Just Art? The Place of Art in Rendering Justice

Justice Albie Sachs,
Constitutional Court of South Africa

Prof. Catherine Admay, Public Policy Studies &
Duke Center for International Development

Wednesday, January 28, 2009
5.00-6.30 p.m.
The Nasher Museum of Art
Reception to follow

Watch this event on iTunes.

Music and Activism Panel Discussion with
Roger Lucey and Ferhat Tunç

Monday, March 23, 2009
Noon
John Hope Franklin Center
Room 240

The Power of the Microphone:
Producing Child-Participatory Radio Programs in South Africa

Helen Meintjes, senior researcher in the HIV/AIDS program at the Children’s Institute, University of Cape Town

Sue Valentine, freelance journalist and media trainer, managing editor
of Health-e News

April 6, 2009
12 – 1.15 pm
Sanford Institute
Rubenstein Hall
Room 200
Duke University

A presentation of work from related radio projects – one rural, one urban –
which enable children to express their views and experiences, and aim to
improve public understanding of children’s lives in contemporary
South Africa.

African Ubuntu
and
South African Constitutionalism:
Constructing a New Legal Culture

Justice Yvonne Mokgoro, Constitutional Court of South Africa
John L. Comaroff, University of Chicago
Moderator: Hylton White, The New School

Friday, April 17, 2009
4:30 – 6:00 p.m.
Room 240
John Hope Franklin Center
Duke University

reception to follow
Room 130 and gallery space

You can watch the public conversation on ITunesU.

Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic

Lunch Talk
Gerald Oppenheimer, Columbia University
School of Public Health

Thurs., Oct. 30, 2008
11.45-1.15 p.m.
Room 240
John Hope Franklin Center
Duke University

AIDS has indelibly marked South Africa since apartheid’s end in 1994, exacting an enormous toll on the country’s population. Since the epidemic’s onset, almost 2 million people have died. In Shattered Dreams? An Oral History of the South African AIDS Epidemic, co-authored with Ronald Bayer of Columbia University, Gerald M. Oppenheimer, using in-depth interviews, describes the doctors and nurses who struggled to ride the tiger of the world’s most catastrophic AIDS epidemic. In this talk, based on Shattered Dreams?, Professor Oppenheimer will discuss the experience of those health care workers as they confronted the overflowing wards, indifference of colleagues, unexpected resistance from their country’s political leaders—members of the movement that liberated South Africa—and material scarcity that was both a legacy of apartheid and a consequence of the global power of the international pharmaceutical industry. By 2003, after years of bitter debate and persistent agitation, the national government finally committed itself to making anti-retroviral drugs available to those whose lives hung in the balance. Using oral history, Professor Oppenheimer will describe the frustration of clinicians who watched as this halting rollout still left anti-retrovirals out of the reach of thousands of South Africans who needed them.

Co-Sponsors:
Department of History, Journal of the History of Medicine, and the Provost's Common Fund