Post Tagged with: "South Africa"

Wealth and Poverty hosts a research talk by Dr. Tarminder Kaur, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa, on Wednesday, Nov. 28, from 4 to 5 p.m. at Alden 319. The talk is titled “Farmers Are Not ‘That’ Rich; Farm Workers Are Not ‘That’ Poor: an […]

Dr. Dan Hembree, Associate Professor of Geological Sciences at Ohio University, traveled to South Africa in October to present a keynote talk on “Experimental continental neoichnology: the lessons animals can teach us in the laboratory and field” at the Second International Congress on Continental Ichnology. Hembree’s keynote address discussed the […]

By Dr. Zakes Mda Professor of Creative Writing From the New York Times, Dec. 6 I remember Nelson Mandela. No, not the universally adored elder statesman who successfully resisted the megalomania that comes with deification, and who died Thursday at age 95, but the young lawyer who used to sit […]

  “In the spring of 2003, Maggie Messitt stood in the centre of Acornhoek, South Africa—a village just over the imaginary line that once legally separated white and black—and saw a world unlike anything she had ever experienced, unlike the white community where she’d recently claimed a tent as her home, unlike […]