by Staff Reporter | Jun 18, 2013 | News
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The annual Joburg Radio Days international conference will take place from 3 – 5 July 2013 and the programme promises to be bigger and better than before, with top South African and overseas speakers.
If you’re in radio, you can’t afford to miss this important event on the radio calendar. Hosted by the Wits Radio Academy the conference is the only one of its kind in Africa.
There are sessions of interest to commercial radio, public and community radio; to producers, managers, marketers, editors, DJs; veterans and newbies – anybody with a passion for radio.
Come to a morning, a day or the whole conference. Applications to attend the conference are now available online. Click here for more information on the topics and registration.
Date: 3 – 5 July 2013
Venue: Wits Club, West Campus, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
For enquiries, registration and costs, contact radiodays@journalism.co.za
by Staff Reporter | Apr 17, 2013 | News
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Wits Art Museum (WAM) invites children aged between6–12 and their parent/caregivers to a two-hour event where children will be introduced to the exhibition Izilwane/ Diphologolo: Animals and Art in Africa.
Skilled facilitators will awaken the children’s curiosity about some of the artworks and encourage them to think and talk about what they see.
Children can look forward to an animal mask-making workshop and an exciting animal related performance. Free and open to all, however please RSVP for planning and catering purposes. Light refreshments will be served.
The WAM Café Olives & Plates will be open for coffee and cake.
Date: 20 April 2013
Time:11:00 – 13:00
Venue: University Corner, Corner Bertha (extension of Jan Smuts Avenue) and Jorissen Streets, Braamfontein
RSVP: (011) 717 1378 or leigh.blanckenberg@wits.ac.za
by Staff Reporter | Apr 17, 2013 | News
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The President of the African National Congress Women’s League and Minister o Basic Education Angie Motshekga, will deliver a memorial lecture honouring the life of Dr Charlotte Maxeke and heroines of the struggle.
She will speak on 100 years of the women’s struggle and contemporary issues facing young women in South Africa. This year is the 100 anniversary of the first march organised by women against the 1913 land act, led by Maxeke.
Date: 19 April 2013
Time: 15:30
Venue: Great Hall, East Campus
by Staff Reporter | Apr 17, 2013 | News
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Wits University along with five other institutions in higher education will join ‘The Silent Protest’ to be held on 19 April 2013.
Student voices will affirm Wits’ solidarity with the millions of people – men, women and children – silenced by rape and sexual violence.
On campus, the Counselling and Careers Development Unit (CCDU) has joined forces with the divisions in the Office of the Dean of Student Affairs’, the Transformation office and the Students’ Representative Council (SRC), and Drama for Life (DFL) to condemn sexual violence of any nature, to support survivors and to encourage the reporting of these atrocious acts.
The march will begin at 12:45 leaving from the Amic Deck and concluding on the Great Hall steps. Register at CCDU or SDLU to take part in the protest.
Date: 19 April 2013
Time: 08:00 – 17:30 taping of mouths on the library lawns for a show of solidarity
More info: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Silent-Protest-Wits/477127862353705
Read Wits Vuvuzela’s previous article about this protest.
by Staff Reporter | Apr 17, 2013 | News
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Join WISER for a discussion between best-selling author, Anthony Altbeker and the Director of WISER, Sarah Nuttall talking about how we might read the Oscar Pistorius case in light of the trial of Fred van der Vyver and how do the two dead women at the centre of these cases – Reeva Steenkamp and Inge Lotz – figure in the public imagination? Anthony Altbeker has been following the Pistorius story closely and will venture his sense of what’s at stake.
Date: 18 April 2013
Time: 18:00
Venue: WISER seminar room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus
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by Staff Reporter | Apr 17, 2013 | News
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REMEMBERING RWANDA: THE COMMEMORATION OF THE 1994 GENOCIDE IN RWANDA’S NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND MEMORIALS
After the genocide of 1994, the RPF-led Rwandan government invested heavily in the development of reconciliation programs, ranging from the installation of genocide memorials, to the announcement of a ‘memory day’, to the political decision to abolish ethnicity. This paper argues that ‘culture’ (as problematic a term as it is), was given a pivotal role in this reconciliation process.
Constant emphasis is put on the fact that ‘culturally’ the country was united before the genocide and that the divisions that caused the conflict were rather political categories put into place by the colonial powers. In post-genocidal Rwanda, there is now a sense of having to return to this common cultural background, a project that is strongly promoted by the country’s national museums and memorials. However, the validity of these claims for a pre-colonial Rwandan utopia is questionable and current tensions in the memorialisation of the genocide seem to negate this reconciliatory narrative.
