Johannesburg 2012 Photo Gallery
Welcome to the Photo Gallery of TCDS’s Johannesburg Democracy & Diversity Institute in January 2012!
Forty students, from New York’s the New School and a number of universities throughout Africa, convened at the University of Johannesburg, the new host of TCDS’s Democracy & Diversity Institute in South Africa.
University of Johannesburg
An aerial view of Johannesburg’s Central Business District
Students were required to take two of four offered courses, to engage in meaningful dialogue on a variety of subjects. The participants varied from undergraduates (3), graduate students (26), and post-graduate lecturers (6).
Thirteen countries were represented.
Eating Ethopian food on Jeppe Street in central Jo’burg
The courses that were offered were the following:
“Race and Modernity: Constellations of Place and Identity in Africa”
– Taught by Jacob Dlamini (Yale University) and Melissa Steyn (University of Witwatersrand)
“Romancing Violence: Nations, Boundaries, Bodies”
– Taught by Elzbieta Matynia (NSSR) and Shireen Hassim (University of Witwatersrand)
“New Democracies, Old Questions”
– Taught by Lawrence Hamilton (University of Johannesburg) and Laurence Piper (University of Cape Town)
“Shifting Power in the Global Economy: Rethinking Development Strategies”
– Taught by Stephen Gelb (University of Johannesburg), Teresa Ghilarducci (NSSR), Richard McGahey (NSPE)
Elzbieta Matynia and Stephen Gelb, instructors at the Institute, at the closing reception
Shireen Hassim, an instructor from the U Wits, at the closing reception
In addition to the courses, the institute went on study tours to:
Maropeng’s the Cradle of Humanity, the Central Methodist Church, Constitution Hill, the Apartheid Museum, SoWeTo and the Hector Pietersen Museum, as well as tours within the city.
Participants from the New School at the Cradle of Humanity
On a study tour at the Constitutional Court
Participants walking into the Apartheid Museum
Participants at Freedom Square in SoWeTo
There were also informational talks and film screenings, such as:
– A conversation with Anton Harber, a co-founder of South Africa’s premier newspaper, the Globe and Mail;
– A conversation with Adila Hassim, an activist lawyer from Section 27, a nonprofit organization;
– An evening with Bishop Paul Verryn of the Central Methodist Church;
– A film screening of Rewind, a documentary on the making of a Cantata about South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission followed by a discussion with the filmmaker Liza Key.
An evening with Anton Harber of the Globe and Mail
Participants eating at the dining hall
An evening discussion with Paul Verryn
Sophiatown Residence – A home away from home
