Body Knowledge Conference Programme

8:30-8:40

8:40-9:00

Welcome

Introduction

Ruksana Osman (Dean of Humanities, Wits)

Sharon Fonn (Acting Dean of Health Sciences, Wits)

Ashlee Masterson (Wits)

9:00-10:00

Keynote Address: ‘Figuring the tumour: photography, self, and cancer’

Julie Livingston (Rutgers)

10:30-10:50

‘I am a woman of colour’

Raimi Gbadamosi (Wits)

10:50-11:10

‘The melancholy of servitude: New Spain’s melancholic Blacks and phlegmatic Indians’

Heather Peterson (U South Carolina Aiken)

11:10-11:30

‘From “dark” country to “dark” continent: AIDS, “race”, and medical research in the South African Medical Journal, 1980-1995’

Carla Tsampiras (Rhodes)

11:30-12:00

Questions and discussion

10:30-10:50

‘Dark continent, dark remedy? A half century of (non) histories of thalidomide research in Africa

Julie Parle (UKZN)

10:50-11:10

‘“Vaccinated at gunpoint”: human rights, competing ethical imperatives, and democratic anxieties in Malawi’s health sector’

Anna West (Stanford)

11:10-11:30

‘Seeing a blinded eye: health, policing and state craft in South Africa’

Oliver Human (U Amsterdam)

11:30-11:50

‘Viruses and antigens: transplants, pests and parasites: modernity and the medicalization of the political’

Sue van Zyl (Wits)

11:50-12:15

Questions and discussion

13:00-13:20

‘Speaking back to biomedicine in the genomic age’

Zimitri Erasmus (Wits); Kezia Lewins (Wits)

13:20-13:40

‘Uncertain medical intersections: spirit healing, biomedicine and the shadow of the state at the time of the 2009 elections in Nampula city, northern Mozambique’

Daria Trentini (SOAS)

13:40-14:00

‘Of miracles and dreaming: a case study of crooked resistance to dominant paradigms of morality and wellness in 1960’s South Africa’

Dominique Santos (Goldsmiths)

14:00-14:25

Questions and discussion

13.00-13.20

‘Beadwork and embodiment’

Anitra Nettleton (Wits)

13.20-13.40

‘Steaming the devil away: migration and the reinvention of healing traditions in the city’

Lorena Nunez (Wits); Melekias Zulu (Wits);

13.40-14.00

‘The body keeps the score: reflections on formative research regarding intimate partner violence during pregnancy and antenatal clinic visits’

Nataly Woollett (Wits)

14.00-14.25

Questions and Discussion

14:30-14:50

‘The social epidemiology of silicosis: hiding an epidemic for a century’

Jaine Roberts (Rhodes)

14:50-15:10

‘Beyond “mad and deviant”? The ethics and policy implications of researching adolescents living with HIV’

Mandisa Mbali (U Stellenbosch)

15:10-15:30

‘Counting consequences: the politics of treatment access at an HIV support group in Pretoria’

Jimmy Pieterse (U Pretoria)

15:30-15:50

‘“A house in Virginia”: diagnosis, acuity and chronicity in the age of the “maturing” HIV epidemic

Christopher Colvin (UCT)

15:50-16:10

Questions and discussion

14:30-14:50

‘Illness and image’

Dawn Garisch (novelist and GP)

14:50-15:10

‘Chronic Disease and the urban healthworld: A Sowetan case study’

Daniel Lopes Ibanez-Gonzalez (U Wits)

15:10-15:30

‘Up close & personal: journeys of disease and resilience, an analysis of the narrative accounts of South African health care workers who have contracted TB’

Janet Giddy (Western Cape Department of Health)

15:30-16:10

Questions and discussion

16:30-18:00

Plenary Roundtable: Humanities and Medical Pedagogies in Conversation

Chair: Catherine Burns

Stephen Tollman (Wits); Steve Reid (UCT); Laetitia Rispel (Wits); Claire Penn (Wits); Ruksana Osman (Wits); Susan Levine (UCT); Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven (Wits)

18:30-20:30

Colin Richards Exhibition and Exhibition Lecture, followed by cocktail party

Exhibition discussion: Sarah Nuttall (Wits) and Penny Siopis (UCT)

8:30-8:50

‘“A nice extra job”: Muriel Horrell’s 1949 Report on the shortage of nurses in South Africa immediately after the Second World War’

Sue Krige (Wits)

8:50-9:10

‘The “curable abnormal”, a perfect object for a discipline in construction: medico-pedagogical goals in turn of the twentieth century France’

Sabine Arnaud (Max Planck Inst., Berlin)

9:10-9:30

‘Civilising (in)sanity: the photographs of Fort England Lunatic Asylum, Grahamstown, SA, circa 1890s’

Rory du Plessis (U Pretoria)

9:30-10:00

Questions and discussion

8:30-8:50

‘Narrative embodiment: “the substance of remembering” in William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!

