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September 17, 2019 By admin

Final Programme “The Making of the Humanities VIII”

The Making of the Humanities VIII Conference

21-23 November 2019, University of Cape Town

“Decentralizing the History of the Humanities”

Venue: The Huma seminar Room, Neville Alexander Building, Upper Campus,

University of Cape Town

PROGRAM

Day 1, 21 November 2019

8.45-9.15: Registration

9.15-9.30: Opening of the conference by Shamil Jeppie (UCT) and Rens Bod (President of the Society)

9.30-10.30: Keynote Lecture by Elisio Macamo, Centre for African Studies, University of Basel

Unmaking Africa – The Humanities and the study of what?

Chair: Shamil Jeppie, UCT

10.30-11.00: Coffee

11.00-12.30: History of the Humanities in South Africa

Chair: TBA

11.00-11.30: Menan du Plessis, Stellenbosch University

The 19th century rise—and 21st century perpetuation—of Khoisan studies as a compromised field in the context of colonial and post-colonial southern Africa.

11.30-12.00:  Bronwyn Strydom, University of Pretoria

Reflections on writing a centenary history for the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria

12.00-12.30: Reingard Nethersole, University Wits and visiting scholar University of Richmond

Textwebs 1829: Weimar, Capetown, Craigenputtock

12.30-13.30: Lunch

13.30-15.30: The History of Theory (panel)

Chair: David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University

Premesh Lalu, University of the Western Cape

The Humanities in the Wake of Slavery

John Higgins, University of Cape Town

The Identity of Theory: Some Observations on Literary Theory in South Africa

Ulrike Kistner, University of Pretoria

(Un)Doing Critical Theory in Pretoria, 1981-1987

David Shumway, Carnegie Mellon University

Theory Journals and the Rise of Theory in Literary Studies in the U.S.

15.30-16.00 Coffee, tea

16.00-18.00: The Arts and Historiography

Chair: Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam

16.00-16.30: Petra van Langen, University of Groningen

Pioneers in musicology. National trends in the development of musicology as an academic discipline.

16.30-17.00: J. Kirk Irwin, The University of Edinburgh

Decentralized Histories of Architectural Space: Panofsky and Le Corbusier

17.00-17.30 : Daniela Merolla, Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales, Paris

Co-Authorship and Subversion of Humanities: Amazigh/Berber Literary and Historical Studies

17.30-18.00: Maria Teresa Costa, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin

The Transnational Formation of Art History through its First International Conferences

18.15-20.00: Reception with finger food at the Irma Stern Museum (http://www.irmastern.co.za/). Shuttle will be provided.

Day 2, 22 November 2019

9.30-10.30: Keynote lecture by Martin Scherzinger, New York University

African Music in the Humanities: A Critique (and a Speculation)

Chair: Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam

10.30-11.00: Coffee

11.00-12.30: History and Ethnography

Chair: Shamil Jeppie, UCT

11.00-11.30: Pieter Francois, University of Oxford

Reassessing the legacies of Henri Berr and Frederick Teggart in the context of the recent turn to global history and cultural evolution.

11.30-12.00: Zehra Tonbul, Istanbul Sehir University

The Web and the Angel of Weltverkehr

12.00-12.30: Eldar Salakhetdinov, Unisa

The Evolution of Khoisan Identity Narrative in South Africa: Discovering National Myth

12.30-13.30: Lunch

13.30-15.30: The South African academic journal: past, present and future as affective orientations (panel)

Chair: Rory du Plessis, University of Pretoria

Wemar Strydom, NWU

“Past” / Strategic encounters with whiteness: 1989 to 2001 in the Stilet archive

Siseko H. Kumalo, University of Pretoria

“Present” / An instantiation of the Black Archive

Thys Human, NWU

“Future” / So, what’s the (continued) use of publishing in Afrikaans? Notes on hopeful futurity,

Commentary: Deirdre Byrne, UNISA

15.30-16.00  Coffee, tea

16.00-18.00: Encounters

Chair: TBA

16.00-16.30: Andrew Hui, Yale-NUS College, Singapore

Confucius the Stoic: Matteo Ricci and the Encounter between Western and Chinese Philosophy

16.30-17.00: Jaap Maat, University of Amsterdam

Stoic logic, Ramist logic and a remarkable defence of Aristotle

17.00-17.30 : Floris Solleveld, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven

Language as a Specimen

17.30-18.00: Guillermo Navarro-Alvarado, University of Costa Rica

The ethnography of Edward Wilmot Blyden: from the discovery of Africas to the proposal of a Pan-African nation.

19.00: Conference dinner at Moyo Kirstenbosch (http://www.moyo.co.za). Shuttle will be provided. Dinner voucher (350 rand) must be paid at Conference Desk on 21 November

Day 3, 23 November 2019

9.30-11.00: Decentralized Historiography

Chair: Jaap Maat, University of Amsterdam

9.30-10.00: Vera-Simone Schulz, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz – Max-Planck-Institut

The Swahili Coast in a Network of References to the Arab Peninsula, Persia, the Indian Ocean, the African Continent and Beyond: Polycentric Histories of Art in Coastal East Africa

10.00-10.30: Hampus Östh Gustafsson, Uppsala University

Embracing the Margins: The Challenge of 20th Century Democracy to the Scandinavian Humanities

10.30-11.00: Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam

Towards a Polycentric History of the Humanities

11.00-11.30: Coffee

11.30-13.00: The Humanities and the Digital

Chair: Rens Bod, University of Amsterdam

11.30-12.00: Menno van Zaanen, South African Centre for Digital Language Resources

Digital Humanities in South Africa

12.00-12.30: Douwe Zeldenrust, Meertens Instituut – Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences

Collections as networks, The deconstruction of information networks in the collections of the Meertens Instituut (KNAW)

12.30-13.00: Fabian Saptouw, University of Cape Town

The Digital transfiguration of the archive

13.00-14.00: Lunch

14.00-15.45: Round Table on History of Humanities Projects and Prospects

Organization and chair: Shamil Jeppie, UCT

  • African Humanities Program
  • Human Sciences Research Council
  • Other Universals
  • History Access

Participants: Crain Soudien (Human Sciences Research Council); Fred Hendricks (Rhodes University), Adigun Agbaje. (University of Ibadan) & Nomusa Makhubu (University of Cape Town) (African Humanities Programme); Ruchi Chatuverdi (Other Universals, University of Cape Town); Suren Pillay (University of the Western Cape, Centre for Humanities Research and Other Universals), Bodhi Kar (History Access, University of Cape Town).

15.45: Closing and farewell

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