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Book Launch: Letters Of Stone - From Nazi Germany to South Africa

When: Wednesday, 24 February 2016 - Wednesday, 24 February 2016
Where: Braamfontein Campus East
WISER Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building
Start time:18:00
Enquiries:

Najibha.Deshmukh@wits.ac.za

Letters of Stone: From Nazi Germany to South Africa, asks important questions about guilt, belonging, and our complicated relationship with the past.

The Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) and Penguin Random House invite you to the launch of Steven Robins’s new book, Letters of Stone: From Nazi Germany to South Africa. This book asks important questions about guilt, belonging, and our complicated relationship with the past. Robins is a professor in the Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at the University of Stellenbosch. He has written on a wide range of topics, including the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, the politics of land and identity, and social movements and popular politics in South Africa. He will be in conversation with Terry Kurgan (WISER), Catherine Burns (WISER), and Victoria Collis-Buthelezi (University of Cape Town).

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