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
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
“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