Merle Williams (UCT)

8:50-9:10

‘The body in sickness’

Tina Sideris (clinical psychologist)

9:10-9:30

‘The neuroplastic human: ethics, subjectivity, truth’

Annie Leatt (UCT)

9:30-10.00

Questions and discussion

10:40-11:00

‘From venereal disease carriers to common prostitutes to sex workers: representations of women who sell sex in the medical literature in SA’

Marlise Richter (UCT)

11:00-11:20

‘Victimizing the female body: reproductive culture(s), health policies and biomedicine in postcolonial India’

Nisha Tiwari (U Delhi)

11:20-11:40

‘Art and homophobia in Johannesburg schools’

Jillian Carman (Wits)

11:40-12:00

‘Historicizing the debates on male circumcision in South Africa’

Natasha Erlank (U Johannesburg)

12:00-12:25

Questions and discussion

10:40-11:00

‘Fertility treatment and sterilization: not quite black and white’

Nina Worthe (U Pretoria)

11:00-11:20

‘From Body Worlds to Body Farms: death, decay and reconstruction in the public domain’

Patrick Randolph-Quinney (Wits)

11:20-11:40

‘The exhibited corpse: immortality and taboo in Body Worlds’

Nicky Falkof (Wits)

11:40-12:00

‘Mulele’s dead body and the politics of death in postcolonial DR Congo’

Emery Kalema (Wits)

12:00-12:25

Questions and discussion

13:20-13:40

‘Unruly (con)texts: illness, occultation and estrangement in JM Coetzee’s Age of Iron (1990) and Marlene van Niekerk’s Agaat (2006)

Sarah Pett (York)

13:40-14:00

‘Dynamics of body, heroin and text in William Burroughs’s Junky’

Eva Kowalska (Wits)

14:00-14:20

‘Bodies across of the Indian Ocean: memory, transnationalism and women’s space in the work of Lindsey Collen’

Anne Putter (U Johannesburg)

14:20-14:40

‘Representations of Alzheimer disease in literature and film’

Monika Baar (U Groningen)

14:40-15:05

Questions and discussion

13.20-13.40

‘There’s always hope even if I sacrifice’: Communicating the experience of participating in a clinical trial through song’

Jonathan Stadler (WRHI)

13.40-14.00

‘Symbolic Violence, Structural Violence: Culture and Public Health Ethics’

Kirk Fiereck (Columbia)

14.20-14.40

‘Experimental Communities: Mediating locality in clinical trial sites in South Africa’

Lindsey Reynolds (U Stellenbosch)

14.40-15.05

Questions and discussion

13:20-13:50

‘Apartheid health care: A case study of Baragwanath Hospital’

Simonne Horwitz (U Saskatchewan)

13:50-14:20

‘Writing the history of McCord Hospital’

Catherine Burns (Wits) and Julie Parle (UKZN)

14:20-14:40

‘Writing the history of medical education in South Africa’

Vanessa Noble (UKZN)

14:40-15:05

Questions and discussion

15:30-17:00

Plenary roundtable: The Politics of Treatment Access: Reverberations of the HIV epidemic

Mark Heywood (Section27); Janet Giddy (Western Cape Department of Health); Francoise Venter (Wits); Debbie Glencross (Wits)

17:15-18:45

Plenary Lecture: ‘After “After Cardenio”’

Jane Taylor (Leeds)

8:30-8:50

‘“I am not a taste barbarian”: Germans’ experiences of taste and digestion in World War 1 from the molecular to the cultural’

Kristen Ann Ehrenberger (U Illinois)

8:50-9:10

‘When malnutrition manifests as obesity in an urban Mozambican shantytown: embodying the food crisis and seeking healthcare for diet-related illnesses’

Serena Stein (Princeton)

9:10-9:30

‘Nutritivity, plasticity, and population: ART scale up and the stabilisation of the gut’

