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JIAS PAST EVENTS
2021
2020
2019
2018
2017
2021
Actuvirtual Symposium: Racialized Geo-graphies – De/Colonial Knowledge
28 April 2021 at 4:00 pm
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6:00 pm
Democracy in Times of Pandemic: A Book Discussion
5 May 2021 at 5:00 pm
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6:30 pm
Visual Epistemology & Tragedies of Black Beauty
11 May 2021 at 11:00 am
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1:00 pm
Echoes Over Distant Regions: Celebrating Zulu Poet Mazisi Kunene @91
12 May 2021 at 5:00 pm
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6:00 pm
The Marked Men Webinar
13 May 2021 at 11:00 am
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1:00 pm
Converting your Dissertation into a Book
18 May 2021 at 10:00 am
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12:00 pm
Actuvirtual Symposium- Colonialism and “Restitution”
27 May 2021 at 4:00 pm
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6:00 pm
JIAS Webinar: Artistic Encounters
15 June 2021 at 2:00 pm
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3:00 pm
Sol T. Plaatje: a life in letters Book Launch
23 June 2021 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Actuvirtual Symposium: International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Child Poverty
28 June 2021 at 4:00 pm
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6:00 pm
Sounding Place and Self Webinar
8 July 2021 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
‘Secessionist Movements and their Implications for Security in Africa: Tigray, Biafra and the Southern Cameroons’ Webinar
14 July 2021 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
A Festival of Qualitative Research Methodologies
19 July 2021 at 10:00 am
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23 July 2021 at 12:00 pm
The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil: Making Sense of Transformative Social Policy
17 August 2021 at 3:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Abusing the Wife – A Critical Re-Examination of Qur’an 4:34 and Re-interpretive Possibilities
25 August 2021 at 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Maasai Speak Back
2 September 2021 at 2:00 pm
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5:00 pm
Afghanistan, Islam, and Empire: A Critical Assessment
9 September 2021 at 6:00 pm
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8:00 pm
Book Launch: Breakthrough- The Struggles and Secret Talks that Brought Apartheid South Africa To The Negotiating Table
17 September 2021 at 6:00 pm
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7:30 pm
Postgraduate Student Webinar: Protecting African Netizens against Digital Atrocities, War and Crime
6 October 2021 at 4:00 pm
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5:30 pm
Wayfarers’ Hymns and Arola by Zakes Mda
22 October 2021 at 6:00 pm
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8:30 pm
BRICS and IBSA: Reflections on Recent Academic Forums
26 October 2021 at 1:00 pm
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3:00 pm
Concurrent operations on talk about child death: assessments as moral grounds for categorization of victims and perpetrators
28 October 2021 at 10:00 am
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12:00 pm
Actuvirtual Symposium: African Political Thought
29 October 2021 at 4:00 pm
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6:00 pm
Poli Poli Book Launch
4 November 2021 at 5:30 pm
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7:30 pm
Actuvirtual Symposium: What does genocide/femicide teach us?
29 November 2021 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Soga Studies Conference
24 March 2022 at 1:00 pm
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26 March 2022 at 6:00 pm
2020
Writing on Cabral: Life, history and the legacy of the struggle for liberation
5 February 2020 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Contemporary Immigrants in South Africa: Perceptions, Treatment, and Integration
13 February 2020 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Book launch: Red Apple Dreams and other stories
20 February 2020 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
The state of Zambian democracy and Zambia-China relations
5 March 2020 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
2019
Colloquium on Human Dignity
21 January 2019 at 12:00 am
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25 January 2019 at 12:00 am
JIAS Writing Fellows Seminar Series
20 February 2019 at 12:00 am
The Chaos Precinct
20 February 2019 at 12:00 am
Complementarism and Consolationism Mapping out a 21st Century African Philosophical Trajectory
27 February 2019 at 9:00 am
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11:00 am
