Recent Conference Presentations
2018 presentator, “‘First and Foremost, We Need to Feel’: Women as Breakers of Silence at the Johannesburg Women ’s Jail,” Honoring Ancestors in Africa: Arts and Actions, African Studies Program Symposium, Madison (April).
2017 Convocer, verontrustend geschiedenissen: publieke kunst en vooroordelen conferentie, presentator, “‘The walls are so silent’: spaces of confinement and gendered meanings of incarceration in South African commemorative art, “University of Johannesburg (November)
2017 presentator,” Crafting a political hero: art and feminist intent in the work of Sandra Kriel, “17th Triennial Symposium on African Art, Ghana (augustus) paper delivered in absentia
2017 presentator and Discussant,” Information Fluency in the Disciplines Workshop In The Arts: History, Theory, and Criticism, “Association of College andResearch Libraries and the Council on Library and Information Resources Workshop, New Orleans (April)
2015 Invited Speaker,” Apartheid and After: Gendered Images of South Africa ’s Struggle,” Department of Art History, Fifth Annual Speaker Series on War/Art/Peace, University of St.Thomas, Minnesota (April). Link naar poster (pdf).
2014 presentator en co-voorzitter: “Doing Feminist Activism and Research Digitally,” National Women ‘ s Studies Association Conference, San Juan Puerto Rico, (November)
2014 “The Pain of Seeing VS. the Anguish of Oblivion: Representing Suffering in South Africa’ s Public Sphere, “Walter Rodney African Studies Seminar Series, Boston University (April)
2014″ Reportions of Trauma and The ‘Innocent Eye’: Some Tensions around the Commemoration of Pain and Suffering from the Apartheid Past, “16th Triennial Symposium on African Art, Brooklyn (March)
2014″ The Museum, the Archive, and ’the Space Outside’: Locating Women ’s Political Voice in South Africa’ s Memorial Landscape,” Digital Humanities Initiative Speaker & Workshop Series on Women, Feminism, and Digital Humanities, Hamilton College (April). Link to poster (pdf)
2014 “The Place that Used to be Hell has been Changed to Heaven”: Women ‘ s Incarceration, Agency, and the Reinvention of Space in a South African Prison,” Institute of African Studies Research Seminar, Emory (februari)
2013 “Protest, Pain, and Place: Locating South African Women’ s Activism Against Apartheid,” Department of Women and Gender Studies, The College of New Jersey (maart)
2012 “Silences/Violations/Interventions: Mapping the Cultural Landscape of Women’ s Political Lives,” Department of Women ‘ s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University (februari)
2011 “Memory, mourning, and militancy: New Directions in Researching and Women ’s Lives,” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Amherst, (June)
2011 “Feminist(s) Approach (es): Feminism and the Shaping of African Art” 15th Triennial Symposium on African Art, UCLA, (maart)
2010 “Transforming the Core: Integrating Transnational, Activist, and Food Feminisms to the Women’ s Studies Major,” Program Administration and Development Pre-Conference, National Women ‘ s Studies Association Conference, Denver (November).
2010 ” Verdwijnende Handelingen: The Visual Geographies of South African Women ’s Activism Against Apartheid,” National Women ’s Studies Association Conference, Denver (November)
2010″ Regarding Heroes: The Visual Geographies of South African Women ’s Activism Against Apartheid” Remembering Africa and its Diasporas, Ottawa (oktober)
2010 “Places of Protest, Places of Pain, and the Politics of Commemoration,” North Eastern Workshop on Southern Africa Burlington, Vermont (April)
2010 “Singing, Sewing, Sitting: Herdenking van de politieke rol van vrouwen na Apartheid, ” Third Biennial Symposium of the Department of Art History, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia (februari)
2009 “Teaching and Researching the Visual Culture of Women and War: Political Engagement in African Societies,” American Association of Colleges and Universities Conference on Integrative Learning: Addressing the Complexities, Atlanta, GA (oktober)
