Blogs

INVITATION TO PARTICIPATE IN A WORKSHOP ON

Building the Critical Health Social Sciences in Southern Africa

Hosted by the Division of Social and Behavioural Sciences,
School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town,
in partnership with the Institute for Development Studies at Sussex University

9 – 13 March 2015, Malmesbury, South Africa (near Cape Town)

Application deadline: 20 December 2014

The Steve Biko School of Bioethics, the South African Medical Association (Gauteng branch), the Wits Students Bioethics society and the Institute for Security Studies invite you to join us for a screening of a short film inspired by a recent visit to Roodeplaat Research Laboratories, where during apartheid scientists undertook animal experiments to, amongst other things, find toxins and chemicals that could be used to kill without leaving a trace, and where work was done to find an anti-fertility vaccine that could be administered to black women without their knowledge.

WiSER-Duke Writing Fellows Events in November 

For more information, see here. 

Christopher J. Lee discusses the politics - or lack thereof - in Legend, Bob Marley's posthumous greatest hits collection.

A review of Living in the Land of Limbo: Fiction and Poetry about Family Caregiving, edited by Carol Levine (Vanderbilt University Press, 2014).

A blog post by Sarah Emily Duff for the Society of the History of Childhood and Youth, based on her recent article for the Journal of the History of Childhood and Youth.

A podcast of Neo Muyanga and Khadija Patel's recent seminar Living Together/Living Apart: The Complexity of Home'.

Jonny Steinberg will join WiSER in 2015 as part of Wits's Distinguished Scholars Programme.

Sarah Emily Duff talks to Redi Tlhabi about changing food cultures, and discusses nutrition experiments for Africa is a Country.

An article by Sarah Emily Duff for the New Humanist on Johannesburg.