HSRC Seminars

Gender Against Men is a documentary film that exposes the hidden world of sexual and gender-based violence against men in the conflicts of the Great Lakes Region.

Join us and our partner, the Nelson Mandela Foundation's 46664, in the AIDS awareness campaign when we commemorate the 21^st World AIDS Day.  We would like to add our voices to the many institutions and organisations worldwide that are working to ensure that human rights are respected and promoted in the fight against HIV/AIDS. 

The Roots of Political Instability in Nigeria analyses the pre-colonial authority patterns of the three principle people who make up the Nigerian super-state: the Hausa-Fulani, Ibo and Yoruba by using the framework from Harry Eckstein's congruence theory which states that stability and effectiveness of any government is shaped by societal patterns of authority.

There have been remarkable advances in the molecular biology of HIV and major therapeutic discoveries in the past 28 years of the epidemic. Attention to treatment access has undoubtedly increased in recent years. However, for every patient who initiated ART in 2006, six other individuals became infected with HIV.

Experiences on Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission of HIV and AIDS (PMTCT) service delivery at the Eastern Cape and Mpumalanga  provinces will be shared during this seminar.

There is an increasing interest and available expertise to do further work in this area, now focusing on the social and moral aspects of being a man in the context of social and material poverty.

Speakers will include: African civil society perspectives on Africa's expanding engagement with Southern partners. Presented by Ms Sanusha Naidu, Fahamu, Chinese migration to Africa. Presented by Dr Yoon Jung Park, Centre for Sociological Research, University of Johannesburg and Foreign direct investment between China and South Africa, with a focus on formal corporate investments in both directions. Presented by Prof. Stephen Gelb, The EDGE Institute.

Location: Video Conference Centres, HSRC Buildings: Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban

This presentation will focus on the accomplishments and practices of the largest and longest-running source of objectively measured health and nutrition data in the world.  The history of the survey will be described as well as some of the most significant findings from the survey.  The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) is conducted by the National Centre for Health Statistics, part of the United States (US) Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. The primary objective of the survey is to assess the health and nutritional status of the US population through in-home personal interviews and direct physical measures in mobile examination centres. Since its inception 50 years ago, NHANES has expanded to include nutritional componentS as well as measures of environmental exposure and infectious disease.

Access to improved water and sanitation is widely regarded as the most significant public health measure available to millions of the world's poorest. Despite this, assessing the impact of improved water services on the health and wellbeing of beneficiaries is more difficult than it appears.

Teenage Tata: Voices of young fathers in South Africa provides a fresh and in-depth portrait of impoverished young South African men who became fathers while teenagers. It provides space for their articulate and impassioned voices to be heard amidst the outcry against the absence of fathers, and offers insights into young fathers' personal, emotional, financial and cultural struggles as they come to terms with fatherhood.

his essay seeks to explore the tensions and contradictions inherent in the Royal Bafokeng Nation's status as both community and corporation. As one of South Africa's approximately 750 "traditional communities," the Royal Bafokeng Nation is an example of South African-style democracy, wherein a parliamentary democracy governed by a liberal Constitution nevertheless recognizes and protects indigenous forms of governance that support patriarchal rule and communal forms of land tenure.

The resurgent interest in rural development in South Africa is well documented. This far, the government has played a major role in setting the scene and indicating a political will to address rural development.

This talk discusses the concepts of statistical and biological interactions as well as interactions in public health and individual decision making. The techniques discussed are also applicable to HIV/AIDS cases.

The challenges that universities in developing countries face are different to their counterparts in advanced countries, given the specific problems they need to address through knowledge and technology, in the context of a growing knowledge divide, and on a base of largely resource-based productive activities.

This seminar, presented by some of the key feminist and gender scholars in South Africa, firstly, aims to interrogate the issues from a variety of perspectives brought about by the globalisation of African sexualities research.

Dr Monde Makiwane, of CYFSD, HSRC and Ms Christine Jesseman, Head: Research Department SA Human Rights Council will discuss the state of intergenerational relations in SA. The seminar is titled: Is it time to renegotiate an intergenerational 'contract'?

