Seminars

Political Studies Seminar Series 2012                                   For details and suggestions, please contact: Dr Thierry M Luescher-Mamashela (Seminar Series Coordinator) email: tluescher@uwc.ac.za, phone: +27 21 959 3278 or Ms Nadia Jansen (Department front desk)email: njansen@uwc.ac.za  phone: +27 21 959 3228
Term	Date / Time	Venue	Presenter	Title
Term 1: Week 3	15 February 12.30-14.30h	CHR	Global South Dialogue  - 1	"Arab Spring/Uprisings"
Week 5	29 February 12.30-14.30h	CHR	Global South Dialogue  - 2	"Implications of the rise of China and India for Africa"
Week 5	2 March	EMS Staff Lounge	Prof. Fumihiko Saito, Ryukoku University, Japan	“Prospects toward Denser, Fairer, and Greener Cities in South Africa?"
Week 7	14 March 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge	Prof. Jessica Piombo, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California, USA	“Peace Processes in South Africa and Burundi”
Term 2: Week 3	18 April 12.30-14.30h	CHR	Global South Dialogue  - 3	"African regional integration: Identity and institutions"
Week 6	3-4 May All day	EMS Staff Lounge	Political Studies Postgraduate Students’ Research Day	Various research proposals of Honours, Masters & PhD students
Week 7	10 May 11.00-13.00h	EMS Staff Lounge	Prof Lisa Thompson, UWC and Prof Jane L. Parpart, Visiting Prof, University of Massachusetts, Boston USA	Engendering (In)Security and Conflict in African IR - Joint Seminar with ACCEDE
Week 8	16 May 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge	Ms Lauren Paremoer Lecturer, Department of Political Studies, UCT.	The Right to Antiretro-viral Treatment and the Politics of Equality in Post-Apartheid SA
Term 3: Week 4	8 August 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge	Mr Kayum Ahmed, CEO: South African Human Rights Council	“Towards a perfect society”
	22 August 13.00-14.30h	ABSA (EMS not avail)	Prof Laurence Piper, University of the Western Cape	“Informality disallowed: state restrictions on informal traders and micro-enterprises. Case evidence from Brown’s Farm, Philippi, in Cape Town”
Week 7 / Term break	29 August or 5 September (TBC)	EMS Staff Lounge	TBC: Dr Stefanie Kappler, Director: Archbishop Desmond Tutu Centre for War and Peace Studies, Liverpool Hope University	TBC
Term 4: Week 1	12 September 13.00-14.30h	ABSA (Video-link)	Prof. Mohamed Fahmy Menza, American University Cairo	TBC
	19 September	ABSA	Global South Dialogue - 4
Week 3	26 September 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge	Prof Joelien Pretorius and Mr Mark Hoskins, University of the Western Cape	“It’s obviously race!”: Psychological and mater­ial­ist underpin­n­ings of the construction of race in South Africa.
Week 5	10 October	ABSA	Global South Dialogue - 5
Week 6	17 October	EMS Staff Lounge	TBC	TBC
Week 7	24 October	ABSA	Global South Dialogue - 6

Political Studies Seminar Series 2011
Date / Time	Venue	Presenter	Title
9 February 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge,	Prof Virginia Tilley (formerly HSRC)	“Race and Nation around the World”
2 March 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge,	Mr Keith Gottschalk Extra-ordinary Senior Lecturer, Political Studies, UWC	“The unexpected evolution of the Pan-African Project: a perspective from 2011”
9 March 13.00-14.30h	ABSA Board Room,	A/Prof Olof Brunninge Jönköping International Business School, Sweden	“Social Memory in Politics and Business”
23 March 13.00-14.30h	ABSA Board Room,	Prof Siegmar Schmidt University of Koblenz-Landau (Germany)	“European integration under stress: The financial crisis, the Euro, and the future of the EU”
6 April 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge,	A/Prof Hlonipha Mokoena Columbia University (NY - USA).	“Magema Fuze: The making of a Kholwa intellectual”
25 May 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge	Dr Charles Young Rhodes University	"Researching alcohol use amongst Rhodes University students and its policy implications".
29 July (Friday) 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge	Mr Andile Mngxitama Foundation for Human Rights & Editor: New Frank Talk	“Is Julius Malema a Mugabe?  A short political Biography of Julius Malema”
10 August 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge	Dr Petrus de Kock Senior researcher, Governance of Africa’s Resources Programme, South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA), Cape Town	“Southern Sudan’s long war(s) to independence: how to build a new state from scratch”
7 September 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge	Mr Braam Hanekom, Director, PASSOP – People Against Suffering Oppression and Poverty	“The Politics of Immigration and Xenophobia”
5 October 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge	Dr Sophie Oldfield Senior Lecturer, Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, UCT	“Mapping the politics of activist scholarship: The stories we have told”
12 October 13.00-14.30h	Library Auditorium	Mr Tony Ehrenreich COSATU & City of Cape Town Council.	“The University of the Left and the Politics of Social Change”
26 October 13.00-14.30h	EMS Staff Lounge	Mr Steven Kuo PhD Candidate, School of International Relations, University of St. Andrews, UK	“Great Power or Third World Ally? An Assessment China-South Africa Relations”