1ST JOINT SYMPOSIUM

SOUTH AFRICA IN PERSPECTIVE6-7 DECEMBER 2004

REPRESENTATIVES OF SPEAKERSORGANIZATIONS

History WorkshopHeinrich Schmidinger Josef Ehmer(Rector, University of Salzburg)Patrick HarriesSonja Puntscher-RiekmannThomas Spielbüchler(Vice-Rector, University of Walter SauerSalzburg)

Timothy Ryback Literature/Culture Workshop(Director, Salzburg Seminar)Dorothea SteinerReinhold Möbius (Honorary Consul Michela Borzagaof the Republic of South Africa)Yi-heng ChenKarina M. DornAUTHORSMartina StrommerAndré Brink

Elleke BoehmerGeography WorkshopLewis NkosiJürgen BreusteLarry ZietsmanClaudia Horner

ORGANIZERSTheology WorkshopDorothea SteinerWerner WolbertMichela BorzagaNico KoopmanKarina Magdalena DornClemens SedmakClaude OzankomAssisted byChibueze UdeaniYi-heng Chen

Chidi AmaechiPhilosophy WorkshopGerhard ZechaLayout ConceptWillem van der Merwe

Isobel Dixon

Karina Magdalena Dorn

The University of Salzburg and the Salzburg Seminar, which jointly finance

this Symposium, gratefully acknowledge the support of the following

cooperation partners

South African Embassy, Vienna

Fachbereich Anglistik, Universität Salzburg

Literaturhaus Salzburg

AfroAsiatisches Institut Salzburg (AAI)

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and in addition wish to thank the following sponsors for their donations

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

KUNSTHANDWERKAUS AFRIKA

&SKULPTUREN

REPRESENTATIVES OF SPEAKERSORGANIZATIONS

History WorkshopHeinrich Schmidinger Josef Ehmer(Rector, University of Salzburg)Patrick HarriesSonja Puntscher-RiekmannThomas Spielbüchler(Vice-Rector, University of Walter SauerSalzburg)

Timothy Ryback Literature/Culture Workshop(Director, Salzburg Seminar)Dorothea SteinerReinhold Möbius (Honorary Consul Michela Borzagaof the Republic of South Africa)Yi-heng ChenKarina M. DornAUTHORSMartina StrommerAndré Brink

Elleke BoehmerGeography WorkshopLewis NkosiJürgen BreusteLarry ZietsmanClaudia Horner

ORGANIZERSTheology WorkshopDorothea SteinerWerner WolbertMichela BorzagaNico KoopmanKarina Magdalena DornClemens SedmakClaude OzankomAssisted byChibueze UdeaniYi-heng Chen

Chidi AmaechiPhilosophy WorkshopGerhard ZechaLayout ConceptWillem van der Merwe

Isobel Dixon

Karina Magdalena Dorn

The University of Salzburg and the Salzburg Seminar, which jointly finance

this Symposium, gratefully acknowledge the support of the following

cooperation partners

South African Embassy, Vienna

Fachbereich Anglistik, Universität Salzburg

Literaturhaus Salzburg

AfroAsiatisches Institut Salzburg (AAI)

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and in addition wish to thank the following sponsors for their donations

LIST OF PARTICIPANTS

KUNSTHANDWERKAUS AFRIKA

&SKULPTUREN

Monday, 6 December

10:30-11:15 OPENING at UNIVERSITY (Max Gandolph Bibliothek)Words of Welcome by Vice-Rector Sonja Puntscher-RiekmannTimothy Ryback (Director, Salzburg Seminar)Reinhold Möbius (Honorary Consul of the Republic of South Africa)Introduction: Dorothea Steiner (Salzburg)

11:15-12:45 HISTORY WORKSHOP "Research on Southern Africa: Linking the University and Non-University Sectors" organized by Josef Ehmer (Salzburg)Speakers: Patrick Harries (Basel), Thomas Spielbüchler (Salzburg),Walter Sauer (Wien)

