Research Workshop Seminar Series – A multidisciplinary approach to the study of Urban Crisis: a focus on the City of Johannesburg
The Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI), together with the Gauteng City-Region Observatory (GCRO), the Society, Work and Politics Institute (SWOP), and the Johannesburg Crisis: Concerned Academics invite you to a research workshop seminar series with a focus on the City of Johannesburg.
The seminar series provides a collaborative space and dialogue to scholars, researchers, activists and policy makers, to share their ongoing work on the City of Johannesburg. This is an itinerant series and the details of each seminar will be published one week prior.
If you would like to attend online, please register here
If you would like to attend in , please register here
Upcoming Seminars
September 26 | 1-3pm
The failure of a Coalition Across Difference: A Case Study of the Metropolitan City of Johannesburg
Presenter: Moeketsi Gordon Koahela, University of the Witwatersrand
The viability of legal interventions in addressing municipal dysfunction and an exploration of the burgeoning judicial role: A focus on the City of Johannesburg
Presenter: Claire Franklyn, Gauteng City Region Observatory, University of the Witwatersrand
Venue: PARI offices and online
October 31 | 1-3pm
The state of local government in Gauteng: an analysis based on the GCRO Quality of Life 7 survey
Presenter: Gauteng City Region Observatory, University of the Witwatersrand
Venue: TBC and online
November 14 | 1-3pm
Exploiting the infrastructural labour of logistics: Circulation and the reproduction of racialised capitalism in Gauteng, South Africa
Presenter: Bridget Kenny, University of the Witwatersrand
Venue: TBC and online
