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Seminar: Ayanda Nombila — Wednesday 20 March 2019
Read More: Seminar: Ayanda Nombila — Wednesday 20 March 2019Department of Anthropology and Sociology University of the Western Cape Africanity and its Discontents Ayanda Nombila Makerere Institute for Social Research, Makerere University, Uganda Wednesday 20 March 2019 Anthropology Lab, 13h00-14h20 Abstract This paper focuses on the intellectual debate about the idea of Africanity that took place in the Codesria Bulletin of 2000. I argue…
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Seminar: Chinwe Christopher Obuaku-Igwe — Wednesday 12 March 2019
Read More: Seminar: Chinwe Christopher Obuaku-Igwe — Wednesday 12 March 2019Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series 2019 Economic growth in Nigeria: Revisiting the decision not to join the AFCFTA By Chinwe Christopher Obuaku-Igwe Wednesday 13 March 2019 Department of Anthropology and Sociology UWC Anthropology lab 13h00-14h20 Abstract This paper forms part of a wider effort at engaging the issues of…
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Congratulations to Diana Gibson and William Ellis!
Read More: Congratulations to Diana Gibson and William Ellis!Congratulations to Diana Gibson and William Ellis for their special issue of Anthropology Southern Africa, “Human and plant interfaces: relationality, knowledge and practices.” Congratulations also to our postgraduate students Hameedah Parker, Tihana Nathen and Michelle Pasquallie who published in this special issue. “In 2016, a group of academics — including anthropologists, phytochemists, rangeland ecologists, conservationists,…
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Seminar: Robert Gordon — Wednesday 6 March 2018
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Seminar: Carola Lentz—Wednesday 27 February 2019
Read More: Seminar: Carola Lentz—Wednesday 27 February 2019Anthropology and Sociology Seminar Series 2019 Imagining Futures: Memory and Belonging in an African Family Carola Lentz Department of Anthropology and African Studies, Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz Wednesday 27 February 2019 Department of Anthropology and Sociology UWC Anthropology lab 13h00-14h20 The presentation explores the history of remembering and the politics of memory making—and…
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Position available — Professor/Associate Professor in Sociology
Read More: Position available — Professor/Associate Professor in SociologyThe Department of Anthropology and Sociology is looking for a sociologist at the level of Professor/Associate Professor with specialisation or research focus (evidenced by publication) in one of the following areas: health, technology, transformation, gender, social policy, animal-human relations, and climate change. The Department of Anthropology and Sociology offers a three-year B.A. degree in Anthropology…
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NEW POSTGRADUATE MODULE IN ANIMAL STUDIES — The closing date for application for funding is 31 January 2019!
Read More: NEW POSTGRADUATE MODULE IN ANIMAL STUDIES — The closing date for application for funding is 31 January 2019!Animals and the Environment – Soc 739/Soc839 The department is excited to announce the launch of a new post-graduate module in animal studies (at both Honours SOC 739 and Masters SOC 839 levels) for the second semester in 2019. The module Animals and the Environment focuses on the relations between animals, environmental change and human cultural…
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LECTURER: DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY Anthropology at the University of the Western Cape has recently been reconstituted as its own department, reinvigorating a long-standing tradition of rigorous ethnographic research and pedagogy oriented towards critical questions emergent in our African context. The Department invites applicants for the position of Lecturer to contribute towards the growth of a vibrant and…
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A Biennial Conference of the SCA and SVA May 7-8-9 Re/Distribute: Three Radical Economists on (Post)Apartheid Two radical collectives working inside and outside of the academy to agitate with ideas and actions against ongoing histories of dispossession consider what redistribution means in the most unequal national context on earth. In a 50-minute short film, we…
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