12:45-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:45 LITERATURE/CULTURE WORKSHOP "'Focus South Africa' and Intercultural Studies in the English Department"organized by Dorothea Steiner, in collaboration with doctoral and Masters' students Michela Borzaga, Karina Magdalena Dorn and Yi-heng Chen (Salzburg exchange students to South Africa)Speakers:Dorothea Steiner: "The South Africa Project: Exploring New Frontiers" Michela Borzaga: "From Tatamkhulu Afrika to Questions of Literary and Cultural History"Karina M. Dorn: "Post-Apartheid Nadine Gordimer: Still Digesting Politics?" Yi-heng Chen: "Responding to Apartheid: The Interplay Between Jewishness and Resistance in Rose Zwi's Another Year in Africa and The Umbrella Tree"Martina Strommer (Salzburg Linguistics exchange student to Stellenbosch):"The Position of the New South Africa in Kachru's Three Concentric Circlesof English"

15:45-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-18:15 PANEL on AESTHETICS and POLITICS (moderated by Dorothea Steiner) featuring South African writer-critics, André Brink (Cape Town), Elleke Boehmer (UK),Isobel Dixon (UK), Lewis Nkosi (Switzerland)

18:30-20:00 Buffet supper

20:00 Elleke Boehmer, Lewis Nkosi, and Isobel Dixon Read from Their Current Work

Tuesday, 7 December

9:00-10:30 GEOGRAPHY WORKSHOP "Urban Geography and the Environment: The Cape Town Project" organized by Jürgen Breuste (Salzburg), in cooperation with Larry Zietsman (Stellenbosch partner) and Salzburg exchange students to Stellenbosch Speakers:Jürgen Breuste: "Goals and Targets of the Cooperation Framework:Urban Ecology of the Cape Town Agglomeration"Larry Zietsman: "Describing the Project: Cape Peninsula National Park"Breuste and Zietsman present the work of students in the first yearof the cooperation:Claudia Horner (in collaboration with Stefan Stanger): "Environmental Education in Table Mountain National Park"

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 THEOLOGY WORKSHOP "The Historical Role of Religion in South Africa" organized by Werner Wolbert (Salzburg) in cooperation with Nico Koopman (Stellenbosch partner)Speakers:Nico Koopman: "Public Theology in Post-Apartheid South Africa",followed by a general discussion on "Religious Voices in Public Places", involving Werner Wolbert, Clemens Sedmak, Claude Ozankom, Chibueze Udeani (all from Salzburg) and Silvia Zeller (Salzburg exchange student to Stellenbosch) focusing on "Violence against Women in South Africa as a Theological Problem"

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOPPhilosophy of Education Project: Gerhard Zecha (Salzburg) and Jeanette de Klerk (Stellenbosch partner): "Creating a New Spirit for a DemocraticSchool System in South Africa";Willem van der Merwe (Stellenbosch/Leuven): "Multiculturalism and theHumanities in South Africa"

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-18:00 FILM SHOWING A Dry White Season, introduced by André Brink (followed by discussion)

20:00 A Reading by André Brink at Schloss Leopoldskron, Parker Hall(coorganized by the Salzburg Seminar and the Literaturhaus)introduced by Karina M. Dorn (Salzburg),followed by a Reception in the Alberto Vilar Library,sponsored by the Salzburg Seminar

ca. 22:00 END OF SYMPOSIUM

Monday, 6 December

10:30-11:15 OPENING at UNIVERSITY (Max Gandolph Bibliothek)Words of Welcome by Vice-Rector Sonja Puntscher-RiekmannTimothy Ryback (Director, Salzburg Seminar)Reinhold Möbius (Honorary Consul of the Republic of South Africa)Introduction: Dorothea Steiner (Salzburg)

11:15-12:45 HISTORY WORKSHOP "Research on Southern Africa: Linking the University and Non-University Sectors" organized by Josef Ehmer (Salzburg)Speakers: Patrick Harries (Basel), Thomas Spielbüchler (Salzburg),Walter Sauer (Wien)

12:45-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:45 LITERATURE/CULTURE WORKSHOP "'Focus South Africa' and Intercultural Studies in the English Department"organized by Dorothea Steiner, in collaboration with doctoral and Masters' students Michela Borzaga, Karina Magdalena Dorn and Yi-heng Chen (Salzburg exchange students to South Africa)Speakers:Dorothea Steiner: "The South Africa Project: Exploring New Frontiers" Michela Borzaga: "From Tatamkhulu Afrika to Questions of Literary and Cultural History"Karina M. Dorn: "Post-Apartheid Nadine Gordimer: Still Digesting Politics?" Yi-heng Chen: "Responding to Apartheid: The Interplay Between Jewishness and Resistance in Rose Zwi's Another Year in Africa and The Umbrella Tree"Martina Strommer (Salzburg Linguistics exchange student to Stellenbosch):"The Position of the New South Africa in Kachru's Three Concentric Circlesof English"

