2021
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Sophie Peters, Nono Motlhoki and Sharlene Khan, African Feminisms (Afems) 2021 Conference, Cape Town, South Africa, 12 October
African Feminist Creative Theorisation and the Possibilities of the Imagination, Conference on the Global Knowledge Production in African Studies, 30 September-1st October 2021
Imagining an African Press, MissRead
Feminism Ya Mang, Feminism Yethu, Feminism Yani? Video dialogue with Noma Pakade, Gorata Chengeta, Tumi Mampane and Sharlene Khan hosted by Danai Mupotsa, Goethe Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa, online, 18 February
Turbine Art Fair Talk with Craig Jacobs and Sharlene Khan, 29 August
Turbine Art Fair Talk with Mary Sibande, Reshma Chhiba and Willemien de Villiers moderated by Sharlene Khan, 29 August
– Tactile Visions-Woven Exhibition (2020) – curated a set of talks with artists:
o Bev Butkow and Sharlene Khan
o Buhlebezwe Siwani and Sharlene Khan
o Londiwe Mtshali and Sharlene Khan
o Philiswa Lila and Sharlene Khan
o Reshma Chhiba and Sharlene Khan
o Mary Sibande and Sharlene Khan
o Nono Motlhoki and Sharlene Khan
o Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani and Sharlene Khan
o Dean Hutton and Sharlene Khan
o Lebogang Mogul and Sharlene Khan
o Willemien de Villiers and Sharlene Khan
o Thania Petersen and Sharlene Khan
o Lindelwa Masuku and Sharlene Khan
o Sikhumbuzo Makandula and Sharlene Khan
o Tactile Visions curatorial vision
Love in Five Parts, Visual Collaboration with Fouad Asfour, Nono Motlhoki, Zama Mwandla as part of Kundai Moyo’s workshop for her exhibition at the KZNSA Gallery, online, 18 August
Bag Factory Studio Residency Artists talk with Georgina Maxim and Erla Haraldsdottir moderated by Sharlene Khan, online, 25 April
Skin, Bone, Fire: The First Album, Opening Talk for Philiswa Lila’s exhibition Skin, Bone, Fire: The First Album, Absa Gallery, Johannesburg, 1 February
Constructing Landscapes of Probabilities, Moderation of Dialogue between Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi and Malebona Maphutse, Cape Town International Art Fair Talks Programme, Cape Town, 14 February
Book launch respondent to Nedine Moonsamy’s The Unfamous Five, Lovebooks, Johannesburg, 29 October
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Lallitha Jawahirilal and Sharlene Khan, The Point of Order Project Space, Wits University, 10 October
2019
Keynote: A Tribute to Toni Morrison, African Feminisms (Afems) 2019 Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 7 September
Memento Mori/In-Memorium: Gendered Violence in the Visual Arts, African Feminisms (Afems) 2019 Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 7 September
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Mamela Nyamza and Beverley Barry, African Feminisms (Afems) 2019 Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 6 September
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Natasha Becker and Sharlene Khan, African Feminisms (Afems) 2019 Conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 5 September
‘We All Fall Down: Thinking through Lines of Proximity in South African Museum Visual Art Collecting’, invited speaker, What do Museums Change? – Art and Democracy, MMCA Research Project International Symposium on the occasion of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art’s 50th Anniversary, Seoul, South Korea, 28-29 June
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Lebohang Kganye and Sharlene Khan, The Point of Order Project Space, Wits University, 9 May
Memento Mori/In-Memorium: Gendered Violence in the Visual Arts, Intimacy and Injury Workshop, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 14-15 February
2018
Co-facilitator of Article Writing Workshop, National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Article Writing Workshop, Port Alfred, South Africa, 4-5 December
Co-facilitator of Decolonial AestheSis: A Parcour with Fouad Asfour, Decolonial Transformations Workshop, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK, 30 October-2 November
Co-convenor of the 2nd African Feminisms (Afems) Conference: The Mute Always Speak held at Rhodes University Departments of Fine Art and Literary Studies in English, attended by 60 presenters and 120 participants, 27-29 September
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue ‘Curating as World-Making’ with Zodwa Skeyi-Tutani, Nontobeko Ntombela, Same Mdluli, Nomusa Makhubu, Nkule Mabaso and Sharlene Khan, The Mute Always Speak, African Feminisms (Afems) Conference, School of Fine Art, Rhodes University, 28 September
