A monthly series of events organised as seminars and public dialogue events serve as a point of intellectual exchange and engagement with issues that are central to our research agenda. We believe that research in the Humanities and Social Sciences should not only be about contributing new knowledge production and engagement within the academe. Part of the social function of a university involves a dialogue between science and society; research in the social sciences and humanities should strive for a connection between the scientific on the one hand, and the social, political and cultural realms on the other. Speakers in the monthly series include members of the HTT research team, professional practitioners, established and emerging researchers drawn from our network of international and South African scholars, as well as young people who represent a diverse range of views.