New Social Forms & Indexing the Human Seminar Series 2014

Thurs 1-2.30pm

24 July Sylvia Croese (Stellenbosch U), “City governance in 'new authoritarian' states: the case of Luanda”

31 July Lloyd Hill and Simon Bekker (Stellenbosch U), “Language, residential space and

inequality in Cape Town: Broad-brush profiles and trends”   

7 August LAUNCH EVENT FOR INDEXING THE HUMAN: 1-3pmPeter Redfield (U. North Carolina), "After Infrastructure: Governing the Needy Human”

14 August Keith Breckenridge (WISER) – "The Book of Life: The South African Population Register and the Invention of Racial Descent, 1950–1980“ (Indexing the Human) 

21 August tba

28 August Megan Robertson, Emmanuel Mayeza, Hellen Venganai and Rob Pattman. Critical Academic Practitioners (Crap) in Education: Our Crap Contribution to teaching,

learning and research in educational institutions in Southern Africa.

18 September Saul Dubow (U. London) "The stubborn persistence of `Race’ in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa” (Indexing the Human)

25 September Bernard Dubbeld (U. of Stellenbosch) tba (Indexing the Human)

2 October Mary Khily (Open University, UK),Childhood in crisis and young motherhood  

9 October Edgar Pieterse (UCT) “The peculiar life of a digital artifact in the governance architecture of the Johannesburg Metro” (Indexing the Human)

16 October Suren Pillay (UWC) "Napoleon Confronts the Sphinx: A Lecture on Race and Genocide” (Indexing the Human)

23 October Roundtable discussion with Treatment Action Campaign, Social Justice Coalition, Slum Dwellers International and Ndifuna Ukwazi on new forms of activism

(Indexing the Human)