Date :

04 August 2009

Time :

12:30 – 14:30

Presenters :

Dr Desiree Lewis, UWC

Prof. Sheila Meintjes, WITS

Ms Mikki van Zyl, Simply Said and Done

Prof. Quarraish Abdool Karim, UKZN

Introduction and moderation:  Dr Nadia Sanger, HSRC

Poet:  Ms Busiswa Gqulu

Presentations:

• Introduction and Context  –  Dr Relebohile “Lebo” Moletsane 
• Knowledge Production from Africa – Challenging Heteropatriarchies  –  Mikki van Zyl

This seminar, presented by some of the key feminist and gender scholars in South Africa, aims to interrogate the issues from a variety of perspectives brought about by the globalisation of African sexualities research.

Secondly, the seminar will articulate African feminist alternatives to researching sexualities in the “south” particularly in the current age of AIDS, that foreground the patriarchal and neo-colonial discourses that emerge from northern scholarship and to begin to map out some issues for research and debate with our western counterparts.

Thirdly, this seminar will engage on a practical, theoretical and policy level and take into account the broad social context of conducting research into sexualities in the context of key programmatic areas in our developing democracy.

Please RSVP by 1 August 2009

Venues

HSRC Cape Town: 12th Floor, Plein Park Building (Opposite Revenue Office), Plein Street, Cape Town. Contact Ngxubaza Vuyo, on +27 (0)21 466 8099

HSRC Durban: 1st floor boardroom, 750 Francois Road, Ntuthuko Junction, PODS 5 and 6, Cato Manor, Durban. Contact Johannes Khoele on +27 (0)31 242 5400 

HSRC Pretoria: Video Conference Room, 1st floor, HSRC Library, HSRC Building, 134 Pretorius Street Pretoria. Contact Arlene Grossberg on +27 (0)12 302 2801 or Baby Twala on +27 (0)12 302 2368