All events will take place at the Great Hall and Little Theatre at Chancellor College, University of Malawi.
Thursday 24 August 2017 - Programme Day 1
Opening Ceremony: GREAT HALL
8.00 – 8.20
Registration
8.20 – 8.25
Welcome speech by the Dean of Humanities
8.25 - 8.35
Remarks by the Principal of Chancellor College
8.35 - 8.55
Speech by the Vice Chancellor of Chancellor College
8.55 - 10.00
Introduction and Keynote address: Dr John Lwanda (Dudu Nsomba Publications, National Health Services of Scotland, Lanarkshire): Is Medical Humanities only for developed countries? Bringing the argument home
10.00 - 10.30
Health break
Music provided by Patrick Simakweli, Jazz musician
10.30 - 11.45
Parallel Sessions 1: (a) GREAT HALL (b) LITTLE THEATRE
1a) Education/Pedagogy
Moderator: Neni Panourgia
Carla Tsampiras (University of Cape Town)
Teaching Complex Histories in Health Sciences Education at the tip of Africa
Stathis Gourgouris (Columbia University)
Medical Humanities in the Curriculum: Challenges and Achievements
Chiwoza Bandawe (College of Medicine, University of Malawi)
Incorporating indigenous perspectives in the social science teaching at College of medicine
1b) Medhum history + Healthcare (Little Theatre)
Moderator: Megan Vaughan
Catherine Burns (University of Pretoria)
Breastfeeding: nurturing the medical humanities
Albert Harawa (Mzuzu University)
The effects of globalisation on Malawian herbal clinics
Emmie Chanika & Emmanuel Kalengo, [Civil Liberties Committee (CILIC)]
Medical Law in Malawi on Blood Transfusions in Minors
11.45 – 13.00
Roundtable 1 - Victoria Hume (University of Witwatersrand)
13.30 – 14.45
Lunch
14. 45 – 16.00
Parallel Sessions 2 (a) GREAT HALL GREAT HALL (b) LITTLE THEATRE
2a) Drama / Therapy
Moderator: Ama de-Graft Aikins
Chimwemwe Phiri, (Malawi Liverpool Wellcome Trust Clinical Research Programme)
Using Theatre for Development (TfD) to address severe illness in children in urban and peri-urban communities in Blantyre, Malawi.
Claire Penn & Victoria Hume (University of the Witwatersrand)
Medical humanities in context: some lessons from drama and communication
Dr Patricia Lund (Coventry University), Bonface Massah (Association of Persons with Albinism in Malawi) ,
Edgar Nyirenda (The Story Workshop, Blantyre), Gareth Dart (University of Worcester)
Combining skills and understandings to create a contextually appropriate radio drama with the aim of improving inclusive social and educational practice for learners with albinism in Malawi.
2b) Government action
Moderator: Chikosa Banda
Ngcimezele Mbano-Mweso (University of Malawi)
Interrogating government’s duty to prevent violence against persons with albinism in Malawi
Kundai Manamare (University of the Free State)
The Native as a Reservoir of Malaria: Ethics, Human Subject Research and Anti-Malaria Campaigns in Colonial Zimbabwe, mid-1940s to 1979.
