Welcoming Words
1:45 to 2:05 P.M.
2:10 to 3:40 p.m
Roundtable: Engaged Queerness in African Speculative Fiction
Chair: Nedine Moonsamy
Grant Andrews, University of Witwatersrand
Bibi Burger, University of Pretoria
Luiza Caraivan, West University of Timisoara
Chantelle Croeser, Stellenbosch University
Joy Hayward Jansen, University of Massachusetts
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Edgar Nabutanyi, Makerere University.
Gibson Ncube, University of Zimbabwe
2:10 to 3:40 p.m
Roundtable: The Black Woman: an exploration of women as space
Chair: Nontobeko Ntombela
Andisiwe Diko, UNISA
Duduzile Mathebula, UNISA
Zinziswa Mavuso, UNISA
Witty Nyide, Nelson Mandela University
2:10 to 3:40 p.m.
Panel: Theorising and expanding Feminism
Chair: Deirdre Byrne
“Sharing Speculative-Critical Fabulations: Feminism, Foraging and Fungi” Elspeth
Mitchell, Leeds University
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“Black Queer Feminism and the Questioning of Being and Belonging”
Kamogelo Molobye. University of Witwatersrand.
“Introduction to Francophone Afropean Feminism"
Anais Nony, University College Cork
Keynote by Nthabiseng Motsemme: African women’s sacred/spiritual violations and the healing of our historical wounds: An African-womanist reflection
Chair: Leandra Koenig-Visagie