University Seminar series
2010 Seminars
Dr AB Xuma Memorial Lecture - Tuesday, 24th August 2010 at 6pm "The Ideas of Social Policy and Development Policy" Presenter: Prof Gavin Williams, Oxford University
Summer School - 29th August 2010 - 2nd September 2010 "Social Policy & Inequality: the South African Challenge"
Health Colloquium - Friday, 3rd September 2010 "The Politics of health and Transformation in South Africa"
Bio-Diversity Workshop - 1st - 3rd November 2010 "Integrating Cultural Values into Conservation"
Poverty, Ageing and Social Assistance: findings from a comparative study of South Africa and Brazil - 18th October 2010
2009 Seminars
Riana Meiring (Director: Economic Development at Makana Local Municipality) Progress and Priorities for Makana Economic Development: the Road Ahead
Alfonso Sousa-Poza (University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany)
The Paradox of the Contented Female Worker
Doreen Atkinson (Research Associate at ISER) Promoting Economic Development in Arid Areas: the Karoo as a Developmental Region
2008 Seminars
Jeff Peires (RU)
Chris Hani District Municipality Liberation Heritage Route
Valerie Moller (RU)
Living in Rhini: A 2007 Update on the 1999 Social Indicators Report
Freerk Wiersum (Associate Professor, Forest and Nature Conservation Policy Group, Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
From Coalition to Partnership: Institutional Dynamics and Learning Processes in Environmental Governance
Arjan Hassing (MSc student Forest & Nature Conservation Policy Wageningen University)
Towards a PRESENCE learning network in restoring ecosystem services and natural capital
Jeff Peires (RU)
On the Road and Awaiting Petrol: Evaluating the Chris Hani District Municipality Liberation Route Phase One
Evaluation of the Chris Hani District Municipality Liberation Heritage Route
2007 Seminars
Louise Vincent (RU)
Cutting tradition: The political regulation of traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s liberal democratic order
Catriona McLeod (RU)
How Masculinities studies may inadvertently perpetuate phallocentrism
Sasha Stevenson (RU)
Black gold and rainbow nationalism: Rugby and identity politics in South Africa
Doreen Atkinson (UFS)
The Changing Profile of Small Town Economies: The case of Aberdeen
Giovanni Arrighi and Beverly Silver (The Johns Hopkins University)
Adam Smith in Beijing and Carl Marx in Shanghai”: Dynamics of China’s Ascent
Giovanni Arrighi
The historical sociology of Adam Smith
Giovanni Arrighi
The world state that never was: The unravelling of US hegemony
Beverly Silver
Boundary drawing and Polanyi’s double-movement: Labour and citizenship in the 21st century
Giovanni Arrighi
From the Washington consensus to the Beijing consensus and beyond
Giovanni Arrighi
Labour supplies in Comparative Perspective: The Southern Africa Paradigm Revisited
Professor Chris de Wet (RU) & Mr Ashley Westaway (Border Rural Committee)
Debate: Land Restitution is the only chance to achieve rural development.
Ms Venessa Padayachee (NICRO)
Victim Empowerment and Crime Prevention in South Africa – Current Debates and Strategies
Lwandile Fumba (PSAM)
A study into the implementation of the School Nutrition Programme in 2007.
Chantelle De Nobrega (PSAM)
The challenge of delivering quality housing in the Eastern Cape: A Peddie case study.
Lesley Odendal (PSAM)
A study of antiretroviral rollout in the Eastern Cape: A Graaff- Reinet case study.
Nomalanga Mkhize (PSAM)
Beneficiary perceptions of the quality of service provision at five Eastern Cape pay-points.
