DAY 1: Thursday 27 November 2008 |
| Event | Topic | Speakers/panelist (to be confirmed) | Chair (to be confirmed) |
1.30
| Plenary launch | Performance: Afrocartography: traces of places and all things in between
| Written by Mwenya Kabwe, Zambia, directed by Prof. Jay Pather and performed by Mwenya and three senior students
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2.00 – 2.30 pm | Opening address | Theory and research excellence in knowledge production | Welcome Address: Olive Shisana, President and CEO, HSRC
Opening address: Derrick Hanekom, Deputy Minister of Science & Technology | Bernard Magubane, Director of the South African Democracy Education |
2.30 – 4.30 | Panel discussion 1 | African philosophy, language and African literature in the formation of citizens | Panel: Pius Adesanmi and Puleng Lenka Bula | Teresa Cruz e Silva, University Eduardo Mondale in Maputo
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4.30 – 4.45 | COFFEE |
4.45 – 6.30 | Keynote addresses | Gender, social policy and democratic development in Africa | Speakers: Jimi Adesina, Professor of Sociology, Rhodes University | Andrew Kaniki, Executive Director: Knowledge Fields Development, National Research Foundation (NRF) |
7.00 – 8.00 | SUNDOWNERS |
8.00 – 10.00 | DINNER | Cultural diversity, human rights and social transformation | Keynote address: Pallo Jordan, Minister of Arts and Culture
Respondent: Pierre Sané, Assistant Director General, UNESCO, Paris | Olive Shisana |
DAY 2: Friday 27 November 2008 |
| Event | Topic | Speakers/panelist (to be confirmed) | Chair (to be confirmed) |
9.00 – 10.30 am | Parallel Session 1 | Knowledges for development and innovation in Africa | Panel: Paul Tiyambe Zeleza, Head, Department of African American Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Catherine Odora Hoppers, NRF/South African Research Chair in Development Education | Dr Luk van Langehove, Director, Comparative Regional Integration Studies Programme, United Nations University (UNU-CRIS) |
| Parallel session 2 | Social movements, popular culture and the performing arts in African worlds | Panel: Pinkie Mekgwe, Programme Officer, Research Departmennt, CODESRIA Mark Fleischman, head of Drama at the University of Cape Town and Wally Serote, CEO, Freedom Park Trust | Michelle Constant,
BASA |
10.30 -10:45 | COFFEE |
10.45 – 12.30 | Parallel session 3 | The African diaspora and diaspora linkages in the global system | Speakers: Adebayo Olukoshi, Executive Secretary, CODESRIA and Willie Kgositsile, Special advisor to the Minister of DAC | Wally Serote, CEO, Freedom Park Trust |
| Parallel session 4 | Health, society and the African public space | Speakers: Cheikh Niang, Institute of Science and Environment, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Senegal and Heidi van Rooyen, Child Youth and Family Development, HSRC | Kopano Ratele, Research, UNISA Johannesburg |
12.30 – 2.00pm | LUNCH |
2.00 – 3.30 | Parallel session 5 | Reflexivity, learning, and quality education in Africa | Speaker: Demus Makuwa, Director Southern and Eastern Africa Consortium for Monitoring Educational Quality (SACMEQ) and Kenneth N. Ross, Coordinator, Technical Project Management International Institute for Educational Planning (UNESCO)
| Helmy Sharawy, Director, African Arab Researche Centre, The African Arab Research Centre |
| Parallel session
6 | Migration, identity and xenophobia | Panel: Francis Nyamjoh, Head of Publications CODESRIA, Shadrack Gutto, Director and Chair of African Renaissance Studies, Catherine Cross, chief research specialist in the Centre for Poverty, Employment and Growth (CPEG) and Jay Pather, Associate Professor, University of Cape Town and director of Siwela Sonke Dance Theatre | Adebayo Olukoshi, Executive Secretary, CODESRIA |
3.30 – 3.45 | COFFEE |
3.45 – 4.30 | Plenary keynote address | Food security, human settlements and climate change in Africa | Speakers: Mirjam De Bruijn, Professor Africa Studies Centre, Leiden & Leiden University, Netherlands
Strike Mkandla, UNEP Representative to the African Union, the UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) and to Ethiopia
Edgar Pieterse, African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town | Patrick Matlou, CEO, Africa Institute of SA |
4.30 – 6.00 | Plenary panel discussion | Archives, research evidence and public policy | Panel: Adama Samassekou, Executive Secretary a.i. of the African Academy of Languages
Gudmund Hernes, president of the International Social Science Council
Zola Skweyiya, Minister, Social Development | Pierre Sané, Assistant Director General, UNESCO, Paris |
