INDIAN OCEAN ENERGIES
Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) and Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WiSER)
Venue: WiSER Seminar Room, University of the Witwatersrand
Funded through CISA by the Indian Government’s Ministry for Overseas Indian Affairs, with additional
support from the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences, and WiSER.
Thursday, 23rd July
(12-1 lunch for participants)
1-1:40 Welcome (The Indian High Commissioner, Sarah, Nuttall, Sharad Chari)
1:40-3 Indian Ocean Form (Chair: Sarah Nuttall)
Lindsay Bremner: Thinking with an Indian Ocean Archipelago
Charne Lavery: Indian Ocean Depths: Cables, Cucumbers, Consortiums
(tea/coffee)
3:30-5 Aesthetic Crossings (Chair: Dilip Menon)
Patricia Hayes: Exclusion and inclusion in Mozambican photography, 1960s-90s
Lindelwa Dalamba: Hearing South African Popular Music beyond the Black Atlantic
5-6 Sukhdev Sandhu: Hydropoetics (Chair: Isabel Hofmeyr)
Friday, 24th July
9-11 Indian Ocean Energies (Chair: Sharad Chari)
Justin Neuman: OPEC Literature: Culture Exchange and Supply Chains
Jennifer Wenzel: Fueling Culture: Energy, History, Politics
Jamie Cross: Capitalising on the Sun
(tea/coffee)
11:30-1 Security, Protection, Piracy (Chair: Kirk Sides)
Jatin Dua: Encounters at Sea: Piracy as hospitality in the Indian Ocean?
(lunch for participants)
2-5 Liquid Bodies, Energy Loss (Chair: Charne Lavery)
Zen Marie: The Pornotropics as Alter Ego: What Happens in Mauritius stays in Mauritius.
Evan Jacobs: Lost in Transit: Calculating the properties that Indian hair loses through its travel
across the Indian Ocean
(3:15 - tea/coffee break)
Meg Samuelson: Chasing Waves and Searching for Stoke from J-Bay to G-Land: Surf Travel,
Energy Consumption and Indian Ocean Circulations
Suvendrini Perera: Letters to the Angel of the Ocean
Saturday, 25th July
(tea/coffee)
10-12: Re-compositions of Capital and Commodities (Chair: Zen Marie)
Abby Berman: The Indian Ocean journey of Rwandan coffee to Johannesburg
Kwanda Lande: New Economic Spaces and Communities on the Indian Ocean Littoral: Nqura
Port in South Africa
Melinda Barnard: Through the Office Window: Corporate culture, work, and the aesthetics
of office space in an Indian corporation in Mozambique
(lunch for participants)
1-3:30: Erasures and the Present (Chair: Pamila Gupta)
Walter Matina: Revelation from Revolution: Indian trade and capital in the era of a Zanzibari
political consciousness, 1964 to the present.
Kirk Sides: Holocaust in the Indian Ocean: Jewish Exile in Mauritius and the Exotic Other of
Africa.
Joshua Reno: Islands under Erasure: Wastelands and a Possible End to US Empire in the
Indian Ocean
(tea/coffee)
4-5: Wrap-up: Indian Ocean Studies of the Emergent (Achille Mbembe, Isabel Hofmeyr,
and General Discussion)