21 August 2024 @ 12:30-13:45
Speakers:
Professor Max Waltman
Current Fellow at STIAS, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Halmstad University, Sweden
Legal Prostitution: A Crime Against Humanity?
Abstract:
Abstract: Despite extensive social science research documenting the coercion and damage
attendant and endemic to the sex industry and decades of legal debate on approaches to
this problem, no effective legal challenges have resulted. Countries following the Swedish
(now “Nordic/Equality”) prostitution model law, which penalizes buyers and third parties while
supporting prostituted persons to escape, have decreased prostitution’s incidence, while countries
in which prostitution is legalized have seen trafficking and other violative abuses metastasize. Empirical
evidence shows that legal prostitution exponentially increases “widespread” and “systematic attacks”
against prostituted persons, including “rape, enforced prostitution, human trafficking, sexual slavery,”
and other atrocities enumerated under international law and the Rome Statute of the International Criminal
Court (ICC). Close case readings focusing on the ICC support the theory that legal prostitution be recognized
as a crime against humanity.
31 July 2024 @ 12:30-13:45
Speakers:
Chandre Bezuidenhout: Embedded Intelligence Manager
Barend Botes: Watch Operations Manager
Muamr Mollajee: Intelligence Analyst
Alexandra Steenekamp: Associate Consultant
Charlize White: Embedded Intelligence Manager
CORPORATE INTELLIGENCE CAREER PATHS REFCLECTIONS FROM CRISIS 24
26 July 2024 @ 12:30-13:45
Speaker:
Professor Marek Wroblewski
Head of Department of International Economic Relations,(Institute of International and Security Studies, University of Wroclaw, Poland) and permanent representative of Poland to the World Trade Organization in Geneve (Ministry of Development and Technology)
TWENTY YEARS OF POLAND IN THE EUROPEAN UNION: Economic achievements, challenges and prospects
7 May 2024
PREMIER DEBATE
Hosted by The Political Science Department in collaboration with the Stellenbosch University Museum in the run-up to the 2024 National and Provincial Election.
24 April 2024
Speaker:
Prof. Andrzej Polus
Ph.D., prof. Andrzej Polus, works as a professor at the Institute of International Studies, University of Wroclaw. He is the former president of the Polish Center for African Studies.
EU – Africa relations. Beyond the rhetoric of “the partnership of the equal
17 April 2024
Speaker:
Prof. Janis Van der Westhuizen
Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University.
Huawei or the American Way? Why Brazil and South Africa did not securitize 5G
10 April 2024
Speaker:
Daniela Ellerbeck
Manager Constitutional Programmes at FW de Klerk Foundation.
The FW de Klerk Foundation’s Human
Rights Report Card 2023. The Report
Card assesses the degree to which rights
and freedoms in the Bill of Rights were
enjoyed in practice during 2023.
27 March 2024 @ 13:15-14:30
Speaker:
Professor Ingrid Schneider
A Professor of Political Science, Department of Informatics, Universitat Hamburg, Germany.
Digital Platform Regulation and Geopolitics- Comparing perspectives on South Africa and Europe.
13 March 2024 @ 13:15-14:30
Speakers:
Dr Manfredi Valeriani
A Post-Doctoral Researcher at Luiss University and Academic-teaching Political Risk Analysis, International Politics and Businesses.
Carilina Polito
A PhD Researcher at LUISS University who focus on the (geo)politics of surveillance technologies, with special reference to the supply of biometric technologies to Africa.
1st Topic:
Co- Governance, Food and Communities: Investigating the role of Agri-based solutions in community building in Cape Town and Rome.
2nd Topic:
(Geo) Politics of Biometric Technologies- The Making of Datafield African Borders and Citizens.
