2009 Colloquia

 

Status

DATE PLACE DAY TIME PRESENTER TOPIC
done 23 October 2009 East London
Humanities Board Room Gasson Centre 3rd floor
Friday 13:00-14:00 Dr Henning Breuer (Deutsche Telekom, Berlin, Germany) "Future Research and Innovation Management in German Telekom"
done 16 October 2009 Alice staff lounge Friday 13:00-13:45 Dr Andrea Hurst (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Univ) "The Art of Being Human: its all in the scriptures"
done 11 September 2009 East London Main Building Room 1 Friday 13:00-14:30 Dr Andrea Hurst & Humanities Departmental Research Day

Various presentations on the nature of scientific research in the humanities and its respective fields of enquiry

done 29 August 2009 East London
staff lounge
Friday 13:00-13:45 Prof Bert Olivier (Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Univ) "Foucault, intellectuals and universities"
done 25 August 2009 Alice staff lounge Tuesday 13:00-13:45 Dr Fainos Mangena (UFH) "Man - a moral ape?"
done 4 August 2009 Alice staff lounge Tuesday 13:00-13:45 Prof Aminur Rahim (UFH) "Can we trust Obama?"

Status

DATE PLACE DAY TIME PRESENTER TOPIC
done 8 May 2009 East London
staff lounge
Friday 13:00-13:45 Dr. Vasti Roodt  (Stellenbosch Univ) “Friends, enemies, citizens: Reflections on political friendship"
done 5 May 2009 Alice: De Beers Art Gallery Tuesday 13:00-13:45 Mr Jacques Pienaar, Profs Aminur Rahim & Graham Bradley (UFH) "Why couldn't we get rid of God?"
done  17 March 2009 Alice: Arts Faculty Board Room Tuesday 13:00-13:45 Dr Tom Martin (Rhodes Univ) "Jean-Paul Sartre on racism and being human"
done  13 March 2009 East London
staff lounge
Friday 13:00-13:45

Prof Felicity Wood (UFH)

"Being inhuman. Sorcery in the Academy: universities and the occult rituals of the corporate world."
done 10 March 2009 Alice: Arts Faculty Board Room Tuesday 13:00-13:45 Dr Fainos Mangena, Profs Tobie Louw & Abraham Olivier (UFH) "Does nature really talk?"
done 18 February 2009 Alice staff lounge Wednesday 13h00-14h00 Prof Abraham Olivier (UFH) “Nature Talk – Nature Talking? Perspectives on a phenomenology of language”

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." (Albert Einstein)