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ON MONDAY 17 July, JIAS and the Ali Mazrui Centre for Higher Education Studies at UJ hosted a seminar by Dr Henk van Rinsum on ‘Religion, Knowledge and Knowing: Dutch (academic) interaction with the Colonial “Other”, 1636-2017’.

Dr Henk van Rinsum is a historian and anthropologist, and executive secretary of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences of Utrecht University. His academic interest is in the intersection between university, intellectual, and colonial history. He has published on the history of academic relations between the Netherlands and South Africa, and on the political history of honorary doctorates at the University of Stellenbosch.