Odora Hoppers First in Public Lecture Series
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Distinguished scholar, policy specialist, and public intellectual on
issues of international development and human security Dr Odora Hoppers
will be the keynote speaker at the launch of Nelson Mandela
Metropolitan University’s Centre for the Advancement of Non-Racialism
and Democracy (CANRAD) on Tuesday, 23 March 2010.
The address by Dr
Hoppers is also the first in the university’s public
lecture series of 2010. The title of her address is “Transformative
Leadership and the Humanisation of The Academy: Towards the Integrative
Paradigm Shift”.
Within the UN system, she is a long-standing UNESCO expert in the area
of basic education and lifelong learning; was a member of the
International Faculty of the United Nations International Leadership
Academy (Amman-Jordan); and has served as a regional expert to the
World Economic Forum and the World Intellectual Property Organisation
(WIPO) on traditional knowledge and community intellectual property
rights.
Dr Hoppers is a member of the International Advisory Committee of the
Hague Appeal for Peace (New York); was a co-convenor of the Global
Political Economy Commission and a member of the Council of the
International Peace Research Association (IPRA). She was part of the
team that prepared the UN study on disarmament education submitted and
approved by the General Assembly (2002).
She was a technical adviser on indigenous knowledge systems to the
portfolio committee on arts, culture, science and technology, a
distinguished professional at the Human Sciences Research Council, an
associate professor at the University of Pretoria, a visiting professor
at Stockholm University (Sweden), a recipient of an honorary doctorate
from Orebro University (Sweden), and is a member of the Academy of
Science of South Africa.
In January 2008, she was appointed as the NRF-South African Research
Chair in Development Education at the University of South Africa as
part of South African Department of Science and Technology’s strategic
knowledge and human resource intervention into the higher education
landscape in South Africa.
NMMU Vice-Chancellor Prof Derrick Swartz said that the launch of CANRAD
marks a historic moment in the development of NMMU as it has created
the possibilities for making a progressive and defining contribution to
not only contemporary understanding of the non-racial project in
post-apartheid South Africa, but also practically engaging with civil
society, especially schools and neighbourhoods, in building
multicultural consciousness and skills.
“We are tremendously excited about the new Centre, and looking forward
to innovative projects in Port Elizabeth and beyond where NMMU can
promote new communities that are able to transcend the limitations of
‘race’ as a basis of social organization”.
The launch will also consist of an anti-racism colloquium on Wednesday,
24 March titled “Anti-Racism Network in Higher Education” at NMMU’s
Missionvale Campus.
Thursday, 25 March 2010 will see CANRAD and the Faculty of Law offering
two lectures on equality and the law, and xenophobia and the law. NMMU
senior law lecturer and advocate of the High Court Lindi Coetzee and
National Director of Lawyers for Human Rights, Advocate Jacob van
Garderen will be the guest speakers.
Port Elizabeth Budget Accommodation
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