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Think!Fest Daily Schedule 125 THINK!FEST DAILY SCHEDULE Full details of the programme, speaker biographies and topic descriptions will be available in the Think!Fest brochure, freely available at Festival info desks and Think!Fest venues. Lectures and discussions take place in the Blue Lecture Theatre in the Eden Grove Complex, unless otherwise stated. Talks are 1 hour; panel discussions 1hr 30 min, unless otherwise indicated. Tickets: R40 (concessions R30), unless otherwise indicated 2016 Think!Fest Convenor: Anthea Garman * = Seminar Room 1, Eden Grove Administration: Kate Davies and Emma Chippendale ** = Monument Restaurant, Monument Friday 1 July Tuesday 5 July 10:00 Mapping the Cultural Industries in South 09:30 Shakespeare: Religion, Psychology, Africa – Jen Snowball Anthropology – Peter Marx [Barrat 11:00* Native Footprints – Author in Conversation - Conference Centre] Fezile Sonkwane 10:00 Conveying Stories of Human Suffering 14:00 Decolonising the Arts: Perspectives from the [Panel] African Continent [Panel] 11:00* Florence and Watson and the Sugarbush 17:30 Traditional Fishing Methods of Africa – Book Mouse – Authors in Conversation – Launch – Mike Bruton [Board Room, Albany Rob van Vuuren & Danielle Bischoff Museum] 12:00 Contemporary Migration and the Plight of Refugees [Panel] Saturday 2 July 14:00 Medical Care for People on the Move Across 10:00 Gender Politics [Panel] the Mediterranean Sea: Doctors Without 10:00* Enemies & Friends - James Oatway Borders (MSF) - Walkabout 14:30**The Role of a National Art Festival in SA 11:00 Not Only Futurists Workshop [Kingswood Today - A Public Think Tank (2hrs) Music School] 15:00* Sweet Paradise – Author in Conversation – 11:00* Peforming Democracy in Iraq & South Africa Joanne Hichens - Author in Conversation - Kimberly Segall 16:00 Identity, Dislocation & Belonging [Panel] 12:00 Lifting the Veil on Islam, Women & 17:00**The Listening Lounge with Richard Haslop Islamophobia – Hassnae Bouazza 12:00 Writing SA Theatre [Panel] [1hr - Red Wednesday 6 July Lecture Theatre] 10:00 Understanding Learning Challenges – 14:00 Sophia Williams-De Bruyn Reminisces Therapy S.M.A.R.T. 15:00* The Keeper of the Kumm – Author in 11:00* Short.Sharp.Stories: Die Laughing – Conversation - Sylvia Vollenhoven Book Launch 16:00 Henri Matisse: Rhythm & Meaning – 12:00 Why Everyone in Southern Africa should be Wilhelm van Rensburg Concerned about Human Rights – 17:00**The Listening Lounge with Richard Haslop Deprose Muchena (Amnesty International) 14:00 Ways Of Knowing – Janet Hayward Sunday 3 July 14:00**Empowering Women as Cultural Leaders in 10:00 Reconciliation In and Through Performance Africa - Arterial Network Roundtable (2hrs) THE 2016 NATIONAL [Panel] 14:30* PANSA Directors’ Indaba (2hrs) ARTS FESTIVAL 11:00* Magnet Theatre: Three Decades of Making 16:00 Weeding Out Legislative Hypocrisy – THINK!FEST PROGRAMME Space – Authors in Conversation Paul-Michael Keichel IS PRESENTED WITH 12:00 Women In Theatre [Panel] THE SUPPORT OF THE 14:00 Theatre as a Tool for Activism and Healing Thursday 7 July EMBASSY OF THE [Panel] 10:00 What Should White People be Doing, NETHERLANDS 14:00 Not Only Futurists - Lecture-Demonstration Thinking, Feeling and Saying Now? [Panel] [Kingswood Music School] 10:00* Enemies & Friends - James Oatway 15:00* The Methuen Drama Guide to - Walkabout Contemporary South African Theatre - 11:00 Monumental Dilemmas Part One & Two – Author in Conversation – Greg Homann Brenda Schmahmann (2hrs) 16:00 20 Years of Third World Bunfight – [Red Lecture Theatre] Brett Bailey 14:00 Decriminalising Dagga [Panel] 17:00**The Listening Lounge with Richard Haslop 15:00* Picturing Change – Author in Conversation – Brenda Schmahmann Monday 4 July 16:00 The Voice of Russia Today Parts One & Two 10:00 The Hashtag Protests and Student Politics (2hrs 30) In South Africa [Panel] 11:00* Novel Script Reading – We Need New Names Friday 8 July 12:00 Disrupt Film Screening and Discussion 10:00 Unsettling, Unlearning And Undoing 14:00 University Fees: Is Free Higher Education Gender-Based Violence [Panel] Possible in South Africa? [Panel] 11:00* My Johannesburg – Authors in Conversation 14:00* Enemies & Friends -James Oatway – Albie Sachs & Margit Niederhuber - Walkabout 12:00 Frontline Reporting – Paula Slier 15:00* Theatre Production in South Africa: Skills 14:30* PANSA Directors’ Indaba (2hrs) and Inspirations – Book Launch 16:00 Words that Inspire & Conspire 16:00 119 Lives Unlived – Paula Slier 17:00**The Listening Lounge with Richard Haslop 126 BURNING ISSUES THE HASHTAG PROTESTS AND UNIVERSITY FEES: IS FREE HIGHER STUDENT POLITICS IN SOUTH EDUCATION POSSIBLE IN SOUTH AFRICA: ROUNDTABLE AFRICA?: PANEL DISCUSSION MONDAY 4 JULY 10.00 MONDAY 4 JULY 14:00 Last year’s student protests – which Presented by Legal Resources Centre started at UCT with a demand for the A study from the South African Institute removal of the Rhodes statue and of Race Relations suggests that only culminated in a nation-wide shutdown of 5% of South African families can campuses and a freeze on fee increases comfortably afford to pay university fees – shook South Africa. We