REGIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTHERN AFRICAN FOLKLORE SOCIETY AND ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING (AGM)
10 - 12 SEPTEMBER 2009
RHODES UNIVERSITY, GRAHAMSTOWN

Important dates

Submission of abstracts: Closed
Notifiction of acceptance: Closed

Conference themes

Orality and innovation

  • Dynamic versus static folklore and orality and the implications this has on the future
  • Purity of culture versus the influence of English and other African languages on each other
  • Past, present and future: indigenous knowledge into the global reality
  • Sharing linguistic space in a global context
  • Sexuality and Orality
  • Urban youth culture and orality: use of Open Mic and poetry
  • Commercialisation of orality in the media
  • Orality and ethnomusicology
  • Orality and health
  • Orality and gender and sexuality
  • Orality, power and politics
  • Orality and religion

Contact Us

Ms Bulelwa Nosilela
Head of African Language Studies Section
School of Languages
Rhodes University
P.O Box 94, Grahamstown, 6140
Telephone : +27 046 603 8224
Fax: +27 046 603 8960
Email: safos2009@ru.ac.za