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Body, Psyche and Space In OT and Apocryphal Literature Programme

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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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