DEPARTMENT OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY
SEMINAR PROGRAMME
2008
Second Semester, 2008
July
July 24
Achille Mbembe (WISER), Jean & John Comaroff (Chicago) and Harry Garuba (UCT), "Citizenship
and its Others" [session 1-3pm] (NSF)
July 31
Rashid Begg (Stellenbosch) "A Weberian analysis of Volkskapitalisme" (SIF)
August
August 7
Marius Tredoux (Stellenbosch) "Views expressed by stakeholders in the housing delivery process on
informal settlements and their formalisation: A Cape Town Case study" (SIF)
August 14
Gavin Williams (Oxford) "Cheap but plentiful: Markets for Wine and Supplies of Labour, 1838-1988"
(NSF)
August 21
Shireen Hassim (Wits) “Democracy's shadows: Gender equality, the Zuma trial and the constraints of
the social.” (NSF)
August 28
Bernard Dubbeld (Stellenbosch) “The challenge of unmaking the taken-for-granted: Teaching social
theory in South African senior undergraduate classes” (SIF)
September
Sep 5
James Ferguson (Stanford) Brown Bag discussion with Prof. Ferguson talking about his work, from
his critique of development in Lesotho, his ethnography of decline in Zambia, to new research on
social grants in South Africa. (Please note this is a on a Friday) (NSF)
Sep 15
Deborah Posel (WISER) "When Freedom brings Death: Versions of Post-Apartheid in the thick of
HIV/AIDS" (Please note this is on a Monday) (NSF)
Sep 18
Ineke van Kessel (Leiden) "Revisiting the UDF" (NSF)
Sep 25
MA proposal presentations: Jana Barnard, Francois Louw, Izak Van Zyl (NSF)
October
Oct 2
Dan Yon (York, Canada) "From Multiculturalism to Cosmopolitanism(s) -some thoughts on method"
(NSF)
Oct 9
Oliver Human (Stellenbosch) "The rings around Jonathan's eyes: HIV medicine at the margins of
administration" (SIF)
Oct 16
Keith Dietrich (Stellenbosch) "Retrieving and Recounting Histories: family photographs of historical
Western Cape communities." (NSF)
Oct 23
James Williams (Johns Hopkins) "Hard categories, indescribable things, and some forceful words on
death: Young migrants in Cape Town" (NSF)
Oct 30
Suren Pillay (Columbia and HSRC) Title to be confirmed. (NSF)
November
Nov 6
Henk van Rinsen (Utrecht) "Ritual, Identity and Transformation in Higher Education: two case
studies" (NSF)
Nov 13
Lindy Heinecken (Stellenbosch) "The impact of private security on public security" (NSF)
First Semester, 2008
February
Feb 28
Jean Comaroff (Chicago), Steven Robins (Stellenbosch) and Ulrike Kistner (Unisa) on “Biopolitics
and Citizenship in a time of Aids” (please note this session runs from 1-3pm) (NSF)
March
March 6
Jacob du Plessis (Stellenbosch) “Community Interaction: definitions, interpretations, and the
university context” (SIF)
March 13
Jantjie Xaba (Stellenbosch) “From Volkskapitalisme to Black Economic Empowerment” (PhD
proposal) (SIF)
March 20
Joachim Ewert, Steven Robins, Jacob du Plessis and Cherryl Walker (all Stellenbosch).
“Directions in Development Studies” (SIF)
April
April 24
13:00-15:00 Honours Proposals (SIF)
May
May 8
13:00-15:00 MA proposals (Johnnie Tolken, Ettienne Fourie, and Justin Du Toit) (SIF)
May 15
Ranjita Mohanty (PRIA) "Social Exclusion and Local Governance in India" (NSF)
May 22
Betsey Brada (Chicago) "'They dreamed of a treatment that would not depend on patients': the
problem of 'knowing' adherence in a Paediatric HIV clinic" (NSF)
2007
NEW SOCIAL FORMS
5 February
Julie Laplante
Truth” about the Efficacy of Medicine: insights from the anthropology of health.
2 March
Guy Tillim
Impulse to Record: Photographic Reflections.
13 March
Dr Shamil Jeppie
A new orientalism and the US neo-conservatives.
16 March
Antjie Krog
De La Rey: The Myth, the General and the Battlefield.
27 March
John Keane
Whatever is happening to democracy?
12 April
Yasien Mohamed
The Concept of Work and Craft in the Thought of Ibn Khaldun.
26 April
Victor Thiessen & Barbara Thiessen
Equity and Information Communication Technology (ICT) in High Schools.
4 May
Dave Cooper
International Restructuring of Higher Education: comments on implications of global trends,
for restructuring of Sociology in South Africa.
