City in Flux: Urbanization, Transition and South African Fiction
Focus Durban

Programme:

Welcome

09:00    Prof. Dr. Ina Habermann, University of Basel

Keynote Addresses

09:05     Lindy STIEBEL, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
"Lewis Nkosi’s Durban – a city in flux"
Discussion (15’)

10:35     Break

11:00     Sally-Ann MURRAY, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
"An Unsettling Familial: Durban in the Novel Small Moving Parts"
Discussion (15’)

12:30     Lunch break

Workshop: Doctoral Students

14:00     Caitlin MARTIN, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
"Crime – Taking Place in Sue Rabie’s Blood At Bay" (Discussion 10’)

14:30     Brian FULELA, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
"Desire, Place and Adolescence: Some Coordinates in Sifiso Mzobe’s Young Blood" (Discussion 10’)

15:00     Break

15:15     Olivier MOREILLON, University of Basel
"An Intersectional Reading of Johan Van Wyk’s Man Bitch" (Discussion 10’)

15:45     Christine GIUSTIZIERI, University of Basel
"Up there: Reading the urban above in Ivan Vladislavić's The Exploded View" (Discussion 10’)

16:15     Break

Keynote Address

16:30     Fiona SIEGENTHALER, University of Basel
"After the Lure of Transition: Shifting Relationships between Johannesburg Visual Artists and their Subject"
(Discussion 10’)

17:00     Break

Round Table

17:15     City in Flux: Urbanization in Social, Visual & Literary Perspectives
Lindy STIEBEL, Sally-Ann MURRAY, Elísio MACAMO, Fiona SIEGENTHALER, Therese STEFFEN

18:15     End of Conference