Thursday 7 July

Session One: Exhibitionary Encounters

• Jos Thorne, Independent Consultant and Curator
  The Choreography of Display: Performing the District Six Museum

• Marijke du Toit, University of KwaZulu-Natal
  Pictures Against Pollution in Durban South: Using Photographs and Interviews in Popular Publications for Environmental Justice
  
  
• Zayd Minty, District Six Museum
  Hola Cape Town: It's Time to Take Back the Streets--Critical Public Art Practise in Cape Town from 1999
  
  
• Discussant: Deirdre Prins-Solani, Robben Island Museum
  

Session Two: The Making and Re-making of National Heritage

• Leslie Witz, University of the Western Cape
  History Below the Water Line: The Making of Apartheid's Last Festival

• Noel Solani, National Department of Education
  Where Have They Gone? The Memory of the 1917 Russian Revolution
  

• Ciraj Rassool, University of the Western Cape
  The Biographic Order

• Discussant: Premesh Lalu, University of the Western Cape

Friday 8 July

Session Three: Heritage, Museums, and Public Participation

• Crain Soudien, University of Cape Town
  Notions of the Public in Some South African Museums' Education Practice

• Luvuyo Dondolo, South African Heritage Resources Agency
  Intangible Heritage: A Study of Memory and Heritage Sites in Two Cape Town Townships
  
  
• Discussant: Marijke du Toit, University of KwaZulu-Natal
  

Session Four: Heritage Challenges

• Valmont Layne, District Six Museum
  Hands on District Six: Towards a Politics and Poetics of Memorialisation at a South African Site Museum
  
  
• Premesh Lalu, University of the Western Cape
  The History Lesson: Biopolitics, Colonial History, and the Discourse of Development in the Eastern Cape
  
  
• Discussant: Crain Soudien, University of Cape Town

Session Five: Oral Histories and the Making of Memory

• Inez Stephney, Human Sciences Research Council
  "Can These Things Speak to Us?" Narrating the Site for the Benefit of Future Visitors

• Sephai Mngqolo, McGregor Museum
  Representations of Ex-Political Prisoners' Memories in South African Museums
  
  
• Discussant: Noel Solani, National Department of Education

Saturday 9 July

Session Six: Critical Art History

• Qanita Lilla
  "Painting a Nation": A Formative International Exhibition of South African Art 1948

• Billiard Lishiko, National Heritage Conservation Commission (Zambia)
  Theories and Methods: Recent Interpretations of Kasama Later Stone Age Rock Art
  
  
• Discussant: Ciraj Rassool, University of the Western Cape

Session Seven: Documenting/Documentary

• Patricia Hayes, University of the Western Cape
  Male Trouble: Realism and Phantasmagoria in the Border War, Namibia 1976-1989

• Nicky Rousseau, University of the Western Cape and Madeleine Fullard, National Prosecuting Authority
  The Farm, the River, and the Picnic Spot: Topographies of Terror
  
  
• Patricia Davison, Iziko Museums of Cape Town
  Reconsidering Ethnography in Post-Apartheid Cultural Discourse
  
  
• Discussant: Leslie Witz, University of the Western Cape
  

Session Eight: Summing Up

• Julie Ellison, Imagining America
  
  

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