{"id":197,"date":"2009-11-06T17:55:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T17:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/2009\/11\/06\/creolising-societies\/"},"modified":"2017-12-05T10:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T08:16:01","slug":"creolising-societies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/events\/conferences\/creolising-societies\/","title":{"rendered":"Creolising Societies"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Theory &amp; Experiences from Reunion Island, the French Antilles&#8230; and South Africa?<\/h4>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/creolisation-poster.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-703\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/creolisation-poster.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"424\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/creolisation-poster.jpg 885w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/creolisation-poster-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/creolisation-poster-768x1085.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/creolisation-poster-725x1024.jpg 725w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Public Conference: 5-6 May 2009<\/h4>\n<p><strong>Bernard Price Building<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> East Campus, Wits University<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This two-day seminar, open to the public, discussed the concept of \u201ccreolisation\u201d and its circulation from Reunion and the French Antilles to South Africa. \u201cCreolisation\u201d is today a widely embraced and dynamic concept born from literary theory, with a high awareness of the traumas of the past (slavery and apartheid), and particularly appropriate to the analysis of the effects of globalization on societies worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Three panel discussions, accompanied by a film screening, took place during this two-day event:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Theory and critical appraisal of the concept: Reunion and French Antilles development of the concept, and its potential use in the South African context<\/li>\n<li>Creolisation and language: what role for creole languages in creolising societies ? (South African, Reunion and French Antilles case studies)<\/li>\n<li>How to represent a creolising society to the general public? The role of museums in the creolisation process (MCUR and South African experiences)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/2009-creolisation-programme-abstracts-sm.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Programme &amp; Abstracts<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Theory &amp; Experiences from Reunion Island, the French Antilles&#8230; and South Africa? Public Conference: 5-6 May 2009 Bernard Price Building East Campus, Wits University &nbsp; This two-day seminar, open to the public, discussed the concept of \u201ccreolisation\u201d and its circulation from Reunion and the French Antilles to South Africa. \u201cCreolisation\u201d is today a widely embraced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":703,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-conferences"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=197"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1378,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197\/revisions\/1378"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}