15:45-16:15 Coffee break

16:15-18:15 PANEL on AESTHETICS and POLITICS (moderated by Dorothea Steiner) featuring South African writer-critics, André Brink (Cape Town), Elleke Boehmer (UK),Isobel Dixon (UK), Lewis Nkosi (Switzerland)

18:30-20:00 Buffet supper

20:00 Elleke Boehmer, Lewis Nkosi, and Isobel Dixon Read from Their Current Work

Tuesday, 7 December

9:00-10:30 GEOGRAPHY WORKSHOP "Urban Geography and the Environment: The Cape Town Project" organized by Jürgen Breuste (Salzburg), in cooperation with Larry Zietsman (Stellenbosch partner) and Salzburg exchange students to Stellenbosch Speakers:Jürgen Breuste: "Goals and Targets of the Cooperation Framework:Urban Ecology of the Cape Town Agglomeration"Larry Zietsman: "Describing the Project: Cape Peninsula National Park"Breuste and Zietsman present the work of students in the first yearof the cooperation:Claudia Horner (in collaboration with Stefan Stanger): "Environmental Education in Table Mountain National Park"

10:30-11:00 Coffee break

11:00-12:30 THEOLOGY WORKSHOP "The Historical Role of Religion in South Africa" organized by Werner Wolbert (Salzburg) in cooperation with Nico Koopman (Stellenbosch partner)Speakers:Nico Koopman: "Public Theology in Post-Apartheid South Africa",followed by a general discussion on "Religious Voices in Public Places", involving Werner Wolbert, Clemens Sedmak, Claude Ozankom, Chibueze Udeani (all from Salzburg) and Silvia Zeller (Salzburg exchange student to Stellenbosch) focusing on "Violence against Women in South Africa as a Theological Problem"

12:30-14:00 Lunch break

14:00-15:00 PHILOSOPHY WORKSHOPPhilosophy of Education Project: Gerhard Zecha (Salzburg) and Jeanette de Klerk (Stellenbosch partner): "Creating a New Spirit for a DemocraticSchool System in South Africa";Willem van der Merwe (Stellenbosch/Leuven): "Multiculturalism and theHumanities in South Africa"

15:00-15:30 Coffee break

15:30-18:00 FILM SHOWING A Dry White Season, introduced by André Brink (followed by discussion)

20:00 A Reading by André Brink at Schloss Leopoldskron, Parker Hall(coorganized by the Salzburg Seminar and the Literaturhaus)introduced by Karina M. Dorn (Salzburg),followed by a Reception in the Alberto Vilar Library,sponsored by the Salzburg Seminar

ca. 22:00 END OF SYMPOSIUM

ELLEKE BOEHMER. Born in South Africa, she was educated at Rhodes University and at Oxford (UK). Now resident in Britain, she is Hildred Carlile Professor in English at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published three well-received novels, Screens against the Sky (1990: shortlisted for the David Higham Prize), An Immaculate Figure (1993), and Bloodlines (2000), as well as a number of short stories in journals, magazines, and anthologies. Her work has been translated into Chinese, German, and Italian. She is currently working on a new novel, her first set in contemporary Britain. Elleke Boehmer has published the internationally cited Colonial and Postcolonial

Literature: Migrant Metaphors (OUP, 1995), and an acclaimed monograph investigating transnational links between anti-colonial movements, Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction (OUP, 2002). She has edited the anthology Empire Writing, 1870-1918 and, more recently, the British bestseller Scouting for Boys, Robert Baden-Powell's primer of the Scout movement (2004; to appear 2005), as well as Cornelia Sorabji's 1934 India Calling (with Naella Grew: Trent Editions, 2004). In 1999, she produced a special centennial edition of the journal Kunapipi on the writings of the Anglo-Boer War. In 2005, Elleke Boehmer's study of the influential intersections between nationalist and feminist thought Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (Manchester UP) is to appear, along with a fully updated and expanded second edition of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature.

