AUGUST

Date: 3 August 2011
Time: 11:00-13:00
Venue: HB 7-14

“The South in World Politics”
Dr Chris Alden, London School of Economics and Political Science / UP

The role of the South in world politics is a much neglected and even derided topic. While it is clear that some of the ambitious aims of the 1970s for restructuring the global order were not achieved, today we can see through the rise of emerging powers that the international system is indeed being transformed by the South. What consistutes 'the South', what is the link between the activism of the past and the actions of the present and, finally, its impact on international institutions and systems form the core of the lecture.
Organized by the Department of Political Sciences
 

Date: 24 August 2011
Time: 16:00-17:30
Venue: HB 7-14

"Rediscovering the Humanities in SA"
Peter Vale, Professor of Humanities, University of Johannesburg

Two national panels have recently looked into the Humanities in South Africa. Both have made recommendations for their recovery. Why has this been necessary? Will their suggestions help or hinder the recuperation of the Humanities in South Africa? Indeed, do they need recuperation? These and other questions will be addressed in a lecture which is concerned about the deepening hold of utilitarian forms of knowledge not only in this country but elsewhere, too. The purpose of the lecture is to suggest that the Humanities are enduring.

Organized by the Office of the Dean

 

SEPTEMBER

Date: 8 September 2011
Time: 09:30-11:30
Venue: SciEnza Auditorium

“Consequential pictures: Suske, Wiske and Mandela”
Antjie Krog, writer, poet, journalist and academic

The mediated sequential juxtaposed images appearing in the Belgian comic "Suske and Wiske: Kaapse Kaalkoppen" (2004) react to and coalesce visually with a host of other typologies which inform particular and popular readings of Nelson Mandela within the wider discourse of tolerance, forgiveness and reconciliation. To analyse "Kaapse Kaalkoppen" is therefore to enter a gigantic archive of perceptions, normative assumptions and stores of sense-making. The visuality of the comic genre makes it easier to unravel multiple and intersecting strands of visual and verbal expressions in order to throw some light on the uneven ways in which transnational collaborations make it on the one hand possible for everybody to admire Nelson Mandela, while on the other make it impossible to take the example he sets seriously.

Organized by the Department of Afrikaans
 

Date: 21 September 2011
Time: 11:30-13:30
Venue: HB 6-4.1

"HB Coping with stress and resilience "
Susan Folkman, Professor Emeritus University of California San Francisco, USA

More information coming soon!

Organized by the Department of Psychology