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.
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