CFP: The Southern
African Historical Society
The 25th Biennial Conference,hosted by the Department of History, University of
Stellenbosch, 1-3 July 2015.
Theme: “Unsettling Stories and Unstable Subjects”
This year’s theme is both a
celebration and a challenge. The Southern African Historical Society’s (SAHS)
50th birthday marks an important milestone. At this, our 25th
conference, we come together to delight in the best our discipline has to
offer; to exchange fresh research, novel methodologies, and to engage in robust
debate and revision. Our “unstable subjects” – be they themes or historical
agents – resist historiographical consensus. The dead rest uneasily in southern
Africa, and historians are haunted by our responsibility to them. Amidst
controversy, confession and accusation and amidst a multiplicity of sites of
memory and meaning, those who research the past have to deal with the
uncomfortable ghosts of previous centuries. We historians must offer bold
analysis based on a nuanced understanding of the complexities of change over
time. Our stories can disrupt the complacent presentist narratives of the status quo, but while they have the
power to unsettle, they – in turn – are unsettled by each new generation of
historians. Of course, we also come together to acknowledge and confront
critical challenges in the profession and strategise ways to negotiate and
overcome these.
This biennial conference creates
space for professional historians and post-graduate students, and cognate
specialists like archivists, documentary film-makers and heritage
practitioners. As the professional body for Southern Africa, this conference is
not exclusive in terms of its theme. We strive to reflect the broad diversity
of the discipline – we are therefore open to individual papers or panels on unrelated
themes. We are, however, particularly interested in papers on the following
themes:
·
Disciplining
the disciplines: changes, constraints and opportunities in a globalising
academic world
·
Raiders of the Lost
Archive: archival survival in twenty first century Southern Africa
·
The geists in our machines? New ways of
thinking about industrialization
·
Festivals of History: exhibitions,
museums, tours, war commemorations and public history
·
Whither (or
wither) Political History?
·
Let a thousand
flowers bloom? Reflections on Southern African historiography
·
Business history in Africa:
corporations, consumers, culprits, casualties and cronies
·
Versions of Africa: victors, victims,
vitality in socio-economic history
·
Lives through the lens: history,
photography and film
·
Thirsting for
the truth: water histories and watering history
Paper submissions should include an abstract (max 200 words) and a very
short CV (of a brief paragraph). Panel submissions should include a minimum of
three papers (each with a 200-word abstract and short CV), a proposed chairperson
(if possible), and a 100-word panel abstract. Send to sss@sun.ac.za
We are delighted to report a confirmed keynote Jonathan Hyslop, (Colgate University).
Further details regarding procedures for the
Editor’s award for best article in the South
African Historical Journal, the SAHS Vice-Presidential annual student essay
prize, as well as the special conference edition of the South African Historical Journal will be published on the SAHS
conference website in due course: http://www.sahs.org.za/
Early-Bird
Conference registration fee: R2 000 (Regular fee: R2 500)
Conference
registration commences: 1 March 2015 and early-bird registration ends
on 10 April 2015
Post-graduate
fee: R1 600. There will also be a limited number of post-graduate
bursaries to pay the registration fees. For more information, please email
Sandra Swart: sss@sun.ac.za
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