Yale Bulletin and Calendar

April 20, 2007|Volume 35, Number 26

Conference to explore future of
South Africa in the next decade

The second of two conferences on the theme "After Apartheid: The Second Decade in South Africa" will be presented by the Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale on Friday and Saturday, April 27 and 28.

Part I of the conference, "Achievements & Challenges," was held in Cape Town, South Africa, in August 2006. That conference focused on developments in South Africa since 1994, when the country's first all-race national elections produced a coalition government with a black majority.

Part II, "Looking Forward," will examine the major challenges of the coming decade in a variety of areas, including business, politics, health, redressing past injustices, and securing democracy and prosperity into the future.

Twenty-one of the world's leading scholars on South Africa will take part in the conference, which was organized by Ian Shapiro, the Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center and Sterling Professor of Political Science, and Kahreen Tebeau, a doctoral candidate in political science and a 2006 Fox International Fellow at the University of Cape Town.

"The first part of 'After Apartheid' was a success because it generated insightful and critical feedback on the scholars' papers from a variety of people with diverse scholarly backgrounds," says Shapiro. "At the end of the second part of this conference, we hope to have original contributions on themes that have dominated both popular and scholarly interest, such as race relations, inequality, the status of women, crime and violence, and AIDS, in addition to less frequently examined features of South African life, like religion, theater, film, music and the media. Our goal is to understand and illuminate change in South Africa through the myriad dimensions reflective of human experience and expression."

The conference will open at 9 a.m. on Friday with introductory remarks by Shapiro. There will be three panels: "Governance" at 9:30 a.m., "Economic Players" at 11:15 a.m. and "Legal Order" at 2:30 p.m. On Saturday, there will be three panels: "Public Health" at 9 a.m., "Language, Media & Literature" at 11:15 a.m. and "Justice" at 2:30 p.m.

All the panels will be held in Betts House, 393 Prospect St. The conference is free and open to the Yale community.

The participants will include Neville Alexander, Anthony Butler, Bob Mattes, Nicoli Nattrass, Lungisile Ntsebeza and Jeremy Seekings, University of Cape Town; Guy Berger, Rhodes University; Marianne Camerer, Stellenbosch University; David Dyzenhaus, University of Toronto; Theuns Eloff, North-West University; Johan Geertsema, National University of Singapore; Courtney Jung and Lauren Paremoer, New School; Barry Kistnasamy, University of Kwazulu-Natal; Derek Yach, director of global health policy, PepsiCo.; and Yale scholars Kamari Clarke, Thad Dunning, Susan Hyde and Jennifer Ruger, as well as Shapiro and Tebeau.

The edited papers from the conference will be published as a book by a major university press.

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