Announcing the 120-year Commemoration of the Anglo-Boer (South African) War International Conference

9-11 October 2019

AT: War Museum of the Boer Republics
Bloemfontein, South Africa

Programme:
Wednesday, 9 October 2019
Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall (This session will be livestreamed to Venue B from Venue A)
8:00-8:30
Registration

8:30-8:50
Welcome: Director of the War Museum: Tokkie Pretorius
8:50-9:00
Opening of the conference; Chairman of the Board of the War Museum: Dr Garth Benneyworth
9:00-9:20: DVD show; Cultural Historical Collection of the War Museum
9:20-10:00
Keynote Speaker: Prof Fransjohan Pretorius: A historiography of the Anglo-Boer War 1899-2019: 120 years of a fruitful labour.
10:00-10:30
Tea break

Session 1
Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall

Chair: To be announced

Chair: To be announced

10:30-10:50
Prof Stephen Badsey: The Anglo-Boer War and the British Military Tradition
Dr Johan Hattingh: The British blockhouse system during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
10:50-11:10
Prof Edward Spiers: Epic sieges: British and Boer participation and Imperial perspectives (To be confirmed)
Prof Walter Peters: Re-imaging the blockhouse legacy
11:10-11:30
Mr David Katz: An aggregation of lion hunters: The Boer way of war in the Second Anglo-Boer War

Mrs Celia Becker: The role of the Pretoria-Pietersburg railway line in the Northern Transvaal during the war
11:30-11:40
Questions

11:40-13:00
Lunch

Session 2
Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall

Chair: To be announced

Chair: To be announced

13:40-14:00: Mr Peter Greeff
Overview of the organisation and role of the railways in the Anglo-Boer War (To confirm title)
Dr Ron Bester: The influence of the Anglo-Boer War on early 20th century warfare
13:00-13:20
Dr Tian Schutte: Train wreckers – Boer attacks on and destruction of trains, stations and railway lines in the ZAR during the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
Dr Servaas Rossouw: Etiese Oorwegings van Genl CR de Wet se rol in die Anglo-Boereoorlog 1899-1902 tydens die stellingkrygfase
13:20-13:40
Dr Dennis Walters: Repairs to railway destruction by the Royal Engineers during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902
Ms Thobile Netshivhazwaulu: The Role of Logistics and Morale in Capitulation of Boer Guerilla Forces during Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902
14:00-14:10
Questions

14:10-14:40
Tea break

Session 3
Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall

Chair: To be announced

Chair: To be announced

14:40-15:00
Prof Louis Changuion: Die Anglo-Boereoorlog in Soutpansberg – Die vergete oorlog (Title to be confirmed in English)
Dr Arnold van Dyk: Boer Medical Arrangements in the Orange Free State during the guerrilla phase of the war.
15:00-15:20
Prof Stephen Miller: Edgar Wallace’s War: Reporting the Battle of Vlakfontein
Dr Sydney Cullis: The Anglo-Boer (South Africa) War and the Heroic Antarctic Explorers
15:20-15:40
Dr Graham Winton: Plumer's Column: the Anglo-Boer War on the North West Frontier 1899-1900
Mr Johan Wolfaardt: Brothers in Arms: An overview of Freemasons and the Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902
15:40-15:50
Questions

16:00
Sessions end

18:30 for 19:00
UFS Formal Conference Dinner at Onze Rust

19:00-19:15
Rector of the UFS

19:15-19:30
Advocate Colin Steyn

Thursday 10, October 2019

Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall (This session will be livestreamed to Venue B from Venue A)
8:00-8:30
Registration

8:30-9:00
Prof Albert Grundlingh: Writing on the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902: An auto-ethnographic reflective journey.
9:00-9:10
Questions

9:10-9:20
10-minute break

Session 1
Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall

Chair: To be announced

Chair: To be announced

9:20-9:40: Dr Garth Benneyworth: Traces of black concentration camps: Kimberley and Dry Harts, 1900-1902

Prof Anton van Vollenhoven: An Archaeological perspective on Steinaecker’s Horse, a British volunteer unit during the Anglo-Boer War
9:40-10:00

Dr Elizabeth van Heyningen: Managing conflict: Trauma and memory in the concentration camps of the Anglo-Boer War / South African War
Dr Derek du Bruyn: The British soldiers’ Bloemfontein: impressions and experiences during the time of the British occupation, 13 March – 3 May 1900
10:00-10:20

Prof Andries Raath: Todorov, Agamben and the British Concentration Camps of the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902: Memory, Hope and the State of Exception
Dr Mark Coghlan: A South African Reserve Force Regiment and the remembrance of an Imperialist War: The case of the Natal Carbineers
10:20-10:30
Questions

