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Guest Lecture Series
The IHRE guest lecture series complements the interdisciplinary core course Human Rights: Perspectives from the Disciplines. The lecture series aims, ultimately, to build a vibrant human rights community at Wits that engages human rights using lenses that are innovative and thought-provoking.
Mandatory for IHRE participants, the lectures are open to the general public and seek to stimulate debate on a range of topics related to human rights. Prominent academics, practitioners, and commentators are invited to deliver the guest lectures, which are held at various venues at Wits and in the greater Johannesburg region.
Recent guest lecturers include:
Roy Bennett
Movement for Democratic Change, Zimbabwe
George Bizos
Human Rights Advocate and Nelson Mandela's Counsel at the Rivonia Treason Trial
Justice Richard Goldstone
International Criminal Court
Ahmed Kathrada
Anti-Apartheid Activist and Advocate of Non-Racialism
Justice Johan Kriegler
IEC Chair and Head of Investigation, 2007 Elections in Kenya
Eusebius McKaiser
Wits Centre for Ethics and Contributing Editor, Business Day
Hiroko Miyamura
United Nations Political Affairs Section
Andile Mngxitama
Landless People's Movement, South Africa
Njabulo Ndebele
South African Writer and Former Vice-Chancellor University of Cape Town
Andrew Passen
US Consul General to South Africa and Former Team Leader of Baghdad Provincial Reconstruction Team, Iraq
Paula Roque
South African Institute of International Affairs
Eleanor Sisulu
Zimbabwean-South African Human Rights Activist and Writer
Yasmin Sooka
Foundation for Human Rights, Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Tseliso Thipanyane
South African Human Rights Commission
Lecture topics have included:
- African Elections & Human Rights Challenges
- Non-Racialism & Human Rights
- Human Rights & U.S. Responses to 9/11
- Global Political Amnesia: Sweeping Human Rights Under Zimbabwe's Carpet
- Human Rights in the 20th Century
- Human Rights in Africa: Perspectives from Western and Southern Africa
- Hannah Arendt's New Law on Earth
- Material Ghosts: Photography and the City
- After the TRC: Legacies and Unfinished Business
- Land Rights in Southern Africa
"The Future of International Criminal Justice "
Listen to Justice Richard Goldstone's IHRE Lecture:
PART ONE
PART TWO
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