Rebekah Lee (Goldsmiths College, University of London)
Towards an alternative archive of Road Safety Interventions in South Africa: A Historical and Ethnographic approach
16.00 – 16.30
Film Screening – Make Arts Stop AIDS (MASA)
Organized by Art and Global Health Center Africa
16.30 – 17.30
Focus group discussion of film with MASA actors
Friday 25 August 2017 - Programme Day 2
8.15 – 8.45
Joao Rangel de Almeida (Wellcome Trust)
8.45 – 10.00
Keynote address 2: Professor Prof Ama de-Graft Aikins (University of Ghana) Arts, Psychology and Health in Ghana: forging critical intersections
10.00 – 10.30
Tea
Tumbuka poetry performance by Paul Sezzie, Land of Poets
10.30 – 11.45
Parallel Sessions 1: (a) GREAT HALL GREAT HALL (b) LITTLE THEATRE
1a) Communication
Moderator: Rebecca Lee
Mervis Kamanga and Ron Muphuwa (University of Malawi, CLAIM Limited)
Politeness strategies in healthcare communication: a pragmatic analysis of patient-provider health interactions
Anna West (Haverford)
The Art of Village Sanitation: Visual Culture and Symbolic Violence in WASH Work
Alick Bwanali (University of Malawi)
Traditional healthcare communication: unmasking Chichewa indigenous medical terminologies
1b) Storytelling
Moderator: Grant Nthala
Camillo Lamanna (African Federation for Emergency Medicine)
Storytelling and Mnemonics: Insights from the Shambaa in Tanzania
Hannah Grayson (University of St Andrews)
Articulating growth in Rwanda
Sandy Maytham-Bailey (Documentary Photography, South Africa)
Living with Chronic Kidney Disease: “You cannot tell a poor person to take the skin off a chicken”
11.55 – 13.30
Parallel Sessions 2: (a) GREAT HALL GREAT HALL (b) LITTLE THEATRE
2a) Literature 1
Moderator: Emmanuel Ngwira
Damiano Kalinde (Chancellor College, University of Malawi)
“Inclusion as therapy”: Representation of disability and people with disabilities in Malawian films
Wongile Mbano (Chancellor College, University of Malawi)
Critiquing the representation of disabled women in selected Malawian folktales
Rodney Likaku (Chancellor College, University of Malawi)
‘The interpreter of maladies’: science fiction in Marina Abramovich’s Walk through Walls
Joanna Woods (Chancellor College, University of Malawi)
Looking beyond the body: representations of old age in literature
2b) Fieldwork
Moderator: Lawrence Dritsas
Nolwazi Mkhwanazi (University of the Witwatersrand)
The dream that had an accident: the implementation of medical male circumcision in Swaziland
Patricia Lund (Coventry University)
Science, Art, Community: building interactive understanding of albinism in Tanzania
Thea de Gruchy (University of Witwatersrand)
“Is the government going to maintain it when MSF leaves?”
Tumaini Malenga (College of Medicine, University of Malawi)
Malaria control: a community perspective from Chikwawa
13.30 – 14.45
Lunch
14.45 – 16.00
Parallel Sessions 3: (a) GREAT HALL GREAT HALL (b) LITTLE THEATRE
3a) Religion
Moderator: Anna West
Ken Lipenga (Chancellor College, University of Malawi)
Pages of plague: illness in the bible
Christopher Bunn (University of Glasgow)
Church communities and non-communicable disease prevention: an emerging approach in and for Africa
Bongani Khoswe (Art and Global Health Center Africa)
Rethinking the Approaches and Perceptions towards Depression in the Church in Malawi
3b) Indigeneity
Moderator: Glen Ncube
Mzati Nkolokosa (University of Kwazulu-Natal)
Malaria control, a cultural perspective
Edina Nherudzo and Anusa Daimon (National Archives of Zimbabwe; University of Zimbabwe and University of the Free State)
Kuuchika: African traditional/spiritual worldview on curing infertility in Malawi and Zimbabwe
Misheck Banda (Mzuzu University)
Africa’s traditional knowledge and its forced marriage to the patent system for protecting drugs: a determined appeal for divorce
16.00 – 16.30
Creative Space (organized by Art and Global Health Center Africa)
Saturday 26 August 2017 - Programme Day 3
8.30 – 9.45
Roundtable 2: GREAT HALL Professor Catherine Burns (University of Pretoria)
9.45 – 10.15
Health break
Music performed by Fine and Performing Arts Dept Band
10.15 – 11.30
Parallel Sessions 1:(a) GREAT HALL GREAT HALL (b) LITTLE THEATRE
1a) Literature 2
Moderator: Mzati Mkolokosa
Wesley Macheso (Mzuzu University)
‘The Abnormal’ as a fallacy of medicine in Kathlee Winter’s Annabel, Jeffrey Eugenides’ Middlesex and Villant Jana’s Alufeyo.
