Notes on planetary habitability
| When: | Wednesday, 03 August 2022 - Wednesday, 03 August 2022 |
| Where: | Braamfontein Campus East In-person: Senate Room, Solomon Mahlangu House, Braamfontein Campus East Online via Zoom |
| Start time: | 17:00 |
| Enquiries: | Julia Taylor at julia.taylor@wits.ac.za |
| RSVP: | In-person: Senate Room, Solomon Mahlangu House, Braamfontein Campus East Register for the webinar via Zoom here. |
Professor Achille Mbembe will present the first CSI seminar.
This is the first seminar in a series hosted by Professor Imraan Valodia, Pro Vice-Chancellor: Climate, Sustainability and Inequality at Wits University.
Professor Achille Mbembe from the Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) will deliver this inaugural seminar with a talk titled: Notes on planetary habitability.
Wits University has an impressive range of research and innovation on issues related to climate change, sustainability and inequality. The Office of the Pro Vice-Chancellor is organizing a series of seminars by prominent thinkers to promote interdisciplinary engagement on these topics.
This first seminar is hosted in partnership with Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research (WISER) and the Future Ecosystems for Africa programme at Wits University.
About Professor Achille Mbembe
Professor Achille Mbembe, born in Cameroon, obtained his PhD in History at the Sorbonne in Paris in 1989 and a D.E.A. in Political Science at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Paris). He was Assistant Professor of History at Columbia University, New York (1988-1991), a Senior Research Fellow at the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C (1991-1992), Associate Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania (1992-1996), Executive Secretary of the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA) in Dakar, Senegal (1996-2000). He was also a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (2001), at Yale University (2003), at the University of California at Irvine (2004-2005), at Duke University (2006-2011) and at Harvard University (2012).
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