Negotiating inside-outsider / outside-insider positionality through an African feminist research methodology, Plenary talk and mentoring for the Language, Literature and Art doctoral candidates at the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences Doctoral Conference, George, South Africa, 7-9th August
Artist Talk, Michaelis Galleries, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 25 July
– Convenor: Decolonial AestheSis Creative Lab, Rhodes Fine Art Department. A praxis-based creative lab with invited guests Prof Bhekizizwe Peterson, Laura Andel, Jon Alpert, Vibha Galhotra, Fouad Asfour and 22 selected participants. The Lab was sponsored by the Andrew Mellon Decolonial Funds Grant, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 8-14 July
When the moon waxes red, performative presentation as part of the Re-membering: Memory, Intimacy, Archive with panelists Tiffany Mugo, Dan Ojwang, Keval Harie, The Point of Order, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 18 April
Artist Talk, The Point of Order, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, 12 April
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Senzeni Marasela and Sharlene Khan, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 8th April
Vital Statistic of a Citizen, performance and roundtable, Narrative Enquiry for Social Transformation (NEST) conference, Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa, 22-24 March
2017
Paper presentation: The Personal is Institutional at the ‘Translate Contemporary Art’ roundtable, AICA Congress, Institut National de l’historie de l’art, Paris, 13-17 November
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Reshma Chhiba and Nontobeko Ntombela, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 27th October
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue with Nontobeko Ntombela and Sharlene Khan, Rhodes University, Makhanda, South Africa, 8th September
Video screening: When the moon waxes red, East African Literary and Cultural Studies (EALCS) Conference, University of Dar es Salaam, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, 24-26 August
Art on our Mind Creative Dialogue ‘Thinking Through, Talking Back: Creative Theorisation as Site of Praxis-Theory’ with Prof Pumla Gqola, Dr Yvette Abrahams, Six Mountains on her Back: (Re)thinking African Feminisms Colloquium, School of Fine Art, Rhodes University, 21 July
Co-convenor (along with the Department of English and Finding Africa), Six Mountains on her Back: (Re)thinking African Feminisms Colloquium, 21-22 July, Rhodes University, RSA
Presentation: When the moon waxes red, Keynote, NEST Symposium hosted by Wits-Stellenbosch-UCT Universities, 29th – 31st March, Cape Town, RSA.
Conference paper: Concerning Violence, Democratic Violence Conference, Rhodes University, 20th – 24th March, Makhanda, RSA.
Presentation: I Make Art – Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality, Symposium performative presentation, ArtSearch symposium hosted by Wits University, 9th – 11th March, Dance Factory, Johannesburg, RSA.
2016
Presentation: I Make Art – Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality, Conference performative presentation, Panel: Transgressive Acts: Transnational Bodies, Memory and Change, Black Portraitures Conference hosted by NYU Tisch School, 16th – 18th November, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA. Panelists: Roshini Kempadoo, Harun Gun Sallie, Victoria Collis
Presentation: When the moon waxes red, Conference performative presentation, Panel: Reorienting the Axis: Global African Networks and Visual Production, Black Portraitures Conference hosted by NYU Tisch School, 16th – 18th November, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA. Moderator: Kalia Brooks (New York University) and Anna Arabindan-Kesson. Panelists: Temi Odumosu; Awam Amkpa,
Panel convenor and moderator, The Black Body in Pain, Black Portraitures Conference hosted by NYU Tisch School, 16th – 18th November, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA. Panelists: Nomusa Makhubu, Same Mdluli, Khwezi Gule, Fouad Asfour
When the moon waxes red… Negotiating subjective terrain as an ‘inside-Outsider, an Outside-insider’ researcher within a postcolonial community, Conference performative presentation, Afrasians Conference, Goethe Universitat-Frankfurt, Germany, 28th – 30th September
Symposium convener: Aluta Continua: Doing it for Daddy…Ten Years On Symposium at School of Fine Art, 16th – 17th September, Rhodes University, Makhanda, RSA. Invited guests included: Khwezi Gule, Nontobeko Ntombela, Nomusa Makhubu, Same Mdluli, Fouad Asfour, Ruth Simbao, Gemma Hart, Sikhumbuzo Makandula, Simnikwe Buhlungu, Khwezi Zungu, Mosa Kaiser, Aaliyah Tshabalala. Presented the opening address: Aluta Continua: Doing it for Daddy…Ten Years On and the closing presentation: Doing Race Work
