2017 Annual Meeting: Program
Back to Meeting OverviewUnless noted with an asterisk (*), all events take place at the Castle of Good Hope. Please note that this schedule is subject to change.
JUMP TO: Thursday, August 10 | Friday, August 11 | Saturday, August 12 | Sunday, August 13 | Ongoing Exhibits and Special Events
Thursday, August 10
- 8:00 am | Registration Opens
- 9:00 am – 10:30 am | Concurrent CHCI Workshop and Network Sessions
- Intro to CHCI for New Directors (Old Heritage Rooms)
Michael Bérubé, Penn State University - Meeting of Associate Directors (Old Heritage Rooms)
Emily Clark, Center for the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Intro to CHCI for New Directors (Old Heritage Rooms)
- 11:00 am – 1:00 pm | Overview of new Mellon-funded CHCI Initiatives: CHCI Global Humanities Institutes & CHCI African Humanities Initiative (Secunda Room)
- 1:00 pm | Lunch (Ellermans Room)
- 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm | Fundraising Strategies for Humanities Centers and Institutes: A Conversation (Secunda Room)
- Simon Goldhill
Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), University of Cambridge - Mark Katz
Institute for the Arts and Humanities, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Simon Goldhill
- 3:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Coffee Break
- 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Welcome and Introduction (Secunda Room)
- Sara Guyer
President, CHCI - Premesh Lalu
Director, Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape - Tyrone Pretorius
Vice Chancellor, University of the Western Cape
- Sara Guyer
- 4:00 pm – 4:45 pm | Musical performance by Reza Khota and Derek Gripper (Secunda Room)
- 5:00 pm – 6:15 pm | Opening Plenary: Srinivas Aravamudan Memorial Lecture (Secunda Room)
- Isaac Julien
Installation artist and filmmaker, London - Chair: Ranjana Khanna
Franklin Humanities Center, Duke University
- Isaac Julien
- 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm | Opening Reception for all registrants (Dolphin Room)
Friday, August 11
- 7:30 am – 4:00 pm | Registration
- 8:00 am – 9:30 am | CHCI Network Meetings and Workshop Sessions (Old Heritage Rooms)
- Liberal Arts Colleges and Small Universities
Shuchi Kapila, Grinnell College and Kerill O'Neill, Colby College
- Liberal Arts Colleges and Small Universities
- 9:30 am – 10:45 am | Plenary Lecture: The Burdened Life
- Homi Bhabha
Mahindra Humanities Center, Harvard University - Chair: Sarah Nuttall
WiSER, University of the Witwatersrand
- Homi Bhabha
- 11:00 am – 12:30 pm | Global Humanities: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond, Part 1 (Secunda Room)
- Future Knowledges
Achille Mbembe, University of the Witwatersrand - The Humanities in the World: A Field Report
Mariët Westermann, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation - Recentering the Humanities in the Arab Region
Seteney Shami, Social Science Research Council - Chair: Jane Ohlmeyer
Trinity Long Room Hub
- Future Knowledges
- 12:30 pm | Lunch (Ellermans Room)
- 2:00 pm – 3:15 pm | Plenary Lecture: "Ne'er so like an ape/as when he wears a doctor's cape" (Dolphin Room)
- Jane Taylor
University of the Western Cape - Chair: James Chandler
Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
- Jane Taylor
- 3:15 pm – 3:45 pm | Coffee Break
- 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm | Global Humanities: Perspectives from Africa and Beyond, Part 2 (Secunda Room)
- Global Humanities After Man: Relation, Asymmetry, Incomparability
Lisa Lowe, Tufts University - African Art as a Political Philosophy
Elizabeth Giorgis, Addis Ababa University - Of Silk Roads, Pathways and Hazmat Suits
Ari Sitas, University of Cape Town - Planetary Humanities, Relational Conditions
David Theo Goldberg, University of California Humanities Research Institute - Chair: Juan Obarrio
Programa Sur and Johns Hopkins University
- Global Humanities After Man: Relation, Asymmetry, Incomparability
- 5:30 pm | Exhibit Opening: Athlone in Mind | Exhibition website
- 7:00 pm – 8:15 pm | Plenary Lecture: The Humanities Harnessed (Secunda Room)
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Columbia University - Chair: Phindezwa Mnyaka
University of the Western Cape
- Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
- 8:15 pm | Members' Dinner (Ellermans Room)
Saturday, August 12
- 8:00 am – 9:30 am | CHCI Network Meetings and Workshop Sessions (Old Heritage Rooms)
- Medical Humanities
Eileen Gilooly, Heyman Center for the Humanities, Columbia University - Environmental Humanities
Matthew Wickman, Humanities Center at Brigham Young University
- Medical Humanities
- 9:30 am – 10:30 am | Plenary Lecture: New Media and the Improvisations of Risk (Secunda Room)
- Tim Murray
Cornell University - Chair: Heidi Grunebaum
University of the Western Cape
- Tim Murray
- 10:30 am – 11:00 am | Membership Meeting
- 11:00 am – 11:15 am | Coffee Break
- 11:15 am – 12:30 pm | The Humanities in Africa (Secunda Room)
- Laetitia Africana: Beyond Borders, Race and Melancholia
Yala Kisukidi, Collège International de Philosophie, Paris 8 - CODESRIA on Intersections of the Humanities and Social Sciences In Africa
Kofi Anyidoho, CODESRIA and University of Ghana - Chair: Jean Allman
Center for the Humanities, Washington University in St. Louis
- Laetitia Africana: Beyond Borders, Race and Melancholia
- 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Lunch and Membership Meeting (Ellermans Room)
- 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm | Enchantments of Art and Cinema (Secunda Room)
- Documentary Cinema, Metaphysics and the Revenge Of Authorship
François Verster, Filmaker, Cape Town - About Being Together
Elvira Dyangani Ose, Curator, Creative Time - The Poet's World and Poet's Way of Knowing
Bishnu Mohapatra, Forum on Contemporary Theory - Chair: Itumeleng Wa-Lehulere
Factory of the Arts, University of the Western Cape
- Documentary Cinema, Metaphysics and the Revenge Of Authorship
- 3:30 pm – 4:00 pm | Coffee Break
- 4:00 pm – 5:15 pm | Closing Plenary Lecture: "If the Good Doctor…A Defense of the Less Good Idea" (Secunda Room)
- William Kentridge
Artist, Johannesburg - Chair: John Mowitt
University of Leeds
- William Kentridge
- 5:15 pm – 5:30 pm | Closing Remarks (Secunda Room)
Sunday, August 13
- 9:00 am | Buses depart from the Castle of Good Hope
- 9:30 am | Performance by Ukwanda Puppet Design Company: Excerpts from Mother, Father, Daughter, Son (Gugu S'thebe*)
- 10:00 am | Performance of Kafka's Ape by Tony Bonani Miyambo (Gugu S'thebe*)
- 12:00 pm - 1:00pm | Lunch (Gugu S'thebe*)
- 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm | Concurrent site visits (optional fee):
- District Six Museum
- CHR Factory of the Arts
- Memorial Sites in Athlone
Ongoing Exhibits and Special Events
- Monday, August 14, 8:30 am - 5:15 pm | The Public Humanities Now at the Slave Lodge, Adderly Street
A one-day conference sponsored by the CHCI Public Humanities network. Details available here.* - Ongoing Exhibit | The African Choir 1891 Re-Imagined at the South African National Gallery
Note: Opening Reception on August 8 at 6pm* - Ongoing Performance | King Kong: Legend of a Boxer at the Fuguard Theatre
More information available here*