[DEBATE] : (Fwd) WSF-redux at UKZN Industrial Org&Lab.Studies

[Patrick Bond]

(From Azad Essa)

Dear all,

Researchers of the Industrial Organizational & Labour Studies Research
Unit (IOLS-Research), based at the Howard College Campus of UKZN,
participated in the recent World Social Forum (WSF) in Nairobi.  The
forum naturally drew very strong reactions from all participants - both
positive & negative impressions.

The vast plethora of images & energy we confronted at the forum made us
want to organize a mini-exhibition to showcase some of the issues that
caught our attention.

The mini-exhibit will include: posters collected at the forum &
photographs taken along the way. These will illustrate some of the
fascinating dynamics that played itself out at the forum. Video footage
put together by IOLS-Research will bring to life the colour, sounds,
sights & contradictions of the WSF as a concept and as a soothsayer of
an alternate universe. To top it all, we  Ari Sitas & Pitika Ntuli, both
of whom were part of the original Poetry Africa program at the WSF in
Nairobi, will mark the occasion with a special poetry session.

The exhibition to be held this week means it comes almost two months
after the event. However, the issues/ideas/contradictions have not
changed or disappeared. Student participation & their exposure to this
historic African event is important and we thus wanted to host it once
the academic calendar had re-started.  Therefore, please come by, inform
other colleagues and encourage students in your various departments to
visit the exhibit.

Date:               8 March 2007 (Thursday)
Time(s):          10:30 - 14:00
Venue:             IOLS Seminar Room (1st Floor MTB, next to Sociology,
Howard College)
Full Program:   will be on the GroupWise notices/will be sent to you on
Monday (5 March)

(see attachment for the advert)


Warm Regards,

Azad Essa


Azad Essa
Research Coordinator
Industrial Organizational & Labour Studies Research
University of KwaZulu-Natal
Howard College
Phone: +27 (0) 31 260-2117
Fax: +27 (0) 31 260-1423
cell: +27833827323