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 1-3 December 2006
International Conference
Mass Violence in Africa
Friday, 1 December, The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation,
Övre Slottsgatan 2, Uppsala
13.30-14.30 Public Event
Dennis Brutus will talk about his new
political memoire, ‘Poetry and Protest’
Dennis Brutus is a poet, writer and distringuished educator and activist, borne 1924 in Zimbabwe. He went to South Africa to study and became an active force against the apartheid government. He was arrested in 1963 and jailed for 18 months on Robben Island. He left South Africa for England in 1966, but is since 1983 a citizen of the US and presently Professor Emeritus of Africana Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He’s been honored with many awards and holds six honorary doctorates. Brutus’s new political memoire, ‘Poetry and Protest’, includes his poetry as well as analysis of the anti-apartheid struggle, work against injustices by the IMF, World Bank and World Trade Organisation in the Global South, and campaigns against militarism and US war crimes.
Friday, 1 December, The Nordic Africa Institute,
Kungsgatan 38, Uppsala
15.15 Public Lecture
‘Mass violence through HIV/Aids
and the TAC in South Africa’
Elina Oinas, will soon start her position as the Finnish researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala. Oinas is also affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley. Her PhD dissertation in Sociology is titled Making Sense of the Teenage Body - Sociological Perspectives on Girls, Changing Bodies, and Knowledge.
Discussant: Ulrike Kistner, Professor, University of South Africa, works as a teacher and researcher. Her work spans the fields of literary theory, cultural studies, and medical history.
16.45 Refreshments
17.15 Public Lecture
‘The history of mass violence
since colonial times’
Jacques Depelchin
Jacques Depelchin, is a committed intellectual, academic, and activist for peace, democracy, transparency and pro-people politics in the Democratic Republic of Congo. He is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Berkeley-based Ota Benga International Alliance for Peace in the DR Congo.
Discussant: Firoze Manji, a Kenyan, with more than thirty years of experience in international development, health, and human rights. Among many things, he is presently the editor of Pambazuka News co-director of Fahamu.
Saturday, 2 December, Nordic Africa Institute,
Kungsgatan 38, Uppsala
16.30-18.30 Public debate
‘Violence, Dialogue, Peace’
Panellists:
Dennis Brutus (see above)
Chenjerai Hove, a Zimbabwean poet, novelist and essayist and has worked as an editor for several publishing concerns and was one of the founding members of the Zimbabwe Writers Union (ZIWI). A critic of the recent policies of the Mugabe government, he currently lives in exile in Norway.
Yvonne Owuor, a Reading University graduate, draws inspiration to her writing from her family, her Catholic faith and her home country - Kenya. Yvonne Owuor is a screenplay writer, and Executive Director of the Zanzibar International Film Festival.
Jacques Depelchin (see above) and
Firoze Manji (see above)
Moderator: Cyril Obi, Project Coordinator for the Nordic Africa Institute project ‘Post-Conflict Transition, the State and Civil Society in Africa’. He is also Associate Research Professor at the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs and was the 2004 Claude Ake Visiting Professor at the Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University. |
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