Thursday December 10: Dr. Norman Levy
The Social Justice, Gender and Health Reading Group,
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics,
and The Center for the Humanities present:
Challenges of Co-Operative Governance
Norman Levy
University of the Western Cape — Retired
We are honored to welcome Dr. Norman Levy as part of the Axes of Inequality speaker series. Active in the struggle to end apartheid, Dr. Levy was arrested in 1956 on a charge of High Treason. Although Dr Levy was acquitted in 1958, he was subsequently charged with membership of the South African Communist Party and spent 54 days in solitary confinement before serving a three-year prison sentence. Upon his release in 1968, Levy left for London where he served as the Head of School of History at Middlesex University. He returned to South Africa after the fall of apartheid and served as Professor in the School of Government at the University of the Western Cape, was deputy chairperson on the Presidential Review Commission (1998), directed a survey of Intergovernmental Relations (2001-2) and was a committee member of the Classification and Declassification Review Committee (2003-4). In a lecture entitled Challenges of Co-Operative Governance, Dr. Levy will build upon his extensive knowledge of the South African politics to discuss the broader challenges of governance in the 21st Century.
This lecture is part of the 2009/10 speaker series entitled:
AXES OF INEQUALITY:
RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AIDS, AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA
For updates, speaker information and event summaries please visit our website: https://socialjusticereadinggroup.wordpress.com
Thursday, December 10th, 6:15pm, Skylight Auditorium
CUNY Graduate Center
365 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Axes of Inequality Lecture Series Event Summary: Jonny Steinberg “Black Men and Colored Pills in South Africa’s HIV/AIDS Epidemic”
Kate Griffiths
On Monday November 2nd Johnny Steinberg—journalist, ethnographer, Rhodes Scholar and Open Society Institute Fellow—presented the findings of his award-winning book Sizwe’s Test as part of the Axes of Inequality speaker series at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Researched during the early stages of antiretroviral therapy (ART) availability in South Africa, Steinberg set out to answer the question “What if treatment comes and people don’t take it?” This question is increasingly relevant as AIDS research in South Africa continues to show that men are less likely to seek out ART than women; a factor which may contribute to higher HIV prevalence rates for women.
Announces the 2009/2010 Lecture Series:
Axes of Inequality: Race, Gender, Sexuality, AIDS, and Civil Society in Southern Africa
Fall 2009
Friday, October 9th, 4:15pm, Room C415A
Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke)
Unplanned Community: The Struggle for the South African City
Thursday October 22nd, 6:15pm, Room C204/5
Nicoli Nattrass (University of Cape Town)
Cultural Obstacles to the Rollout of Antiretrovirals: Language, Region and the Backlash against AIDS Funding
Monday, November 2nd, 6:15pm, Room C198
Jonny Steinberg (Open Society Fellow)
Black Men and Colored Pills: Race, Masculinity and Antiretroviral Treatment in South Africa
Monday, November 16th, 6:15pm, Room C198
Elke Zuern (Sarah Lawrence)
Contentious Democracy: The Practice of Political and Economic Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa
Thursday, December 10th, 6:15pm, Skylight Auditorium
Norman Levy (University of Western Cape – retired)
Challenges of Co- Operative Governance
Spring 2010
Thursday, March 25th, 6:15pm, Room 9206/7
Sean Jacobs (New School)
Afrikaner Identity, Globalization and the Post-Apartheid Public
Thursday, April 8th, 6:15pm, Room 9206/7
Zine Magubane (Boston College)
Race, Class, Gender and the Transnational Circulation of Sociological Knowledge
Thursday, April 15th, 6:15pm, Room TBD
Adrian Rifkin (Goldsmiths)
Title to be determined
Thursday, April 29th, 6:15pm, Room 9206/7*
Ida Susser (CUNY Graduate Center)
Social Movements, Gender and HIV/AIDS
*Followed by a reception at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, Room 6107
Please RSVP for to socialjusticereadinggroup@gmail.com to confirm your attendance
For updates speaker information and event summaries, please visit our website: https://socialjusticereadinggroup.wordpress.com
Venue: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016
This lecture series was developed in conjunction with South Africa’s Civil Society Organizations and AIDS Treatment Access, a research project led by Dr. Ida Susser and funded through the National Science Foundation.
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