SWOP @ 5th ISA Forum of Sociology, Rabat Morocco
Tasneem Essop, and SWOP associates Bridget Kenny and Ahmed Veriava are taking part in 5th ISA Forum of Sociology in Rabat, Morocco.
Tasneem Essop @ Symposium | State, Democracy and the Promise of Development: South Africa in comparative perspective
Tasneem Essop will be taking part in the Symposium | State, Democracy and the Promise of Development: South Africa in comparative perspective organised by the Public Affairs Research Institute, as part of the panel: Social activism, contentious politics, and claim making.
Lydia: Anthem to the Unity of Women wins Best Biography at the HSS Awards
SWOP Associate, Kally Forrest, has won the the award for Best Biography at the Humanities and Social Sciences Awards for her book Lydia: Anthem to the Unity of Women.
Book Launch: Niren Tolsi’s ‘Writing Around the Wicket’
Niren Tolsi will launch Writing Around the Wicket: Race, Class and History in South African Cricket at the Durban International Book Fair 2024
Inaugural Lecture of Prof Bridget Kenny
SWOP Research Associate, Bridget Kenny (Department of Sociology, Wits University) will present an inaugural lecture on Thursday, 28 November 2024.
Book Launch: Kally Forrest’s ‘Lydia: Anthem to the Unity of Women’
SWOP associate, Kally Forrest, will be launching her new book with Jacana Media on the 19th September at Love Books in Melville. With great care and meticulous research, Kally Forrest brings us the life of Lydia Komape, also known as Mam Lydia Komape, a parliamentarian in Nelson Mandela’s government. Kally travels in Lydia’s footsteps, with […]
The Land Question and Labour Tenancy in South Africa Today – Raymond Mhlaba Institutional Public Lecture
SWOP Senior Researcher, Dr Dineo Skosana, will act as a respondent to Prof Richard Levin’s public lecture hosted by the Nelson Mandela University. The lecture will take place on the 3rd of September 2024 at 15:30.
“Social and territorial inequality in Mexico and South Africa” a virtual round table
SWOP Director, Dr Prishani Naidoo, will participate in a virtual round table hosted by the Institute for Global Dialogue (IGD) and the Embassy of Mexico in South Africa. This is the third virtual round table discussing the book Global South Powers in Transition: A comparative analysis between Mexico and South Africa. Date: Tuesday 3 September 2024Time: […]
Call for Submissions – A multidisciplinary approach to the study of Urban Crisis: A focus on the City of Johannesburg
The Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), Society, Work and Politics Institute(SWOP) and the Johannesburg Crisis: Concerned Academics*, launch a seminarseries to offer scholars, researchers, and postgraduate students an opportunity toshare their ongoing work, either by discussing work in progress or presenting upcomingand new publications on the City of Johannesburg. In this seminar series we welcome […]
ArtTalk 50/30 | Reparation. Redux at the National Arts Festival
The ArtTalk 50/30 series explores the deep existential questions humanity faces with key thinkers, artists and healers. This multi-disciplinary ritual seeks to cleanse and heal the land, and humans, by invoking the ancestors through story-telling, song, dance, film and indigenous ritual.