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Subject: [SoAfricaHistory] SAHA Confer, Stellenbosch, 5-7 April 2004
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 22:04:30 +0200


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Kammie
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> Date: 28 October 2003
> From: SS Swart
> <>
>
> UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
>
> Final Call for Papers - Conference: 5-7 April 2004
>
> The UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH, in conjunction with the
> South African Historical Association.
>
> In 2004 Stellenbosch history department, the oldest of
> its kind at an Afrikaans university and one of the
> oldest in South Africa, commemorates its centenary.
> This important milestone presents an opportunity for
> reflection on the influence of the department on the
> making of history and historians in South Africa. Both
> for good and for bad, the department has had a
> significant impact - an impact that requires
> re-evaluation and re-framing in the broader context of
> the discipline of history. The department's centenary
> also offers an occasion for stocktaking in the
> discipline as it has been practiced on South African
> history over the past century, both locally and abroad.
> We believe that occasions such as these that revolve
> around memory can serve as an instrument for restoring
> the knowledge of the past that has been suppressed or
> no longer forms part of public consciousness. Equally
> we accept that memory can both be a tool to deepen
> reflection and also to provide the basis for action and
> reaction.
>
> Here we look at the memory of the discipline, from the
> position of a post-colonial, post-Apartheid,
> post-Mandela Southern African context, in order to
> consider in more nuanced ways on the production of
> history itself.
>
> We welcome papers on the following themes: ·
> Developments in the writing of gendered history ·
> Re-historicising issues of identity and identity
> creation · The public and social role of the historian
> · Handling heritage: museums and the social
> construction of memory · Afro-pessimism, the African
> Renaissance and Africanist history · The contribution
> offered by environmental history · The history of
> science and medicine · The role of regional and
> community histories in the new dispensation · Language,
> culture and perceptions · The history of sexualities ·
> Historiography, interdisciplinary and theoretical
> approaches to the writing of history · Family history
> and the development of the history of childhood as a
> sub- field · Developments in economic and labour
> history · The history of pleasure and leisure · The
> history of technology and the @-factor · The role of a
> new cultural history?
>
>
> For the international community we add: Renowned for
> its Cape Dutch buildings and wines, Stellenbosch lies
> in a valley surrounded by vineyards, orchards and
> mountains, about 50 kms from Cape Town. Stellenbosch
> University is an internationally recognised university
> with about one hundred and fifty departments in ten
> faculties and more than forty research institutions.
> Visit our webpage: www.sun.ac.za
>
> Please submit abstracts (no more than 500 words) for
> consideration to
>
> Dr. Chris Venter
> tel.no. 021-8082179 or
> 021-8082177
> Email:



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