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Dear Colleagues and Members of the Public

You are cordially invited to attend the UJ Sociology, Anthropology & Development Studies Wednesday Seminar. The weekly seminar has been hosted by the UJ Department of Sociology since 2000 and enjoys support from the UJ Faculty of Humanities and the Department of Anthropology & Development Studies. The seminar meets in UJ’s Anthropology and Development Studies Seminar Room at D Ring 506, at 15h30 on every Wednesday afternoon during term time, unless otherwise indicated. When possible, please arrive by 15:25. A written paper is usually distributed on this website, to allow participants to read this in advance of the seminar. Please find the programme below.

Those coming from outside the UJ are advised to enter the campus through Gate 2 on the corner of Ditton and Ripley Streets and to park in Car Park B. It may be helpful to show an invitation to the guard on duty. Confirmed presenters are asked to email their papers to Liela Groenewald by 10 days prior to the presentation.

Should you be interested in presenting a paper, please contact the convenors, Liela Groenewald and Letitia Smuts.

First term 2013:

Carnage Considered – The Marikana massacre and its aftermath

6 Feb: Prof Rosalind Morris (Department of Anthropology, 欧美福利100000 of Columbia): ‘鈥楢 Striking Resemblance?’: Labour, mines, and the historical politics of strikes in South Africa, 1973/2012′. Discussant: Prof Sakhela Buhlungu (Department of Sociology, 欧美福利100000 of Pretoria). (1/2013)

13 Feb: Paul Stewart (Wits Department of Sociology): . Discussant: Prof Edward Webster (Wits Department of Sociology & Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP)). (2/2013)

20 Feb: Prof Peter Alexander (UJ / NRF SA Research Chair in Social Change): 鈥楳arikana 鈥� Six months on鈥�. Discussant: Asanda Benya (Wits Department of Sociology & Society, Work & Development Institute (SWOP)). Discussion based on the 2012 Jacana book by Alexander et al, Marikana: A View from the Mountain and a Case to Answer. (3/2013)

27 Feb: Dr Sizwe Phakathi (Chamber of Mines): 鈥榃orker Agency in a Post-Aparthei鈥媎 Mining Workplace: A review and reflection on the Marikana Tragedy鈥嬧��. Discussant: Prof Dunbar Moodie (Professor of Sociology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges). (4/2013)

6 March: Prof Jane Duncan (Rhodes School of Journalism):’Marikana and the Paradox of Press Transformation’ (written paper removed as it will form part of a forthcoming book). Discussant: Ferial Haffajee (Editor, City Press). (5/2013)

13 March: Term-end screening – Greg Marinovich (Photographer / Journalist) shows and discusses his pictures taken at Marikana. Venue: Faculty of Humanities Common Room (C-Ring 3). (6/2013)

Second term 2013:

Class, gender and race in southern African perspective – “The bad news”*

10 April: Prof Dunbar Moodie (Department of Sociology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges):‘Profitability, respectability and challenge: (re)gaining control and restructuring the labour process while maintaining racial order on the South African gold mines, 1913 – 1922.鈥婦iscussant: Prof Keith Breckenridge (Wiser – Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research). (7/2013)

17 April: Dr Tijo Salverda (Human Economy Programme, 欧美福利100000 of Pretoria):
‘ “White bashing”: power and victimisation among the Mauritian white elite’. Discussant: Dr Liela Groenewald (UJ Department of Sociology). (8/2013)

24 April: Netsai Matshaka (Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, 欧美福利100000 of Pretoria): ‘Mobile women: Negotiating gendered norms and stereotypes鈥�’. Discussant:
Zaheera Jinnah (African Centre for Migration and Society, Wits). (9/2013)

1 May: No seminar due to Workers’ Day public holiday.

8 May: Dr Marc Fletcher (UJ Department of Sociology): ‘Reinforcing divisions and blurring boundaries: race, identity and the contradictions of Johannesburg soccer fandom’. Discussant: Shafinaaz Hassim (Sociologist & author).鈥� (10/2013)

15 May: Prof Zimitri Erasmus (Wits Department of Sociology): ‘A poetics of new genetics: genetic ancestry tracing and the future of belonging鈥�’. (Password only available to actual adience.) Discussant: Prof Eric Worby (Wits School of Social Science). (11/2013)

22 May: Term-end screening: Meantime in Mamelodi (a 75-min documentary produced by Benjamin Kahlmeyer). Discussant: Dr Dale McKinley (Independent social writer and activist). Venue: Faculty of Humanities Common Room (C-Ring 3).鈥嬧�� (12/2013)

*The verbatim comments of a 2013 lobby group for a new, local introductory sociology text included that young people are alienated from the discipline when universities impose on students “the bad news” that ordinary lives are structured by race, gender, ethnicity and status, rather than sexy topics like social media and culture, and that classical sociological theory is “boring”. The Wednesday Seminar committee believes otherwise:
we anticipate our audience – of all ages – will embrace the tools of social science in order to penetrate theoretical debates shaped in the global North with their own research, interpretations and lived experiences here, in the South.

