Finally Professor De Vos will shed light on civil society’s role in realising the right to education in South Africa. 29 In conversation: This conversation will investigate Riana Geldenhuys January how space in South Africa’s Tel: 021 650 4846 democracy is being carved by and Time: 13h00 for women and men who do not Venue: Kramer Law Building, conform to gender ideas inherited Middle Campus, UCT from apartheid. Dr Christi van der Westhuizen is a feminist, author, award-winning political columnist and research associate with UFS’s Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice. She will engage with Dr Zethu Matebeni, activist, author, filmmaker, curator and researcher on black female sexualities and genders at UCT’s Institute for Humanities in Africa. 27 – 31 Writers researching: fact In this course, writers will talk Riana Geldenhuys January and fiction about the research that resulted Tel: 021 650 4846 in their recent novels. Ron Irwin, Time: 17h30 author of Flat Water Tuesday, will Venue: Kramer Law Building, discuss how he researched Middle Campus, UCT people, places and real events and the challenges associated with turning the events of one’s own life into a novel. Helen Moffett, one of the trio behind the Girl Walk In series, will explain how she and her co-authors research and write erotica novels, providing insight into collaboration, champagne and condoms. Award-winning Lauren Beukes will describe how she “kinks” reality in relation to the real-world research that informed The Shining Girls and Zoo City. Angela Makholwa will explore the process of writing the criminal mind, including interviews with a serial killer for Red Ink, and research about women who killed their husbands for Black Widow Society. Readers always assume that everything that happened in your book happened to you, complains Finuala Dowling; so, what is the point of trudging uphill for five hours in search of one sentence? Referring to both Homemaking for the and her latest manuscript, The Fetch, she discusses the price of authenticity. 30 – 31 Politics of poo: The ”toilet Professor Steven Robins of the Riana Geldenhuys January wars” and the politics of Department of Sociology and Tel: 021 650 4846
Finally Professor De Vos will shed light on civil society’s role in realising the right to education in South Africa. 29 January In conversation: Time: 13h00 Venue: Kramer Law Building, Middle Campus, UCT This conversation will investigate how space in South Africa’s democracy is being carved by and for women and men who do not conform to gender ideas inherited from apartheid. Dr Christi van der Westhuizen is a feminist, author, award-winning political columnist and research associate with UFS’s Institute for Reconciliation and Social Justice. She will engage with Dr Zethu Matebeni, activist, author, filmmaker, curator and researcher on black female sexualities and genders at UCT’s Institute for Humanities in Africa. Riana Geldenhuys Tel: 021 650 4846 27 – 31 January Writers researching: fact and fiction Time: 17h30 Venue: Kramer Law Building, Middle Campus, UCT In this course, writers will talk about the research that resulted in their recent novels. Ron Irwin, author of Flat Water Tuesday, will discuss how he researched people, places and real events and the challenges associated with turning the events of one’s own life into a novel. Helen Moffett, one of the trio behind the Girl Walk In series, will explain how she and her co-authors research and write erotica novels, providing insight into collaboration, champagne and condoms. Award-winning Lauren Beukes will describe how she “kinks” reality in relation to the real-world research that informed The Shining Girls and Zoo City. Angela Makholwa will explore the process of writing the criminal mind, including interviews with a serial killer for Red Ink, and research about women who killed their husbands for Black Widow Society. Readers always assume that everything that happened in your book happened to you, complains Finuala Dowling; so, what is the point of trudging uphill for five hours in search of one sentence? Referring to both Homemaking for the and her latest manuscript, The Fetch, she discusses the price of authenticity. Riana Geldenhuys Tel: 021 650 4846 30 – 31 January Politics of poo: The ”toilet wars” and the politics of Professor Steven Robins of the Department of Sociology and Riana Geldenhuys Tel: 021 650 4846