Kontak:Nel-Mari Loock
- 021 808 2652
Plek: Auditorium, Wallenberg Research Centre
Panel discussion and book launch of the three STIAS
volumes:
Persistence of Race (2020)
Race in Education (2019)
The Effects of Race (2018)
Twenty-six years since the dawn of
democracy and race is still a talking point in parts of South African society.
What happened to the ‘Rainbow Nation’? Why is a country with a Constitution
hailed as a beacon of human rights in the world riddled with interracial
conflict and protests against remnants of a painful past?
The term ‘Rainbow Nation’ became
synonymous with South Africa after 1994 when Archbishop Desmond Tutu first used
it to symbolise hope for interracial unity among a diverse South African
population. Former President Nelson Mandela referred to this new South Africa
as a ‘rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world’.
But how can there be peace if race,
racialism, and racism are still “normal” and “everyday”? Where is humanity to
be found in a racialised society?
The Stellenbosch Institute for
Advanced Study (STIAS) invites members of the public to the Effects of Race
Project panel discussion
and launch of the book
Persistence of Race.
This is the third and final set of
essays looking at biological and social understandings of race. The two
previous books in the project, Race in Education
and The Effects of Race
were published in 2019 and 2018, respectively. The event marks the culmination
of the Effects
of Race Project which falls under the STIAS long-term project theme, Being
Human Today.
STIAS fellow, human rights lawyer
and theologian, Barney Pityana will lead the discussion and book launch ceremony.
On the panel will be STIAS Fellows and members of the Effects of Race Project
group Njabulo Ndebele (SA), Crain Soudien (SA), Gerhard Mare
(SA), George Chaplin (USA), Nina Jablonski (USA) and Gӧran
Therborn (UK and Sweden). A cocktail reception follows the discussion.
To RSVP, send an email to stias@sun.ac.za before Friday, 28 February
2020 or call Nel-Mari Loock at 021 808 2652
For media inquiries, email noloyisom@sun.ac.za or call Noloyiso
Mtembu at 082 389 3370