You are cordially invited to a 2009 HSRC Seminar series lecture in collaboration with the Gender and Development Unit, presented by Professor Shalini Randeria, Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Zurich.

The Education Roadmap was coordinated by DBSA on behalf of teacher unions, departmental officials, NGO's, academics, the ANC, Minister of Education, and other stakeholders.

The change in the national youth development landscape through the recent approval of the National Youth Policy 2009-2014 (NYP) and the launch of the National Youth Development  Agency  requires different stakeholders in the youth sector to usher this change through ensuring seamless integrated service provision.

Although the ethics of social science research has not enjoyed as much scholarly attention as the ethics of biomedical research, social scientists continue to debate the relevance of research ethics and ethics review to social science research.

South African school education is of a poor quality, as both internal and internal evaluations attest. This largely derives from weakly performing schools. For the individuals affected, school choice may be the most important choice they ever make in their lives, in terms of determining their further education, employment, earnings, careers and life chances generally. Absence of quality education is the major factor limiting social mobility.

In an effort to deepen public understanding and raise public awareness about the withdrawal of the charges, the Native Club will host a round table discussion on "Unpacking the NPA decision to withdraw the charges against Mr Jacob Zuma".

What does it mean to be young, to be economically disadvantaged, and to live in the post 9/11 urban inner city, where intimations of incipient terrorism, both considered and casual, have become the characteristic channel for everyday racism and ethnic hysteria? 

African countries are faced with severe challenges regarding the accumulation of technological capabilities, upgrading and catching up. Technological capabilities are essential "ingredients" for catching up and sustainable growth in developing countries.

This is the fifth lecture in the series with the theme Informed choice: Elections 2009. The aim of the series of lectures is to provide a platform where political parties present their manifestos for scrutiny. The leaders of major political parties have been invited to present in this series that promises to attract lively debate.

This is the fourth lecture in the series with the theme Informed Choice: Elections 2009. The aim of the series of lectures is to provide a platform where political parties present their manifestos for scrutiny. The leaders of major political parties have been invited to present in this series that promises to attract lively debate.

The HSRC Seminar Series and the Democracy and Governance Programme of the Human Sciences Research Council invites you to an exciting debate on crime between the former Mayor of Bogota, in Colombia, Professor Antanas Mockus and leaders from a range of political parties.

Innovations are neither good nor bad, but they can be more or less appropriate. It all depends on the context, the situation, the ways they are put to use, in short, on their cultural aspects.

Couples HIV risk reduction intervention & medication adherence intervention among HIV positive women. Deborah Jones is a Research Associate Professor at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences. She is a licensed clinical psychologist and has provided psychological services to survivors of domestic violence and abuse and men and women living with HIV/AIDS.

The Native Club, in partnership with the HSRC, will host a series of lectures to provide a platform where political parties present their manifestos for scrutiny. The leaders of major political parties have been invited to present in this series that promises to attract lively debate.

Starting from a definition of the modern nation state, the presentation will briefly sketch the relationship between the nation, culture, ethnicity and the homogenising thrust of the modern state.

This is the second lecture in the series with the theme Informed choice: Elections 2009. The aim of the series of lectures is to provide a platform where political parties present their manifestos for scrutiny. The leaders of major political parties have been invited to present in this series that promises to attract lively debate.

In spite of approximately 400 000 learners in the public further education and training college system (and many more in private providers), the college sector has not been a major focus of educational research in South Africa.

E-research has given way to a new order of collaborative, inter-disciplinary research based on shared research expertise where there is a requirement for increased access to multi-disciplinary research data and information.

This is the first lecture in the series with the theme Informed choice: Elections 2009.

Events in Gaza are rocking the international community and generating fierce arguments about international law. Charges that Israel is violating international law in its attack on Gaza are countered by Israeli government arguments that Israel's imperative of defence authorises military tactics that also kill and injure civilians.