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XENOPHOBIA

DATE: Thursday 19 June 2008
TIME: 6pm – 8pm
VENUE: Lecture Theatre 1, Kramer Law Building, Middle Campus UCT
Refreshments will be served from 6pm – 6.30pm
Pizza to be sponsored by Butlers

RSVP: wolpetrust@mweb.co.za / Tel: 021 674 0361

SPEAKERS
Adv Jacob van Garderen - National Director of the Refugee and Migrant Rights Project at Lawyers for Human Rights (LHR)

Duncan Breen - Consortium for Refugees and Migrants in South Africa (CoRMSA)

A Feminist Political Economy of Development and the New Imperialism

DATE: Saturday, 26 April

TIME: 5:30-7pm

VENUE:
BAT Centre, central Durban (note new venue)

Presenter: Eunice Sahle

Eunice N. Sahle was educated at the Universities of Toronto (B.A hons., M.A) and Queen's (PhD) in Canada. She is currently an Assistant Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill where she teaches in the Department of African and Afro-American Studies and in the Curriculum in International Studies. Her current research involves studies on neo-liberal economic globalization, state formation, democratization debates, and Diaspora identity formation and politics in Canada. She is completing a book entitled Globalization and state formation in Malawi.

Beyond The National Question: Towards The Social Question

29 October 2007
Old Fort,
Constitution Hill
5.15pm for 5.45pm
RSVP by 19 October 2007 / Booking is essential

Speaker - THANDIKA MKANDAWIRE

Thandika Mkandawire is Director of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), an autonomous UN agency in Geneva engaging in multidisciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development.

The Concept of Leadership: in the context of succession in South Africa

Wednesday 21st November 2007, 7pm

City Hall, Grahamstown

• Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza SC

A distinguished lawyer, Advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza SC was one of South Africa's most prominent political activists during the apartheid era. In 1995, he was appointed as a Commissioner on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, established by the South African parliament to investigate apartheid-era human rights violations and promote the ongoing healing
process. He became the Head of the Commission's Investigative Unit, and also Head of its Witness Protection Programme. He also served occasionally
as Deputy and Acting Chair. In 2002 he was a visiting distinguished Professor of Political Science and Law at the University of Connecticut-Storrs and Hartford campuses.

For more information: Karen Kouari
Phone: 046 6038362

Email: k.kouari@ru.ac.za

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