This paper will focus on the role of ‘culture’ in the commemoration of the Rwandan genocide and will argue that the collective ‘Rwandan’ identity that is being advocated today is as political as the ‘ethnic’ identities during colonial times.
Date: 18 April
Time: 17: 15
Venue: Room 130, Wits School of Arts
RSVP: Vuyiswa.ngesman@wits.ac.za
by Staff Reporter | Apr 17, 2013 | News
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WISER invites you to the launch of a new book on the politics of Zimbabwe titled The Hard Road to Reform: The Politics of Zimbabwe’s Global Political Agreement edited by Brian Raftopoulos and featuring some of the best work of Zimbabwe’s young scholars.
Speakers are Brian Raftopoulos, a leading Zimbabwean scholar and Director of Research and Advocacy in the Solidarity Peace Trust; and Deprose Muchena, Deputy Director of the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa (OSISA). RSVP: najibha.deshmukh@wits.ac.za More info: zoe.groves@wits.ac.za
Date: 18 April 2013
Time:13:00
Venue: WISER seminar room, 6th Floor Richard Ward Building, East Campus
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by Staff Reporter | Apr 17, 2013 | News
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The Department of Social Work in the Faculty of Humanities will hold an oath taking-ceremony for its first year social work students. The Minister of Social Development, Bathabile Dlamini, will deliver the keynote address.
More info: Dr Cily Tabane on (011) 717 4481 or cily.tabane@wits.ac.za
Date: 18 April 2013
Time: 12:30 – 14:00
Venue: The Postgraduate Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building, East Campus
by Staff Reporter | Apr 5, 2013 | News
The Wits Vuvuzela Online will be live blogging from the 2013 Taco Kuiper Awards for Investigative Journalism. The awards take place on Friday, 5 April 2013 and will celebrate the best of investigative reporting in South Africa. This year the awards attracted 44 entries from 20 media outlets.
Follow us as we bring you the awards as they happen from the Rand Club in Johannesburg.
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by Staff Reporter | Mar 26, 2013 | News
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2013 AJ ORENSTEIN MEMORIAL LECTURE
The Wits Faculty of Health and the Adler Museum of Medicine host the annual AJ Orenstein Memorial Lecture to be presented by Prof Jock McCulloch, Professor in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
His lecture is titled Dust, Disease and Politics on South Africa’s Gold Mines and will focus on how an illusion of safety on South African mines was created and perpetuated.
Date: 10 April 2013
Time: 18:00
Venue: Auditorium, Wits School of Public Health, Parktown
Enquiries: adler.museum@wits.ac.za or (011) 717-2067
by Staff Reporter | Mar 26, 2013 | News
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The Society, Work and Development Institute (SWOP) will convene a series of breakfast seminars that engage with different aspects of the Marikana Moment. Presenting on-going research by SWOP, the seminars will consider the increasing turbulence on the platinum belt, in the realms of business, community and labour respectively, as well as the intensification of intra-elite violence at a political level.
Strike Violence Post-apartheid: Cases from Marikana and the 2012 Platinum Strike-Wave presented by Chrispen Chinguno, PhD Fellow (SWOP)
Date: 12 April 2013
Time: 07:30
Venue: Hofmeyr House, East Campus
Intra-elite Violence: Causes, Forms, Prospects presented by Prof. Karl von Holdt, Director: SWOP
Date: 10 May 2013
Time: 07:30
Venue: Hofmeyr House, East Campus
For more information and to RSVP, contact shameen.govender@wits.ac.za or (011) 717-4460
by Staff Reporter | Mar 22, 2013 | News
“The Erasmus Mundus project LEAN-CC (Linking European, African and Asian Academic Networks on Climate Change), addresses the promotion of research and education exchange in the field of climate change. The promotional seminar at Wits aims to improve awareness of the issues relating to climate change and the available EU courses and programmes, reduce barriers to studying in the EU, provide prospective non-EU students with information, and provide a platform and a basis for collaboration and mobility between European, African and Asian Academic Networks in the field of climate change education and research.
The seminar is open to experts and students in climate change as a multidimensional issue, including the science, policy, and education in academia as well as the general public, private, and community sectors. Invited talks will provide a deeper understanding of the different facets of climate change and contribute to a more informed and dynamic discussion in several breakout groups.
The seminar takes place from 3 to 5 April 2013 at the Professional Development Hub, Wits University.
Students at all levels interested in studying climate change are invited to participate. Students are invited to present posters featuring their work related to climate change and sustainability. Cash prices will be awarded to the three best posters.
Pre-registration is required by 25 March 2013. Deadline for poster abstract submission is 22 March 2013. For details on the seminar, registration and abstract submission, see http://www.gcsri.org/workshops/2013_LEAN_CC“
