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Thursday 18th August

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Public Address 7:00-9:00 pm

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Presenter: Mahmood Mamdani (Director, Makerere Institute for Social Research, Makerere University; Herbert Lehman Professor of Government, Columbia University)

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Title: “South Sudan: the Road to Civil War”

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Venue: Library Auditorium, UWC

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Friday 19th August

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Venue: Centre for Humanities Research

9.00 am registration and tea 

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session one

9.15 -11.00

• Abdelwahab El-Affendi (Doha Institute for Graduate Studies)

On Power, Empowerment, Resistance: The Choice between Barbarism and Slavery in the (post)-Colonial Context

• Kuang-Hsing Chen (Chiao Tung University)

Decolonizing the earth: On Mamdani's mode of thought  for a grounded global intellectual movement

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11:00-11.15 TEA

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session two

11.15- 1.00pm

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• Karuna Mantena (Yale University)

Political Identity and Postcolonial Democracy

• Mbongiseni Buthelezi (Univ. of Witwatersrand)

Citizenship and Subjecthood in 2016 South Africa: How did we get here?

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1-2pm Lunch

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session three

2.00pm-3.30pm

• Partha Chatterjee (Columbia University)

The Legacy of Bandung

• Ari Sitas (UCT) TBA

3.30-3.45 tea

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session four

3.45- 5.15 pm

• Steven Friedman (Rhodes University and Univ. of Johannesburg)

The Bifurcated Society: Citizen and Subject in Contemporary South Africa

• Brian Raftopolous (UWC)

Belonging in the city: Changing State Constructions of Urban Labour in Post-Colonial Zimbabwe

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Saturday 20 August

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9.00 am registration and  tea

 

session one

9.30 -11.00

• Lyn Ossome (Makerere University)

Colonial legacies of ethnicized violence, gendered subjects and emancipatory politics

• Nivideta Menon (Jawaharlal Nehru University)

Beyond the Custom/Market Dichotomy: Women’s Rights to Land and the Challenge of the Commons

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11.00 -11.15 TEA

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11.15 - 1.00pm

• Namhla Matshanda (UWC)

Constructing citizens and subjects in eastern Ethiopia: the clash between the British and Ethiopian Empires

• Juan Obarrio (Johns Hopkins)

Citizen/Subject: turns and returns of History

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1.00-2.00pm LUNCH

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2.00pm-3.45 pm

• Suren Pillay (UWC)

Thinking the Political: on the Conjuncture of ‘Citizen and Subject’

• Siba Grovogui (Cornell University)  TBA

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4.00 -5.00pm

Concluding Session

Presenter: Mahmood Mamdani

 

Reflections on Citizen and Subject, 20 years on

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