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 21^st 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:
http://socialjusticereadinggroup.wordpress.com

Thursday, December 10th, 6:15pm, Skylight Auditorium

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016

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.

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Fall 2009

Friday, October 9^th, 4:15pm, Room C415A
Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke)
Unplanned Community: The Struggle for the South African City

Thursday October 22^nd, 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 2^nd, 6:15pm, Room C198
Jonny Steinberg (Open Society Fellow)
Black Men and Colored Pills: Race, Masculinity and Antiretroviral Treatment in South Africa

Monday, November 16^th, 6:15pm, Room C198
Elke Zuern (Sarah Lawrence)
Contentious Democracy: The Practice of Political and Economic Rights in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Thursday, December 10^th, 6:15pm, Skylight Auditorium
Norman Levy (University of Western Cape – retired)
Challenges of Co- Operative Governance

Spring 2010

Thursday, March 25^th, 6:15pm, Room 9206/7
Sean Jacobs (New School)
Afrikaner Identity, Globalization and the Post-Apartheid Public

Thursday, April 8^th, 6:15pm, Room 9206/7
Zine Magubane (Boston College)
Race, Class, Gender and the Transnational Circulation of Sociological Knowledge

Thursday, April 15^th, 6:15pm, Room TBD
Adrian Rifkin (Goldsmiths)
Title to be determined

Thursday, April 29^th, 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: http://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.