Sara Baartman Colloquium
On March 1, 2010, the Africana Research Center and the Institute for the Arts and Humanities presented "The Meanings of Saartje (Sara) Baartman" as part of the Moments of Change series.
Watch the Colloquium on CNet!
Speakers
Desiree Lewis works at the Women and Gender Studies Programme at the University of the Western Cape. She has written extensively on questions of feminist research, embodiment and politics. She is also a board member of the Saartjie Baartman Women’s Centre, a partnership NGO in Cape Town.
Yvette Abrahams was born in Crawford, Cape Town, South Africa. She holds a Ph.D in History from the University of Cape Town, dealing with the historiography of race, class and gender with regard to the Khoekhoe (South African Indigenous peoples). She has written extensively on Sara Baartman.
Arlene R. Keizer is an Associate Professor, English School of Humanities and an Associate Professor,African American Studies School of Humanities at UC Irvine. Her research interests include African American literature and culture, Caribbean literature and culture, literary and critical theory, critical race and ethnic studies, feminist theory, and cultural studies.
Beverly Guy-Sheftall is the Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women’s Studies and English, and the Director of the Women’s Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. She is the editor of Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought and coeditor (With Rudolph Byrd) of Traps: African American Men on Gender and Sexuality among many other publications.
Zanele Muholi won the Casa Africa award for best female photographer and a Fondation Blachère award at Les Rencontres de Bamako biennial of African photography (2009). She also received a Fanny Ann Eddy accolade from IRN-Africa for her outstanding contributions in the study of sexuality in Africa, at the Genders & Sexualities in Africa Conference held in Syracuse, New York. She has worked as a community relations officer for the Forum for the Empowerment of Women (FEW), a black lesbian organisation based in Gauteng, and as a photographer and reporter for Behind the Mask, an online magazine on lesbian and gay issues in Africa. Her work represents the black female body in a frank yet intimate way that challenges the history of the portrayal of black women's bodies in documentary photography. Source
