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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
History of Humanities, Issue 4.1 is out!
Issue 4.1 of History of Humanities has recently been published. It is yet another rich issue containing a captivating forum discussion on ‘The Inhumanities’, three scholarly papers, a splendid review essay on Renaissance humanism and about 15 book reviews. Hopefully you will enjoy this volume as much as we do!
Call for Papers and Panels ‘The Making of the Humanities VIII’
‘The Making of the Humanities’ conference series goes to South Africa! The University of Cape Town will host the 8th conference in the series, from 21 till 23 November 2019, at the facilities of the Faculty of Humanities, Neville Alexander Building.
Goal of the Making of the Humanities (MoH) Conferences
The MoH conferences are organized by the Society for the History of the Humanities and bring together scholars and historians interested in the history of a wide variety of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, historiography, linguistics, literary studies, media studies, musicology, and philology, tracing these fields from their earliest developments to the modern day.
We welcome panels and papers on any period or region. We are especially interested in work that transcends the history of specific humanities disciplines by comparing scholarly practices across disciplines and civilisations.
This year there is a special conference theme. We encourage submissions that explore this theme, but remain fully open to submissions addressing other subjects too.
This year’s conference theme: Decentralizing the History of the Humanities
A growing body of scholarship is emerging that suggests that historiography of the humanities unnecessarily limits itself if it takes one knowledge center as its main focus. This year we especially value contributions that help to recognize a poly-centric perspective on the history of the humanities, for example through investigations that highlight the circulation of knowledge between multiple centers, or through the study of centers of humanistic scholarship in different parts of the world or also different periods of time.
Please note that the Making of the Humanities conferences are not concerned with the history of art, the history of music or the history of literature, and so on, but instead with the history of art history, the history of musicology, the history of literary studies, etc.
Keynote Speakers (third speaker will follow soon)
Elísio Macamo (University Of Basel)
Martin Scherzinger (New York University)
Paper Submissions
Abstracts of single papers (30 minutes including discussion) should contain the name of the speaker, full contact address (including email address), the title and a summary of the paper of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting abstracts, see the submission page.
Deadline for abstracts: 31 July 2019
Notification of acceptance: End of August/Begin of September 2019
Panel Submissions
Panels last 1.5 to 2 hours and can consist of 3-4 papers and possibly a commentary on a coherent theme including discussion. Panel proposals should contain respectively the name of the chair, the names of the speakers and commentator, full contact addresses (including email addresses), the title of the panel, a short (150 words) description of the panel’s content and for each paper an abstract of maximally 250 words. For more information about submitting panels, see the submission page.
Deadline for panel proposals: 31 July 2019
Notification of acceptance: End of August/Begin of September 2019
Conference Fee
The exact conference fee will be determined later this spring and will be ca. $120 for regular participants and ca. $80 for PhD students. The fee includes access to all sessions, access to the welcoming reception, simple lunches and tea and/or coffee during the breaks.
There is a fee waiver for scholars from Africa and elsewhere in the South whose papers are accepted. Please note that we do not cover accommodation or flights.
Accommodation and Travel Information
Please open this document for information about accommodation and local traveling options.
MoH International Committee
Rens Bod (U. of Amsterdam), Shamil Jeppie (U. of Cape Town), Christopher Drew Armstrong (U. of Pittsburgh), Julia Kursell (U. of Amsterdam), Fenrong Liu (Tsinghua U.), Jaap Maat (U. of Amsterdam), Helen Small (U. of Oxford), Thijs Weststeijn (Utrecht U.)
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