John Lwanda (Dudu Nsomba Publications/National Health Services of Scotland, Lanarkshire)
Literature, poetry and medicine: a tribute to Edson Mpina et al., 1961 - 2017
Emmanuel Ngwira (Chancellor College, University of Malawi)
Lost in Metaphor?: Mental Illness in Malawian Art and Literature
1b) Sociological
Moderator: Albert Harawa
Elsa Oliviera and Jo Vearey (University of the Witwatersrand)
The MoVE Project - methods:visual:explore
Sharifa Abdullah (Chancellor College, University of Malawi) and Helen Todd (Art and Global Health Centre Africa)
Exploring the effectiveness of using film and live theatre to break social and structural barriers that prevent that prevent communities in Zomba district from accessing HIV testing and treatment: A case study of MASA film project
Neni Panourgia (Columbia University)
Medhums: medicine for a new humanism
11.40 – 12.55
Parallel Session 2: (a) GREAT HALL GREAT HALL (b) LITTLE THEATRE
2a) Poster presentations
Moderator: Carla Tsampiras
Godfrey Mangwe Banda and Vincent Lingwa (Soche Hill Anglican Church)
Mainstreaming HIV/AIDS in our church of services
Boniface Mbewe (Chipembere Community Development Organization (CCDO))
Communication in Health
Jo Vearey
The MoVE Project
2b) Medicine in African history
Moderator: Lesley Kapile
Ojo Oyeyemi Afolabi (Adekunle Ajasin University Akungba Akoko)
Health and colonial environmental policies in Western Nigeria, 1861-1960: A historical assessment
Lawrence Dritsas (University of Edinburgh) and Sarah Warden (National Museum of Scotland, not attending)
Medical Missionary Collections in the National Museum of Scotland
Pete Kingsley and James Smith (University of Edinburgh)
Absolute zero – a history of elimination aspirations for sleeping sickness, 1945-present
12.55-14.00
Lunch
14.00-15.15
Parallel Sessions 3: (a) GREAT HALL GREAT HALL (b) LITTLE THEATRE
3a) HIV
Moderator: Bosco Chinkonda
Chikosa Banda (Chancellor College, University of Malawi)
Legal and Ethical Implications of disclosure and partner notification requirements in the Malawi HIV and AIDS prevention and management bill, 2017
L. Kapile, S. W. Mulole, A. Thomas (Chitani Community Sustainable Development Organization (CHICOSUDO))
Assessing the impacts of home based care program over adherence to ART among people living with HIV and AIDS: the case from Blantyre
Grant Nthala (Chancellor College, University of Malawi)
Therapeutic effects of self-expression inherent in the musical arts as a cultural entity in HIV/AIDS discourse
3b) Looking back and looking forward: re-thinking the medical humanities
Moderator: Sharifa Abdulla
Glen Ncube (University of Pretoria)
Medical Humanities in Africa: towards a post-biomedical and decolonial era of healthcare?
Timwa Lipenga-Garnett & Hendrina Kachapila-Mazizwa (Chancellor College, University of Malawi)
Policing disease in colonial Malawi: History, Criminalization and newspaper reporting of influenza and smallpox, 1918-1922
Rory du Plessis (University of Pretoria)
Pathways out of the asylum: the Grahamstown Lunatic Asylum, 1890-1907
15.15-15.45
Break
15.45 – 16.00
Michael Muti Etter-Phoya (Logos - Open Culture/University of Edinburgh)
Malawian (Hi)Stories and the Medical Humanities: A Digital Repository for Arts, Humanities and Health Resources
16.00 – 17.00
Theatre for Development (TfD) performance
Organized by Sharifa Abdulla (Chancellor College, University of Malawi/co-founder of Art and Global Health Centre Africa)
End of Programme
