Events archive

South Africa Discussion Group

Democracy as Death: The moral order of anti-liberal politics in South Africa

Jason Hickel (LSE)
24 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
South Africa Discussion Group

Indebtedness in South Africa: Mediating capitalism

Deborah James (LSE)
17 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
South Africa Discussion Group

South Africa’s Female Comrades: Gender and Student Resistance in Soweto, 1984-1989

Emily Bridger, University of Exeter
3 November 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
South Africa Discussion Group

Fees Must Fall - recent events on South African campuses

Athi Nkopo
27 October 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
The discussion will be led by Athi Nkopo, who has been centrally involved in South African university student activism in recent years.
South Africa Discussion Group

‘The foolish build dams: the paradoxes of South Africa's nuclear disarmament

Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Oxford University
20 October 2015 - 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Pavilion Room, St Antony's College
South Africa Discussion Group

Land rights in the former Bantustans - Mining, Chiefs and the Law

Anninka Claassens (UCT and Oppenheimer visiting fellow)
9 June 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
South Africa Discussion Group

Bernadette Atuahene, Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law, discusses her recent book We Want What’s Ours: Learning from South Africa’s Land Restitution Program

Bernadette Atuahene, Chicago-Kent College of Law
12 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
South Africa Discussion Group

South African novelist and crime fiction writer, Margie Orford discusses Grammar of Violence, writing crime as fiction in Current Writing

Margie Orford
5 May 2015 - 5:00pm
Pavilion Room, St. Antony’s College
South Africa Discussion Group

The Legacy of Apartheid-Era Economic Crime

Hennie Van Vuuren, Institute for Justice and Reconciliation
10 March 2015 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, St. Antony’s College
South Africa Discussion Group

Whitewashing, Immigration and the Invention of a White South African Architectural Vernacular

Jonathan Katz, Oxford University
3 March 2015 - 5:00pm
Dahrendorf Room, St. Antony’s College
South Africa Discussion Group

The Politics of the University of Cape Town in the Zuma Era: Reflections and Ramifications

Sizwe Mpofu-Walsh, Oxford University
24 February 2015 - 5:00pm
Prof. Beinart’s Room, African Studies Centre
South Africa Discussion Group

Reading: Samantha Vice, How Do I Live In This Strange Place?

Samantha Vice
10 February 2015 - 5:00pm
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
How Do I Live In This Strange Place? Journal of Social Philosophy 41(3), 2010, pp. 324-242. (In 2010 South African philosopher Samantha Vice published a provocative essay on the ethics of being a... Read more
South Africa Discussion Group

Reading: Albert Hirschman, The Changing Tolerance For Income Inequality In The Course of Economic Development

Albert Hirschman
27 January 2015 - 5:00pm
Deakin Room, St Antony's College
Albert Hirschman, ‘The Changing Tolerance For Income Inequality In The Course of Economic Development,’ Quarterly Journal of Economics , 8(4), 1973, p (This classic essay, published years before... Read more