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The Prelude to Decolonisation: the turning of the tide

An Interdisciplinary Conference,
28th August 30th August 2017
Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Studies

Programme:

Monday 28th August, 2-00pm Wednesday 30th August, 6-00pm

Monday, 28 August
o 1-00pm: Registration tea/biscuits

o 1-30pm: Opening address, Professor Peter Vale (Director of JIAS) and Professor Kamilla
Naidoo ( Vice- dean of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg).

o 2-00pm: Lawrence Hamilton, University of Cambridge and the University of the

Witwatersrand.

Amilcar Cabral and Amartya Sen: Capability, Freedom and Resistance.

o 3-00pm: David Boucher, Cardiff University and University of Johannesburg.

Sane and Insane Imperialism: British Idealism, New Liberalism and Liberal
Imperialism
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o 4-00pm: Tea/Coffee Break

o 4-30pm: Vineet Thakur , SOAS, University of London.

Internationalism as Emancipation: Anti-colonial thought and the spectre of nationalism.

o 5-30pm: Hanin Abou Salem, Cardiff University.

The rise of indigenous voices and the end of colonialism.

o Dinner choice of restaurants in Melville.

Tuesday, 29 August
o 9-30am: Ran Greenstein, , University of the Witwatersrand.

The Road to 1948: Towards the Decolonization of Palestine.

o 10-30am: Christopher Allsobrook, University of Fort Hare.

Contested Conceptions of Native Education: JT Jabavu and WB Rubusana.

o 11-30am: Tea/Coffee Break

o 12-00pm: Eesuola Olukayode Segun and Ojakorotu Victor, North West University.

Felidae Pradigm: Explaining Colonization of Africa in Terms of Bio-Social

Peculiarities.

o 1-00pm: Lunch.

o 2-30pm: Saul Dubow, University of Cambridge.

`Jan Smuts's view of South Africa in the Commonwealth of Nations.'

o 3-30pm: Tea/Coffee Break

o 4-00pm: Pieter Duvenage, University of the Free State.

Phenomenology in South Africa: Afrikaans philosophy as a case study.

o 5-00pm: Ayesha Omar, University of Johannesburg.

Sam Nolutshungu: political resistance and the creation of a non-racial society.

o 7-00pm: CONFERENCE DINNER Country Club

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Wednesday, 30 August
o 9-30am: Michael Elliott, University of the Witwatersrand.

Decolonisation as delegitimation: towards a negativistic conception.'

o 10-30am: Matthias Pauwels, University of Johannesburg.

Colonial practices of philistinization in South Africa. From negative sensorium, via

reverse appropriations to authentic creatives.

o 11-30am: Tea/Coffee Break

o 12-00pm: Tshepo Moloi, University of Johannesburg.

Contemplating Eskia Mphahleles Afrikan Humanism as a potential entry within

International Relations.

o 1-00pm: Lunch + free time

o 3-30pm: Tea/Coffee Break

o 4-00pm: Ndumiso Dhadla, University of South Africa.

An African Critical Philosophy of Race.

o 7-00: Dinner: choice of restaurants in Melville

CONFERENCE ENDS

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