Ecotones #7 - Reconfiguring, Repurposing the City: Urban Ecotones in the Global South
This event is part of the cycle Ecotones: Encounters, Crossings, and Communities 2015-2022
https://ecotones7.wordpress.com
In partnership with EMMA (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3), LHUMAIN (Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier 3 & CNRS), DIRE (Université de La Réunion), La Maison Française d’Oxford, ZEITZ MOCAA, AUF, IFAS, Alliance française du Cap, Consulat Général de France au Cap
https://emma.www.univ-montp3.fr/fr/valorisation-partenariats/programmes-européens-et-internationaux/ecotones
PROGRAMME
Thursday 28 Oct. 2021
9h-9h30: Opening and Introduction
Shose Kessi (Dean), Ecotones convenors, Ecotones#7 organisers
9h30-10h45: Opening Keynote: Robin COHEN (University of Oxford): Creolization, ecotones and cityscapes
(chair: Hedley Twidle)
10h45-11h: Coffee Break
11h-12h30: Panel 1
(chair: Nomusa Makhubu)
Pamila GUPTA (WISER, University of the Witwatersrand): The (Non) Placeness of Art Deco in South Africa: Notes for a Visual Essay
Ute FENDLER (University of Bayreuth): Staging atmosphere: urban spaces in music videos
Addamms MUTUTA (University of Cape Town): Translating Xenophobia in Post-apartheid Johannesburg: The Township as an Ecotone in Neill Blomkamp’s District 9
12h30-14h: Lunch Break
14h-15h30: Panel 2
(chair: Anna Selmeczi)
Shannon MORREIRA (University of Cape Town): “There’s beauty in the breakdown”: reconfiguring modernity in urban Harare
Sabina FAVARO (Cape Town): Thick Horizontality: exploring new forms of r-Urbanities
Tania KATZSCHNER (University of Cape Town): Queering the Language of Nature in Urban Ecology – Towards Alternative Narratives in Cape Flats Nature
15h30-15h45: Coffee Break
15h45-17h45: Panel 3
(chair: Arnaud Richard)
Molly SLAVIN (Georgia Institute of Technology): “Empire Sows the Seeds of Its Own Defeat”: The Reconfigured City in the Global South
Jonathan Bishop HIGHFIELD (Rhode Island School of Design): Die Tafel en die Duiwel: Foodways and displacement in the Cape of South Africa
Marianne HILLION (Sorbonne Université & University of Warwick): Imaginative Mappings of Planned Violence in Cities of the Global South: The Case of 21st century Delhi in Indian Writing in English
Delphine MUNOS (Ghent University, Belgium): Global ecotones and nonplaces in Mohsin Hamid’s How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia (2013) and Exit West (2017)
18h30: Round table with writers at Alliance Francaise: Bongani Kona, Ilze Wolff, Nadia Davids
(host: Hedley Twidle)
Friday 29 Oct. 2021
9h-10h30: Panel 4
(chair: Markus Arnold)
Christine LE QUELLEC COTTIER (University of Lausanne) : Ecotones fictionnels au-delà du non-lieu
Emmanuel Mbégane NDOUR (University of the Witwatersrand): La ville-pays dans Tram 83 de Fiston Mwanza Mujila : un lieu, des socialités flottantes
Marjolaine UNTER ECKER (Université d’Aix-Marseille & Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) : Écritures afro-descendantes des « villes-frontières » en Méditerranée
1030h-10h45: Coffee Break
10h45-12h15: Panel 5
(chair: Sandra Young)
Sonja LOOTS (University of Cape Town): Ruins, rubble, and ruderal ecologies: Post-apartheid perspectives in South African fiction
Polo B. MOJI (University of Cape Town): Pedestrianism as Method - AfroParis and Ethnography of the Urban Everyday in Bessora’s 53cm (1999)
B.S. Rohini IYENGAR (Monmouth University): Changing Topographies of Art in the City of Hyderabad
12h15-13h30: Lunch Break
13h30-15h00: Panel 6
(chair: Shari Daya)
Bella KNEMEYER (University of Cape Town & Cityscapes Collective) : Cities within Cities
Ellen HURST-HAROSH (University of Cape Town) & Fridah KANANA ERASTUS (Kenyatta University): Clever or Smarter? Style and indexicality in constructions of male youth identities in Sheng and Tsotsitaal: modernity, urbanity and risk in Kenyan and South African cities
Vera-Simone SCHULZ (Kunsthistorisches Institut, Florenz): Mangroves Aesthetics in Coastal East Africa: Urban Ecotones and Transcultural Dynamics along the Swahili Coast
15h-15h10: Coffee Break
15h10-16h40: Panel 7
(chair: Corinne Duboin)
Émilie PONTANIER (Université de La Réunion) : Labilité ou créolisation de la laïcité scolaire ? Le cas des espaces « écotonaux » des villes de la Réunion
Parwine PATEL (Université de La Réunion): “Potch” in progress: the evolution of Zuleikha Mayat’s depictions of her hometown in her writings.
Nathalie GONTHIER (Cité des Arts & Ecole Supérieure d’Art de La Réunion) : Le grand chemin / The Long way
17h00: Zeitz MOCAA museum: visit, artist conference: Senzeni Marasela
(host: Tandazani Dhlakama)
Saturday 30 Oct. 2021
9h-10h30: Panel 8
(chair: Judith Misrahi-Barak)
Xavier GARNIER (University Paris Sorbonne Nouvelle) : Pour une écopoétique de la ville de Harare. Lecture de Mindblast de Dambudzo Marechera
Louis NGETCHAM (Université de Dschang): Écotones des traces et des mentalités traditionnelles dans Le Mandat de Sembène Ousmane et Madame Bâ d’Érik Orsenna
Justine FEYEREISEN (University of Oxford / Université libre de Bruxelles ; Fondation Wiener-Anspach) : Écotone et utopie urbaine en Afrique subsaharienne : Mbanza, une afrotopie de Léonora Miano
10h30-10h45: Coffee Break
10h45-12h15: Panel 9
(chair: Divine Fuh)
Nataly CAMACHO MARIÑO (Université de Paris Diderot) : « Ici on fume les morts » : Comprendre les espaces urbains à partir de leurs récits. Le cas des ollas de Bogotá, Colombie
Caroline PANIS (Université Paris Descartes) : Santa Maria, écotone afro-européen (île de Sal, Cap-Vert)
Théodorine NTO AMVANE & Liliane Surprise OKOME ENGOUANG (Université Omar Bongo – Libreville) : Identité urbaine et écotones linguistiques, le transfert des culturèmes dans le français de Libreville
12h15-13h15: Panel 10
(chair: Thomas Lacroix)
Kira ERWIN (Durban University of Technology), Dylan MCGARRY (Rhodes University) & Taryn PEREIRA (Rhodes University): Lalela uLwandle (Listen to the Sea).
Research-based performance and ocean governance in Durban, South Africa
Mara MATTOSCIO (University of Chieti-Pescara): Post-Apartheid Ecotones: Cape Town’s New Spaces in Rehana Rossouw’s New Times
13h15-14h30: Lunch Break
14h30-15h45: Closing Keynote: Achille MBEMBE (University of the Witwatersrand)
(chair: Markus Arnold)
16h: Conference Closing
Ecotones convenors and Ecotones#7 organisers
