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Seminar Series

 

We host academic seminars every Thursday, where researchers present ongoing or published academic work. These hybrid sessions allow you to participate either in person at our offices or online, giving you the flexibility to join from anywhere. Our seminars cover a wide range of topics with a particular focus on inequality. This aligns with our mission to drive thought leadership in the Global South, fostering meaningful discussions on its causes and solutions. We aim to create a vibrant platform for scholarly debate, where ideas are exchanged, critiqued, and advanced. Whether you’re a researcher, student, or simply passionate about the issues, our seminar series is the perfect space for intellectual growth and collaboration.

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2025 Seminar series

Explore the upcoming series of engaging seminar events below:

Date: Speakers: Topic: Registration:
12-June-2025  Tereza Varejkova Large-Scale Irrigation and Water Use Inequality in South Africa  Click here to register
19-June-2025 Yanga Zembe-Zondi The hidden cost of inequality on low-income mothers, fathers and children in peri-urban and informal settings, and what we can do about it  
26-June-2025 Sam Ashman Green Hydrogen and the Political Economy of Decarbonization and Extractivism in Southern Africa  

 

Post-seminar series event

Date: Speakers: Topic:
29-May-2025 Mbuso Moyo Accumulation, Extracivism and dispossession in contemporary Zimbabwe
22-May-2025 Jamela Hoveni The intersection between childcare and eldercare and climate change impacts on unpaid child care in a rural village in Limpopo
08-May- 2025 Elvis Avenyo Gendering structural change and green transition in Africa: Implications of Transformative policies
10-Apr-25 Sona Mitra Women’s work – Exploring tools for measuring it better
3-Apr-25 Mark Heywood Rethinking activism in a time of desperation and despair
13-Mar-25 Kristen Miller Black Sounds, Black Spaces: Black Sonic Geographies and Biking in Post-apartheid Johannesburg
6-Mar-25 Tim Kohler (DPRU) The labour market effects of the SRD grant
27-Feb-25 Phumzile Ncube Opportunities for industrialisation in Africa
13-Feb-25 Ngqabutho Mpofu Using data-driven advocacy to effect change for marginalized and vulnerable populations in South Africa
6-Feb-25 Courtney Hallink The Limits of Social Citizenship: Unemployment insurance and the reproduction of the South African racial capitalist state
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