Wednesday Seminar

Dear colleagues and guests

You are cordially invited to attend the UJ Sociology, Anthropology & Development Studies Wednesday Seminar. With support from the Faculty of Humanities, the weekly seminar is organised by the Department of Sociology and hosted in UJ's Anthropology and Development Studies Seminar Room at DRing 506, on the Auckland Park Kingsway campus, at 15h30 on every Wednesday afternoon during term time, unless otherwise indicated. When possible, please arrive by 15:25. A written paper is usually distributed on this website, to allow participants to read this in advance of the seminar. The seminar has run successfully for over a decade, with various incarnations and collaborators. Please find the current programme below.

Those coming from outside the UJ are advised to enter the campus through Gate 2 on the corner of Ditton and Ripley Streets and to park in Car Park B (scroll down for map). It may be helpful to show an invitation to the guard on duty. Should you be interested in presenting a paper, please contact the conveners, Letitia Smuts or Liela Groenewald. Confirmed presenters' papers should reach Liela Groenewald by two weeks prior to the presentation.

Tina Uys (Professor of Sociology) and Thea de Wet (Professor of Anthropology and Development Studies)

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Second term 2012 programme: Crime and Punishment in Social Perspective

11 April: Prof Suren Pillay (Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape): ‘Crime, community and violence in post-apartheid South Africa’. Discussant: Sibusiso Masuku (Policy Analyst, Office of the President).

18 April: Dr Giada Del Fabbro (Child and Family Unit, Charlotte Maxeke Johannesburg Academic Hospital, University of the Witwatersrand): ‘A Family Systems Analysis of Serial Murder in South Africa’. Discussant: Elsabé Jordaan (UJ Department of Psychology).

25 April: Dr Vanessa Barolsky (Human Sciences Research Council): ‘The making of the South African criminal subject’. Discussant: Marcel Korth (UJ Centre for Anthropological Research).

2 May: David Lewis (Corruption Watch): ‘The context and approach of Corruption Watch’. Discussant: Gareth Newham (Institute for Security Studies).

9 May: Lukas Muntingh (Community Law Centre, University of the Western Cape): ‘The UN Convention Against Torture and South Africa’s obligations’. Discussant: Amanda Dissel (Association for the Prevention of Torture).

16 May: Dr Bronwyn Dworzanowski (UJ Centre for Sociological Research): ‘The death of the prison? Re-thinking Foucault's Discipline and Punish, reflecting on a US student-prisoner dialogue series and key South African debates’. Discussant: Prof Jon Hyslop (UP Department of Sociology).

23 May: Term-end film screening with the documentary, Forest of Crocodiles. Discussant: Dr Barbara Holtmann (Vice President, International Centre for Prevention of Crime (ICPC). *Venue: Faculty of Humanities Common Room (C-Ring 3).

Background and archive

The UJ Sociology, Anthropology & Development Studies Wednesday Seminar is jointly hosted by the UJ Department of Sociology and the Department of Anthropology & Development Studies. The Department of Sociology has hosted a seminar since 1995, began holding more regular seminars in 1999 and successfully launched the regular weekly seminar in 2000. By means of this seminar, the Department of Sociology has contributed vibrant and transformative intellectual debate linking both established and upcoming UJ human and social scientists with activists, trade unionists, scholars from other institutions, and members of the media. Alongside regular participation from within our own ranks, guests hosted by the department over the years include Proff Thabo Fako, Shula Marks and John Saul (2000), Proff William Beinart, Michael Burawoy, Dunbar Moodie and Rusty and Hilda Bernstein (2001), Proff Denis Brutus and Joanne Duffy (2002), Prof Iris Marion Young, Sasha Gear and Trevor Ngwane (2003), Proff Giovanni Arrighi, Fred Hendricks, Jonathan Jansen, and Gay Seidman (2004), Proff Simon Bekker, Bert Klandermans, Tom Lodge and Elinor Sisulu (2005), Dr Loraine Nencel and Proff John Higgins, Partha Mukherji, and Immanuel Wallerstein (2006), Proff Susan Parnell, Liz Stanley, Thomas Blom Hansen and Rehad Desai (2007) and Proff Jo Beall, Min-Chang Tsai and Michael Burawoy (2008). From 2001 to 2006, the department promoted its in-house Centre for Sociological Research (CSR) as a co-host of the seminar. The seminar has enjoyed financial support from the UJ Faculty of Humanities. The UJ Department of Sociology and the Department of Anthropology & Development Studies continue to anchor the Wednesday Seminar, the longest running and most regular of the University of Johannesburg's public lectures and seminars.