In 2006 WiSER hosted a discussion titled:  What was at stake in the Zuma trial?, and the panellists were Tawana Kupe, Anton Harber, Deborah Posel, Robert Muponde and Irma du Plessis.  Since then across Wits University there have been panel discussions, workshops, seminars and research meetings about rape, usually placed in the wider context of gender based violence and sexual harassment,  but no discussion has centred on how we think about rape and why?

WISER invites you to participate in a panel discussion:

theorizing rape.

This panel takes off from the activist energies and legal investigative work we have witnessed at Wits University all through February and March, energies and activism resonating with similar outrage and activism across South Africa.

panel 1

Shireen Hassim - Rape as a “keyword”

Bonita Meyerfeld - Changing legal thinking about rape

Eusebius McKaiser - Thinking about intimacy and ethics in rape

Lisa Vetten - Morality, rape and risk

Lyn Ossome - Rape and the crisis of liberal democratic states:  Kenya and South Africa

panel 2

Antje Schumann - "Objectify my Fist!” Rape, Recovery, Revenge

Carol Long - The view from psychology

Sheila Meintjes - Rape in War and its Aftermath

Mbuyiselo Botha - Changing men in South Africa

Refreshments will be served between the panels.   Please RSVP to Najibha.Deshmukh@wits.ac.za before noon on Tuesday April 9.