LEWIS NKOSI. Born and educated in South Africa, he continued his studies at the Universities of London and Sussex. A well-known critic, novelist and essayist, he has written two novels, the prize-winning Mating Birds (St. Martin's Press NY, 1986) and Underground People (Kwela Books, 2002), numerous short stories, a study of African literature, Tasks and Masks: Themes and Styles of African Literature (Longman, 1981), a collection of essays Home and Exile (Longman, 1983), and The Transplanted Heart: Essays on South Africa (Ethiope, 1978). He has also written a number of plays for the radio and theatre, including the popular The Black Psychiatrist (1983).

His work has been translated into French, German and Italian.A former member of the famous Drum magazine in its heyday in the 1950s, Lewis Nkosi was forced to live in exile by the apartheid regime after being invited to take up a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He later settled in London and contributed to some of the leading literary magazines, including The Times Literary Supplement and The London Review of Books. He taught literature in a number of universities in Africa, Europe and the United States. For eight years, until 1999, he was a tenured professor in the English Department of the University of Wyoming. He currently lives in Basel (Switzerland).

ANDRÉ BRINK. Born and educated in South Africa, he started out as a University teacher in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature in the 1960s. Poet, novelist and essayist, he is one of South Africa's most distinguished writers. He started writing in Afrikaans and was censored by the then South African Apartheid government. Thereafter he began writing in English and also became published overseas. He was, and still remains, an important figure in the development of the Afrikaans novel. His book, A Dry White Season (1979), was

adapted for a film production, while An Instant in the Wind (1976) and Rumours of Rain (1978) were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Both Rumours of Rain and A Chain of Voices (1982) won the Central News Agency (CNA) Literary Award. The Other Side of Silence (2002) won the Alan Paton Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region, Best Book), in 2003. Other novels include Looking on Darkness (W.H. Allen, 1974), An Act of Terror (Secker & Warburg, 1991), On the Contrary (Secker & Warburg, 1993), The First Life of Adamastor (Secker & Warburg, 1993), Imaginings of Sand (Secker & Warburg, 1996), Devil's Valley (Secker & Warburg, 1998), The Rights of Desire (Secker & Warburg, 2000), and Before I Forget (Secker & Warburg, 2004).He has also written numerous collections of essays on literature and politics, including Mapmakers: Writing in a State of Siege (Faber and Faber, 1983), and Reinventing a Continent: Writing and Politics in South Africa (Secker & Warburg, 1996). André Brink has been made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government. He won the Monismanien Human Rights Award from the University of Uppsala, in 1992, for exposing the evils of apartheid to the world. He is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa.

ISOBEL DIXON. Born and educated in South Africa, she now lives in Cambridge (UK) and works in London as a literary agent. She represents writers from around the world, including a number of prominent South African authors, for the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency. She translated Marita van der Vyver's novel, Breathing Space, from the Afrikaans. Her debut poetry collection Weather Eye was published in South Africa by Carapace poets in 2001 and won the Sanlam Award for Poetry. Her poems have been published internationally in The

Guardian, London Magazine, Leviathan Quarterly, Orbis, Paris Review, Stride and in South Africa in New Contrast, New Coin, Scrutiny 2, and Carapace. Her poems have also been anthologized in City in Words (David Philip, 2001), New Writing 8, New Writing 10 (Vintage, 1999, 2001), New Writing 11 (Picador, 2002), A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape (Double Storey, 2003), Die Horen (NW Verlag, 2004), and Imagination in a Troubled Space: A South African Poetry Reader (Poetry Salzburg, 2004).

Comp. Michela Borzaga

ELLEKE BOEHMER. Born in South Africa, she was educated at Rhodes University and at Oxford (UK). Now resident in Britain, she is Hildred Carlile Professor in English at Royal Holloway, University of London. She has published three well-received novels, Screens against the Sky (1990: shortlisted for the David Higham Prize), An Immaculate Figure (1993), and Bloodlines (2000), as well as a number of short stories in journals, magazines, and anthologies. Her work has been translated into Chinese, German, and Italian. She is currently working on a new novel, her first set in contemporary Britain. Elleke Boehmer has published the internationally cited Colonial and Postcolonial

Literature: Migrant Metaphors (OUP, 1995), and an acclaimed monograph investigating transnational links between anti-colonial movements, Empire, the National and the Postcolonial, 1890-1920: Resistance in Interaction (OUP, 2002). She has edited the anthology Empire Writing, 1870-1918 and, more recently, the British bestseller Scouting for Boys, Robert Baden-Powell's primer of the Scout movement (2004; to appear 2005), as well as Cornelia Sorabji's 1934 India Calling (with Naella Grew: Trent Editions, 2004). In 1999, she produced a special centennial edition of the journal Kunapipi on the writings of the Anglo-Boer War. In 2005, Elleke Boehmer's study of the influential intersections between nationalist and feminist thought Stories of Women: Gender and Narrative in the Postcolonial Nation (Manchester UP) is to appear, along with a fully updated and expanded second edition of Colonial and Postcolonial Literature.

