Events
Monday, 05 June 2017 - Sunday, 11 June 2017
Sechemane is also a member of the National Planning Commission and leads the task team on water.
In this lecture he will speak about the current water shortages and what can be done to plan for water security, focusing on:
- Legislative, regulatory and overall policy considerations
- The water situation in a South African context
- Enabling water security planning, management and implementation
During the lauch of Critique of Black Reason, Mbembe will be in conversation with Bongani Madondo, Candice Jansen, Victoria Collis-Buthelezi, Claudia Gastrow and Joshua Walker
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1113965" ["name"]=> string(61) "Meet your inner Cannibal at Klasies River by Prof. Sarah Wurz" ["all_day"]=> string(0) "" ["location"]=> string(0) "" ["categories"]=> array(1) { [0]=> string(35) "Lectures, workshops and conferences" } ["short_desc"]=> string(118) "Prof. Sarah Wurz specialises in the Middle Stone Age, specifically lithic technology and African coastal adaptations. " ["multi_dates"]=> array(1) { ["origin"]=> array(2) { ["startdate"]=> string(14) "06/06/17 18:30" ["enddate"]=> string(14) "06/06/17 19:30" } } ["multidayevent"]=> bool(false) ["orderdate"]=> string(14) "20170606183000" ["nostrict_period_type"]=> string(4) "past" ["strict_period_type"]=> string(4) "past" ["event_type"]=> string(6) "origin" ["day"]=> string(1) "1" } } ["07/06/2017"]=> array(1) { [0]=> array(20) { ["recurs"]=> string(5) "never" ["content_id"]=> string(7) "1121483" ["recursend"]=> string(14) "01/06/18 23:59" ["startdate"]=> string(14) "07/06/17 15:30" ["ad_hoc_dates"]=> array(0) { } ["url"]=> string(122) "/events-archive/2017/being-pragmatic-examining-the-foundations-of-transdisciplinarity-for-global-university-challenges.php" ["enddate"]=> string(14) "07/06/17 17:00" ["main_desc"]=> string(548) "This seminar will explore some core philosophical perspectives on transdisciplinarity with reference to Boyer, Nicolescu, and Morin, as well as proponents of critical theory, and critical realism. Rich-Tolsma will pay attention to the pragmatic usefulness (and possible limitations) of transdisciplinarity with reference to the pragmatic perspectives of Mead, Dewey, Elias, and others exploring implications for research, pedagogy, and curriculum in the university.
Rich-Tolsma is also a Chief Learning Officer at TSL Partners.
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This book lets the reader into the story of how a world of music and a venue that knew no borders, with an anti-xenophobic stance and multiculturalism, opened its doors to patrons of all creeds and musicians from the diaspora such as Louis Mhlanga, Oliver Mtukudzi, Gito Baloi and from the rest of the word while bringing Carlo Mombelli, Abdullah Ibrahim, Dorothy Masuka, Hugh Masekela and many more back into the country.
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