Abstract
The UJ Deputy Vice Chancellor Research, Postgraduate Studies and Library, Prof Tshilidzi Marwala, together with the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) and the UJ Library invites you for the launch of Professor Steven Friedman’s
latest book:
Race, Class and Power
Harold Wolpe and the Radical Critique of Apartheid
Race, Class and Power examines Wolpe’s work in the political, intellectual and social contexts in which it was developed and to which it gave form. Drawing on interviews with those he worked with, disagreed with and inspired, the book also maps his influence on ideas and the culture that emerged in anti-apartheid circles in the 1970s. Wolpe’s writing is a prism through which South African society can be viewed; this book is an intellectual biography both of Wolpe and of South Africa’s left. Race, Class and Power also assesses and engages with the ongoing impact of Wolpe’s ideas into the post-apartheid present. Moreover, it suggests how Wolpe’s work can move us towards a way of thinking about and acting upon South Africa’s realities differently.
Facilitator:
Johnny Selemani
Centre for the Study of Democracy (University of Johannesburg and Rhodes University)
Panelists:
Prof Steven Friedman
Director: Centre for the Study of Democracy (University of Johannesburg and Rhodes University)
Prof Peter Alexander
Director: Centre for Sociological Research, South Africa Research Chair in Social Change, University of Johannesburg
Dr David Masondo
Chief Director: Economic Sectors, Gauteng Department of Economic Development
DATE: 22 APRIL 2015
TIME: 15:30 for 16:00
VENUE: APK Library Auditorium (6th Floor)
University of Johannesburg
(Corner Kingsway and University Road, Auckland Park, Johannesburg)
RSVP: On or before 20 April 2015 to Marilldene Guercio, mguercio@uj.ac.za, or on 011 559 4623.
The Citizen Newspaper in partnership with UJ Library invites you to
CELEBRATE THE LIFE AND TIMES OF Ali Mazrui.
Ali Mazrui was a professor, and a political writer on African and Islamic
studies and North-South relations. He was born in Mombasa, Kenya. In 1989, he was appointed to the faculty of Binghamton University, New York as the Albert Schweitzer Professor in the Humanities and the Director of the Institute of Global Cultural Studies.
Facilitator:
Dr Adekeye Adebajo, Executive Director: Centre for Conflict Resolution (CCR)
Panellist:
Abdul Bemath is a librarian, bibliographer and indexer. He compiled, The Mazruiana Collection Revisited: Annotated bibliography of Ali Mazrui, 1962-2003.
Professor Gilbert Khadiagala - Jan Smuts Professor of International Relations
and Head of the Department of International Relations, University of Witwatersrand.
Professor Chris Landsberg - SARChI Chair: African Diplomacy and Foreign
Policy, University of Johannesburg
Professor Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni - Professor and Head of the Archie Mafeje
Research Institute, University of South Africa.