Registration deadline: February 28, 2014.
The Academic and Non-fiction Authors’
Association of South Africa (ANFASA) was founded on March 13, 2004, as the
first national association specifically for authors of non-fiction works,
textbooks and academic books, dedicated to promoting their works, sharing
information and offering advice.
ANFASA) will celebrate its 10th anniversary
by reflecting on the issues facing writers today. The ANFASA conference takes
place in Boksburg from March 13 to 15, 2014.
Among the hot topics up for discussion
during the conference will be the rapid advances in digital publishing and the
increasing move towards open and free access to published works. Technology is
certainly changing the way authors engage with their readers, and can be used
to help learners access educational materials in the digital age – but what
about the author’s right to fair remuneration?
Mbulelo Mzamane, former Director of the
Centre for African Literary Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, will
chair a panel discussion on policies and practices relating to indigenous
languages in education in the 20 years since democracy, focusing on how best to
incorporate indigenous languages within the school curriculum.
The protection of authors’ intellectual
property will be examined in depth by an international panel and open-access
systems will be debated by a panel chaired by the University of Pretoria’s Beth
le Roux. The panellists include Keyan Tomaselli from the University of
KwaZulu-Natal.
ANFASA invites authors of academic and
non-fiction material – regardless of whether their works have appeared in print
– to register to attend the three-day conference which will take place at the
Birchwood Conference Centre on Johannesburg’s East Rand. For more details visit
www.anfasa.org.za/conference.asp
or e-mail admin@anfasa.org.za
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