Third term 2013:

Interrogating Sex and Sexualities

17 July: Prof Leo Wilton (Binghamton 欧美福利100000, New York / UJ Department of Sociology): ‘Race, sexuality, Aids, a鈥媙d activism in black same-gendered men’s communities in post-apartheid South Africa鈥�’. Discussant: Tessa Dooms (UJ Department of Sociology). (13/2013)

24 July: Zaheera Jinnah (African Centre for Migration Studies, Wits) 鈥楩emalecircumcision and reproductive health: Practices, perceptions, and implicationsfor access to health care amongst Somali women in Johannesburg鈥�. Discussant: Prof Sharon Fonn (School of Public Health, Wits). (14/2013)

31 July: Theo Sonnekus (Department of Visual Arts, Stellenbosch 欧美福利100000): 鈥樷�淲e鈥檙e not faggots!鈥�: Masculinity, homosexuality and the representation of Afrikaner men who have sex with men in the film Skoonheid (Beauty)鈥�. Discussant: Rory du Plessis (Department of Visual Arts, 欧美福利100000 of Pretoria). (15/2013)

7 August: Nomancotsho Pakade (Gay and Lesbian Memory in Action (GALA)): 鈥楲esbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transsexual and Intersexual (LGBTI) youth activism in southern Africa鈥�. Discussant: Letitia Smuts (UJ Department of Sociology). (16/2013)

14 August: Dr Nadia Sanger (Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)) 鈥楽exual politics, place and agency: Discourses of gender non-conforming young people on the urban peripheries of Cape Town鈥�. Discussant: Dr Leo Wilton (Binghamton 欧美福利100000). (17/2013)

21 August: Dr Catherine Burns (Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER)): 鈥楤ody knowledge: Breastfeeding and sexuality in South Africa鈥�. Discussant:Prof Kammila Naidoo (UJ Department of Sociology). (18/2013)

28 August: Term-end screening of Intersexions, season 1, episode 26. Discussant: Lusanda Mahlasela (Johns Hopkins Health and Education SA). *Venue: Faculty of Humanities Common Room (C-Ring 3). (19/2013)

Fourth term 2013:Nature and Society

11 September: Natalie Rebelo Da Silva (UJ Centre for Anthropological Research): 鈥楾he Changing Climate of Climate Change Research鈥嬧��. Discussant: TBC. (20/2013)

18 September: Dr Gijsbert Hoogendoorn (School of Geography, Archeology and Environmental Sciences, Wits): 鈥楾he Environmental Implications of Second Home Tourism鈥�. Discussant: Prof Christian Myles Rogerson (UJ Dept of Geography, Environmental Management and Energy Studies). (21/2013)

25 September: Dr Carina van Rooyen (UJ Dept of Anthropology and Development Studies): 鈥楳apping social anthropological research on changing climate in South Africa鈥�. Discussant: Marcel Korth (UJ Centre for Anthropological Research). (22/2013)

2 October: Dr Richard Meissner (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)): 鈥楾he Governability of Water Resources: Introducing the PULSE3 Assessment Framework鈥嬧��. Discussant: TBC. (23/2013)

9 October: Munyaradzi Gwizai (Faculty of Law, 欧美福利100000 of Zimbabwe): Zimbabwe Update. Discussant: Dr Tapiwa Chagonda (UJ Department of Sociology). (24/2013)

16 October: Dr Victor Munnik (Nature and Society Research Associate, Wits Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP)): ‘Socially constructed AND painfully real: The potential of critical realism to underlabour for environmental justice鈥�’. Venue: Faculty of Humanities Common Room. (25/2013)

23 October: Term-end film screening: Weather Gods (a 75-min documentary produced by Benjamin Kahlmeyer). Discussant: Richard Worthington (Independent expert on climate and energy issues). *Venue: Faculty of Humanities Common Room (C-Ring 3). (26/2013)