Indexing Transformation: Interventions in Critical Knowledge Production in South Africa
First Semester 2018
Capital and Race: Thinking Marx Today
See the First Semester 2018 seminar flier.
Thursdays 1PM-2.30PM. R401, 4th Floor, Arts and Social Sciences Building
| Date | Presentation | Presenter |
|---|---|---|
| 22 Feb | The Invention of Race | Professor Andrew Nash Research Associate, International Labour Research and Information Group, Cape Town |
| 1 March | How Class Came to Marx — Taking a Longer View on ‘Race’-‘Class’ Conjunctions and Disjunctions |
Professor Ulrike Kistner Philosophy Professor University of Pretoria |
| 8 March | Inequality, the Communist Party, and the Unresolved National Question |
Professor Peter Alexander Professor of Sociology, Director of the Centre for Social Change, South African Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg |
| 15 March | Racial Tethers: Indigenous Land Struggle and Agribusiness in Brazil | Assistant Professor Lashandra Sullivan Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Reed College, Portland, Oregon, USA |
| 22 March | How is Capital Racial? Fanon and Critical Theory | Dr. Hylton White Senior Social Anthropology Lecturer at the School of Social Sciences, Witwatersand University |
| 12 April | A Political Economy of the Senses: Toward the Materialization of Critique | Associate Professor Anita Chari Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon, USA |
| 19 April | Defining Class in the Time of Social Movements | Dr. Kelly Gillespie Senior Social Anthropology Lecturer, University of the Western Cape |
| 3 May | The Origin of Convict Leasing | Associate Professor Michael Ralph Associate Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University, USA |
| 17 May | The History of Worker Empowerment in Vanderbijlpark: A case study of ISCOR and Arcelormittal | Mr. Jantjie Xaba Lecturer of Sociology, Stellenbosch University |
| 24 May | The Nature Industry and the Postcolony | Associate Professor Louise Green Associate Professor of English, Stellenbosch University |
| 31 May | A Marxist-Feminist Approach to Social Reproduction | Dr. Khayaat Fakier Senior Lecturer of Sociology, Stellenbosch University |