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UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY
Second 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.
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Please submit abstracts (no more than 500 words) for
consideration to the contact below.
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