Southern Lives Workshop 2021

Boaventura de Sousa Santos, on Southern Lives

https://www.youtube.com/embed/A5xw369lI9Q

Far Southern Resonances and Images

Carolyn Philpott [Tasmania] ‘The Musical Lives of Mawson’s Men’
Elizabeth Leane [Tasmania] ‘Decoding the life of an Antarctic radio operator’
Joanna Price [Liverpool John Moores] ‘The plankton net at the door: Scott’s hut and the imagination of ‘intimate immensity’’*
Priyanka Shivadas [UNSW Canberra] ‘Limits of Collaborative Life Writing: Juxtaposing Adivasi/Tribal and Indigenous Australian Life Narratives’
Joe Shaughnessy [Cambridge] ‘The spatial imagination of remoteness in New Zealand’
Chair: Charles Pidgeon [Oxford]

Perspectives on Time, Change, the Environment

Emma Parker [Keele] ‘Living with Colonial Remains: Doris Lessing and Janet Frame’
Charne Lavery [Pretoria] ‘Tsunami, Tornado, Tide: Amitav Ghosh’
Confidence Joseph [Wits] ‘Of Water, Water Spirits and Freedom in Sara Blecher’s Otelo Burning’
Isaac Ndlovu [Venda] ‘Biography of a Southern city, Bulawayo’
Chair: Tom McLean [Oxford]

Imagining Southern Spaces

Sarah Comyn and Porscha Fermanis [UCD] ‘Southern Activism and Life Writing’
Bernhard Schirg [Hamburg] ‘On Patagonia’
Archie Davies [Sheffield] ‘Josué de Castro’
Pablo Wainschenker [Canterbury] ‘The South as continuum space’
Cristóbal Pérez Barra [Oxford] ‘J.M. Coetzee’s Hispanic South’ 
Chair: Joe Shaughnessy [Cambridge]

Creative-Critical Crossovers in the South

Khutso Mabokela [Venda] ‘Autofictional reflections’
Elizabeth Lewis Williams [UEA] ‘Remote Imagining’
Louis Rogers [Photographer, Filmmaker, Writer] ‘The Two-Body Problem in the South’
Chair: Elleke Boehmer

 

* Joanna Price, ‘The plankton net at the door: Scott’s hut and the imagination of “intimate immensity”’. Permissions with time stamps:

Time stamp: 29:53/1:28:07
Cold porch door into Scott’s Cape Evans hut, Jane Ussher and the Antarctic Heritage Trust, Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton, (Murdoch Books, 2010, p121), by permission of Jane Ussher

Time stamp: 34:27/1:28:07
Herbert Ponting, ‘Nelson and Day landing the townet, March 15th 1911’, by permission of the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge

Time stamp: 36:29/1:28:07
Anna’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), (detail), Anna’s Cabinet of Curiosities – Lanfranco Aceti, The Studium, by permission of Judit Hersko

Time stamp: 38:46/1:28:07
Anna’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), (detail), by permission of Judit Hersko

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Anna’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), (detail), by permission of Judit Hersko

Time stamp: 40:52/1:28:07
Anna’s Cabinet of Curiosities (2011), (detail), by permission of Judit Hersko