Announces the 2009/2010 Lecture Series:

Axes of Inequality: Race, Gender, Sexuality, AIDS, and Civil Society in Southern Africa

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: 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.