Spring Semester Programme, 2009

11 August
Prof. Raymond Suttner (UNISA)
“‘The Road to Freedom is via the Cross’. ‘Just Means’ in Chief Albert Luthuli’s Life.”

25 August
Tim Gibbs (University of Oxford)
“Chris Hani – ‘Country Bumpkin’? Umkhonto we Sizwe in the Transkei, 1974-1994.”

8 September
Dr Elaine Salo (Tuks), “Feminism, women, men and human rights issues in contemporary Africa - the imperatives of transdisciplinary conversations.”

22 September
Prof. Cynthia Kros (Wits), “The Politics of Virtue: Repertoires and Choreographies of Women’s Protest in South Africa – 1946 – 1986.”

6 October
Dr Ernst Wolff (Tuks), “On the nature of global conflict. With Levinas at the Intersection of ethnography, political science and philosophy.”

20 October
Dr Karen Brown (Wellcome Trust, University of Oxford), “Its a dog's life: Rabies and Public Health in KwaZulu Natal.”

Please show your support for this new initiative with your attendance. All welcome! Refreshments will be served.

If you would like to present at the seminar, suggest a speaker, or be added to the seminar mailing list, please email Dr Thula Simpson at ([email protected]).