Reading tweets, hashtags, and other ephemera in Cairo – literacy practices in new spaces of sociolinguistic freedom
6 March 2019 at 12:00 am
On rationality: An artificial intelligence (AI) perspective
12 March 2019 at 12:00 am
Out of Sight, Out of Mind: The experience of Bushman communities in South Africa
13 March 2019 at 12:00 am
Migration and Society in the South: Comparing South Africa and Chile
17 March 2019 at 12:00 am
The Life and Work of Karl Mittermaier
18 March 2019 at 12:00 am
The Zulus of New York
20 March 2019 at 12:00 am
State of Dis-ease
25 March 2019 at 12:00 am
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28 March 2019 at 12:00 am
Ezekiel Mphahlele: An Incomparable Figure for all Horizons
26 March 2019 at 12:00 am
Source of Denial: A Novel of Burundi
27 March 2019 at 12:00 am
When Robots Become Unstable: The Ethiopian Boeing 737 Max Crash
9 April 2019 at 5:00 pm
The Khoikhoi – Xhosa Wars of Land Repossession in the 18th and 19th Century Cape Colony and the making of South Africa’s Working Class
10 April 2019 at 12:00 pm
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2:00 pm
(Re)imagining the (extra)ordinary Chinese spaces and the urban in Southern Africa
10 April 2019 at 2:00 pm
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4:00 pm
Revisiting Nguni Formations, the Mfecane and Migrations in Southeastern Africa
16 April 2019 at 5:00 pm
Advancing Science in the Global South: The role of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
23 April 2019 at 5:00 pm
Advancing Science in the Global South: The role of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS)
23 April 2019 at 5:00 pm
Narrating race and racism in contemporary South Africa
24 April 2019 at 10:00 am
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12:00 pm
Narrating race and racism in contemporary South Africa
24 April 2019 at 10:00 am
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12:00 pm
Ripples in the space-time continuum South African involvement in Gravitational Wave and Multi-Messenger astronomy
25 April 2019 at 4:00 pm
The Lifecycle of Empires
7 May 2019 at 12:00 am
Reversing Urban Inequality in Johannesburg
14 May 2019 at 5:00 pm
Ten Years of A Man Who is Not a Man
15 May 2019 at 5:00 pm
‘Why in the Fourth Industrial Revolution are Miracle Churches Attracting so many People?’
22 May 2019 at 12:00 am
Seek Ye First the Spiritual Kingdom: Decolonising ‘decolonisation’ with Es’kia Mphahlele
28 May 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Book launch: Talk of the Town
6 June 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Priorities for Land Reform in South Africa – a pragmatic approach
23 July 2019 at 3:00 pm
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5:00 pm
The Mule Filmic Slave Narrative in Django Unchained: Practices of Freedom and the Myth of Vengeful Fantasy
30 July 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Migrations of Gender\the Gender of Migration: Meditations on Mobility and Movement from the Commonwealth Caribbean
20 August 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Bernard Magubane’s Critique of Anthropology in Southern Africa
22 August 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Language, Culture and Colonization | The 3rd JIAS Conference on the Legacies of Colonialism and Imperialism
2 September 2019 at 12:00 am
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4 September 2019 at 12:00 am
Intelligence and Learning in the age of AI
9 September 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Book Launch: To Survive and Succeed
12 September 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
The Eagle and the Springbok: Essays on Nigeria and South Africa
17 September 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Quo Vadis South Africa? Some useful footprints
25 September 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Information, Understanding, Transformation: The Challenges of the 4IR
3 October 2019 at 4:00 pm
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4:30 pm
Information, Understanding, Transformation: The Challenges of 4IR By Professor Boaventura de Sousa Santos
3 October 2019 at 4:30 pm
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6:30 pm
SOBUKWE: The Making of the Pan Africanist Leader
8 October 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
LIVE WEBINAR: The 2019 Nobel-Inspired Lecture and Panel Discussion
11 October 2019 at 2:00 pm
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5:00 pm
The Meaning and Purpose of Literature in post-apartheid South Africa
11 October 2019 at 2:00 pm
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5:00 pm
NDIVHUWO: Journal for Intellectual Engagement
17 October 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
BREXIT: Whither Britain? Whither Europe? Whither the world?