11 March 2024 @ 14:00-16:00
SPECIAL SEMINAR
SOUTH AFRICAN INSIGHTS ON UKRAINE’S PATH TO PEACE:REGIONAL SECURITY, NUCLEAR SAFETY AND HUMAN RIGHT PERSPECTIVES
PROGRAMME
Speakers:
Prof. Tim Murithi (IJR)
Dr Maksyn Yakovlyev (NaUKMA)
TOPIC: REGIONAL SECURITY ARCHITECTURE
Speakers:
Oleana Lapenko (Dixi Group)
Isabel Bossman(SAIIA)
TOPIC: NUCLEAR SAFETY
Speakers:
Dr Elvis Fokala (UP Centre for Human Rights)
Oleksandra Ramantsova (Centre for Civil Liberties)
TOPIC:FORCEFULL DEPORTATION OF CHILDREN
21 February 2024 @ 13:15-14:30
Speaker:
Professor Jo-Ansie Van Wyk
Research Professor, Department Political Science at University of South Africa(UNISA), Pretoria
Nuclear Necropolitics in South Africa
18 October 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speakers:
David Ansara
Chief Executive Officer of the Free Market Foundation
Mark Oppenheimer
Practicing advocate and member of the Johannesburg Bar in South Africa
Who will watch the watchmen?
11 October 2023 @ 12:00-14:00
Speakers:
Mr, Saif Islam (Associate, Strategic Intelligence),
Mr. Dylan Williams (Senior Researcher, Monitoring)
and
Dr. Vaughn Maurel (Associate, Corporate Intelligence).
Exploring risk and Intelligence- Join our Corporate Intelligence and Risk Experts as we explain the Investigations Industry.
4 October 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Credo Speakers:
Dr. Scott Timcke
Senior Research Associate at Research ICT Africa
Mr. Hanani Hlomani
Researcher at Research ICT Africa
and
Mrs. Zara Schroeder
Researcher at Research ICT Africa
Decoding the Ballot: AI is Reshaping Democracy on the African Continent
20 September 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speakers: Prof Michael Williams
University Research Chair in Global Political Thought at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Ottawa, Canada.
and
Prof. Rita Abrahamsen,
Professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa, Canada
The World of the Right: Radical Conservatism and International Order
30 August 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Omomayowa Abati,
Final-year doctoral student in the Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University
Is Reducing Candidacy Ages Enough? #NotTooYoungToRun and Youth Parliamentary Representation in Nigeria’s National and Subnational Legislature
23 August 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Dr. Salih O. Noor,
Ph.D finished at Northwest University in July 2023, will join The University of Chicago in September as a Collegiate Assistant Professor in the Social division, Harper-Schmidt Fellow
The Legacies of Radical, Liberal, and Stalled Liberal Reforms in Southern Africa
16 August 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Prof. Jan Erk,
African Institute for Research in Economics and Social Sciences, University Mohammed VI Polytechnique (UMGP), Morocco
Looking Back at Africa’s Constitutional Past, Learning from Mistakes, and Reflecting on the Future
2 August 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Dr. Mandira Bagwandeen,
Senior Research Fellow, Nelson Mandela School of Public Governance, UCT
The China Factor in Africa’s Pursuit of Digital Sovereignty
26 July 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Anton Harber,
Adjunct Professor & Caxton Chair:
Department of Journalism, Wits University
How offensive can we be? The Hate Speech Bill and freedom of speech
24 July 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Prof. James L. Gibson
Sidney W. Souers Professor of Government, Department of Political Science, Washington University in St. Louis.
Democracy’s Destruction?
The 2020 Election, Trump’s Insurrection, and the Strength of America’s Political Institutions
26 April 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Dr Victoria Reinhardt
Senior lecturer at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Philosophy, University of Leipzig
Neighbourhood Policies of Regional Powers Competing Spacial Formats
19 April 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Dr Michael Hector
Junior Lecturer, Political Science
Pathways to Sustainable Development Ecological Modernisation in Africa
12 April 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Simon Freemantle, Senior Political Economist, Standard Bank
The state of government-business relations in SA, and the implications for the political economy outlook
29 March 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Nic Cheeseman, Professor of Democracy at University of Birmingham, UK
How ideas and ideologies shape African politics – and why we can’t understand it without them
22 March 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Dr Tim Zajontz, International Relations, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
China in Africa and the geopolitics of competing connectivity initiatives in Africa
15 March 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Anye Nyamnjoh, Senior Research Officer, University of Cape Town
Making Universities more African: Decolonisation as a Politics of Belonging
22 February 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Ntina Reiersgord
Journey to Monitoring & Evaluation as Career and Lessons Learned
15 February 2023 @ 12:15-13:30
Speaker: Prof Silviu Rogobete, West University Timisoara, Romania
Instrumentalised Religion and Current Global Affairs: The war in Ukraine
2019 National Election