Cities in Flux: Urbanization and Societal Change in South African Literary and Cultural Texts

Swiss South African Hoint Research Project SSAJRP

Friday, 18 November 2011, University of Basel, Englisches Seminar, Grosser Hörsaal, Nadelberg 6, Basel

Programme

Key Note Addresses:
9:15 Welcome: Philipp Schweighauser, University of Basel

9:30 Vivian Bickford-Smith, University of Cape Town/University of London:
"Black Baudelaires"

10:30 Coffee Break

11:00 Irikidzayi Manase, University of Venda:
"Anton Harber: Diepsloof"

12:15 Lunch Break

Workshops:
14:00 Olivier Moreillon:
"Richard Rive's Buckingham Palace, District 6: Social (dis)order and networks of solidarity"

15:00 Christine Giustizieri:
"Henri-Alexandre Junod's Zidji: an early Jim-comes-to-Joburg text

16:15 Nigel Penn, University of Cape Town:
"Early Modern Cape Town"

17:00 Coffee Break

Round Table:

17:30 Urbanization and Societal Change in South Africa from Various Perspectives:

- History: Vivian Bickford Smith (UCT), Nigel Penn (UCT), Patrick Harries (U of Basel)
- Political History: Sheila Meintjes (Wits University)
- Media Studies: Sekiba Peter Lekgoathi (Wits University)
- Literature/Culture: Irikidzayi Manase (U of Venda)
- Social Anthropology: Till Foerster (U of Basel)
Therese Steffen (moderating)

18:30 End of Conference

Wir danken dem SSAJRP, der Nachwuchsförderung Universität Basel und dem Doktoratsprogramm Literaturwissenschaft Universität Basel für die freundliche Unterstützung