius’ Uit die kroes”. Karen de Wet, University of Johannesburg

4:10 to 5:40 p.m.

Panel: Sustaining life, Experiences and imaginations

Chair: Puleng Segalo

Ancestrality as methodology. Chloé Samala Faux, Columbia University. 

 

“Be like trees, be like Zombies”. Jamie Herd, LEGS.

 

“Community and survival during COVID19 in Mexico”. Natalia Flores Garrido, Nelson Mandela University

5:45 to 6:00 p.m.

Closing Remarks

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