Coetzee's Other Arts
University of the Western Cape
18 July 2016

9.15 Welcome

9.30-10.30 Creative Activities
Sam Durrant (Leeds), 'Animist materialism, creaturely mimesis and the work of inheritance.'
Eckard Smuts (Stellenbosch), '"Activities with no parallel in the rest of creation": J.M. Coetzee and 
Sport.'

Tea and coffee

10.45-1.00 Visual Arts
Marie Herbillon (University of Liège, Belgium), 'Coetzee and photography: The case of Slow Man.'
Hermann Wittenberg (UWC), 'Scenes from Provincial Life: The Boyhood Photographs.'
Meg Samuelson (UCT), 'Lessons in reading: Wicomb—Coetzee—Barthes and the figure of the 
photograph.'
Iona Gilburt (UWC), 'Scenes from In the Heart of the Country.'

Lunch

2.00-4.15 Coetzee on Stage
Kareesha Naidoo  (UWC), 'The Theatrical Adaptations of J.M. Coetzee's Foe.'
Mathilde Rogez (Toulouse), '"[H]er limbs crumple like a marionette's": Staging female bodies and 
narrative frames in J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace.' 
Michelle Kelly (Oxford), 'The Wooden Man: Grace in J. M. Coetzee's Scenes from Provincial Life.' 
Anthony Uhlmann (Western Sydney University), 'Performance as Provocation: Around Diary of a 
Bad Year, the diary, the opinion piece, the Socratic dialogue, the monologue, the commentary.'

Break

4.30-5.30 Creating with Coetzee
Nicholas Lens (Composer) TBC
Francois Verster (Filmmaker)

Concluding remarks: David Attwell (York)