When: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 2:30 PM - 4:00 PMWhere: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Description: Achille Mbembe (University of the Witwatersrand, WISER), Sarah Nuttall (University of the Witwatersrand, WISER), Diane Nelson (Duke University, Cultural Anthropology), Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke University, Cultural Anthropology), moderator. Please join us in the Franklin Center for what we hope will be a lively discussion of District 9, Johannesburg, sci-fi (…)
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When: Thursday, November 5, 2009 4:30 PM - 6:00 PMWhere: To be determinedCost: free and open to the publicMore Info
Description: Dr. Marian Jacobs – Director, School of Child and Adolescent Health and Dean of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town. Topic: TBD. Duke University Seminar on Global Health series is a university-wide interdisciplinary initiative which connects those from Duke and area universities with (…)
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The Concilium on Southern Africa (COSA), an initiative of the Duke University Center for International Studies, recently celebrated the launch of its brand-new website, which includes information about upcoming events in Fall 2009 as well as iTunes links to the public conversations held in Spring 2009 with South African Constitutional Court Justices Albie Sachs and Yvonne Mokgoro.
Visit COSA’s new website: http://www.jhfc.duke.edu/cosa/
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Duke University Seminar on Global Health: Lynn Morris
When: Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Cost: free and open to the public
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Description: Dr. Lynn Morris – Chief Specialist Scientist and Head of the AIDS Unit, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (NICD) in South Africa. Topic: Doing HIV Basic Research in the Hot Zone (…)
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African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism: Constructing a New Legal Culture
When: Friday, April 17, 2009 4:30 PM – 6:00 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Description: African Ubuntu and South African Constitutionalism, a public conversation between Justice Yvonne Mokgoro (Constitutional Court of South Africa) and Jean and John Comaroff (University of Chicago) will explore what the term Ubuntu, a concept encapsulating (…)
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When: Monday, March 23, 2009 12:00 PM - 1:15 PM
Where: John Hope Franklin Center 240
Description: South African musician Roger Lucey’s recordings and performances were routinely censored under apartheid. State security police aimed to destroy his music career, though he remained a celebrated voice of the liberation struggle in the singer-songwriter and rock music traditions. A prominent human rights activist, Ferhat Tunç is one of the iconic (…)
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The DUCIS Global Health Graduate Award funds allowed me to complete the majority of the data collection that I will need for my dissertation research project. I worked in Madagascar from June until October and visited four research sites: Kirindy Mitea National Park, Betmapona Strict Nature Reserve, Parc Ivoloina and Analamazaotra Nature Reserve. At these sites, I was able to establish (…)
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A couple of memorable moments during my research in Northeast Central African Republic (CAR), up in the corner between Chad and Sudan, this summer: observing a deaf man talk on his cell phone (still haven’t figured that one out – the man can’t speak, nor can he write); meeting the Shaq-sized former rebel leader/diamond dealer/hunter/merchant who controls the territory; getting (…)
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When: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 5:00 PM – 6:30 PM
Where: Nasher Museum of Art Auditorium
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Description: The Hon. Justice Albie Sachs, Constitutional Court of South Africa.Moderated by Prof. Catherine Adcock Admay, Public Policy Studies and the Duke Center for International Development.”To appreciate the alliance between justice and art and its relation to the fine art of persuasion,Justice Albie Sachs is (…)
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Tue, November 18, 2008
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240.
The Concilium on Southern Africa is extremely pleased to announce a public conversation between distinguished scholars James Ferguson (Stanford University) and Achille Mbembe (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa)
Africa, colonialism, Concilium on Southern Africa, culture, diplomacy, economics, governance, health, human rights
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