22 May
Farid Esack
Islam: AIDS-Convergences Between Islamophobia and Muslim Stigmatization of Persons
Living with HIV/ AIDS.
23 August
Cherryl Walker
HIV/AIDS, gender and land rights in Amajuba District, KwaZulu Natal.
27 September
Ben Cousins
Title
16 October (with History Department)
Bernard Dubbeld
Creating contingent labour and constraining political unionism: interpreting the emergence of
the container in Durban harbour.
26 October
Lisa Brown
Mourning and melancholia in KwaZulu Natal.
SOCIETY IN FOCUS
17 May
Johann Zaaiman
Report on tour of Sociology Departments and SASA.
24 May
Joseph Cramer
Urban Planning and Management.
26 July
Simon Bekker
Report on visit to Sweden.
10 August
Liesl Coetzee
World Wide Webs: Crossing the Digital Divide through Promotion of Public Access.
16 August
Centre for Teaching and Learning
Undergraduate Assessment.
20 September
Heidi Prozesky
Gender and the quantity/quality debate in publication productivity: an analysis of invasion
biologists in South Africa.
18 October
Kees van der Waal
From Abantu to Ubuntu.
2006
NEW SOCIAL FORMS
15 March
John Comaroff, Elaine Salo, Harry Garuba
Discussion related to topic of the book launch: Limits to Liberation After Apartheid:
Citizenship, Governance and Culture.
16 March
John Comaroff
Ethnicity Inc.: Neo-liberalism and the cultural politics of identity.
17 March
Jacqueline Knorr
Creolisation and Identity.
4 May
Victor Thiessen
Cultural Identities and the transformative potential of ICT among Canadian Youth
20 July
Marian Burchardt
The Moral Orders of Sexuality: Positions in Contemporary Social Thought and their
Implications for the Study of HIV/AIDS
3 August
Kathleen Mc Dougall
Feminine madness, medical history and national healing in the Zuma rape trial
4 August
Shula Marks
An epidemic waiting to happen? HIV/AIDS in historical context
10 August
Håkan Thörn
Anti-Apartheid and the Emergence of a Global Civil Society
25 August (GDRI seminar)
Scarlett Cornelissen
Tourism development and policy in Cape Town: patterns, trends and lessons
7 September
Ken Jubber
Reflections on canons, compilations, catalogues and curricula in relation to sociology and
social anthropology in South Africa.
18 September
Marja Spierenburg
The Quest for the Global Commons; Public-Private Partnerships and Community Land
Rights in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area
22 September (GDRI seminar)
Anne Leilde
Changing urban identities in Cape Town
28 September
Cherryl Walker
HIV/AIDS and property rights: conceptual and methodlogical challenges
12 October
Chris Colvin
Title
13 October
Tony Bogues
An Empire of Liberty? Liberalism and American Power
19 October
Aninka Claassens
The Communal Land Rights Act and contested boundaries of authority
20 October (GDRI seminar)
Elrena van der Spuy
Reading South African police reform through the lens of policy convergence
SOCIETY IN FOCUS
2 March
Marian Burchardt
Moral Discourses on AIDS & Sexuality
30 March
Cherryl Walker
On teaching the macro-sociology component in Soc 314
12 April
Joachim Ewert
Skills, training and quality wine production: the case of South Africa
11 May
Heidi Prozesky
Gender differences in publication productivity: a summary of the most important findings
17 August
Kees van der Waal
Doing comparative ethnography: Civil society in South Africa and the Netherlands
21 September
Rashid Begg
Hadith as a Means of Routinizing Charisma: A Weberian Teleology
2005
NEW SOCIAL FORMS
25 February
Thomas Kirsch
Pentecostalism, Religious Logistics, and the 'Spirit of Modernity'. A Case Study from
Contemporary Rural Zambia.
18 March
Herman Wasserman
A new world wide web is possible: an explorative comparison of the use of ICT's by two
South African social movements.
29 April
Edgar Pieterse
Contradictory Impulses in Urban Development Policy and Practice in South Africa.
6 May
Dr Wiebe Nauta
Ethnographic Research in an NGO: an embedded tale reveals strategic translations.
13 May
Jonathan Shapiro ("Zapiro")
Cartoons and critique in South Africa.
24 May
Clifton Crais
Reflections on Violence and Poverty in the Eastern Cape.
29 July
Derik Gelderblom
What is the sociological alternative to Homo Economicus? Durkheim and Foucault's
anthropology as two alternatives.
3 August
(Joint seminar with Centre for African Studies)
Florence Babb
Che, Chevys and Hemingways Daquiris: Cuban Tourism as Development Strategy In a Time
of Globalisation.
5 August
Bruce Kapferer
Democracy, Wild Sovereignties and the New Leviathan.
8 August
Kai Horsthemke
The idea of indigenous knowledge: an inventory.
