Programme

Conference: Land: Texts, Narratives and PracticesPresented by Faculty of Theology and Faculty of Law

SRC Council Room(Conference Centre, UP)

Wednesday and Thursday31/08/2016 to 01/09/2016

Session 5:

Chair: Dr. Ananda Geyser-Fouché

10:45 Dr. Ogochukwu Iruoma Nzewi(Univ. of Fort Hare)

Five Public policy imperatives for South Africa’s land reform discourse

11:15 Prof. Beate Ego(Bochum, Germany)

Land and Diaspora in Second Temple Judaism - The Book of Tobit as an Example

12:00 Prof. Nancy L. Declaisse-Walford (James and Carolyn McAfee School of Theology, Mercer University, USA)

The Importance of Place in Book V of the Psalter

12:45 Discussion

13:00-14:00 Lunch

Session 6:

Chair: Prof. Jurie le Roux

14:00 Dr. Tanya van Wyk(UP)

Reconciling diversity ‘after the locusts’? Exploring the political-theological landscape with the help of Denise Ackermann, Jürgen Habermas and Jürgen Moltmann

14:30 Dr. Irma du Plessis (UP) Land, race, space & the social imaginary: The making and shaping of the Jan Hofmeyr council housing scheme for ‘poor whites’ in Johannesburg

15:00 Prof. Alphonso Groenewald(UP)

The trauma of the Isaianic landscapes of chaos (Isaiah 1-12)

15:30 Final discussion

15:45 Conclusion:Proff. Karin van Marle & Dirk Human (UP)

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PROGRAMME

Wednesday 31 August 2016Session 1:

Chair: Prof. Dirk Human

8:30 Proff. Dirk Human (Theology) / Karin van Marle (Law) (UP)

Opening

8:45 Prof. Johan Buitendag:Dean: Faculty of Theology (UP)

9:00 Prof. Johann Kirsten(Stellenbosch)

Reflections on my 20 years of academic engagement with the land question in South Africa

9:45 Prof. Wim Beuken(Leuven, Belgium)

What can be learned about ‘the land’ from provocative language (Hos 1:2)? The book of Hosea in head-on collision with the book of Ezekiel

10:30-11:00 Tea/Coffee

Session 2:

Chair: Prof. Karin van Marle

11:00 Prof. Susanne Gillmayr-Bucher(Linz, Austria)

The king and the land: the role of King Solomon in spatial constructions of the land (especially Ps 72)

11:45 Prof. Maria Häusl(Dresden, Germany)

The Land and its Inhabitants in the books of Ezra and Nehemiah

12:30 Prof. Cheryl de la Rey:VC and Principal: UP

12:45–13:45 Lunch

Session 3:

Chair: Dr. Johanna Erzberger13:45 Prof. Christian Frevel

(Bochum, Germany)The Detour of Edom and the Concept of Land in the Book of Numbers

14:30 Prof. Ulrich Berges(Bonn, Germany)

»Instead of shame a double portion of land« (Isaiah 61:7). A social program in the Book of Isaiah

15:15 Dr. Federick Ikyaan(Nigeria)

Invading the Invader: Ethical Reflections on the Fulani invasion of Tiv land and its impact on Land use in Tiv

15:45-16:15 Tea/Coffee

Chair: Dr. Sias Meyer16:15 Mabutho Mkandla

(Zimbabwe / PhD student: UP)

Land (re-)distribution in Zimbabwe: Can it be a template for the South African Context?

16:45 Prof E Usue(Nigeria)

Reflections on Land Ownership in the Post-exilic Yehud: Affinities for discerning ideological meta-narratives of Resource Control Agitations in the Niger Delta in Nigeria

17:15 Conclusion

Thursday 1 September 2016

Session 4:

Chair: Prof. Alphonso Groenewald8:30 Prof. Karin van Marle

(UP)‘“Unlearning” – Reflections on land and spatial justice’

9:15 Prof. Dirk Human (UP) Perspectives on land from the Book of Psalms

9:45 Dr. Johanna Erzberger (UP)

“Promised Land – Purchased Land (Jer 32)”?

10:15-10:45 Coffee/Tea

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