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RSVP flyer · the table

Version 7, with a line under the RSVP: mysterious food will be supplied, and allergies should be named. Version 7 is unchanged.

Print at 100%. Two copies fit on one A4 sheet. An earlier sheet, kept as printed. The current facts — the Lecture Hall, and a reply by Friday 30 October — are on version 10.

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Graduate School
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
The Assemblies · 2026

Waiting · an Assembly

Nobody signs a delay.

A refusal has an author, a date and a reason. A delay has none. Eight papers, one Assembly, on the theme of waiting.

Monday9 November 09:00 – ±17:00 2026 · Stellenbosch

  1. I

    Waiting in administrative & immigration law

    June Luna

    Admitted Attorney of the High Court

  2. II

    Racing against time / waiting en route

    Dr Bo Lyu

  3. III

    I wait for “Noman”: Homer’s Penelope and the heroism of staying behind

    Dr Louise-Mari Muller

  4. IV

    Waiting to Be Named: Forensic Facial Depiction, Human Identification and the Time Between

    Dr Elysia Greenway

  5. V

    The infrastructure does not wait: managed incompleteness and ecological harm in South Africa’s renewable energy frontier

    Dr Stephanie Borchardt

  6. VI

    Wait in the Universe; Wait and chances in life

    Prof. Yin-Zhe Ma

  7. VII

    To wait or not to wait? ‘Patience’ as a form of self-denial in Jeanne Benameur’s La patience des traces (2022)

    Jaco du Plooy

  8. VIII

    Love deferred

    Prof. Catherine Du Toit

RSVP

deferralwithoutdenial.org/take-part

or e-mail the FASS Graduate School · graduateschool@sun.ac.za

Mysterious food will be supplied. Kindly indicate your allergies, if any.

Convened by Dr Bo Lyu · Modern Foreign Languages · bo@sun.ac.za