19 August
Frans Kamsteeg and Vivian Ward
Window onto a world of waste: cultural aspects of work in South Africa.
2 September
Professor Uday Singh Mehta
Constitutionalism and the Problem of History.
12 September
Harry Wels
Strings attached. The symbolic power of the ‘Devil's rope' in veterinary practices in southern
Africa.
SOCIETY IN FOCUS
9 September
Derik Gelderblom
Limits To The Urbanisation Of Poverty In South Africa.
14 September
Stefano Ponte
Trading down? Africa, Value Chains and the global Economy.
23 September
Joachim Ewert and Andries du Toit
A Deepening Divide in the Countryside: Restructuring and Rural Livelihoods in the South
African Wine Industry.
30 September
Derik Gelderblom
State, market and the third way in South Africa and elsewhere.
2004
NEW SOCIAL FORMS
5 March
Ben Cousins
Comments on the Communal Land Rights Bill (B67 – 2003) - submission to the portfolio
committee on agriculture and land affairs.
19 March
Chris Colvin
Ambivalent Narrations: Pursuing the Political Through Traumatic Storytelling.
16 April
Detlev Krige
Sweet dreams and golden money: Risk, luck and rationality amongst fahfee runners in
Johannesburg.
23 April
Pat Caplan
Terror, Witchcraft and Risk.
7 May
Frans Kamsteeg
Trust, Identity and Other Concepts: the Quest of Dutch Civil Society Organizations.
28 May
Suren Pillay
Late Apartheid and the Worldliness of State Violence.
4 June
Owen Sichone
Africanization: an alternative perspective on Africanness in global identity politics.
30 July
Anne-Maria Makhulu
The Post-Apartheid City: Urban History and Neoliberalism in the New South Africa.
23 July
Drucilla Cornell
A call for a nuanced constitutional jurisprudence: ubuntu, dignity, and reconciliation.
13 August
Thobias Hecht
Globalization from Way Below - Brazilian Streets, a Youth, and World Society .
3 September
Elaine Salo
Negotiating Gender and Personhood in the New South Africa: Adolescent Women and
Gangsters in Manenberg Township on the Cape Flats.
17 September
Jean and John Comaroff
"Figuring Crime: Quantifacts and the Production of the Un/real"
8 October
Harry Wels
African Dreams of Cohesion: Elite Pacting and Community Development in Transfrontier
Conservation Areas in Southern Africa
SOCIETY IN FOCUS
14 May
Victor Thiessen
Performance and perception: Exploring gender gaps in human capital skills.
29 September
Prof Kees van der Waal and Prof Francois de Villiers
Formal and Informal Dispute Resolution in the Limpopo Province.
1 October
Mini-conference: Language Identities in Africa.
22 October
Dr David Seymour
What is organizational culture and how is it taught in the UK?
29 October
Mary Kinyanjui
From home to micro and small enterprises: entrepreneurship and female gender identity.
2003
NEW SOCIAL FORMS
29 July
INAUGURAL SEMINAR
Professor Johan Pottier
Fevered Imaginings: "The Congo" in Popular Culture, Globalisation, Conflict and Diplomacy.
15 August
Jean and John Comaroff
Reflections on Liberalism, Policulturalism, and ID-Ology: Citizenship and Difference in South
Africa.
29 August
Pat Caplan
Swahili Modernities: Identity, and Power on the East African Coast.
12 September
Professor Helmut Morsbach
Some important North-East Asian Personality Characteristics (China-Korea-Japan) as seen
from a Western Viewpoint.
10 October
Professor Robin Cohen
The Creolising World.
16 October
Dr David Seymour
Ethnography in the Construction Industry: Competing Bodies of Knowledge in Civil
Engineering.
17 October
Prof Dan Moshenberg
Occupied Territories: Occupational Health, and Citizenship, in the fifteenth department,
U.S.A .
13 November
Harry Wels
Equity in Organisation and Management in South Africa.
SOCIETY IN FOCUS
25 February
Dr Tamasse Roger Danioue
Lomé - capital of Togo: migration, ethnicity and class
10 March
Dr. Inge Tvedten
As Long as They Don't Bury Me Here. Social Relations of Poverty in a Southern African
Shantytown.
27 March
Professor Jim Butterfield
The role of NGOs in defining the public agenda and deepening democracy.
15 May
Professor Sakkie Niehaus
Now everybody is doing it': Towards a social history of rape in the South African lowveld.
12 June
Prof. Francis Nyamnjoh
Globalisation, Boundaries and Livelihoods: Perspectives on Africa.
13 August
Smart Egwu Otu
Drug Traffickers and Drug Trafficking: A Sociological Analysis of selected prisoners at
Pollsmoor and Goodwood prisons.