The Making of the Humanities VIII Conference
21-23 November 2019, University of Cape Town
Venue: The Huma seminar Room, Neville Alexander Building, Upper Campus,
University of Cape Town
PROGRAMME:
21 November 2019
8.45-9.15: Registration
9.15: Opening of the conference by Shamil Jeppie (UCT) and Rens Bod (President of the Society)
9.30-10.30: Keynote Talk by Elisio Macamo, Centre for African Studies, University of Basel
Unmaking Africa – The Humanities and the study of what?
10.30-11.00: Coffee
11.00-12.30: History of the Humanities in South Africa
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
16.00-16.30: Petra van Langen, Netherlands
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
22 November 2019
9.30-10.30: Keynote talk by Martin Scherzinger, New York University
African Music in the Humanities: A Critique (and a Speculation)
10.30-11.00: Coffee
11.00-12.30: History and Ethnography
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
16.00-16.30: Andrew Hui, Singapore Yale-NUS College
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 (more info follows)
23 November 2019
9.30-11.00: Decentralized Historiography
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
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 Project
- Human Sciences Research Council
- Other Universals
- History Access
Participants:
Crain Soudien, Human Sciences Research Council
Fred Hendricks, Rhodes University
Adigun Agbaje, University of Ibadan, Nigeria
Nomusa Makhubu, University of Cape Town
Ruchi Chaturvedi University of Cape Town
Bodhi Kar, University of Cape Town
15.45: Closing and farewell
