Conference Convenor: Dr Jeanne Ellis, Honours Coordinator jellis@sun.ac.za
Conference Committee 2024: Elle Fieggen (Hons), Lameez Hendricks (Hons), Lobke Minter (PhD), Annie Scholes (Hons), Julia Snyckers (MA), Danie Stander (Postdoc), Josephine Troost (MA), Linda van der Walt (Hons)
postgradconference2024@gmail.com
DAY 1 THURSDAY 3 OCTOBER
| 09:00-09:10 | Arrival and Registration | Conference Committee |
| 09:10-09:20 | Welcome | Dr Dawid de Villiers |
| 09:20-o9:30 | Conference Housekeeping | Conference Committee |
| SESSION 1 | CHAIR: Julia Snyckers |
| 09:30 (20 min) | Siwongiwe Makupula (PhD) Struggle Credentials and Aspirational Figurations in Zuma’s Musical Presences |
| 09:55 (15 min) | Linda van der Walt (Hons) Unconventional Crime Fiction: Analysing the More-Than-Human in Lauren Beukes’ Zoo City |
| 10:15 (20 min) | Andile Cele (MA) African Spirituality and Healing in Mohale Mashigo’s The Yearning |
| 10:40 (15 min) | Zikisani Mgijima (Hons) Literature as a Mirror of Reality: The Marginalization of Women in Literature as a Reflection of the Evolution of Gender Oppression |
| 11:00-11:10 | SESSION 1 PLENARY FOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION TEA BREAK 11:10-11:30 |
| SESSION 2 | CHAIR: Elle Fieggen |
| 11:30 (20 min) | Lobke Minter (PhD) Thinking with Scars: Moving Beyond Trauma |
| 11:55 (15 min) | Erica Beesley (Hons) The Solitude of Immortality: An Investigation of Loneliness in Anne Rice’s Interview with the Vampire |
| 12:15 (15 min) | Pascalé Potgieter (Hons) Nightbitch, the Trans/Performative Power of (Maternal) Rage and Pleasure |
| 12:35-12:45 | SESSION 2 PLENARY FOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION |
LUNCH BREAK 13:00-13:45
| SESSION 3 | CHAIR: Linda van der Walt |
| 14:00 (20min) | Lara Alhadeff (PhD) Cueing Assimilation: Chronic Illness and the Need to Conform in Women’s Unconventional Narratives |
| 14:25 (15min) | Annie Scholes (Hons) Whodunit: How Dissociative Identity Disorder is Portrayed in Gregory Hoblit’s Primal Fear and Akiva Goldsman’s The Crowded Room |
| 14:45 (15min) | Hana Gammon (Hons) Boxed In: An Examination of “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari” Through a Lens of Otherness |
| 15:05-15:15 | SESSION 3 PLENARY FOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION TEA BREAK 15:15-15:35 |
| SESSION 4 | CHAIR: Annie Scholes |
| 15:35 (20min) | Izelle Viljoen (MA) Survival of the Family: Analysing the Oikos in Bong Joon Ho’s The Host (2006), Snowpiercer (2013), and Parasite (2019) |
| 16:00 (15min) | Elle Fieggen (Hons) “The Fallen Leaves Tell a Story”: An Ecocritical Perspective on the Catastrophic Narratives and Virtual Environments of the Video Game Elden Ring |
| 16:20 (15min) | Kayla Marnitz (Hons) An Ecology of Intimacies: Thinking Interspecies Relationships Through Water |
| 16:40-16:50 | SESSION 4 PLENARY FOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION |
DAY 2 FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER
| SESSION 1 | CHAIR: Danie Stander |
| 09:00 (20min) | Bramwel Odari Lusala (PhD) Gendered Diasporic Mobility in Neema Shah’s Kololo Hill |
| 09:25 (15min) | Michael Pieterse (Hons) An Alienation of One’s Humanity, Ladies and Gentlemen: An Exploration into Life Writing Emerging From 19th and 20th Century Atrocities |
| 09:45 (15min) | Lameez Hendricks (Hons) “Its Suffering Was the Sole Property of Those Who Had Experienced It”: Victims and Victimhood in Joe Sacco’s Safe Area Goražde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 |
| 10:05-10:15 | SESSION 1 PLENARY FOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION TEA BREAK 10:15-10:35 |
| SESSION 2 | CHAIR: Josephine Troost |
| 10:40 (20min) | Stephanie Kambourakis (PhD) Canines, Courtship, and the Nineteenth-Century Novel |
| 11:05 (15min) | Lané De Lange (Hons) Civility, Relationships and Social Conduct in Jane Austen’s Persuasion, Pride and Prejudice, and Sense and Sensibility |
| 11:25-11:35 | SESSION 2 PLENARY FOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION |
| SESSION 3 | CHAIR: Lameez Hendricks |
| 11:35 (20min) | Julia Snyckers (MA) “Into This Dim, Silent, Shadowy Room”: Salvaging the Voice of Ida Bauer in Sheila Kohler’s Dreaming for Freud (2014) |
| 12:00 (15min) | Sumari Harmse (Hons) Neo-Victorian Biofiction and the Author Mother: Examining the State of the Children in A. S. Byatt’s The Children’s Book |
| 12:20 (20min) | Josephine Troost (MA) Charles Dickens as an Abusive and Controlling Husband in Gaynor Arnold’s Girl in a Blue Dress (2008) |
| 12:45-12:55 | SESSION 3 PLENARY FOR FOLLOW-UP QUESTIONS/DISCUSSION |
| 12:55-13:05 | CONFERENCE CLOSING PLENARY Conference Convenor Dr Jeanne Ellis |