LEWIS NKOSI. Born and educated in South Africa, he continued his studies at the Universities of London and Sussex. A well-known critic, novelist and essayist, he has written two novels, the prize-winning Mating Birds (St. Martin's Press NY, 1986) and Underground People (Kwela Books, 2002), numerous short stories, a study of African literature, Tasks and Masks: Themes and Styles of African Literature (Longman, 1981), a collection of essays Home and Exile (Longman, 1983), and The Transplanted Heart: Essays on South Africa (Ethiope, 1978). He has also written a number of plays for the radio and theatre, including the popular The Black Psychiatrist (1983).

His work has been translated into French, German and Italian.A former member of the famous Drum magazine in its heyday in the 1950s, Lewis Nkosi was forced to live in exile by the apartheid regime after being invited to take up a Nieman Fellowship at Harvard University. He later settled in London and contributed to some of the leading literary magazines, including The Times Literary Supplement and The London Review of Books. He taught literature in a number of universities in Africa, Europe and the United States. For eight years, until 1999, he was a tenured professor in the English Department of the University of Wyoming. He currently lives in Basel (Switzerland).

ANDRÉ BRINK. Born and educated in South Africa, he started out as a University teacher in Afrikaans and Dutch Literature in the 1960s. Poet, novelist and essayist, he is one of South Africa's most distinguished writers. He started writing in Afrikaans and was censored by the then South African Apartheid government. Thereafter he began writing in English and also became published overseas. He was, and still remains, an important figure in the development of the Afrikaans novel. His book, A Dry White Season (1979), was

adapted for a film production, while An Instant in the Wind (1976) and Rumours of Rain (1978) were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction. Both Rumours of Rain and A Chain of Voices (1982) won the Central News Agency (CNA) Literary Award. The Other Side of Silence (2002) won the Alan Paton Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Writers Prize (Africa Region, Best Book), in 2003. Other novels include Looking on Darkness (W.H. Allen, 1974), An Act of Terror (Secker & Warburg, 1991), On the Contrary (Secker & Warburg, 1993), The First Life of Adamastor (Secker & Warburg, 1993), Imaginings of Sand (Secker & Warburg, 1996), Devil's Valley (Secker & Warburg, 1998), The Rights of Desire (Secker & Warburg, 2000), and Before I Forget (Secker & Warburg, 2004).He has also written numerous collections of essays on literature and politics, including Mapmakers: Writing in a State of Siege (Faber and Faber, 1983), and Reinventing a Continent: Writing and Politics in South Africa (Secker & Warburg, 1996). André Brink has been made a Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters and was awarded the Legion of Honour by the French government. He won the Monismanien Human Rights Award from the University of Uppsala, in 1992, for exposing the evils of apartheid to the world. He is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Cape Town, in South Africa.

ISOBEL DIXON. Born and educated in South Africa, she now lives in Cambridge (UK) and works in London as a literary agent. She represents writers from around the world, including a number of prominent South African authors, for the Blake Friedmann Literary Agency. She translated Marita van der Vyver's novel, Breathing Space, from the Afrikaans. Her debut poetry collection Weather Eye was published in South Africa by Carapace poets in 2001 and won the Sanlam Award for Poetry. Her poems have been published internationally in The

Guardian, London Magazine, Leviathan Quarterly, Orbis, Paris Review, Stride and in South Africa in New Contrast, New Coin, Scrutiny 2, and Carapace. Her poems have also been anthologized in City in Words (David Philip, 2001), New Writing 8, New Writing 10 (Vintage, 1999, 2001), New Writing 11 (Picador, 2002), A Literary Guide to the Eastern Cape (Double Storey, 2003), Die Horen (NW Verlag, 2004), and Imagination in a Troubled Space: A South African Poetry Reader (Poetry Salzburg, 2004).

Comp. Michela Borzaga