Prof Maxi Schoeman holds a PhD from the University of Wales (Aberystwyth). She joined the University of Pretoria in 2000 as professor and head of the Department of Political Sciences and currently also serves as chair of the Core Social Sciences cluster in the Faculty of Humanities. She is a member of the University Council and an adjunct professor in the School for Public Policy at George Mason University in the United States. She held research fellowships with Cambridge University (1995/96), the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute (2001), the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation (2009) and the Nordic Africa Institute (2009). She was recently awarded the 2014 Claude Ake Visiting Chair at the University of Uppsala, a position that she will take up in August this year. She has presented guest lectures and seminars at, amongst others, the Universities of Copenhagen, Aalborg, Konstanz, Indiana and Beijing. She maintains close research ties with the African Leadership Centre in Nairobi and the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra. She is a member of the Advisory Board of the African Peace Network of the Social Sciences Research Council in New York and serves on the editorial boards of several local and international journals in the field of international relations.

The UP Expert Lecture Series provides a public platform for researchers of the University of Pretoria to engage with a general audience on significant developments in their fields of expertise that are likely to have an impact in the future.

Date: Wednesday 5 March 2014
Lecture will start at: 17h00, followed by cocktails
Venue: Senate Hall, Hatfield Campus, Pretoria
RSVP: Click on the link: web.up.ac.za/uprsvp5 by 26 February
Enquiries: Lynette Smith, 012 420 2278