Britain Zimbabwe Society (BZS)

BZS Research Day 2006

Displacement and Survival

17 June 2006
St. Antony's College, Oxford

PROGRAMME

9.00-9.30    Registration
9.30-11.00    Surviving in South Africa
James Muzondidya, (UCT): Mukwerekwere: renegotiating citizenship, nationhood & identity within the Zimbabwe diaspora in South Africa
Blair Rutherford, ( Carleton University ): Zimbabwean farmworkers in Limpopo Province , South Africa
Discussant & Chair: Terence Ranger
11.00 - 11.30 Coffee
11.30-13.00     Surviving in Britain
Martha Chinouya (London Metropolitan): HIV/AIDS among Zimbabweans in Britain : research and initiatives
JoAnn McGregor ( Reading ):Joining the BBC (British Bottom Cleaners): Zimbabweans and the care industry
Dominic Pasura ( Warwick ): Towards a multi-sited ethnography of diaspora communities in Britain
Chair : Guguletu Moyo
13.00-14.00     Lunch
14.00 - 15.30   Reflections on identity and exile
Wendy Willems (SOAS) & Winston Mano (Westminster): Makosi & Big Brother: diasporic debates about gender & identity
Clayton Peel (Oxford Centre for Mission Studies) : Exile, identity and the internet
Brian Chikwava (Caine Prize-winning author): reading from The Steak & Porridge Manifesto, a novel in progress
Chair: Wilf Mbanga
15.30-15.45     Diaspora networking: brief reports on diaspora initiatives (Chair: Ranka Primorac)
15.45- 16.00 Tea
16.00-17.30     Displacement and survival in Zimbabwe
Bill Kinsey (Free University): Who went where ... and why. Some micro-demographics following Jambana & Murambatsvina
Tony Reeler ( Amani Trust , Zimbabwe ): A people on the run: displacement and its effects on Zimbabweans
Discussant & Chair: Beacon Mbiba
17.30-18.00    Summary reflections: Diana Jeater & Knox Chitiyo
18.00 - 21.00   Book launch & nibbles at St Antony's buttery:
Zimbabwe & the Space of Silence - Special issue of The Round Table
guest-edited by Ranka Primorac & Stephen Chan
Ranka Primorac The Place of Tears: The Novel & Politics in Modern Zimbabwe (I.B. Tauris, 2006)
Attendance:
Non-members              £20
Members                      £10
Unwaged/students       £ 5

Convenors
JoAnn McGregor j.mcgregor@reading.ac.uk
Ranka Primorac rankaprimorac@aol.com