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THE APARTHEID ARCHIVE PROJECT with the CENTRE FOR HUMANITIES RESEARCH & WOMEN'S GENDER STUDIES, FACULTY OF ARTS, UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE
as part of the Second Apartheid Archieve Conference - an evening of public lectues from leading scholars
SAUL DUBOW, Professor of History, Sussex University, Brighton "Rethinking apartheid"
PHILOMENA ESSED, Professor of Critical Race, Gender and Leadership Studies at Antioch University "Biographies of resistance"
PUMLA GQOLA, Associate Professor at the WITS School of Literature and Language Studies "Probing contradiction, surfacing newness: imagined memory in Zulu Love Letter and I speak to the silent"
RESPONDENTS: Leswin Laubscher, Elaine Salo & Kopano Ratele
DATE: WEDNESDAY 1 SEPTEMBER 2010
TIME: 17h30 for 18h00
VENUE: Library Auditorium, University of the Western Cape
RSVP: Zulfa Abrahams at zlfabrahams@gmail.com or Tel: 021-959-3487
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HERS-SA ACADEMY 2010
Sunday 12 to Saturday 18 September 2010
ANNOUNCEMENT: click here
APPLICATION FORM: click here
PROGRAMME: click here
VENUE: University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business, Cape Town, South Africa
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EDINBURGH BUSINESS SCHOOL:
DISTANCE LEARNING MBA SCHOLARSHIP
Edinburgh Business School is working with Cannon Collins Trust to select applicants for the EBS Distance Learning MBA Scholarship.
Scholarships are for citizens of SADC and Kenya
All applicants must be over the age of 25 and must be committed to using the knowledge, training and skills acquited on the MBA programme for the general benefit of their home community and country.
CLOSING DATE: 30 SEPTEMBER 2010
Applications can be downloaded from http://www.ebsglobal.net/programmes/mba-distance-learning
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ACADEMIC AND NON-FICTION AUTHORS' ASSOCIATION OF SOUTH AFRICA (ANFASA)
GRANT SCHEME TO BENEFIT AUTHORS OF ACADEMIC, EDUCATIONAL AND GENERAL NON-FICTION WORKS
If you are an author of one of the above and currently involved in a writing project or will be within the next 12 months, and finding time to focus on your project is an issue, or you are running short of funds to complete the needed research for the project, the ANFASA Grant Scheme for Authors is for you. The grants are intended to provide approx R20,000- R25,000 for an author to take leave, for instance, and devote herself or himself to the writing or the preparation of a manuscript, or to travel, or to undertake research, or to participate in a relevant training programme for purposes of completing the manuscript.
CLOSING DATE FOR SUBMITTING APPLICATIONS: 1 OCTOBER 2010
FURTHER INFORMATION: Email info@anfasa.org.za
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UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH BUSINESS SHOOL, EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT LTD
"CONSCIOUS CAREER STRATEGIES WORKSHOP"
This workshop is aimed at women in managerial, leadership and administrative positions, as well as those who are contemplating a future career change.
PRESENTERS:
DR SARAH RIORDAN has a PhD in Organisational Psychology from the University of Cape Town. Her thesis focused on the career success of women in South Africa. A registered industrial psychologist with the HPCSA, she has over 25 years of work experience in academia and human resource development.
SONJA SWART is an expert in the fields of Change Management and Organisational Development Leadership: Emotional Intelligence, Coaching and Personal and Team Development. She holds a BSc (Mathematics & Statistics) and aBA Honours in Human Resource Development.
DATE: 5-6 OCTOBER 2010
COST: R4 650
VENUE: University of Stellenbosch Business School, Bellville, South Africa
FURTHER INFORMATION:
Email: Charmaine Garcia: Tel: 021-918-4488; Email charmaine.garcia@usb-ed.com
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THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA (UNISA) GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS LEADERSHIP (BSL) is hosting:
"2010 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT"
The aim of the conference is provide an international forum for the exchange of ideas and the presentation of research related to sustainable development, against the backdrop of scarce resources and a global environmental crisis.
Themes include: leadership & strategy; organisational behaviour and human resource strategy; corporate governance and business ethics; knowledge management; project management; financia and accounting; marketing strategy; supply chain management and entrepreneurship
DATE: 6-8 OCTOBER 2010
VENUE: UNISA Graduate School of Business Leadershp, cnr Smuts & First Avenues, Midrand, Johannesburg, South Africa
FURTHER INFORMATION:
http://www.sbiresearch.co.za/Home.aspx
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THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE (UWC) & THE SOUTH AFRICAN QUALIFICATIONS AUTHORITY (SAQA)
Visit by PROFESSOR TARA FENWICK to SOUTH AFRICA
Professor Fenwick is a leading scholar and researcher into lifelong learning and work. In 2010 she relocated to The Stirling Institute of Education, taking up a Chair in Professional Education. Formerly she was Professor and Head of Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Colombia in Vancouver, Canada. Her research has focused on lifelong learning and education in the everyday activity of "workplaces" and organizations, with particular interest in understanding how identities, power relations and knowledge emerge in the rapidly changing conditions of globalized workplace practices. She has written extensively about theories of learning and gender in relation to work practices and education, most recently focusing on what some call *socio-material* theories, particularly actor-network theory and complexity sciences. Her book Learning Through Experience:
Troubling Assumptions and Intersecting Questions (Krieger, 2003) was granted the 2004 Cyril Houle Award of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education for Outstanding Contribution to Adult Education Literature.
