Belonging and not belonging: a historical perspective

This is a second call for papers for the jubilee conference of the Historical Association of South Africa, the oldest existing national historical society in the country. To commemorate this half century, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria will be hosting an international conference. This conference reflects on the place, role, relations and nature of associations as a particular phenomenon within society in historical perspective. The conference also invites postgraduate students to showcase their research. To date the following topics have been received and we now invite further submissions to add to existing panels or to create new ones.

Papers received

Historical Organisations and Publications
The Cape Library Association, 1960-1975
Cape Libraries Extension Association
The Van Riebeeck Society’s journey, 1918-2006
Historia the past 50 years
Die Vlaams-Suid-Afrikaanse Kultuurstigting, 1981-2006
Vyftig jaar van die Historiese Genootskap van Suid-Afrika

Heritage and Memory
Excursions into South Africa’s tourist history, 1939 – 1990
Memorialization in Africa: Afrocentric models of commemoration
World heritage cultural landscapes: Mapungubwe and Uluru - Kata Tjuta

Apartheid and Resistance
Inclusion and exclusion in the United Democratic Front
British organisations and SA: from Aborigines' Protection to Anti-Apartheid
Bus boycotts in the US and SA and prospects for comparative history
Youth organisations and the fight for rural proprietorship in Pondoland

Associations and Identities
Associations in white English-speaking South African identity
Du Bois and the study of whiteness in SA

Missions and Missionaries
Belonging and Exclusion: Berlin Mission Society during the late 19th century
Church Missionary Society’s Female Institution in Sierra Leone: 1850-1870

Women and Men
Women’s organizations and the state in Malawi, 1932-1992

Education
One hundred years of history at the University of South Africa, 1906-2006

The University of Pretoria’s History Department and Afrikaner Nationalism

Nationalism and Identity at the Huguenot Seminary and College, 1899-1910

Literature
History of children’s literature publishing in English in SA
C Louis Leipoldt: apostle of the opposite
Black lives in white novels: Brazilian and South African literature

Health and Development
Health policy in SA and the British Commonwealth, 1900-1970

Southern Africa
Resistance movements under the Zambian one-party state, 1973-1989
Malawi Chamber of Commerce and Industry, 1892-1994
Belonging and not belonging in Rhodesia and Zimbabwe

Africa and the Wider World
Indigenous Cofradias and Black Lay Brotherhoods in Mesoamerica and Brazil
Arthur Raper’s descriptions of America and the developing world
Oil-Related ethnic minority agitation in South America and Africa

Afrikaans Political Institutions
Dr Albert Hertzog en die Mynwerkersunie – ‘n Herwaardering
Afrikaanse plattelandse trustmaatskappye en eksekuteurskamer

Migration
South African Migration, 1990 to 2006
Zimbabwean immigration and SA xenophobia

Netherlands and South Africa
De Gaay Fortman, Luthuli en Verwoerd
The Organization of Stamverwantschap: Dutch-South African Relations
Dutch South African Association and debate about the SA War (1899-1902)

Het werk van de Zwitsers in Zuid-Afrika een analyse in de 19e eeuw Vlaams verenigingsleven rond Zuid-Afrika

Aspects to consider
o Role and impact
o Being inside and out
o Inclusion, exclusion and abstention
o Implications of belonging and not belonging
o Intrigue and secrecy
o Sense of community, identity and memory
o Comparative perspectives
o Leaders, followers and the alienated
o Co-opting and boycotting
o Continuity, discontinuity and dissolution

Abstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted before Friday 28 April 2006 as MS Word documents.

For further information, registration, accommodation and other conference details please email hasa@up.ac.za.