Schedule

theme1

10:00 – 12:00 History of Non-Racialism in South Africa
Ahmed Kathrada
Wiser Seminar Room
12:30 – 14:00 LUNCH
14:30 – 17:00 Rise and Fall of Apartheid: Photography and the Bureaucracy of Everyday Life
Museum Africa, New Town
18:30 – 21:30 Welcome Dinner at 11 2nd Avenue, Melville
Remarks by Kelly, Julia, Zen, David, Achille, Dhamma-megha and Leigh-Ann 

theme1

08:30 – 10:00 Introductions
10:00 – 11:30 Raceless Futures in Critical Black Thought
Achille Mbembe
Wiser Seminar Room
11:30 – 12:00 Public Q&A
12:15 – 13:30 Studio Discussion
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
15:30 – 17:30 Can the Subaltern Genome Code? Rethinking race, science, and subjectivity
Ruha Benjamin
Wiser Seminar Room
17:30 – 18:30 Break
18:30 – 20:30 The History of Anti-Racism: Commemorating Stuart Hall
David Theo Goldberg
Wiser Seminar Room

theme1

09:00 – 10:30 Race to Commonwealth: Archiving the Universalism in International Law
Siba Grovogui
Wiser Seminar Room
10:30 – 11:00 Public Q&A
11:00 – 11:30 Tea
11:30 – 13:00 Studio Discussion
13:00 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30 Bus Departs for Swaziland (6 Hours, 412kms)
20:30 Arrival in Swaziland
Dinner and Check-in
Mlilwane Nature Reserve

theme2

08:30 – 10:00 Strange Fruits: Bananas, Racism, Sex, and Capitalism
Francoise Verges
House on Fire
10:00 – 11:00 Public Q&A
11:00 – 11:30 Tea
11:30 – 13:30 The Poet’s Own Spit: Retrieving the Archive of Wopko Jensma
Bronwyn Law-Viljoen, Richard Quaz Roodt
House on Fire
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 18:00 Places of Refuge from Apartheid
Mlungisi Dlamini, Bob Forrester and other Speakers Name tbc
House on Fire
17:30 – 18:30 Break
18:30 – 21:30 Talk and Dinner with…
Dolores Godeffroy
Edladleni Restaurant
08:15 Bus Departs for Durban
7 Hour Trip, 498kms
13:30 – 16:30 Lunch @ Prawn Shack
16:30 Bus Departs Lunch Venue
18:30 Arrive in Durban
Check-in to Blue Waters Hotel
19:30 – 20:30 Pizza Dinner at the Hotel
The Blue Dolphin

theme3

09:00 – 10:30 Wageless Life
Michael Keith
BAT Centre
10:30 – 11:00 Public Q&A
11:00 – 11:30 Tea
11:30 – 12:00 Response
Ackbar Abbas
BAT Centre
12:00 – 13:00 Studio Discussion
13:00 FREE
Boat Trip around the Durban Harbour
18:00 – 20:00 Histories of and Against Race in Durban
Keith Breckenridge, Alex Lichtenstein, and Riason Naidoo
BAT Centre

theme3

09:00 – 10:30 Race, Space and Grace: Imagined affinities across India, South Africa and the USA
Dilip Menon
Diakonia Centre
10:30 – 11:00 Public Q&A
11:00 – 11:30 Tea
11:30 – 13:00 Utopias and Oceans: Liquid Archives
Sharad Chari and Francoise Verges
Diakonia Centre
13:30 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 15:30 History of Rainbow Restaurant
Ben Pretorius
Rainbow Restaurant
15:30 – 16:30 Open Mike
18:00 – 19:00 Walkabout
Mwelela Cele
Old YMCA, Bantu Mens Social Club and BCP Offices
22:00 – 24:00 Isicathamiya Competition
Old YMCA
08.00 Bus departs for Ginsberg, King Williams Town (KWT)
663kms/9 hours
13.30 – 16.00 LUNCH
16.00 Bus departs lunch venue
206kms/2.5 hours
18.30 Arrive in KWT and check-in to Hemingways Guest House
19.30 – 21.30 Dinner braai at SBC in Ginsberg

theme4

09.00-10.30 The A-racial
Ghassan Hage
Steve Biko Centre
10.30-11.00 TEA
11.00-12.30 Public Discussion
12.30-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-16.00 The Trouble with Non-Racialism
Kelly Gillespie
Steve Biko Centre
 16.00-17.30 BREAK
 20.00-21.00 Musical Performance
Neo Muyanga
Steve Biko Centre

theme4

09.00-10.30 Black Consciousness Yesterday and Today
Xolela Mangcu
Steve Biko Centre
10.30-11.00 Discussion
11.00 Depart KWT for P.E.
249kms / 3 hours
14.00-15.30 LUNCH
15.30 Depart lunch venue for Knysna
3 hours / 260 kms
18.30 Check in to Graywood Hotel 
19.30-21.00 Dinner in Knysna
09.00 Checkout
10.00 Bus Departs Knysna for CPT
6 hours / 488 kms
13.30-14.30 LUNCH
17.30 Arrive in Cpt and check-in to Inn-on-the-Square
 18.00-19.15 DINNER
 19.30-21.00 Book launch: Dutch Racism
Philomena Essed with response by Gina Dent
Book Lounge

theme5

10.00-12.00 Reflection on Themes and Questions
Led by Premesh Lalu and Ackbar Abbas
Hiddingh Hall, UCT
12.00-13.00 FREE
13.00-14.30 LUNCH
 14.30-17.00 Black Popular Culture in the age of the commodity
Gina Dent and Neo Muyanga
Hiddingh Hall, Michaelis, UC
 17.00-17.45  BREAK
 18.00-19.30 Anti-Racism: Transnational Solidarities
Angela Davis
Centre for the Book
 20.00-22.00 CLOSING DINNER

theme5

08.30 Depart for train 
09.00-10.00 Lecture on train
Elaine Salo
10.15-11.30 The Limits of the Counter-Archive
Deborah Thomas
Kalk Bay Theatre
11.30-12.30 Public Discussion
13.00-14.30 LUNCH
14.30-15.30 Bus Around CPT
15.45-16.30 Walkabout
Ciraj Rasool
16.30-18.00 A Dead Archive? Non-Racialism’s Demise in Cape Town
Zimitri Erasmus, Premesh Lalu, Ntone Edjabe District Six Museum
 18.00-19.45 BREAK
20.00-21.30 Musical Performance
Neo Muyanga
Hiddingh Hall, Michaelis, UCT
21.30 SOUTH BY SOUTH Dance Party
Roberta Estrela D’ Alva, Ntone Edjabe, The General and Smiling Lion Hidding Hall, Michaelis
FREE Check out hotel
14.00 Bus departs CPT for JHB
18 hours / 1400kms
09.30 Bus arrives back in JHB and drops people at OR Tambo
12pm onwards Departure flights