[DEBATE] : CCS Events - Reminder of activities, 20-23 July

[Patrick Bond]

EVENTS AT THE CENTRE FOR CIVIL SOCIETY, 20-23 JULY

Thursday 20 July 2006
CCS TRIPLE SEMINAR by VISITING SCHOLARS

Friday 21 July 2006
DAY-LONG SEMINAR on SOCIAL MOVEMENTS RESEARCH
(RSVP required)

Saturday-Sunday, 22-23 July 2006
WEEKEND WORKSHOP on THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
(RSVP required)

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Thursday 20 July 2006

CCS TRIPLE SEMINAR by VISITING SCHOLARS

1. Femi Aborisade
Labour and Socio-Economic Rights Development and Nigeria's 
Commercialisation and Privatisation Policy: A Descriptive Appraisal

2. Nisha Thapliyal
Education, Civil Society, and Social Change: A Case Study of a Brazilian 
Social Movement

3. Jan Mogaladi
Social Mobilisation, Constitutional Regime and Democratic Consolidation: 
The Case of South African Social Movements

Venue: Centre for Civil Society Board Room, Memorial Tower Building, 
Howard College Campus, University of KwaZulu-Natal

Time: 09h30-12h30

All welcome

(Made possible by grants from the C.S.Mott and Atlantic Philanthropies 
foundations.)

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Friday 21 July 2006

DAY-LONG SEMINAR on SOCIAL MOVEMENTS RESEARCH

In Durban on July 21, join our visitors Immanuel Wallerstein, Anne-Maria
Makhulu and James Ferguson - and post-graduate students Baruti Amisi,
Shireen Essof, Prishani Naidoo, Trevor Ngwane, Virginia Setshedi and
Ahmed Veriava - for a day of informal presentations and discussions on
social movements research.

Venue: Centre for Civil Society School of Development Studies Seminar Room
Memorial Tower Building, Howard College Campus (Glenwood, Durban)

9am-10:15:
CCS doctoral candidates:
• Baruti Amisi discusses DRC civil society and potential eco-social
resistance to the Inga power project
• Shireen Essof (Stellenbosch) reviews her dissertation research on
casualisation and worker resistance

10:30-noon:
CCS post-graduate student research on Soweto and Johannesburg urban
social movements:
• Prishani Naidoo
• Trevor Ngwane
• Virginia Setshedi
• Ahmed Veriava

Noon-1pm:
light lunch

1-4pm
Panel on social movement research chaired by Ashwin Desai, with special
guests
• Anne-Maria Makhulu (Duke) on Cape Town urban movements,
• James Ferguson (Stanford) on policy advocacy by SA social movements, and
• Immanuel Wallerstein (Yale) on revisiting ‘anti-systemic movements’
research after Zapatismo, Seattle and the World Social Forum.

4-6 pm
For those available, discussion moves to Yellowwood Park (game reserve
15 minutes south of UKZN)

All welcome
RSVP would help for catering purposes (please confirm attendance at 031 
260 3195 or pbond at mail.ngo.za)

(Made possible through a grant from SANPAD)

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Saturday-Sunday, 22-23 July 2006

WEEKEND WORKSHOP on THE WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
African and International Critical Perspectives

NB: RSVP REQUIRED DUE TO SPACE CONSTRAINTS: pbond at mail.ngo.za or 083 425 
1401

Join leading scholars and activists: Femi Aborisade, Jimi Adesina, Samir 
Amin, Baruti Amisi, Miwanda Bagenda, Franco Barchiesi, Judith Blau, 
Patrick Bond, Dennis Brutus, Nicola Bullard, Giuseppe Caruso, Njabulo 
Cele, Christopher Chase-Dunn, Lau Kin Chi, Ze Correa, Ashwin Desai, Des 
D’Sa, Graham Erion, Fred Hendricks, Kea Gorden, Philippa Greenham, Mark 
Herkenrath, Mondli Hlatshwayo, Vinod Jairath, Wahu Kaara, Barbara 
Kalima-Phiri, Marina Karides, Walda Katz-Fishman, Kea Gorden, Oupa 
Lehulere, JoaoBaptiste Lukombo, Anne-Maria Makhulu, Menzi Maseko, Paolo 
Martins, Phillip McMichael Henning Melber, Meena Menon, Angela Miles, 
Rhetta Moran, Mohammed Motala, Ntokozo Mthembu, PK Murthy, Orlean 
Naidoo, Prishani Naidoo, Mnikelo Ndabankulu, Petronilla Ndebele, Molefi 
Ndlovu, Trevor Ngwane, Njoki Njehu, Zanele Ntsibande, Adebayo Olukoshi, 
Raj Patel, Mohau Pheko, Geoffrey Pleyers, Linda Ruffman, Ariel Salleh, 
Eunice Sahle, Helmi Shawari, Ari Sitas, Virginia Setshedi, Sofonea 
Shale, John Stewart, Hassan Sunmonu, Cherif Salif Sy, Evangelina 
Tastsoglou, Sipho Tshabalala, Salim Vally, Ahmed Veriava, Immanuel 
Wallerstein, Hannah Wittman, S’bu Zikode and others

SATURDAY 22 JULY – UKZN Faculty Club
8:30am – Welcome
9-10:30am – PANEL 1: The WSF’s History and Trajectories
10:30-11am – TEA BREAK
11am-1pm CONTINUATION OF PANEL ONE
1-2pm – LUNCH
2-3:30pm – PANEL 2: African Case studies:
Continental, Southern Africa, Zimbabwe, Kenya, Lesotho, Nigeria, Egypt, 
SA, etc
3:30-4pm - TEA BREAK
4-5:30pm – PANEL 3: Local Politics and the WSF: Lessons from Durban
6pm-midnight – Evening social event
Celebration of CODESRIA African Sociological Review 10th anniversary and 
of the Centre for Civil Society’s fifth birthday plus cultural presentations

SUNDAY 23 JULY – UKZN Faculty Club
9-10:30am – PANEL ONE: Global Justice Movements and Campaigning
10:30-11am – TEA BREAK
11am-1pm – PANEL TWO: Organisational Roots and Missing Constituencies
1-2pm - LUNCH
2-3:30pm - PANEL THREE: The WSF and Political Programmes
3:30-4pm – TEA BREAK, main departure for ISA Congress registration at ICC
4-5:30pm – PANEL FOUR: Preparing for Nairobi

Space is limited; for information about attending, please contact 
Patrick Bond (pbond at mail.ngo.za or 083 425 1401).

(Made possible with grants from the Southern Africa Trust and Open 
Society Initiative of Southern Africa.)

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FURTHER CCS ACTIVITIES FROM 24-29 JULY TO BE ANNOUNCED, STAY TUNED