Thursday 15
Workshop: Queered Kundalini Yoga
Imaan Latif
1:00 to 1:30 P.M.
2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Panel: Gender in the interstices of time and space
Chair: Jessica Murray
“Respatialising the South African present: Black women, apartheid memory and a different sense of place”. Azille Coetzee, Stellenbosch University.
“A feminist reading of female sexuality at the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, South Africa, 1890 to 1907”. Rory du Plessis, University of Pretoria
“Pathways and Penalties – Exploring the Experiences of Agency among Incarcerated Women in South Africa”. Bianca Rochelle Parry, UNISA.
“Is it the fall of imbokodo: from the women of 1956 to #TotalShutdown women and Beyond”. Sivuyisiwe Wonci, Nelson Mandela University
2:30 to 4:00 p.m.
Panel: Feminist Readings of Popular Culture: music and cinema
Chair: Abena Osei
“Give the black girl the remote: decolonising and depatriarchalising knowledge and art in Black Panther and the adult colouring book,Colour Me Melanin”, Deirdre Byrne, UNISA
“Women are digging the future: afrofuturism, women and mining in Black Panther”, Obakeng Kgongoane, University of Pretoria
“Goddesses of hip hop: an exploration of the female voice in the Afrikaans rap landscape with specific reference to YOMA and Rosey the rapper”. Mathilda Smit. University of Free State
2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Panel: Transformative Art Expressions and Artivism
Chair: Leandra Koenig-Visagie
“The potential of poetry in feminist readings of sexual violence”. Gorata Chengeta, University of Witwatersrand
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“Clit+ Artistic Activism @Insta”. Marlene de Beer, University of Johannesburg.
“Agency, self-empowerment and self-awareness: Discussing how women find personal meaning in madness through artmaking”. Manuela Holzer, University of Pretoria.
"She was dead": Exploring violence and protest in Koleka Putuma's poetry”. Mbali Sebokedi, University of Pretoria
Roundtable: Transnational Feminisms in Motion
Participants: Ambassador Anne Lammila (Finnish Embassy in Pretoria)
Professor Akousa Adomako Ampofo (University of Ghana)
Dr Danai Mupotsa (Wits University)
Professor Elina Oinas (University of Helsinki)
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Vote of thanks: the Principal and Vice-Chancellor, Prof Puleng LenkaBula (UNISA)