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 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:
https://socialjusticereadinggroup.wordpress.com

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

CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York, NY 10016