Works-in-Progress Schedule of Presentations

WORKS-IN-PROGRESS SHOWCASE
  • 9:30: introductions
  • 9:45: Alex Morelli “Becoming”

10:15-11:30: “Archives and collections”

  • Tye Landels-Gruenewald “The Legislative Origins of the British Slave Trade Archive, 1787-1789”
  • Jane Harwell: “‘Never Naturalist shall view’: Empiricism, Imperialism, and Captivity in Charlotte Smith’s ‘To the fire-fly of Jamaica, seen in a Collection’”
  • Anya Lewis-Meeks: “Y’all Remember How Deep it Go? Mythohistory, Collective Memory and Collaboration in Rivers Solomon’s The Deep”
  • 11:30: Samia Noor: “Documenting the Venezuelan Migration Crisis”
Break
  • 1-1:30: “Linguistic Landscapes of Durham”
  • 1:30-2: Vivien Rendleman, “Indigeneity and Immigration”
2-3: “Caribbean Resonances”
  • Kelsey Desir “Literary Diaspora-Making: Narratives of Haitian Legacies”
  • Isabel Bradley “Telling Impossible Stories: Narrative Detours, Vodou’s Archive and the Middle Passage”
  • 3-4: Remembering the Middle Passage Project

2/26, 12pm “In the dark times, will there still be singing? The Imagination and Constraints in Zimbabwe”

screenshot

Tinashe Mushakavanhu presents a timeline of literary production in Zimbabwe, focusing on 3 critical waves that have shaped the country’s black writing and intellectual traditions. Although Zimbabwean writers have longed for a secure place within the hierarchy of professions, their social status has remained ambiguous. At the same time, even though the successful development of literary infrastructure in the 80s salved persistent anxieties about Zimbabwe’s place in Africa after a prolonged period of isolation under Rhodesia’s unilateral declaration of independence, things disintegrated during Robert Mugabe’s long tenure in power. In this talk, he interrogates the discord and harmony of Zimbabwe’s recent post-independence history through the prisms of his digital archive, readingzimbabwe.com.

Tinashe Mushakavanhu is a writer and editor from Zimbabwe. He is the 2018 Andrew W. Mellon Writer in residence at Rhodes University, South Africa. He is the principal researcher for readingzimbabwe.com.

Photo credit: Argenis Apolinario

To RSVP, please click here.