Body, Psyche and Space In OT and Apocryphal Literature Programme
BODY, PSYCHE AND SPACE IN OT APOCRYPHAL LITERATURE PROGRAMME
All the sessions will take place in the Senate Hall of the Faculty of Theology
SUNDAY 14 JULY
17.00 – 18.25 | Registration |
18:30-20:30 | Welcoming Dinner |
18:30-18.40 | Welcome by conference organisers (Pierre Jordaan) |
18:40-20:30 | Dinner |
MONDAY 15 JULY
Welcoming Addresses | |
Introductions: Pierre Jordaan | |
08:00-08:05 | Introduction of Prof. Fika van Rensburg |
08:00-08:10 | Welcome by Dean: Faculty of Theology, Fika van Rensburg |
08:10-08:15 | Introduction of Prof. Martin Oosthuizen |
08:15-08:25 | Welcome by NWU Vice Rector, Martin Oosthuizen |
SESSION 1 Chair: Helen Efthimiadis-Keith |
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08:30-08:40 | Introduction of Keynote Speaker and conference programme |
08:40-09:15 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS 1: Athalya Brenner (Universiteit van Amsterdam and Tel Aviv University) Clothing Seduces: Did You Think It Was the Naked Flesh that Does It? |
09:15-09:30 | Questions for Keynote Address 1 |
O9:30-09:35 | Introduction of Session 1 Speakers |
09.35 – 09.55 | Paper 1: Nicholas Allen (North-West University) Judith: Embodying Holiness in a Godless Space |
10.00 – 10.20 | Paper 2: Risimati Hobyane (North-West University) Body and Space in Judith: A Greimassian Perspective |
10.20 – 10.35 | Questions for Papers 1 and 2 |
10.35 – 10.55 | TEA |
SESSION 2 Chair: Chris de Wet |
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11:00-11:05 | Introduction of Keynote Speaker |
11:05-11:40 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS 2: Johannes N Vorster (University of South Africa) 4 Maccabees and the Performativity of Pain, Politics, Place and Piety |
11:40-11:55 | Questions for Keynote Address 2 |
11:55-12:00 | Introduction of Session 2 Speakers |
12:00-12:20 | Paper 3: Pieter Botha (University of South Africa) The Maccabean Literature and Judean Literacy in the Greco-Roman period |
12:20-12:40 | Paper 4: Eugene Coetzer (North-West University) The Function of the Martyr’s Status in 2 Maccabees |
12:40-13:00 | Questions for Papers 3 and 4 |
13:00-14:00 | LUNCH |
SESSION 3 Chair: Pieter Botha |
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14:00-14:05 | Introduction of Session 3 Speakers |
14:05-14:25 | Paper 5: Philip Nolte (North-West University) A Politics of the Female Body. Reading Esther’s Prayer, Susanna, and Judith in a Brutalized South African Society |
14:25-14:45 | Paper 6: Chris L. De Wet (University of South Africa) Susanna’s Body: The Representation, Crisis and Resolution of Socio-Sexual Control in Daniel 13 |
14:45-15:05 | Paper 7: Dichk Mwamba Kanonge (North-West University) ETRE AND PARAITRE – The Games of Truth in the Story of Susanna |
15:05-15:25 | Questions for Papers 5, 6 and 7 |
15:25-15:50 | TEA |
SESSION 4 Chair: Busangokwakhe Dlamini |
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15:55-16:00 | Introduction of Session 4 Speakers |
16:00-16:20 | Paper 8: Natashia van der Merwe (University of Johannesburg) The Identification of the Counter-culture Rhetoric Advocating an Alternative Body Ideology as Hidden Polemic within Judith |
16:20-16.40 | Paper 9: Paul Onwuegbuchulam and Nneka Ifeoma Okafor (University of KwaZulu-Natal) A Theoretical Investigation into the Politics of Female Body and Beauty in the Book of Judith with Special Reference to Ahebi of Igboland |
16:40-17:00 | Questions for Papers 8 and 9 |
18:30-20:30 | DINNER |
TUESDAY 16 JULY
SESSION 5 Chair: Helen Efthimiadis-Keith |
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08:30-08:40 | Introduction of Keynote Speaker and conference programme |
08:40-09:15 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS 3 : Pierre Jordaan (North-West University) Body, Space and Narrative in 2 Maccabees 1:1-10a |
09:15-09:30 | Questions for Keynote Address 3 |
09:30-09:35 | Introduction of Session 5 Speakers |
09:35-09.55 | Paper 10: Busangokwakhe Dlamini (University of KwaZulu Natal) Apocryphal Literature as a Resource for the Healing of the Nation |
10:00-10:20 | Paper 11: Zacharias Kotzé (North-West University) Jungian Archetypes and Individuation in the Book of Baruch |
10:20-10:40 | Questions for Papers 10 and 11 |
10.40 – 10.55 | TEA |
SESSION 6 Chair: Pierre Jordaan |
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11:00-11:05 | Introduction of Keynote Speaker |
11:05-11:40 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS 4: Jan Willem van Henten (Amsterdam University and Stellenbosch University) Space and Body in 2 Maccabees |
11:40-11:55 | Questions for Keynote Address 4 |
11:55-12:00 | Introduction of Session 6 Speakers |
12:00-12:20 | Paper 12: Joseph Jacobus de Bruyn (North-West University) In Remembrance of God’s Messianic Vessel – ‘Body’ and ‘Space’ in Psalm 151 |
12:20-12:40 | Paper 13: Marceline Niwenshuti (University of KwaZulu Natal) Us and Them: Psyche and Violence; Comparing Jewish Persecution under Antiochus Epiphanes and the Rwandan 1994 Genocide |
12:40-13:00 | Questions for Papers 12 and 13 |
13:00-14:00 | LUNCH followed by OUTING TO GAME RESERVE and BRAAI (Barbeque) |
WEDNESDAY 17 JULY
SESSION 7 Chair: Pierre Jordaan |
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08:30-08:40 | Introduction of Keynote Speaker and conference programme |
08:40-09:15 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS 5: Helen Efthimiadis-Keith (University of KwaZulu Natal) Fish, Food and Death: An Autobiographical perspective on Tobit according to one woman’s binge-eating disorder |
09:15-09:30 | Questions for Keynote Address 5 |
O9:30-09:35 | Introduction of Session 7 Speakers |
09:35-09:55 | Paper 14: Jessie Rogers: Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick, Ireland) Where is (Woman) Wisdom to be Found and How Can We Apprehend Her? |
10:00-10:20 | Paper 15: Kudzai Taruona (University of KwaZulu Natal) The Universe as Sacred Social Space: Wisdom of Solomon and Environmental Ethics |
10:20-10:40 | Questions for Papers 14 and 15 |
10:40-10:55 | TEA |
SESSION 8 Chair: Pierre Jordaan |
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11:00-11:05 | Introduction of Session 8 Speaker |
11:05-11:40 | Paper 16: Pieter M Venter (Professor Emeritus, University of Pretoria) Spatiality in Enoch’s Journeys (1 Enoch 12-36) |
11:40-11:50 | Questions for Paper 16 |
11:50-11:55 | Introduction of Keynote Speaker |
12:00-12:35 | KEYNOTE ADDRESS 6: George W. E. Nickelsburg (The University of Iowa) Space and Time, Body and Psyche in 1 Enoch and 2 Maccabees |
12:35-12:50 | Questions for Keynote Address 6 |
12:40-13:00 | EVALUATION, PUBLICATION and WAY FORWARD |
13:00-14:00 | LUNCH |
BON VOYAGE! LEHITRAOT