Contemporary Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee and Post-Apartheid South African Literature:
An International Conference

9.30- 10.15am - REGISTATION

10.15-11.30am - PLENARY (Professor Rosemary Jolly)

11.30 – 12pm - BREAK

12 - 1pm – COMEDY AND PHILOSOPHY

• Chris Warnes – ‘Villains and Clowns: Abject Masculinities in Coetzee, Galgut and Vladislavic' (University of Stellenbosh)

• Patrick Hayes – ‘Coetzeean Comedy: Folly, Play, and the Political in Age of Iron ' (St John's College, Oxford University)

12 – 1pm – FICTION AND MOURNING

• Sam Durrant – ‘Keeping Alive the Idea of Gardening in Post-Apartheid South Africa' (University of Leeds)

• Russell Samolsky – ‘The Work of Mourning: Empathy and Alterity in J.M. Coetzee's The Lives of Animals and Disgrace ' (University of California)

1 – 2pm - LUNCH

2 – 3.30pm – SELF AND OTHER

• Sonja Altnoder – ‘The Self Embracing the Other in J.M. Coetzee's Novel Age of Iron ' (University of Konstanz)

• Katy Iddiols – ‘Reading Reflections: Self-Validation and the Other' (University of London)

• Maisun Sharif – ‘Children's and Parents' Bodies: Ageing, Writing, Surviving – J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace and Age of Iron ' (Friedrich Alexander University)

2 – 3.30pm – MAN AND BEAST

• Laura Pechey – ‘Reading the schepselboek : J.M/ Coetzee and the Bible' (Girton College, Cambridge University)

• Kyoko Yoshida – ‘Cannibalism and Vegetarianism: Eating (Dis)Order in J.M. Coetzee's Fiction' (Keio University)

• Anat Pick - ‘Counter Historicity in J.M. Coetzee and William Golding' (University of East London)

3.30 – 4pm- BREAK

4 – 5.30pm – MANIPULATING HISTORIES

• Dobrota Pucherova – ‘Articulating the Ethical through Manipulating Histories in Dusklands and Nehanda ' (Trinity College, Oxford University)

• Anne Haeming – ‘Coetzee and the Problem of Authenticity: Diaries, Chronicles, Records as Index-Simulations' (University of Konstanz)

• Karina Dorn – ‘Elizabeth Costello Dis-graced?' (University of Salzburg)

4 – 5.30pm– CONSTRUCTING IDENTITIES

• Oliver Garrett – ‘Coetzee on the Borders of Self and Ethics' (University of Exeter)

• Dirk Klopper – “Fictions of the Truth' in J.M. Coetzee's Boyhood and Youth ' (University of Stellenbosch)

• Lois Wolfe – ‘Desperately Seeking Susan: Presence and Absence in Coetzee's Foe ' (Florida Atlantic University)

5.30 – 6pm - BREAK

6 – 7.30pm – PLENARY (Professor Andre Brink)

10 – 11.30am – COETZEE IN CONTEXT

• Jarad Zimbler – ‘Reading Coetzee in Context: Separating Literature from History' (Pembroke College, Cambridge University)

• Dorothy Kuykendal – “I Follow the Pen': The (Dis)Location of Two Elizabeth C's' (University of North Carolina)

• Louise Bethlehem – ‘Materiality and the Madness of Reading: J.M. Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello as Post-Apartheid Text' (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

10 – 11.30am – SOUTH AFRICAN SPACES

• James Graham - ‘Fables and Follies of Transition: Urbans Space in Ivan Vladislavic's The Folly (1994) and Achmat Dangor's Kafka's Curse (1997)' (University of Warwick)

• Lucy Graham – ‘Coetzee and the Camp' (University of Stellenbosch)

• Pieter Vermeulen – ‘Wordsworth's disgrace: J.M. Coetzee and the Idea of a South African Prose in the Afterlife of The Prelude ' (University of Leuven)

11.30 – 12pm - BREAK

12 – 1.15pm – PLENARY (Professor Elleke Boehmer)

1.15 – 2.15pm - LUNCH

2.15-3.45pm - READING COETZEE TODAY

• Erik Peeters - ‘When the Misfit Comes Home: A Comparative Reading of J.M. Coetzee's Life and Times of Michael K and Zakes Mda's The Heart of Redness ' (University of Leeds)

• Kai Easton - ‘Scandalous Fictions: Coetzee's Disgrace ' (University of KwaZulu - Natal)

• M. Neelika Jayawardane – ‘South Africa and The Nobel Laureate: The Problematics of Staged Contrition, Forgiveness and the Limits of Reconcilliation in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace ' (State University of New York)

2.15-3.45pm- WRITING POST-APARTHEID

• David Medalie – ‘ The Cry of Winnie Mandela : Njabulo Ndebele's Post-Apartheid Novel' (University of Pretoria)

• Gaurav Sethi – ‘Crisis of Identity: Afrikaner Writers Post-Apartheid' (Pembroke College, University of Cambridge)

• Maria Jesus Cabarcos-Traseira – “To neglect the past is to postpone the future': Coetzee, Galgut, Mda' (University of Corunna)

3.45 – 4.15pm - BREAK

4.15 – 5.30pm – PLENARY (Professor Derek Attridge)