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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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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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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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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Sat, October 4, 2008 9:30 AM – 6:30 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240.
While there has been an explosion of scholarship specifically concerned with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, this conference hopes instead to use the AIDS epidemic as a way of expanding the definition of illness. The Social Coordinates of Illness in Post-Colonial Africa conference thus aims to explore configurations of (…)
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Fri, October 3, 2008 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
John Hope Franklin Center 240
Conference keynote address by João Biehl, Princeton University
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While there has been an explosion of scholarship specifically concerned with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, an upcoming conference, hosted by the Concilium on Southern Africa (COSA), hopes instead to use the AIDS epidemic as a way of expanding the definition of illness. The Social Coordinates of Illness in Post-Colonial Africa, (October 3rd and 4th, in the Franklin Center) thus aims to (…)
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Africa, Ariel Dorfman, Concilium on Southern Africa, Foreign Language and Area Studies, international studies, Middle East
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