The College of Human Sciences at the University of South Africa (Unisa) invites you to submit abstracts for paper presentations on the conference theme: “De-colonisation and re-Afrikanisation: A conversation”. Abstracts of not more than 250 words should be sent to africanisation_conference@unisa.ac.za. The closing date for submission of abstracts is 9th March, 2018.
CONFERENCE THEMES
Credo Mutwa: isanusi and seer
UNongqawuse, time, voice, and language
Civilisation and barbarism: a decolonial viewpoint
Egyptology and Afrika
Knowledge, over-standing and consciousness
Voodoo and sorcery: transcendence
Being, personhood and belonging: thinking beyond colonial concepts of race, gender and age
Wellbeing
Ethics of ubuntu/ubuntu as an ethic
Justice above law: when law subverts the attainment of justice
Memory and loss/loss and memory: re-membering Afrika
Consciousness and materiality: the land question
Spirituality, worship and theosophy
The arts and aesthetic expression
Haiti: lessons for re-Afrikanisation and de-colonisation
Details on the conference in the attachment below