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