Symposium Programme
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9.00-9.45 Registration, tea/coffee
9.45-10.00 Welcome
10.00-12.30 Panel 1: Rwanda and South Africa
Chair: Dr Michael Marten, School of Languages, Cultures and Religions, University of Stirling
Piotr Cieplak, Department of French, St Catharine’s College, University of Cambridge, UK
Known Images: Film in Rwanda
John Masterson, University of Essex, UK
Writing and/as Righting the Rwandan Genocide? A Reconciliatory Reading of Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories From Rwanda and Marie Beatrice Umutesi’s Surviving the Slaughter: The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire
Cara Moyer, Department of African Studies, Howard University, USA
Truth, Reconciliation and Cinema: Reflections on South Africa’s Recent Past in Ubuntu’s Wounds and Homecoming
Sarah Longair, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Number Four prison museum: The embodiment and mediation of violent past in contemporary South Africa
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.30 Panel 2: Ghana, Nigeria and Mozambique
Chair: Dr Andrew Lawrence, Centre of African Studies, University of Edinburgh
Tobias Robert Klein, Zentrum für Literatur und Kulturforschung (Centre for Literary and Cultural Research), Berlin, Germany
“It was a terrible time to be alive”": Trauma, disillusionment and the prospects of reconciliation in post-1990 Ghanaian and Nigerian Fiction
Albert Oikelome, Creative Arts Department (Music Unit), University of Lagos, Nigeria
Hip hop lyrics as tool for conflict resolution in the Niger delta
Amy Schwartzott, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA
“Transformação de Armas em Enxadas”: Weapons that Destroy and Heal in Mozambican Urban Art
15.30-16.00 Coffee break
16.00-16.45 Keynote speaker: Jacqueline Maingard, Senior Lecturer in Film and Television Studies in the Department of Drama: Theatre, Film and Television, University of Bristol
16.45-17.00 Final Remarks and Close
Everyone is invited to join us for the screening of “Between Joyce and Remembrance” (Mark Kaplan, South Africa) at Filmhouse Cinema at 6pm