WISER and the City of Johannesburg invite you to:
GANDHI IN HIS TIME AND OURS:
Admission to all the events on Thursday, Friday and Saturday is free
Thursday 21st September 2006 at 18.00 / 6pm
PUBLIC LECTURES IN COMMEMORATION
OF THE 100th ANNIVERSARY OF
SATYAGRAHA IN JOHANNESBURG
Number 4 Prison, Constitution Hill
(immediately west from the Constitutional Court Building)
Welcome
Executive Mayor Councillor Amos Masondo (City of Johannesburg)
Opening Lecture
Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie (University of the Western Cape)
Gandhi In 1906: Towards a Critical Appreciation
Parking is available in the Old Fort Parade Ground and the Sam Hancock Parking Ground
Friday 22 September 2006, WISER Seminar Room, 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus, University of the Witwatersrand
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Claude Markovits (CNRS, Paris) |
| South Africa in the Making of Gandhi's Career and Legend | |
| Chair/Discussant: Phil Bonner (Wits) |
| 11.00- 12.30 | Leela Gandhi (La Trobe University, Melbourne) |
| The Place of Non-Violence: Some Notes Toward an Ethical Cartography of Ahimsa | |
| Chair/Discussant: Achille Mbembe (WISER) |
| 14.00 – 15.30 | Jonathan Hyslop (WISER) |
| Gandhi, Mandela and the Johannesburg Modern | |
| Chair/Discussant: Deborah Posel (WISER) |
| 16.00pm - 17.30 | Anil Nauriya (Lawyer and Writer, Delhi) |
| Gandhi's Africa: Africa's Gandhi (provisional title) | |
| Chair/Discussant: Sipho Seepe (Henley Management College) |
5.30 Launch of Anil Nauriya's book
Saturday 23rd September 2006 WISER Seminar Room 6th Floor, Richard Ward Building, East Campus University of the Witwatersrand
| 9.00 - 10.30 | Parvathi Raman (SOAS, University of London) |
| Gandhi's Impact on South African Political Thought (provisional title) | |
| Chair/Discussant: Kirti Menon (Gandhi Centenary Council) |
| 11.00 – 12.30 | David Hardiman (University of Warwick) Gandhi's Global Legacy |
| Chair/ Discussant: Irma Du Plessis (WISER) |
14.00- 15.45
Panel Discussion: Representations of Gandhi: Gandhi in Literature and the Arts
Betty Govinden (University of Kwazulu-Natal)
Aziz Hassim (author)
Robert Muponde (WISER)
Riason Naidoo (artist)
Chair/Discussant: Isabel Hofmeyr (Wits)
16.15 Panel Discussion: Gandhi Today
HE Satyabrata Pal, High Commissioner for India
Mondli Makhanya (Editor In Chief, Sunday Times)
Sunday 24th September 2006 10.00 am
These lectures are supported by the City of Johannesburg, Johannesburg Development Agency and Constitution Hill
Historical Tour of Johannesburg Gandhi Sites conducted by Eric Itzkin (City of Johannesburg)
The Bus will leave from Yale Road, Wits University at 10.00 sharp
There will be a charge of R100 for the tour
Reservations are essential: please email najibha@wiser.wits.ac.za