10:30-11:00
Tea break

Session 2
Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall

Chair: To be announced

Chair: To be announced

11:00-11:20
Dr Cornelis Muller: Set in stone? The legacy of Emily Hobhouse’s peace activism during the South African War.
Dr Jacobus van Tonder: Irene van kampkerkhof tot gedenktuin.
11:20-11:40
Ms Elsabe Brits: Emily Hobhouse – Pacifism, Gender and #Herstory
Me Nikke Basson: Die moontlike langtermyn invloed van die Anglo-Boereoorlog op kinders, met spesifieke fokus op wanvoeding en ervarings
11:40-12:00
Me Carla Wasserthal and Me Annemarie Carelsen: Emily Hobhouse’s influence on the South African weaving tradition in perspective.
Mnr Christo Rabie: Educational programmes and methodology of youth experiences during the Anglo-Boer War.
12:00-12:10
Questions

12:10-13:30
Lunch

Session 3

Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall

Chair: To be announced

Chair: To be announced

13:30-13:50

Dr Phylomena Badsey: A Comparison between Vera Brittain & Emily Hobhouse
Prof Michael de Jongh: THE HUMAN, HUMANE AND EVEN THE HUMOROUS – untold stories from the ‘forgotten front” of the Anglo-Boer War in the Karoo
14:10-14:30

Lt Cdr Glenn von Zeil: Battle Scars & Dragon Tracks – story of Nurse Lily Boshoff (nee Rautenbach) and Captain Arthur Owen Vaughan
Dr Dean Allen: Logan’s game: Matjiesfontein and the Anglo-Boer War
14:30-14:50

Mr Anthony Hocking: Edith Dickenson – an Australian Emily Hobhouse?
Mr Eben Proos: Proposed Battlefields Route for the Central Karoo
14:50-15:00

Questions

15:00-15:30
Tea break

Session 4

Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall

Chair: To be announced

Chair: To be announced

15:30-15:50

Prof Piet Strauss: JD Kestell as veldprediker 1899-1902
Dr Hendrik Snyders: Rugby, War and New Zealand Identity
15:50-16:10

Mr Patrick Rundgren: Connecting generations – Men from Dundee who served
Me Annemarie Carelsen: Kleding tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog

16:10-16:30

Ms Pam McFadden: Memorials of the Anglo Boer War to commemorate the Australian involvement in the Anglo Boer War
Mr Ron Gold: The Battle of Willow Grange (23 November 1899) – The end of the beginning
16:30-16:40

Questions

17:00
Sessions end

18:00: Tour through the Museum

18:30 for 19:00: Semi-formal dinner at the War Museum

19:00-19:15: Kedar Heritage Lodge and War Museum Mutual Project Announcement

Friday, 11 October 2019

Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall (This session will be livestreamed to Venue B from Venue A)
8:00-8:30
Registration

8:30-9:00
Prof Andre Wessels: Commemorating a bloody war: looking back and forward on the eve of the 120-year commemoration of the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902
9:00-9:10
Questions

9:10-9:20
10-minute break

Session 1

Venue A: M.T. Steyn Auditorium

Venue B: J.H. de La Rey Hall

Chair: To be announced

Chair: To be announced

9:20-9:40

Dr Jackie Grobler: Anglo-Boereoorlog monumente en gedenktekens (Title to be confirmed in English)
Dr Isabelle Dor de Bernonville: Album of a French POW at Ceylon
9:40-10:00

Mr Jonathan Stone: Transforming Memorials of Exclusivity: Preserving the South African National Anglo-Boer War Memorial: A Case Study
Prof Daniel Yon: Lace-making, Boer Prisoners and an Exhibition of the Industrial Arts of St Helena Island, 1900-1902
10:00-10:20

Ms Dane Swanepoel: Social injustice and social remembrance in Calvinia: Abraham Esau’s controversial memorial
Mr Robin Woodruff: Prisoners of the Boer War on St. Helena and Freemasonry (To be confirmed)
10:20-10:40
Mr Motsaathebe Serekoane: The trajectories of memorabilia in a post conflict society: lessons from the review process of pres MT Steyn Statue
Ms Vicky Heunis: Boer POW Trench Art
10:40-11:00
Panel discussion

11:00-11:10
Acknowledgements

11:10-11:30
Tea break

11:30-13:30
Unveiling of the President Steyn Statue and opening of the relocated Paardeberg Museum
Full programme to be announced

13:30-15:00
Lunch

15:30
End of the Conference

Saturday, 12 October 2019
Post-conference day tour
Assemble at the War Museum for departure at 8:00
The battle site of Driefontein and unveiling of Australian monument.
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