Seminar: Department Sociology and Social Anthropology
Speaker: Dr Thomas M Blaser, Post-doctorate Fellow, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University Title: After nationalism: Afrikaner narratives of the self Date: Thursday,...
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Speaker: Prof Stephen Clingman, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst Title: Transfiction: W. G. Sebald and the Nature of the Boundary Date: Thursday, 26 May 2011 Time:...
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Speaker: Prof Catherine Besteman, Department of Anthropology, Colby College Title: “Transforming Cape Town” Date: Thursday, 30 June 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue: 4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences...
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Speaker: Emma Maria Vink, MA student, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Stellenbosch Title: “Renegotiating agricultural norms: environmentally-friendly policies and...
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Speaker: Prof Ivan Turok, Deputy Executive Director, HSRC Title: “Spatial Inequality in South Africa: Is the New Growth Path an appropriate response?” Date: Thursday, 04 August 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30...
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Speaker: Joshua Walker, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago Title: “Aspiring Gifts and “Real” Wealth: The Symbolic and Material Logics of Mbujimayi’s Diamond Trade (Democratic Republic of...
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Speaker: Litheko Modisane, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative, University of Cape Town Title: “Flashes of Modernity: Heritage According to Cinema” Date: Thursday, 18...
View ArticleSkoonheid director to discuss movie
The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology will on Thursday play host to Oliver Hermanus, director of the Afrikaans film, Skoonheid. Speaker: Oliver Hermanus, Director Date: Friday, 26...
View ArticleSeminar: ‘The violence of ordentlikheid’
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Prof Fiona Ross, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town Date: Thursday, 01 September 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue: 4th...
View ArticleBetween the kingdom and the world at large: The divided subject
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Prof Jean-Pierre Warnier, Professor Emeritus, University of Paris Date: Thursday, 15 September 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue: 4th Floor, Arts and...
View Article“Taking trash seriously: media, tabloidisation and the politics of the everyday”
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Prof Herman Wasserman, Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University Date: Thursday, 22 September...
View ArticleSociology and Social Anthropology Seminar: 30 August
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Mark Hunter, University of Toronto Topic: Circuits of Schooling and the Production of Urban Space: the Family, Education and Symbolic Struggles...
View ArticleDepartment of Sociology and Social Anthropology Seminar: 6 September
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Topic: Language, identity negotiations and the anatomy of social space: Preliminary comments on Zimbabwean migrants in Johannesburg Speaker: Gugu Siziba,...
View ArticleDepartment of Sociology and Social Anthropology Seminar: 20 September
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Prof Kees van der Waal, Professor of Social Antropology, Stellenbosch University Topic: Creolisation and Purity: The Contested Social and Symbolic...
View ArticleYou don’t do fieldwork, fieldwork does you: Seminar (27 September)
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Gabby Kelly, M student, Department Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University Topic: You don’t do fieldwork, fieldwork does you:...
View ArticleGuest lecture: Masculinity without Tradition (4 October)
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Kopano Ratele, Medical Research Council and UNISA Theme: Masculinity without Tradition Date: Thursday, 4 October 2012 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue: 4th...
View ArticleSeminar: the curious state of public sociology (11 October)
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Prof Jimi Adesina, UWC Date: Thursday, 11 October 2012 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue: 4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 401 Contact...
View ArticleLecture: Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology (25 October)
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Milandré van Wyk, Centre for Research on Evaluation, Science and Technology (CREST) Title: IBM Incorporated: An exploration of an Egyptian work...
View ArticleMoral responsibility, accountability and maternal death in Central Africa: a...
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Prof Megan Vaughan, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History, Cambridge Date: Thursday, 1 November 2012 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue: 4th Floor, Arts and...
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