"Remarkable South African Women: Revealed through Indexing and Bibliography"

Conference 7 May 2008
Venue: EISA Offices, 14 Park Road, Richmond, Johannesburg
Cost: R300 (including lunch and high tea); or R220 (including lunch only)

Programme
08:00-08:25 Registration
08:25-08:30 Welcome (Dr Jackie Kalley, EISA)

Session 1: Yvonne Garson (ASAIB Executive Committee)
08:30-09:00 Olive Schreiner (Stephen Gray, Emeritus Professor, UJ)
09:00-09:30 A new look at Ruth First (Dr Shireen Hassim, Dept of Politics, Wits)
09:30-10:15 Searching for information – a user’s perspective (Ruda Landman, Journalist)

10:15-10:30 TEA

Session 2: Jackie Kalley (ASAIB Executive Committee)
10:30-11:00 Granite reinforced with wire : seeking for the real Lilian Ngoyi (Cynthia Kros, Heritage Dept, Wits)
11:00-11:30 The uniqueness of Sophie Gray, Architect (Paul Kotze, Dept of Architecture, Wits)
11:30-12:00 Women and war (Elria Wessels, Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein)
12:00-12:30 African women crafters (Sue Shellshop)

12:30-13:30 LUNCH, craft demo’s and buying

Session 3: Peter Duncan (ASAIB Executive Committee)
13:30-14:00 SA women artists: thoughts of an experienced and knowledgeable art lover (Stephan Welz, former Director Stephan Welz & Company)
14:00-14:30 An overview of the role of Afrikaans women in the 20th century (Dr Dione Prinsloo, Dept of History, Unisa)
14:30-15:00 Wives and workers: the real life of Johanna Terburgh (Elsabe Brink (Historian and heritage consultant) and Henriette Latsky (Head: Archiving, Special Collections and Institutional Repository, Library and Information Centre, UJ)
15:00-15:30 Skirting the edges of civilisation : 19th century women travellers in South Africa (Michelle Adler, English Dept, Wits)

15:30-15:45 Closure (Marlene Burger, ASAIB Chairperson)

16:00 HIGH TEA

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