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RHODES UNIVERSITY HISTORY
DEPARTMENT
CENTENARY COLLoQUIUM
PROGRAMME
THURSDAY 15 SEPTEMBER
5.00 - 6.00 p.m.
Registration (Eden Grove foyer)
6.00 p.m.
Welcoming cocktail party (Eden Grove foyer)
FRIDAY 16 SEPTEMBER
8.00 - 8.30 a.m.
Registration (Eden Grove seminar room)
8.30 - 9.40 a.m.
CHAIR: Jeff Peires
 Hugh Macmillan, “WM Macmillan’s Eastern Cape travels”
 Bruce Murray, “WM Macmillan and Wits”
9.40 - 10.45 a.m.
CHAIR: Deryck Schreuder
 Rodney Davenport, “Oxford at Rhodes? Its middle age, 1943-90”
 Peter Kallaway & Eddie Webster, “History honours at Rhodes in 1964”
10.45 - 11.00 a.m. TEA
11.00 - 12.00 p.m. CHAIR: Alan Kirkaldy
 Paul Maylam, “History at Rhodes, 1911, 1969, 2011: some random
comparative reflections”
 Julian Cobbing, “History and crisis studies”
12.00 - 1.00 p.m.
CHAIR: Vashna Jagarnath
 Thami Tisani, “Ancestor veneration? A reflection on Macmillan’s surviving
influence in the history curriculum at Rhodes University”
 Nicholas Southey, “The Age of Anne during the age of apartheid: thoughts on
what we teach and learn”
1.00 - 2.00 p.m.
LUNCH
2.00 - 3.30 p.m.
CHAIR: Carla Tsampiras
 Robert Shell & Michael Berning, “The machine gun and the feather: aspects
of South African nation-building historiography, 1903-19”
 Sandy Shell, “Reflections on the Cory Library”
 Ann Torlesse, “South African literary research: the role of the National
English Literary Museum”
3.30 - 4.00 p.m.
TEA
4.00 - 5.00 p.m.
CHAIR: Theresa Edlmann
 Alan Webster, “How a history MA prepared me to run an international jazz
festival”
 Ashley Westaway, “Thinking backwards and forwards: acknowledging and
provoking the Rhodes history department”
5.00 - 6.00 p.m.
 Book Launch: Martin Legassick, The Struggle for the Eastern Cape (Cory
Library)
7.00 p.m.
 Colloquium dinner (Eden Grove dining-room)
SATURDAY 17 SEPTEMBER (St Peter’s seminar room)
8.30 - 9.40 a.m.
CHAIR: Paul Maylam
 Jim Davidson, “`Also under the Southern Cross’: South African-Australian
relations, 1850s-1970s”
 Deryck Schreuder, “`Roads Scholar’: reflections on the idea of a university”
9.40 - 10.45 a.m.
CHAIR: Julie Wells
 Rosemary Jackson, “A woman student’s experience at Rhodes University in
the 1960s”
 Robert Morrell, “Masculinity, politics and history: reflections on Rhodes in
the 1970s”
10.45 - 11.00 a.m. TEA
11.00 - 12.00 p.m. CHAIR: Hugh Macmillan
 Jeff Peires, “Introducing John Parkies of Sterkspruit”
 Luvuyo Wotshela, “Grappling with the Eastern Cape’s marginalised histories
during the dying years of apartheid”
12.00 - 1.00 p.m.
CHAIR: Enocent Msindo
 Nomalanga Mkhize, “Karoo farm workers and dwellers: land, voice and
agency”
 Andy Manson, “Mining and local communities: a view from the platinum
fields”
1.-00 - 2.00 p.m.
LUNCH
2.00 - 3.30 p.m.
CHAIR: Robert Morrell
 Sean Greyling, “How the study of history has influenced a teaching career”
 Rob Siebörger, “The post-apartheid South African history school curriculum”
 Lara van Lelyveld, “Dignity, citizenship and educational participation”
3.30 - 4.00 p.m.
TEA
4.00 - 5.00 p.m.
CHAIR: Nomalanga Mkhize
 Rebecca Hodes, “New perspectives on sexual and reproductive health in
South Africa”
 Jurg Richner, “History: cross-disciplinary surprises everywhere and worrying
trends in our own backyard”
Participants are reminded that oral presentations will be limited to twenty minutes.