30 October 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
The new colonial missionaries: basic education policy and randomized trials in South Africa
5 November 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
Buying Land on Credit: Networks of debt, risk and investment among black land purchasers in early 20th Century Transvaal
12 November 2019 at 5:00 pm
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7:00 pm
2018
Workshop on ‘Teaching IR globally’
22 January 2018 at 12:00 am
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25 January 2018 at 12:00 am
Lecture by Prof Barbara Wilson
29 January 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar on cancer in Kenya
27 February 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar on anti-slavery activism
7 March 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar on scholarship and freedom
13 March 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar by Prof Kevin Riordan
14 March 2018 at 12:00 am
Workshop on language vitality at NTU
15 March 2018 at 12:00 am
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16 March 2018 at 12:00 am
Talk on ‘Ahmedabad: A city in the world’
19 March 2018 at 12:00 am
Workshop on ‘Illustrating the Brain’
28 March 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by David Huang
4 April 2018 at 12:00 am
John Rapley leads seminar on new book
5 April 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Amrita Shah
11 April 2018 at 12:00 am
Pop-up seminar on land reform
12 April 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Hans Pienaar
16 April 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Dr Melissa Tandiwe Myambo
18 April 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Martijn van den Heuvel
24 April 2018 at 12:00 am
UJ seminar led by Dr David Huang
25 April 2018 at 12:00 am
Book launch for two Writing Fellows
25 April 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Prof Gerry Maré
25 April 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Zukiswa Wanner
2 May 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Charlie Veric
9 May 2018 at 12:00 am
Discussion of two books by JIAS Writing Fellows
10 May 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Dr Chou Meng-Hsuan
16 May 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Niq Mhlongo
16 May 2018 at 12:00 am
NTU conference in memory of Prof Ahmed Zewail
21 May 2018 at 12:00 am
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23 May 2018 at 12:00 am
Reading of play by Hans Pienaar
22 May 2018 at 12:00 am
Inaugural Moses Kotane Memorial Lecture
31 May 2018 at 12:00 am
Conference on enslavement, conflict and forced marriage in Africa
25 June 2018 at 12:00 am
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28 June 2018 at 12:00 am
Colloquium on Multilingualism
28 June 2018 at 12:00 am
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30 June 2018 at 12:00 am
Second conference on colonialism and its implications
9 July 2018 at 12:00 am
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11 July 2018 at 12:00 am
Launch of book on water by Larry Swatuk
26 July 2018 at 12:00 am
Launch of book by Vineet Thakur
3 August 2018 at 12:00 am
Workshop on life-writing
6 August 2018 at 12:00 am
First panel discussion on work and the future
15 August 2018 at 12:00 am
Discussion of new book on Sol Plaatje
21 August 2018 at 12:00 am
Second panel discussion on work and the future
22 August 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Prof Steven J Diner
23 August 2018 at 12:00 am
Prof Marwala delivers distinguished lecture in Singapore
30 August 2018 at 12:00 am
Third panel discussion on work and the future
5 September 2018 at 12:00 am
Fourth panel discussion on work and the future
12 September 2018 at 12:00 am
Exhibition of cartoons by Eddie Roux
17 September 2018 at 12:00 am
Launch of book by Prof Chris Brink
19 September 2018 at 12:00 am
Lecture on Mandela as a lawyer
25 September 2018 at 12:00 am
Workshops on High Ability and Talent Development
5 October 2018 at 12:00 am
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6 October 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar led by Prof Alan Chan of NTU Singapore
9 October 2018 at 12:00 am
Spring seminar on decolonising the curriculum
2 November 2018 at 12:00 am
Seminar on ‘The relativity of Bugs Bunny’
6 November 2018 at 12:00 am
Writing across time and space: an evening with Fred and Sihle Khumalo
20 November 2018 at 12:00 am
JIAS at Science Forum South Africa
12 December 2018 at 12:00 am
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14 December 2018 at 12:00 am
2017
South Africa after Marikana
19 January 2017 at 12:00 am
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20 January 2017 at 12:00 am
‘Almost-Times: South African Temporalities’
5 May 2017 at 12:00 am
Seminar on women identities in Xhosa societies
24 May 2017
Second Brain Matters Seminar at Wits
25 May 2017
Exhibition on Johannesburg and New Delhi
1 June 2017 at 12:00 am
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7 June 2017 at 12:00 am
Revisiting the history of capitalism
10 June 2017 at 12:00 am
South Africa’s strategic role in Africa
12 July 2017 at 12:00 am
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14 July 2017 at 12:00 am
Seminar by Henk van Rinsum
17 July 2017 at 12:00 am
Prof Ihron Rensburg on leadership under crisis
18 July 2017 at 12:00 am
Seminar on language policy in multilingual societies
8 August 2017 at 12:00 am
Seminar on ‘Decolonisation and Big Data analytics’
17 August 2017 at 12:00 am
Conference on expulsions
17 August 2017 at 12:00 am
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18 August 2017 at 12:00 am
Third Brain Matters seminar
18 August 2017 at 12:00 am
Workshop on opioids and harm reduction in SA
21 August 2017 at 12:00 am
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22 August 2017 at 12:00 am
Conference on ‘Prelude to Decolonisation: The Turning of the Tide’
28 August 2017 at 12:00 am
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30 August 2017 at 12:00 am
Second seminar on the challenge of ‘Big Data’
7 September 2017 at 12:00 am
Launch of book by Lesego Rampolokeng
14 September 2017 at 12:00 am
Conversation on gender and cartooning
19 October 2017 at 12:00 am
Seminar by Pascal Lamy
24 October 2017 at 12:00 am
Fourth Brain Matters Seminar
26 October 2017 at 12:00 am
Seminar on ‘Big Data and Distributed Ledger’
2 November 2017 at 12:00 am
Workshop on computational history
14 November 2017 at 12:00 am
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16 November 2017 at 12:00 am
Focus on financial services and entrepreneurship in Africa
27 November 2017 at 12:00 am
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28 November 2017 at 12:00 am
Lecture by Prof Morten Kringelbach
6 December 2017 at 12:00 am
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