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THE JOHANNESBURG INSTITUTE FOR
ADVANCED STUDY PRESENTS
STATE OF DIS-EASE
A transdisciplinary workshop on South
African health and illness
25 - 28 MARCH 2019
JOHANNESBURG
PROGRAMME
MONDAY
25 MARCH
17.30 – 19.30 LITERATURE AND ILLNESS:

AUTHORS IN CONVERSATION
Chair: Megan Ross, author of Milk Fever
Maneo Mohale, writer, editor, journalist, activist
Lauren Segal, author of Cancer: A Love Story
Kobus Moolman, “Not Falling, but Floating”: A reading
from The Swimming Lesson and Other Stories
Nozizwe Cynthia Jele, author of The Ones with Purpose
Phumlani Pikoli, author of The Fatuous State of Severity
TUESDAY
26 MARCH
10. 00 ARRIVALS AND MORNING TEA
10.30 - 11.40 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

Bongani Ngqulunga, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study (JIAS)
Mmamoloko Tryphosa Kubayi-Ngubane, the Minister of Science and Technology
Beth Vale, JIAS’ State of Dis-ease Project
11.00 – 13.00 THE STATE OF HEALTH STUDIES IN SOUTH AFRICA
Chair: Susan Levine, UCT Anthropology

Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, WISER
Fareed Abdullah, Medical Research Council
Chris Colvin, UCT School of Public Health
Anthea Rhoda, UWC Community and Health Sciences
Carla Tsampiras, UCT Primary Healthcare Directorate
LAUNCH: BMJ Special Edition on Medical Humanities in Africa
13. 20 LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30 CARE AS WORK

Chair: Gloria Maimela, Wits Reproductive Health Institute
Tendai Mafuma, Section 27, on community health work.
Job Zwane, Wits History Workshop, on the gossip about nurses.
Laurel Baldwin-Ragaven, Wits Family Medicine, on the health professions.
Leanne Brady, UCT Health Policy & Systems, After the Night: health work & violence
TEA
17.30 – 19.30 WHERE IS MY MIND? ARTISTS, HEALERS AND PRACTITIONERS IN

CONVERSATION ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH
Chair: Gillian Eagle, Wits Psychology Department

Sinethemba Makanya, WISER. Ukugula kwabantu: Traditional healers & mental health
Victoria Hume, Culture, Health & Wellbeing Alliance, Creator of Delirium
Thembela ‘Nymless’ Ngayi, creator of The Great African Horror Story
Tsoku Maela, creator of Abstract Peaces
Melvyn Freeman, Consultant in Mental Health & NCDs
EXHIBITION IN THE BILLIARD ROOM

WEDNESDAY
27 MARCH
10.00 ARRIVALS AND TEA
10.15 ADVOCACY BRIEF: MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (ME/CFS) in South

Africa
Retha Viviers, Director ME/CFS Foundation
10.30 – 12.30 THE BIGGEST HEALTH STORIES OF THE PAST YEAR

Chair: Pontsho Pilane, Health-e
Dylan Bush, Bhekisisa
Sibongile Nkosi, Health-e
Mark Heywood, Section-27
Vuyo Mkize, City Press
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30 BREATHLESS: THE STATE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN LUNG
Chair: Barry Kistnasamy, Compensation Commission for Occupational Diseases

Stacy Hardy, creator of Museum of Lungs
Bavesh Kana, Wits Centre for Excellence for Biomedical TB research
Carina du Toit, Legal Resources Centre, on the silicosis class action
Anastasia Koch, Nomfundo Sibiya & Zondikazi Mtonjeni,
Eh!Woza: art & science to engage youth on TB.
TEA
17.30 – 19.30 DIETS, DIABETES AND DIATRIBES:

THE DIS-EASE ABOUT FOOD
Chair: Desiree Lewis, UWC, Department of Women and Gender Studies

Aviva Tugendhaft, PRICELESS SA, on Big Food and public health policy
Mavhungu Tracy Nelwamondo, food and Functional Medicine
Florian Kroll, School of Public Health UWC, on obesity and food security
Simiso Ntuli, UJ Health Sciences, on The Diabetic Foot

THURSDAY
28 MARCH
10.00 ARRIVALS AND MORNING TEA
10.30 – 12:30 THE LIVES OF PHARMACEUTICALS
Chair: Beth Vale, JIAS

Zinhle Mncube, UJ Philosophy Department, on the use of racial categories in
biomedicine.
Rebecca Hodes, UCT AIDS Research Unit on Pharmatrash: A contemporary history of
democracy’s detritus.
Leonie Joubert , independent science writer and co-creator of The Psychonauts, on
Psilocybin as Treatment for Depression.
Sibonelo Gumede, Urban Futures Centre, on Opioid Substitution Therapy
LUNCH
14.00 – 15.30 CHARTING THE WAY FORWARD
Facilitator: Beth Vale (JIAS)
15. 30 TEA AND CLOSING
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FOR MORE INFORMATION
www.stateofdis-ease.com
Director/ Convenor
Dr Beth Vale
[email protected]
082 309 3945
Administrative Team
Reshmi Singh: [email protected]
Emelia Kamena: [email protected]
011 559 7533

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THE JOHANNESBURG INSTITUTE FOR

ADVANCED STUDY PRESENTS

17.30 – 19.30 LITERATURE AND ILLNESS:

10.30 - 11.40 INTRODUCTORY REMARKS

11.00 – 13.00 THE STATE OF HEALTH STUDIES IN SOUTH AFRICA

Chair: Susan Levine, UCT Anthropology

LAUNCH: BMJ Special Edition on Medical Humanities in Africa

14.00 – 15.30 CARE AS WORK

17.30 – 19.30 WHERE IS MY MIND? ARTISTS, HEALERS AND PRACTITIONERS IN

Chair: Gillian Eagle, Wits Psychology Department

EXHIBITION IN THE BILLIARD ROOM

10.00 ARRIVALS AND TEA

10.15 ADVOCACY BRIEF: MYALGIC ENCEPHALOMYELITIS (ME/CFS) in South

10.30 – 12.30 THE BIGGEST HEALTH STORIES OF THE PAST YEAR

14.00 – 15.30 BREATHLESS: THE STATE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN LUNG

Chair: Barry Kistnasamy, Compensation Commission for Occupational Diseases

17.30 – 19.30 DIETS, DIABETES AND DIATRIBES:

Chair: Desiree Lewis, UWC, Department of Women and Gender Studies

EXHIBITION IN THE BILLIARD ROOM

10.00 ARRIVALS AND MORNING TEA

10.30 – 12:30 THE LIVES OF PHARMACEUTICALS

Chair: Beth Vale, JIAS

14.00 – 15.30 CHARTING THE WAY FORWARD

Facilitator: Beth Vale (JIAS)

15. 30 TEA AND CLOSING

FOR MORE INFORMATION

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