“Biography, The Beautiful”

Conference 8 and 9 May 2007
Venue: GEM Hall in the GEM Village, Irene (first entrance on left after entrance to Smuts House Museum)
Cost: R250-00 per day

Provisional Programme
8 May:

• 08:15-08:55 Registration
• 08:55-09:00 Welcome
• 09:00-09:45 The importance and value of indexes and bibliographies in
  genealogies (Thys du Preez, former Director: Financial
  Services, Unisa Library)
• 09:45-10:30 Pending
• 10:30-10:15 Etheldreda of Ely (Prof L Viljoen, Dept of English, Unisa)
• 10:15-10:30 TEA
• 10:30-11:15 … of a lion and Eagle (who was Constable Charles William
  Eagle?) (Charles Leach)
• 11:15-12:00 Florence Phillips (Dr Jillian Carman)
• 12:00-12:45 Biographical research value of the Smuts House Museum
  collections (Elna Kriegler, Curator)
• 12:45-13:30 LUNCH
• 14:00 Visit to Smuts House Museum (guided by Arina Kok)

• 09:00-09:45 Soil once his own: the colonial and Christian world of Lebrecht
  Hans Ari: a Khoikhoi and Moravian convert, 1771-1864 (Prof
  RS Viljoen, COD: Dept of History, Unisa)
• 09:45-10:30 Women travellers (Michelle Adler, Wits)
• 10:30-10:15 Heraldry (Marcel van Rossum, National Archives of SA)
• 10:15-10:30 TEA
• 10:30-11:15 The romance of writing biographical articles (Maryna Fraser)
• 11:15-12:00 Pending
• 12:00-12:45 Bluebeard: historical, manifestations, biographical (Prof HJ Pieterse, Head: Unit for Creative Writing, Univ of Pretoria)
• 12:45-13:30 CLOSURE & LUNCH
• 14:00 Nature walk (guided by Cheryl Dehning)

Registration form