2nd Johannesburg Biennale 1997
Public Lectures & Conference Papers

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Achille Mbembe  Narratives of Identity and Difference in Late 20th Century Africa
Andreas Huyssen The Voids of Berlin
Armin Medosch Geography is (not) History: From-Munich-to-London-to-Johannesburg 
(via Sao Paulo)
Ashraf Jamal In Other Words
Carol Becker Surpassing the Spectacle: America at the End of History
Carol Steinberg
Catherine David Mega and/or Meaning Policy
Charles Merewether Aftermath
Colin Richards Missing You: Indecent Self-Possession
Damien Pwono
Els van der Plas Funding and Culture: Searching for New Approaches
Francesco Bonami Kula of Contemporary Visions: Rituals of Exchange in a Ring of Cultures
Gayatri Spivak Women
Gerardo Mosquera On Composing a Medium
Gilane Tawadros Webwork and Diaspora
Howardena Pindell Diaspora/Realities/Strategies
Isaac Julien Resisting Representations
Ivan May  One’s Rightful Slice of the Sponsorship Pie
John Noyes Theorising Mobility: Itineraries, Nomadism, and the Writing of History
Kobena Mercer Postcolonial Corpse
Kole Omotoso Exploring Musical Space by Means of Virtual Architecture
Lewis Nkosi Postcoloniality as a Condition for Homelessness
Lorna Ferguson,  Cultural Converters: Biennales and Cultural Commodification 
Naín Nómez Exile Writing: The Rooting Memory and the Search for the Lost Identity
Manthia Diawara What is World Cinema, and What is African Cinema in World Cinema?
Meena Alexander Translated Lives: The Poetry of Migration
Pauline Terreehorst The Place You Want To Be
Peter Wollen Globalisation and the Poetics of Place
Ravi Sundaram  Endless Beginnings: Reflections on Troubled Electronic Journeys in  the Periphery
Richard Powell Three Artists on the Implications of Diaspora
Salem Mekuria From the Diaspora with Love
Sarat Maharaj "semi-Semitic Serendipitist*you*Europeanised Afferyank": diaspora, damaged 
life, difference. 
Saskia Sassen Questions of Scale: Telepistmology and the Missing Referents
Taslima Nasrin Women’s Cultural Identity
Vasif Kortun Instant History
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