Thomas Cousins (U Stellenbosch)

9:30-10:00

Questions and discussion

8:30-8:50

‘’Body parts in history: scientific racism and the production of knowledge during the 1930s at the Volkekunde Dept of Stellenbosch University’

Handri Walters (U Stellenbosch)

8:50-9:10

‘Hands, soap and development: politics at the Centre of Handwashing Behaviour Change Interventions in Developing Countries’

Janice Moodley (Wits)

9:10-9:30

‘The surgeon’s hands: Christiaan Barnard’s arthritis handbook’

Ashlee Masterson (Wits)

9:30-10:00

Questions and discussion

10:30-10:50

‘Rather dead than fat: constructions of the fat body as diseased’

Louise Vincent (Rhodes); Chantelle Malan (Rhodes)

10:50-11:10

‘Programmed for vulnerability: structural violence and developmental programming in the production of obesity in South Africa’

Michelle Pentecost (Oxford)

11:10-11:30

‘A history of breastfeeding’

Catherine Burns (Wits)

11:30-11:50

‘Part-time medicine man: Gandhi’s health and medical practices’

Vashna Jagarnath (Rhodes)

11:50-12:15

Questions and Discussion

10:30-10:50

‘The technologies of telling “good” medication from “bad” medication’

Julia Hornberger (Wits)

10:50-11:10

‘Staying alive: moving beyond social category in analyzing women’s breast cancer experiences at a public healthcare facility in Johannesburg’

Renee van der Wiel (Wits)

11:10-11:30

‘Caster Semenya and Oscar Pistorius: improper corporealities cripqueering the body politic’

Benita De Robillard (Wits)

11:30-11:50

‘Drug abuse, medical discourse and the addict’s body (France, 1970s-1990s): illness as a metaphor?’

Alexandre Marchant (Ecole Normale Supérieure de Cachan)

11:50-12:15

Questions and Discussion

10:30-10:50

‘“Lost for words”: cultural interpretations of aphasia’

Claire Penn (Wits) and Carol Legg (Wits)

10:50-11:10

‘The conflictual medical plurality in Nigeria and the post-colonial integration of indigenous and orthodox healing systems’

Adebayo Lawal (Lagos)

11:10-11:30

‘Teaching health science students to ‘be content with a body that refuses to hold still’

Helen Macdonald (UCT) and Susan Levine (UCT)

11:30-11:50

‘“Maybe mine is bigger than yours” – the business and discourses of penis enlargement in central Johannesburg’

Thabisani Ndlovu and Maxwell Kadenge (Wits)

11:50-12:15

Questions and discussion

13:30-13:50

‘Not by “the light of nature alone”: the infant welfare movement and mothercraft in South Africa during the early twentieth century’

Sarah Duff (U Wits)

13:50-14:10

‘Abortion Politics in Post-Apartheid South Africa’

Rebecca Hodes (UCT)

14:10-14:30

‘Massage, jab and pop: negotiating the female body through body enhancement products – perceptions of sellers and the public in central Johannesburg’

Thabisani Ndlovu (Wits)

14:30-14:50

‘Neonates Dissected: Perilous parturition and the precedence(?) of post-mortem reports in prosecutions of Infanticide, 1900-1935’

Prinisha Badassy (Wits)

14:50-15:10

Questions and discussion

13:30-13:50

‘The Medical Complex at Befelatanana in French Colonial Antananarivo, Madagascar’

Randall Bird (Wits)

13:50-14:10

‘“These days one has to check one’s self”: traditional healers embrace medical intervention in the fight against HIV and AIDS’

Mzikazi Nduna (Wits)

14:10-14:30

‘The use of metaphors in healthcare contexts in South Africa’

Claire Penn (Wits); Jennifer Watermeyer (Wits)

14:30-14:50

‘Magical Empiricism and the “Exposed Being” in Public Health and Traditional Healing’

Robert Thornton (Wits)

14:50-15:10

Questions and Discussion

15:30-17:00

The city, the mine and the hospital

Keith Breckenridge (Wits); Karl van Holt (Wits); Gavin Churchyard (Aurum Institute for Health)

15:30-17:00

Subjectivity and the Arts in healing

Lead by Steve Reid (UCT) and Patrice Repar (U New Mexico)

17:10-17:30

Closing remarks and farewell

Catherine Burns (Wits)