[DEBATE] : (Fwd) Wolpe conference, Noordhoek, 21-23 September

[Patrick Bond]

“Engaging silences and unresolved issues in the political economy of 
South Africa”

21-23 September 2006

Monkey Valley, Noordhoek, Western Cape
DRAFT PROGRAMME
Thursday, 21 September 2006
17h00 – 18h15 Registration
18h15 for
18h30
Launch dinner and keynote address by Peter Alexander (University
of Johannesburg)
Friday, 22 September 2006
8h10 – 8h30 Registration
8h30 – 8h40 Welcome and introductions
8h45 – 9h30
David Ruccio (Editor: Rethinking Marxism / University of Notre
Dame)
Reading Harold: Class analysis, capital accumulation, and the role
of the intellectual
9h35 – 9h45 Discussant: Andrew Nash (University of Cape Town)
9h45 – 10h30 Discussion
10h30 – 11h00 Tea
11h00 – 11h20
Bill Freund (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
State, capital and the emergence of a new power elite in South
Africa: ‘Black economic empowerment’ at national and local levels
11h25 – 11h45
Stephen Gelb (The Edge Institute / University of Witwatersrand)
A South African developmental state: What is possible?
11h50 – 12h00
Discussant: Adam Habib (Human Sciences Research Council) (to
be confirmed)
12h00 – 12h45 Discussion
12h45 – 13h30 Lunch
13h30 – 13h50
Ivor Chipkin (Human Sciences Research Council)
What is African nationalism?
13h55 – 14h15
Mazibuko Jara (Ikhwezi Institute)
The national question in the Western Cape
14h20 – 14h30
Discussant: Carolyn Hamilton (University of Witwatersrand) (to be
confirmed)
14h30 – 15h15 Discussion
15h15 – 15h45 Tea
15h45 – 16h05
Carolyn Hamilton (University of Witwatersrand)
Complexity: Whose right, and whose responsibility?
16h10 – 16h20
Discussant: Martin Hall (University of Cape Town) (to be
confirmed)
16h20 – 17h00 Discussion
Saturday, 23 September 2006
8h30 – 8h50
Jeremy Seekings (University of Cape Town)
Inequalities of class and the quality of democracy in post-apartheid
South African cities
8h55 – 9h15
Franco Barchiesi (Ohio State University)
The debate on the Basic Income Grant in South Africa: Social
citizenship, decommodification and the reconstruction of class
politics
9h20 – 9h30 Discussant: Annie Leatt (University of Cape Town)
9h30 – 10h30 Discussion
10h30 – 11h00 Tea
11h00 – 11h20
Helen Moffett
The political economy of sexual violence in the post-apartheid state
11h25 – 11h35 Discussant: AnnMarie Wolpe (Harold Wolpe Memorial Trust)
11h35 – 12h15 Discussion
12h15 – 13h00 Lunch
13h00 – 13h20
Graeme Bloch (Development Bank of Southern Africa)
Where did the left go wrong?
13h25 – 13h45
Tshepo Madlingozi (University of Pretoria)
Neo-liberalism, human rights discourse and ivory tower research in
South Africa
13h50 – 14h00 Discussant: Devan Pillay (University of Witwatersrand)
14h00 – 14h45 Discussion
14h45 – 15h15 Tea
15h15 – 15h45
Reflections on proceedings:
Charles Hamilton (Columbia University)
Ben Cousins (University of the Western Cape)
15h45 – 16h00 Close