Schedule

Friday, February 24, 2023

1:30 – 1:45 PM | Welcome and Introduction

1:45 – 3:30 PM | Panel 1 | New Histories of Rule, New Histories of Oppression

  • Geraldine Frieslaar, Stellenbosch University, South Africa | “Post-Apartheid Archives, Activist Archiving and Dealing with the Past”
  • Noor Nieftagodien, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa | “From People’s History to Public History In Times of Transition and Crisis”
  • Sanele Ntshingana, University of Cape Town | “A Reading of Long Intellectual Genealogies of Political Authority and Power”
  • Carolyn Hamilton, University of Cape Town | “Poly-temporality, Historicity and Historiography”
  • Discussant: Athambile Masola, University of Cape Town

3:30 – 3:45 PM | Break

3:45 – 5:15 PM | Panel 2 | Liberation and Gender

  • Athambile Masola, University of Cape Town | “The Scattered Archive: the life and times of Pumla Kisosonkole”
  • Jill E. Kelly, Southern Methodist University | “After ‘Struggle History’: An Intellectual Biography of uDr Margaret Chuene Mncadi”
  • Shireen Hassim, Carleton University, Canada | “Sex, Gender and the Democratic Project”
  • Discussant: Elizabeth Thornberry, Johns Hopkins University

Saturday, February 25, 2023

9 – 11 AM | Panel 3 | Beyond South Africa

  • Karin Shapiro, Duke University | “South African Social Medicine and the Great Society in North Carolina”
  • Derek Peterson, University of Michigan | “Fighting Apartheid in Idi Amin’s Uganda”
  • Joel Cabrita, Stanford University | “Swazis in ‘the South of Ngwane’: Provincializing South Africa Through a Study of Diasporic Print Culture”
  • Tinashe Nyamunda, University of Pretoria, South Africa | “British Investments, Colonial Debt and UDI: Imperial Retreat, Sanctions and Rhodesian Bonds, 1965 – 1979”
  • Robert Trent Vinson, University of Virginia | “From South Africa to the South Bronx: The Origins of Afrika Bambaataa and the Universal Zulu Nation”
  • Discussant: Stephen Sparks, University of Johannesburg

11 – 11:15 AM | Break

11:15 AM – 12:45 PM | Panel 4 | Making History: For Who and How

  • Jacob S. T. Dlamini, Princeton University | “Apartheid South Africa a police state? Revisiting a Historiographical Common Sense”
  • Wayne Dooling, SOAS, University of London | “The Respectability of Apartheid”
  • Lindie Koorts, University of the Free State, South Africa | “From Glorification to Introspection: Post-Apartheid Shifts in Afrikaner Biography”
  • Discussant: Jacob S. T. Dlamini, Princeton University

12:45 – 2 PM | Lunch Break

2 – 3:45 PM | Panel 5 | Apartheid’s Legacies and the History of Contemporary Politics

  • Rebekah Lee, University of Oxford | “Towards an Alternative Archive of Road Safety in South Africa: Theoretical and Methodological Challenges”
  • Laura Phillips, North West University, South Africa | “Lock Up Capitalism: Recentering the Bantustans in South Africa’s Recent Economic History”
  • Janeke Thumbran, Rhodes University, South Africa | “Genomics, Indigeneity and Racial Hybridity Thirty Years after Apartheid”
  • Elizabeth Thornberry, Johns Hopkins University | “Traditional Authority and the Idea of History in Post-Apartheid South Africa: The Nhlapo Commission and the Dispute over the Mpondo Kingship”
  • Discussant: Shireen Hassim, Carleton University, Canada

3:45 – 4 PM | Break

4 – 4:30 PM | Closing Remarks

4:30 PM | Conference Concludes