2019 SEMINAR SERIES | SEMESTER 2

24 October
‘The shape of motherhood: a political economic approach to maternal health in the hague, delft south africa’
Efua Prah,
Lecturer of Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University

17th October
‘In lieu of chirungu: mimicry, symbolic power, and figures of alterity in zimbabwe’
Jeremy Jones,
Assistant Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at College of the Holy Cross
(2nd Gugu Siziba Memorial Lecture)

10th October
‘South Africa: Moving from Militarisation, to De-Militarisation to Re-Militarisation
Lindy Heinecken,
Head of Department and Professor of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University,

3rd October
‘“These people have seen this in our cultures back home”: how black mothers in Canada and the UK reclaim attachment parenting ‘
Patricia Hamilton,
Sociology Lecturer in the department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University

26th September
Transnational governmentality & the ‘poor white’ in early 20th century South Africa
Dr. Edward-John Bottomley,
Journalist and an academic

5th September – Joint Seminar
‘Just Transition’ in the Karoo?
Tumi Malope,
Sociology PhD candidate – SARCHI Research Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development
Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University,
‘Power’ to the people?
Stephanie Borchardt,
Sociology Masters candidate – SARCHI Research Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development
Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University,

29th August
‘Liquid Violence, or the Politics of Responsibilisation & Dispossession in South Africa ‘
Michela Marcatelli,
Postdoctoral Research Fellow – SARCHI Research Chair in the Sociology of Land, Environment and Sustainable Development,
Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University,

22nd August
‘A Climate Justice Perspective on Climate Crisis: Challenges for the Deep Just Transition ‘
Vishwas Satgar,
Associate Professor of International Relations at WITS, Editor of Democratic Marxism book series & Principal Investigator for
Emancipatory Futures Studies in the Anthropocene,

15th August – Joint seminar
‘ Happiness, Wellbeing & Ecosocialism’
Devan Pillay,
Chair and Professor, Sociology, Wits University/
‘Realisation of Eco-Socialist Praxis: The Rojava Example’.
Sidney Luckett,
Free-lance documentary photographer & environmental justice activist.

8th August
‘Age of Sustainability: Just Transitions in a Complex World’
Mark Swilling,
Co-director, Centre for Complex Systems in Transition Academic Director: Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch

25th July – Joint Seminar
Luca Jourdan,
‘Anthropocene, Capitalocene & Negri’s thought’
Associate Professor of Social & Political Anthropology at the University of Bologna
Valerio Romitelli
Professor of History of political doctrines & Social Sciences Methodology at the University of Bologna, Paris VIII & Nice Sophie-Antipolis
‘Hegemony in & the Hegemony of Gramsci ‘