hadn’t seen for their children. Currently, the levels of quite that degree of student action and public spending on universities sits at Carl Collison organisation since the apartheid era. Judge Dennis Davis around 0.8% of gross domestic product The protests had several interesting (GDP), which is low by global standards. features: they were about the symbolic A more appropriate number would as much as the material, they had ritual be 2.5% of GDP, the same research and performance dimensions and they suggests. Could government spending were mostly organised via social media. priorities be adjusted to ensure access In addition they’ve highlighted the slow to higher education for young people pace of transformation particularly in the Enver Motala David Fryer from less privileged backgrounds? formerly white, liberal higher education What is the role of individual university Shose Kessi institutions. administrators in ensuring access for This discussion, facilitated by Think!Fest those less privileged? What are some convenor Anthea Garman, includes of the best practices and models from academics and students from Rhodes around the world for higher education University who were involved in the Sizwe Mabizela funding? What is the role of student protest last year, as well as Thierry activism in bringing such issues to the Luescher (Assistant Director of fore? Institutional Research at the University The discussion, presented by the Legal of the Free State, who focuses on Resources Centre, is moderated by Thierry Luescher matters of international and comparative Judge Dennis Davis and panellists higher education), Shose Kessi (Senior Lecturer in the Department of include Enver Motala (researcher at Psychology at the University of Cape Town whose research centres the Nelson Mandela Institute at the on community-based empowerment, social change and identity), Lindsay Maasdorp University of Fort Hare, associated with and Carl Collison (a journalist and photographer who has observed the Education Policy Consortium); Sizwe Mabizela (Vice Chancellor the #RhodesMustFall movement and collected a portfolio of pictorial of Rhodes University); David Fryer (Economics and Economic History artefacts on the #MustFall movements). Department of Rhodes University); and activist Lindsay Maasdorp. UNSETTLING, UNLEARNING AND DISRUPT – FILM SCREENING UNDOING GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE FRIDAY 8 JULY 10:00 AND DISCUSSION MONDAY 4 JULY 12:00 How is it that half of South Africa’s population With the national statistics spends every waking day thinking about how to of sexual violence being a keep safe from rape and attack while the other half shocking indictment on the doesn’t? How did we come to have a democracy way in which South Africa full of promises of freedom, but very little surety of has been dealing with rape bodily integrity? How are South African homes and culture, it is clear that one of Catriona Macleod schools sometimes the most dangerous places to be? the spaces not exempt from Gender-based violence in this country is endemic such destructive hegemonies and perplexing. Despite many years of activism and is the South African change to laws we still have the kind of statistics university. Having followed on rape and sexual assault that are truly shocking. the #RUReferenceList and Choreographer Nadine Joseph, activist Lisa Vetten, #RUInterdict, Activate has researcher Catriona Macleod and Rhodes students put together a feature-length Thabani Masuku and Nonhle Kgosana open up a documentary about the discussion to help us think through why rape is so silencing of students and intractable a problem in South African social life. staff at Rhodes University. Nadine Joseph Nadine Joseph uses personal trauma and memory DISRUPT aims to continue to create choreographic language and score with the primary focus on issues the conversation surrounding the mistreatment of survivors of sexual violence and abuse. Her new production LOOKING/ SEEING/ BEING/ and the ways in which the university management and DISAPPEARING is on the Festival’s Main programme. Lisa Vetten’s work examines police have failed students. Featuring interviews with rape and the criminal justice system and she is the specialist on violence against members of the student and staff body, footage from women on the Commission for Gender Equality’s Section Six Committee. Catriona the two weeks of protest and the use of police force Macleod is Professor of Psychology at Rhodes, editor-in-chief of the international on students and workers, DISRUPT serves as both a journal Feminism & Psychology, and SARChI Chair of the Critical Studies in chronological documentation of the events of the protests Sexualities and Reproduction research programme. Along with Catriona Macleod, and as the window of the #RUReferenceList protests to Thabani Masuku is Chair of the Rhodes interim task team to investigate ways shine a light on the institutional issue that is rape culture. in which the University could strengthen its responsiveness to cases of sexual The screening will be followed by a Q&A session with harassment or violence.
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