TRACKS AND TRACES OF VIOLENCE

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TRACKS AND TRACES OF VIOLENCE DAY 1 THURSDAY, JULY 14TH REPRESENTATION AND MEMORIALISATION OF VIOLENCE IN ART, LITERATURE & ANTHROPOLOGY IN AFRICA 2.30pm REGISTRATION & WELCOME TEA at Iwalewa-Haus 4.

1 TRACKS AND TRACES OF VIOLENCE DAY 1 THURSDAY, JULY 14TH REPRESENTATION AND MEMORIALISATION OF VIOLENCE IN ART, LITERATURE & ANTHROPOLOGY IN AFRICA 2.30pm REGISTRATION & WELCOME TEA at Iwalewa-Haus 4.00pm GUEST LECTURE * Hauke Dorsch, Mainz BREAK 6.00pm READING Ungalani Ba Ka Khosa (Maputo) IWALEWA Summer Party 8.00pm CONCERT* Dapo Dina & Friends Jo Ractliffe: Trinity mural depicting Fidel Castro, Agostinho Neto and Leonid Brezhnev, Viriambundo, 2009 * Part of the programme of Iwalewa-Haus:

2 DAY 2 FRIDAY, JULY 15TH DAY 3 SATURDAY, JULY 16TH 9.00am WELCOME NOTE 9.00am WELCOME NOTE By Viviane Azarian, Amber Gemmeke By Moulay Driss El Maarouf and Dymitr Ibriszimow, Dean of BIGSAS PANEL I PANEL Va VIOLENCE, LITERATURE, MEMORY & THE NATION VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICES Chair: Ndi Gilbert Shang and Erika Dahlmanns Chair: Viviane Azarian and Maroua El Naggare (in french) 9.30am KEYNOTE 9.15am KEYNOTE YOUSSEF WAHBOUN (RABAT) CHRIS ODHIAMBO (ELDORET) Memory, Dialogue and Reconstruction of the Nation Esthétique de la violence dans la peinture marocaine (Video conference with Moi University) 10.15am JOAO PAULO COELHO (MAPUTO) Fiction, Violence and Memory 10.00am YAOVI ANTOINE HOUNHOUENOU (ABOMEY- CALAVI) La violence dans certaines chansons populaires de la période révolutionnaire au Bénin 10.45am Comment on Panel I by Ndi Gilbert Shang 10.30am CHRISTOPHER JOHN (DURBAN) A Long Term Perspective on Community Theatre in Violent Contexts: Collective playmaking in Informal Settlements and Correctional Centres in KwaZulu-Natal 1997 to 2008

3 11.00 am 11.00am PANEL II RE-WRITING VIOLENCE? PANEL Vb VIOLENCE IN CONTEMPORARY ART PRACTICES (continued) Chair: Gilbert Ndi Shang and Maroua El Naggare Chair: Katharina Fink and Nadine Siegert 11.15am JOHAN JACOBS (DURBAN) Interpreting violence in contemporary South African fiction 11.15am SANDRA BOERNGEN (GIEßEN) Schizophrenic The Individual in a Brutalized Society. Negotiating Memory, Violence, Witness and Guilt in the Art Works of South African Artist William Kentridge 11.45am SAMUEL NDOGO (Bayreuth) Narrating the 'Self ' in the Context of War: Ngugi wa Thiong'o's Dreams in a Time of War 11.45am BUSOLO WEGESA (ELDORET) The Apocalypse Now!: A Reading of V.S Naipaul s Travel Writing 12.15am SUSANNE GEHRMANN (BERLIN) Outspoken Violence. The Child Soldier as a New Archetype in African Writing 12.15am RACHID EL ADOUANI (MOHAMMEDIA) Dramatics of Laughter: Undermining Trauma and Overcoming Violence Through Art 12.45am SELOM KOMLAN GBANOU (CALGARY) 12.45pm Artist talk with Bernie Searle (Nadine Siegert) L écriture-violence de Kossi Efoui tbc 1.15pm LUNCH 1.15pm LUNCH

4 PANEL III POLITICS AND MEDIALISATION OF VIOLENCE PANEL VI TRACES OF VIOLENCE IN LANDSCAPE Chair: Katharina Fink and Nadine Siegert Chair: Amber Gemmeke and Ndi Gilbert Shang 2.15pm DAVID NGORAN 2.15pm ANTJE ZIETHEN (KASSEL) Le Gouvernement de la Bête. Violence, application, (re)appropriation et privatisation dans les écritures africaines postcoloniales: Sony Labou Tans i et Ahmadou Kourouma Traces géo/graphiques de la violence 2.45pm CORINNE SANDWITH (DURBAN) 2.45pm JO RACTLIFFE Violence and its (Non-)Representations in Memory and Violence in Photography Post-Apartheid South Africa 3.15pm ROUND TABLE I NEW FIGURATIONS IN WRITING VIOLENCE? Ute Fendler (Bayreuth), Susan Arndt, Chris Odhiambo. moderated by Samuel Ndogo 3.15pm OTOBONG NKANGA (ANTWERPS) Before the state of Amnesia crops in. A journey through the memories of the uprooted told, untold, and retold 4.15pm 3.45pm

5 4.00pm Detlev Quintern (Bremen) Input talk for Roundtable II: The Objects Wounds 4.30pm pm WRITTEN IN LIGHT VIOLENCE & FILM Chair: Valerie Hänsch 4.15pm ROUND TABLE II INSTITUTIONS OF VIOLENCE- MUSEALIZATION AND CURATIONAL VIOLENCE Ulf Vierke (Bayreuth), Detlev Quintern (Bremen), Jo Ractliffe, Otobong Nkanga. Moderated by Nadine Siegert & Katharina Fink Introduction by Valerie Hänsch (Bayreuth): The Evocative Camera and representations of violent experiences in Sudan 5.15pm WRAP-UP SESSION facilitated by Work Group TTV: French Summary by Maroua El Naggare Introduction and Film by Metje Postma (Leiden) English Summary by Samuel Ndogo Voices in the Desert -the Rashaayda and Fuzum', 70 min (2005) Way Forward (interactive online platform and publication) by Katharina Fink 7.00pm DINNER 6.00pm END OF THE CONFERENCE Becher Bräu Shuttle leaves at Iwalewa-Haus at 6.45pm 9.00pm AFRO-KARIBIK FESTIVAL 8.00pm CONCERT AFRO-KARIBIK-FESTIVAL SPECIALS CONFERENCE DINNER FRIDAY NIGHT At Becher Bräu, the oldest brewery in Bayreuth. Please sign up for the dinner on the first day of the conference. SPECIAL CITY TOUR ON SUNDAY Bayreuth meets Africa City Tour by BIGSAS Junior Fellows at 11am and 2pm. Meeting Point: Iwalewa-Haus, 10.45am and 1.45pm.

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