Programme
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Session 1 / Unnatural Gardens
20 May 2021 | 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Ruth Sacks (University of Johannesburg)
Between botanical gardens and contemporary art: colonial histories of naming
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Tara Weber (Johannesburg Art Gallery)
Living ruins: botanical resistance In Johannesburg’s colonial infrastructure
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Dayle Shand (University of Pretoria)
From environmentalism to environmental justice: shifting perspectives in local community park provision
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Rui Aristides (University of Coimbra)
Garden of ruins: the urban production of colonial Bissau and the history of a dilapidated present
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Session 2 / Re-imaginings
20 May 2021 | 11:15 – 1:15 SAST

Itala Vivan (University of Milan)
Decoloniality: museums and monuments in post-apartheid South Africa
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Adheema Davis (Barland Studio, Durban)
The politics of [de]cartography: asymmetrical intimacies across central Durban
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Tariq Toffa (Tshwane University of Technology)
Imagining South African landscape: three centuries of landscape and society in Cape Town
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Cynthia Kros (University of the Witwatersrand), Pervaiz Khan (University of the Witwatersrand), and Reece Auguiste (University of Colorado)
Unmuting the colonial film archive?
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Session 3 / Lost Buildings
20 May 2021 | 14:00 – 16:00 SAST

Pamila Gupta (University of the Witwatersrand)
Notes for a visual essay on the experience of Art Deco in South Africa
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Brendan Hart (University of the Witwatersrand and Mayat Hart Architects)
The re-scripting of the Johannesburg West Dutch Reformed Church
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Nuno Coelho (University Coimbra)
Statues also die: the fortress of Cacheu as graveyard of Portuguese colonial legacy
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Nabeel Essa (Office 24/7 Architects, Johannesburg)
Building as artefact: from prison to museum
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Session 4 / Infrastructure
20 May 2021 | 16:15 – 18:15 SAST

Giorgio Miescher (University of Basel), Chalden Sabab (Usakos Museum Council) and Raffaele Perniola (University of Basel)
Reclaiming South African railway spaces: attempts and frustrations in small towns
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Bruno Vedor and Enrico Dodi (Vedor Lda Architects, Maputo)
By train from Marracuene to Chicualacuala: colonial legacy, heritage, cultural identity and sustainable development in the province of Gaza, Mozambique
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Robby Fivez (Ghent University)
The railway, the territory and the cement plant: investigating continued forms of violence along the Matadi-Kinshasa railway line
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Arianna Lissoni (University of the Witwatersrand)
Blowing up apartheid: MK's strategic targets from sabotage to armed propaganda
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Session 5 / Community Building
21 May 2021 | 09:00 – 11:00 SAST

Ali Khangela Hlongwane (University of the Witwatersrand)
Re-engaging the Pageview/Fietas photographic archive of David Goldblatt assembled between 1965 and 2016
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Linda Chisholm (University of Johannesburg)
Teacher education colleges
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Simon Gush and Bridget Kenny (University of the Witwatersrand)
Lifts and the 'labour of repair': elevators and the landscape of Johannesburg
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Hilton Judin (University of the Witwatersrand)
Political evolution of a building type: the community centre in South Africa
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Session 6 / Remembering
21 May 2021 | 11:15 – 13:15 SAST

Katy Streek and Jennifer Tosch (Sites of Memory Foundation, Netherlands)
Sites of memory foundation
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Joanna Sandell Wright (Södertälje Konsthall, Sweden)
How am I to be remembered when all my friends are dead?
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Thando Mama (Fort Hare University)
Ntaba kaNdoda: a contested place
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Zandi Sherman (Rutgers University, New Brunswick)
Kimberley closed compounds as racial infrastructure
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Session 7 / Heritages
21 May 2021 | 14:00 – 16:00 SAST

Gilles Baro (University of the Witwatersrand)
Gentrification, colonial heritage, Marshalltown
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Naomi Roux (University of Cape Town)
Urban heritage conservation for radical futures: what would it mean to think about architectural conservation as a tool for spatial justice?
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Greer Valley (University of Cape Town), Sibonelo Gumede (University of Cape Town) and Adheema Davis (Barland Studio, Durban)
Save Our Berea: Whose heritage?
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Caio Simões de Araujo (University of the Witwatersrand)
Must Dias Fall? The politics of settler heritage in Southern Africa
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Session 8 / Research in Contested Spaces
21 May 2021 | 16:15 – 17:45 SAST

Florence /Khaxas and Yvette Hoebes (Usakos Museum Council)
Usakos Museum and the re-vision of colonial spaces in a small town in Namibia
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Osvaldo Luis (Eduardo Mondlane University, Maputo)
Railway Museum of Mozambique
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Roland Gunst (John K. Cobra Institute of Videoartifacts) and Esther Severi (Kaaitheater, Brussels)
Tropical bungalow: a site of rehabilitation
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