UWC's Vice Chancellor's Annual Julius Nyerere Lecture on Lifelong Learning, which will take place on 12 October at 12h30 - 14h30 at UWC, Bellville, Western Cape. The working title of the lecture is "Lifelong learning through turbulent waters: going beyond the knowledge economy myth"
For further information contact Tania Oppel at toppel@uwc.ac.za phone
021-9593339
SAQA Chairperson"s Lecture which will take place in Gauteng on
13 October 2010. The working title of this lecture is "Learning for decent work? Understanding and researching work and learning". For further information contact Dr Heidi Bolton at hbolton@saqa.co.za.
Research Seminars :
There will be two seminars for researchers interested in exploring theories relating to work and learning. One will be in Cape Town and one in Pretoria. These will be of limited size and all participants will receive readings, which should be read beforehand and these will provide background to the seminars. The working title of these seminars is, "Theorising work and
learning: an evolving narrative":
(i) At UWC on Monday 11 October 2010 from 12.45 * 16h00. For further information contact Tania Oppel toppel@uwc.ac.za
(ii) In Pretoria on Thursday 14 October 2010. For further information contact Dr Heidi Bolton at hbolton@saqa.co.za.
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THE FUTURE ARGICULTURES CONSORTIUM INSTITUTE OF DEVELOPMENT STUDIES (IDS), UNIVERSITY OF SUSSEX, Brighton, England, THE JOURNAL OF PEASANT STUDIES in collaboration with the LAND DEAL POLITICS INITIATIVE (LDPi) are organising:
International Academic Workshop on "GLOBAL LAND GRABBING"
The LPDi was established by a number of organisation including the University of the Western Cape,South Africa. The focus of the conference will be on the politics of global land grabbing and agrarian change. Papers are expected to address some of the most urgent and strategic questions around global land grab.
The organisers invite papers that offer rigorous analysis of the identified issues from various critical perspectives including agrarian political economy, political sociology and political ecology. They also encourage comparative studies. They also welcome proposals for thematic panels.
CALL FOR PAPERS CLOSING DATE: 31 OCTOBER 2010
WORKSHOP DATE: 6-8 APRIL 2011
VENUE: Future Agricultures Consortium Institute of Studies, University of Sussex, Brighton, England
FURTHER INFORMATION: Email jpsworkshop@gmail.com
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THE AFRICAN HUMANITIES PROGRAM at the AMERICAN COUNCIL OF LEANRED SOCIETIES (ACLS) with financial support from the CARNEGIE CORPORATION OF NEW YORK, announces competitions for:
EARLY CAREER POSTDOCTORAL FELLOWSHIPS in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and South Africa
DISSERTATION COMPLETION FELLOWSHIPS in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda (there are no dissertation fellowships in South Africa)
Both fellowships provide one year of support for research and writing to scholars based on the continent and affiliated with institutions of higher learning in Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda, and South Africa. Scholars working in any humanistic discipline normally supported by the ACLS are encouraged to apply. In addition to one year of stipend support, each ACLS AHP fellow is also eligible to apply for a three-month residency as a visiting scholar at one of several select institutions for advanced research on the continent.
The formal announcement of the competition is available for download in PDF format from the ACLS website at:
https://www.acls.org/uploadedFiles/Fellowships_and_Grants/1011_AHP_Comp_Announcement.pdf
To open the announcement you may require Adobe Acrobat Reader, which is available for free download.
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS FOR THE 2010-2011 FELLOWSHIP COMPETITION:
1 DECEMBER 2010
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"GENDERED WAYS OF KNOWING? GENDER, HUMANITIES AND NATURAL SCIENCES CONGRESS"
The aim of this congress is to push the question about the
epistemological function of the category gender further, in particular
from the perspective of multi-disciplinary and interdisciplinary
research. Since the "rupture epistemologique" of the late 18th century
science has fabricated tools for sexualizing the objects of the world,
while modern anthropology and biology have contributed to the
universalization of gender cosmologies and the ontologization of binary
gender codes. While gender studies have challenged this binary
construction, they have also had a share in the naturalization of gender
by using it as an independent variable. In recent years, however, the
critique of gender studies has contributed to a self-critical reflection
about methodologies and presumptions underlying research activities in
different fields (including gender studies themselves), questioning the
notion of knowledge itself.
DATE: 1-4 DECEMBER 2010
VENUE: Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy
FURTHER INFORMATION: http://gender2010.fbk.eu
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THE THIRD WORLD ORGANISATION FOR WOMEN IN SCIENCE (TWOWS)
POSTGRADUATE TRAINING FELLOWSHIPS
The Third World Organisation for Women in Science (TWOWS), with funds provided by the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), has instituted a fellowship programme for female students from Sub-Saharan Africa and Least Developed Countries (LDCs), who wish to pursue postgraduate training leading to a PhD at centres of excellence in the South (developing countries) OUTSIDE THEIR OWN COUNTRY.
The minimum qualification of applicants is an MSc degree (or equivalent), or an outstanding BSc Honours degree, in the following fields of natural sciences: Basic Biology; Chemistry; Mathematics; Physics
DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS: 31 JULY EACH YEAR
Further information: http://twows.ictp.it/activities/
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