6 FEBRUARY 2025 9h00-13h00
YELLOW MOLTENO, ENGLISH DEPARTMENT
5TH FLOOR ARTS & SOCIAL SCIENCES
SESSION A:
9h00 – 9h10 Welcoming: Dr Tina Steiner, Departmental Chair
9h10 – 9h50 Introductions and Overview of the Course, Dr Jeanne Ellis, Honours
Coordinator
SESSION B Elective Seminar Introductions
10h00 – 10h10 Prof Louise Green “Critical Practices”
10h10 – 10h20 Dr Tilla Slabbert “Environing Practices”, Write on Site & Reading
Groups
10h20 – 10h25 Prof Sally-Ann Murray “Innovative Writing: Re/fusing the
Academic/Creative Divide”
10h25 – 10h30 Dr Nwabisa Bangeni “An Introduction to Narrative Theory”
10h30 – 10h35 Dr Eckard Smuts “Reviving the Future: Literary Utopias and Planetary
Change”
10h35 – 10h40 Dr Uhuru Phalafala “Charting the Atlantic: Black South Africa and
Afro-America”
10h40 – 10h50 Prof Tina Steiner “The African Indian Ocean: Islands, Seas, and
Journeys into the Unknown” & Reading Group
10h50 – 11h00 Dr Megan Jones & Prof Nadia Sanger “Love in the Global South”
11h00 – 11h10 Dr Jeanne Ellis “Re-Storying the Victorians” & Reading Group
SESSION C
11h30 – 13h00 Library Orientation, University Library: Ms Marleen Hendriksz
SESSION D
13h10 – 13h30 Questions, Seminar Enrolment, Book Collection
13h30 LUNCH