Conveners
Session VII: Literature, Cinema, and African Futures
- Pier Paolo Frassinelli (University of Johannesburg)
Dr
OSWELLED UREKE
(UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG)
04/09/2019, 10:45
Session VII
Speaker
The paper is an ethnographic account based on the author’s experiences teaching the San of Sabase Village, Bulilima, Matabeleland South in Zimbabwe to make video-films. It explores how the San, as a marginalized community in Zimbabwe, have interacted with, negotiated with and appropriated filmmaking technology. The community at the centre of the study lies on the periphery of Zimbabwe’s social...
Sanjin Muftic
(University of Cape Town)
04/09/2019, 11:10
Session VII
Speaker
This paper discusses how the emergence of digital scholarship is allowing artist to restage, reperform, and re-investigate the histories of the African content through mediums that are informed by the development of new media technologies of the 4th Industrial Revolution. Using Achille Mbembe’s claim that the “Internet is Afropolitan” (2015), the paper looks at several projects by African...
Prof.
Thabisani Ndlovu
(Walter Sisulu University)
04/09/2019, 11:35
Session VII
Speaker
The humanities, in this case, African literature, are under threat – a situation that should spur those in the field into relevant action towards reinvention, increased relevance and survival in the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR). This paper proposes interdisciplinarity – in this case the interdiscipline of African literature and human rights – as one example of the ways in which the...
Prof.
Pier Paolo Frassinelli
(University of Johannesburg)
04/09/2019, 12:00
Session VII
Discussion
Discussion based on the Speakers' inputs (Session VII)
