Entanglements and Aftermaths: Reflections on Memory and Political Time
Friday, 23 February, 2018 - 12:30
Entanglements and Aftermaths:
Reflections on Memory and Political Time
criticaltheoryconsortium.org / wiser.wits.ac.za
Entanglements and Aftermaths will investigate connections between histories that persist into the present and reflect on the role of memory in our understanding of political time. Do histories end when they are declared to end, or do they have an afterlife that makes it difficult to distinguish the past from the present? What is the role played by silence, repression and absence as technologies of forgetting? How are reparations claims shaped by the politics of memory? When and under what circumstances do the trials of memory, invested with the injunction to justice, turn from matters of personal or public healing to a reiteration of violence? These are just some of the questions that the conference will pose and confront across a wide range of sessions.
Thursday, February 22
13:00 | Remarks by Sarah Nuttall (WiSER) and
Debarati Sanyal (UC Berkeley)
Judith Butler (UC Berkeley)
David Goldberg (UC Irvine)
Achille Mbembe (WiSER)
Matters of Time: An Introductory Roundtable
14.30 | Penny Siopis (University of Cape Town)
Time and Again
Convened by Pamila Gupta (WiSER)
15:30 | Coffee/Tea
16:00 | Achille Mbembe (WiSER)
Eating Time: Memory in the Absence of Traces
Convened by Dilip Menon (CISA, Wits)
17:00 | Paul Gilroy (King’s College London)
Rhythm in the Force of Forces: Music and Political Time
Convened by Hlonipha Mokoena (WiSER)
Friday, February 23
9:00 | Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela (Stellenbosch University)
Traumatic Ruptures and Legacies of the Past: Pre-Senting Memory
Convened by Robyn Bloch (WiSER)
10:00 | Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University)
Stateless Memory
Convened by Candice Jansen (WiSER)
11:00 | Coffee/Tea
11:30 | Vilashini Cooppan (UC Santa Cruz)
Time Maps
Convened by Srila Roy (Sociology, Wits)
12:30 | Lunch break
13:30 | Vron Ware (Kingston University London)
Memorializing Perpetual War
Convened by Zen Marie (School of Arts, Wits)
14:30 | Meltem Ahiska (Boğaziçi University)
All Silences Are Not Equal: Fertile Memories Beyond the Walls of Silence
Convened by Richard Pithouse (WiSER)
15:30 | Coffee/Tea
16:00 | Debarati Sanyal (UC Berkeley)
Arts of Memory and Persistence within the Refugee ‘Crisis’
Convened by Nolwazi Mkhwanazi (WiSER)
Saturday, February 24
9:00 | Hoda Elsadda (Cairo University; The Women and Memory Forum)
‘Who Owns the Street?’: Gender, Narrative and Memory in Post-Revolutionary Egypt
Convened by Simon van Schalkwyk (English, Wits)
10:00 | María José Contreras Lorenzini (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Performance Art in Postdictatorship Chile or How to Embody Critical Thought
Convened by Philomena Essed (Antioch University)
11:00 | Coffee/Tea
11:30 | Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (WiSER)
1913
Convened by Sinethemba Makanya (WiSER)
12:30 | Lunch break
13:30 | Jane Taylor (University of the Western Cape)
Of Uncertainty
Convened by Mbali Khoza (Rhodes University)
14:30 | Patricia Hayes (University of the Western Cape)
Photography and the Refusal of Light in 1980s South Africa
Convened by Isabel Hofmeyr (African Literature, Wits)
15:30 | Open Session with Coffee/Tea
Convened by Sarah Nuttall (WiSER)
16:30 | Concluding Panel
Convened by Judith Butler (UC Berkeley)
and Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (WiSER)
Convened by Sarah Nuttall, WiSER | Debarati Sanyal, UC Berkeley
Organized by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs, UC Berkeley | Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand
Supported by a grant to UC Berkeley from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. For more information, contact info.ictconsortium@berkeley.edu.