CALL FOR ABSTRACTS: 4TH APARTHEID ARCHIVE CONFERENCE: RACE, SPACE, LOCATION, DISLOCATION: THEN AND NOW

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

4TH APARTHEID ARCHIVE CONFERENCE: RACE, SPACE, LOCATION, DISLOCATION: THEN AND NOW

The 4th Apartheid Archive Conference will be held at the University of Pretoria, and is jointly organised by the Wits School of Human and Community Development and the Faculty of Humanities, University of Pretoria. The aim of this conference is to explore reflections of the racial engineering of city spaces, locations and dislocations in the narratives contained in the Apartheid Archive, its effects on all aspects of the lived realities of ordinary South Africans during this period, and the echoes of this engineering in the occupation, usage and continued racial fragmentation of city spaces and social life in contemporary South Africa – 20 years after the transition to a fully enfranchised and democratic political dispensation. Potential thematic areas include: Geographies of race; Race and urbanities; Families, locations and dislocations; Spaces and communities; Transits and transitions; Migrants, movement and city spaces; City spaces, workspaces; Cities and identities; Race, space, memory; City spaces, arts spaces. We invite all those interested in the study of race and space in pre-and post-1994 South Africa, to submit podium presentation, panel discussion, dramatic art, and visual art exhibition abstracts for this conference, which takes place from 21 from 23 May 2014. 

First abstract submission deadline: 31 October 2013. 

The full conference call and abstract submission form can be obtained from and submitted to marinda.maree@up.ac.za or contact (012) 420-2505.