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From: Nkrumah Raymond Kgagudi <[email protected]> Subject: [PAYCO] Fwd: FW: WHAT'S HAPPENING @ WITS 09.04.2013 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Date: Wednesday, 10 April, 2013, 8:48 Comrades Find email below for those who may be interested. Mr. Raymond Mashilo Kgagudi Cellphone: 0749226361 Email: [email protected] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Katlego Lefine" <[email protected]> Date: 10 Apr 2013 09:28 Subject: FW: WHAT'S HAPPENING @ WITS 09.04.2013 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 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: [email protected] or (011) 717-2067 FREE WEDNESDAY LUNCH-HOUR CONCERT Take a musical journey with the Wits Choir conducted by Dalene Hoogenhout. Free and open to all. Date:10 April Time: 13:15 - 13:50 Venue: Wits Great Hall, East Campus LANGUAGE AND POWER IN MATHEMATICS CLASSROOMS All mathematics learning is mediated through language. In addition to the political choice for a language of instruction, teachers make choices about how to speak and write within the language of instruction. All these choices shape students’ experience of mathematics, including their sense of autonomy and their sense of what mathematics is. In this seminar, David Wagner will draw from his research to highlight language choices made by mathematics teachers and others who influence the classroom, and to lead discussion about how these choices might play out in different contexts. David Wagner is the Associate Dean (Graduate Programs) in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick in Canada. For more information, see http://davewagner.ca Date: 11 April 2013 Time: 13:15 – 14:30 Venue: Staff Lounge, Wits School of Education Enquiries: [email protected] or (011) 717-3416 HOW DO WE THEORISE RAPE? The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) invites you to a panel discussion centred on how we think about rape and why, titled How do we theorise rape?. This panel takes off from the activist energies and legal investigative work we have witnessed at Wits University through February and March, energies and activism resonating with similar outrage and activism across South Africa. Panel 1: Shireen Hassim will focus on Rape as a “keyword”, Bonita Meyerfeld on Changing legal thinking about rape, Eusebius McKaiser on Thinking about intimacy and ethics in rape, Lisa Vetten - Morality, rape and risk, and Lyn Ossome on Rape and the crisis of liberal democratic states: Kenya and South Africa. Panel 2: Antje Schumann will focus on "Objectify my Fist!” Rape, Recovery, Revenge, Carol Long on The view from psychology, Sheila Meintjes on Rape in War and its Aftermath, and Mbuyiselo Botha on Changing men in South Africa. Date: 11 April 2013 Time: 17:30 Venue: WISER Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus WITS FOCUS DAY 2013 Wits hosts its annual Focus Day on Friday, 12 April 2013 from 13:00-17:00. The event hosts all faculties on the Braamfontein Campus and is an excellent opportunity for top achieving Grade 11 and 12s and their parents to experience Wits and find out more about degrees and programmes on offer. Grade 11 and 12 learners interested in attending should register on http://www.wits.ac.za/yourfuture or www.witsuni.mobi SWOP BREAKFAST SEMINARS ON MARIKANA 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 Info and RSVP: (011) 717-4460 or [email protected] CRITICAL RESEARCH IN CONSUMER CULTURE SEMINAR: THE BLACK CONSUMER The Critical Research into Consumer Culture (CRiCC) Network presents a seminar entitled The Black Consumer where panellists Prof. Philip Bonner, will speak about The Black Middle Class: A Historical Perspective, Mehita Iqani about Spazas, Hawkers and the Status Quo: Black Consumption at the Margins of Media Discourse in Post-Apartheid South Africa and Raimi Gbadamosi about Madam and Eve Goes Shopping for a Black Diamond. The CRiCC is an interdisciplinary grouping of scholars who are actively researching issues relevant to the study of consumer culture. The CRiCC network is located in the Wits Department of Media Studies and membership is open to any academics or postgraduate students actively working on issues relevant to ‘consumer culture’, as broadly defined. Date: 16 April 2013 Time: 12:30 - 14:00 Venue: Graduate Seminar Room, South-West Engineering Building A light lunch will be served. MASSIFICATION AND THE LARGE LECTURE FORM Given the national injunction to massify university education, large lecture teaching is likely not only to remain with us, but to increase. The pedagogical demands of this higher education landscape are extreme, and the diminishing possibility of providing good education to students rests heavily on innovative teaching practice in large classes. Stephanie Allais, Dr David Hornsby and visiting professor James Arvanitakis, winner of Australia's premier teaching award, will engage in a discussion on the topic. Date: 16 April 2013 Time: 15:30 - 17:30 Venue: Graduate Seminar Room, SW Engineering Info: [email protected] WITSMUSIC STAFF IN CONCERT The staff of WitsMusic come to the fore to perform a mix of sounds that will delight and amaze in this concert. Bookings: www.strictlytickets.com Tickets will be available at the door: full price = R 85:00; discount price = R 60:00 (students, pensioners and Wits staff). Date: 16 April 2013 Time: 19:30 Venue: The Atrium, South West Engineering Building, East Campus Enquiries: 011 717 1376 / [email protected] RETHINKING ABET AND COMMUNITY EDUCATION – SOME THOUGHTS ON CURRICULUM ISSUES FOR ADULTS This seminar is part of a series hosted jointly by Umalusi, the Centre for Education Policy Development and the Wits School of Education. The series aims to focus debate on key aspects of the public education system, and to bring different role players together to explore areas of improvement. Date: 17 April 2013 Time: 09:30 -13:00 seminar Venue: Education Campus, Staff Lounge, Bohlaleng Block RSVP: [email protected] Refreshments will be served THE UNITED NATIONS HIGH COMMISSIONER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AT WITS The International Human Rights Exchange, the School of Social Sciences and the School of Law is proud to host the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Ms Navi Pillay, who will deliver a public lecture entitled Human Rights Achievements and Challenges in a Rapidly Changing World. Date: 17 April 2013 Time: 17:30 for 18:00 Venue: Great Hall, East Campus, Wits University RSVP: [email protected] THE MINISTER OF SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AT WITS 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 [email protected] Date: 18 April 2013 Time: 12:30 – 14:00 Venue: The Postgraduate Seminar Room, South West Engineering Building, East Campus JOIN THE SILENT PROTEST Wits University along with five other institutions of higher learning 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 FILM SCREENING OF LESSER HUMANS (1998) The Centre for Indian Studies in Africa invites you to a film screening of Lesser Humans (1998) directed by K Stalin, Co-Founder of DRISHTI- Media, Arts and Human Rights, Convener of the Community Radio Forum-India, and the India Director of Video Volunteers. The screening is part of an on-going dialogue with the South African artist Usha Seejarim whose exhibition Commonplace and out of place is showing at the Johannesburg Art Gallery and through a series of installations with brooms looks at issues of gender, domesticity and labour. 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