2020 SEMINAR SERIES

15th October
‘Scales of Justice’
Ruchi Chaturvedi
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of Cape Town
[Online]

3rd September
‘Aesthetic Life of Religions & Ordinary Ethics in & of Long Street’.
Ala Alhourani
Lecturer in the Department of Religion at the University of Cape Town
[Online]

Seminar Series suspended due to South African Lockdown and Covid-19, and replaced by two online events

12th March
‘Contesting Discourses on Violence in the TRC’s Business Hearings’
Claire Lester
PhD candidate of Sociology in the Department of Sociology and Social anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch.

5th March
‘Who deserves social protection?: Moral logics of worth, deservingness and distribution among the South African unemployed’
Liz Fouksman,
Leverhulme Early Career Fellow, African Studies Centre, Oxford School of Global and Area Studies & Research Fellow, St. John’s College, University of Oxford.

20th February
‘Unequal exchanges in the World Language System and its South African subsystem’
Dr Abram de Swaan
Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam

13th February
‘Race, Animals and Religions: A case of sacrifice, sensory politics and public space in South Africa’
Dr Shaheed Tayob
Social Anthropology lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch

6th February – joint seminar on South-South dialogue
‘Brazilian Anthropological Production on African Countries’
Dr. Laura Moutinho,
Full Professor of Anthropology at the University of São Paulo
‘Velhos’, ‘Blessers’ and dreams of upward mobility’
Thais Tiriba
Phd Candidate in Anthropology at the University of São Paulo