Date :

18 February 2010

Time :

Presenter :

13:00 – 15:30

Prof. Linda Weiss

The HSRC has the honour to cordially invite you to this high profile lecture by one of the world’s leading scholar on the developmental state and state capacity, Prof Linda Weiss of the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney, Australia.

Prof Weiss specialises in comparative and international politics of economic development, with a European and East Asian focus on the state capacity and public-private sector relations. She has published extensively on topics such as state power, globalisation, developmental states, and trade politics. She is the author of the renowned book The Myth of the Poweless State. Her other books include States and Economic Development: A Comparative Historical Analysis (co-author); States in the Global Economy: Bringing Domestic Institutions Back In (editor). A number of her publications have been translated in seven languages.

Discussant: Joel Netshitenzhe, intellectual and former head of the Policy Coordination and Advisory Services in the Presidency.

Moderator: Dr Imano Edigheji, Centre for Africa’s Social Progress, HSRC.

Venues

Cape Town: HSRC, 12th Floor, Plein Park Building (Opposite Revenue Office), Plein Street, Cape Town. Contact Vuyokazi Ngxubaza Tel: +27 (0) 21 466 8004, Fax, +27 (0) 461 0299 or Vngubaza@hsrc.ac.za , cell: 082 050 8453

Durban: 1st Floor HSRC boardroom, 750 Francois Road, Ntuthuko Junction, PODS 5 amd 6, Cato Manor. Contact Johannes Khoele, Tel +27 (0) 31 242 5400, cell 082 240 6003 or JKhoele@hsrc.ac.za

Pretoria: Forum 150, HSRC Conference Centre, Human Sciences Research Council, 134 Pretorius Street, Pretorius Street. Contact Arlene Grossberg, Tel +27 (0) 12 302 2811, e-mail: acgrossberg@hsrc.ac.za or Babt Twala, Tel +27 (0) 12 302 2368, email: Btwala@hsrc.ac.za