When the moon waxes red, Conference performative presentation at the Decolonising Feminism Conference, 26th – 28th August, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA
Decolonial AestheSis as a consideration for an art history curriculum, Decolonising the Curriculum Conference, 16th – 17th August, University of South Africa (UNISA), Pretoria, RSA
‘Postcolonial Masquerading’ and ‘Bio-mythography’ in the Re-telling of our Mothers Postcolonial Lives, Conference paper presentation, Association for Commonwealth Language and Literature Studies (ACLALS), 10-15th July, Stellenbosch University, Cape Town, RSA
On Being the Problem, Black Artists/White Labels, 6th June, Point of Order Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
I Make Art – Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality, Lucid Lunchbox lecture, 14th April, School of Fine Art, Rhodes University, Makhanda, RSA
When the moon waxes red, performative presentation, 1917/2017: Visual Arts after Indenture Conference, York University, Toronto, Canada, 18-20 March
2015
Touching and Fondling the Black Body – the Significance of the Blackface Sign in Contemporary South African Visual Arts, BMCCT Visual Arts Symposium, 8-11th September, Walter Sisulu University, RSA
Touching and Fondling the Black Body – the Significance of the Blackface Sign in Contemporary South African Visual Arts, Africa Research Day 2015, 16 March, School of Oriental and African Studies, UK
2014
Radical Politics, Critical Academia: Talking the Talk but Walking the Walk?, paper presented in conjunction with Dieuwertje Dyi Huijg and Terese Jonsson at the London South Bank University conference: Critical Diversities: Policies, Practices and Perspectives, 10-11 July, London, UK
I Make Art – Voicing Voice, Speaking Self and Doing Criticality, paper presented at the National Academy of Sound and Screen and the Zanzibar Film Festival Conference: Creative Practice, Context and Commentary: a Dialogue on Inspirational Production, 20-22 June, Stone Town, Zanzibar
“And so She Died Elsie”– Postcolonial Masquerading Strategies in the Works of South African Visual Artists Tracey Rose, Nandipha Mntambo, Senzeni Marasela and Mary Sibande, conference paper presented at the ARTchipelago Workshop Conference, 14 June, Mauritius
I Make Art, artist talk at the Institute of International Visual Arts (INIVA), 18 May, London, UKAvailable at: https://soundcloud.com/iniva/stuart-hall-library-research-network-sharlene-khan
An Economy of Blackness in an Economy of Whiteness – the Significance of the Blackface Sign in Contemporary South African Visual Arts, paper presented at the ‘Hallucinatory Theatres’ Goldsmiths Art Research Symposium, 12 May, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
An Economy of Blackness in an Economy of Whiteness – the Significance of the Blackface Sign in Contemporary South African Visual Arts, paper presented at the ‘Uncommon Wealths: Riches and Realities’ Conference, European Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (EACLALS), 14-18 June, University of Innsbruck, Austria
2013
“And so She Died Elsie” – Postcolonial Masquerading Strategies in the Works of South African Visual Artists Tracey Rose, Nandipha Mntambo, Senzeni Marasela and Mary Sibande, paper presented at the ‘Visualising and Materialising Colonial Spaces’ Conference, 11 January, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK
2011
Canon Collins Scholar Talk, 9 July, St Paul’s Cathedral, London, United Kingdom
Vote of thanks at launch of Canon Collins Scholarship and Legal Assistance Trust, 14 November, South Africa House, South African embassy, London, United Kingdom
2008
Artist Talk, 25 January, University of Commonwealth Qatar, Doha, Qatar
2007
Feminist Perspectives on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, paper presented at ‘Representations of Winnie-Madikizela-Mandela’ symposium, 27 – 28 June, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA
David Koloane workshop presentation, 9 May, Wits School of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, RSA
2005
Artist Talk. Umea University. Umea, Sweden. 17 January
2003
Artist Talk, Migrationsculturelles (MC2a), September, Bordeaux, France
Artist Talk, School of Fashion, September, Bordeaux, France
Perceptions of South African Indian Artists in the Visual Arts Field, Conference paper presented at the South African Architecture and Art Historian Conference, 9-11 September, Rhodes University, Makhanda, RSA
2002
Artist talk, 27 October, American University in Cairo, Egypt
1999
Female Stereotypes in Murals. Visual Art Symposium, Drakensberg, RSA
The Role of Public Art in a Post-Apartheid Society: With Special Reference to the Greater Ladysmith Area, 94 -98, June, Bat Centre, Durban, RSA