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Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Zackie Achmat  Title: “The state of our democracy: social movements and human rights in the Zuma era” Date:  Thursday, 13 October 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue:  4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 401 Contact person: Elizabeth Hector, ehector@sun.ac.za or  (021 808 9286).

Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Prof Herman Wasserman, Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Journalism and Media Studies, Rhodes University  Date:  Thursday, 22 September 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue:  4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 403 Contact person: Elizabeth Hector, ehector@sun.ac.za or  (021 808 9286).

Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Prof Jean-Pierre Warnier, Professor Emeritus, University of Paris  Date:  Thursday, 15 September 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue:  4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 403 Contact person: Elizabeth Hector, ehector@sun.ac.za or  (021 808 9286).

Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Prof Fiona Ross, Department of Social Anthropology, University of Cape Town  Date:  Thursday, 01 September 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue:  4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 401 Contact person: Cyrildene Fortuin, cfortuin@sun.ac.za or  (021 808 2417).

The Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology will on Thursday play host to Oliver Hermanus, director of the Afrikaans film, Skoonheid.   Speaker: Oliver Hermanus, Director Date:  Friday, 26 August 2011 Time: 15:00 Venue:  2nd Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 227 Contact person: MR Begg,  mrbegg@sun.ac.za for seating.

Speaker: Litheko Modisane, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative, University of Cape Town  Title: “Flashes of Modernity: Heritage According to Cinema” Date:  Thursday, 18 August 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue:  4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 403 Contact person: Cyrildene Fortuin, cfortuin@sun.ac.za or  (021 808 2417).

Speaker: Prof Ivan Turok,  Deputy Executive Director, HSRC Title: “Spatial Inequality in South Africa: Is the New Growth Path an appropriate response?” Date:  Thursday, 04 August 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue:  4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 403 Contact person: Cyrildene Fortuin, cfortuin@sun.ac.za or  (021 808 2417)

Speaker: Emma Maria Vink, MA student, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Stellenbosch Title: “Renegotiating agricultural norms: environmentally-friendly policies and practices in the South African wine industry” Date:  Thursday, 28 July 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue:  4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 403 Contact person: Cyrildene Fortuin, cfortuin@sun.ac.za or  (021 808 2417)

Speaker: Mazibuko Jara – Law, Race and Gender Project, University of Cape Town Title: “Re-historicising and Rethinking the Homelands: Traditional Authorities, Governance, Democratic & Development” Date:  Thursday, 09 June 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue:  4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 403 Contact person: Cyrildene Fortuin, cfortuin@sun.ac.za or  (021 808 2417)

Speaker: Prof Stephen Clingman, Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst  Title: Transfiction: W. G. Sebald and the Nature of the Boundary Date:  Thursday, 26 May 2011 Time: 13:00-14:30 Venue:  4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building, Room 403 Contact person: Cyrildene Fortuin, cfortuin@sun.ac.za or  (021 808 2417)

Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Lindsay Reynolds Title: Children, Care and the Question of Kinship: A Few Late Zulu Problems Date: Thursday, 27 August  2009 Time: 13:00 Venue: Arts building, fourth floor, Room 403 Contact person: Cyrildine Fortuin, 021 808 2417, cfortuin@sun.ac.za