ACMS hosted Conferences and Workshops events
Occasionally ACMS will host or co-host a conference at the University of Witwatersrand or in the Southern African region. Navigate this space for audio and photo files as well as reports and articles from past conferences.
Governing Migration and Urbanisation in South African Municipalities: Developing approaches to counter poverty and social fragmentation (August 18, 2011 - 18:00 - 20:00)

At a time when South African municipalities are faced with planning for increasingly diverse and mobile populations, they are often left with little guidance and best practice experience to draw on.

Book Launch and Panel Discussion: "Don't Listen to What I'm About to Say" - Using Oral Narratives of Zimbabwe for Activism and Academia (September 22, 2011 - 17:30 - 20:00)

The African Centre for Migration & Society invites you to a book launch and panel discussion

"Don't Listen to What I'm About to Say" - Using Oral Narratives of Zimbabwe for Activism and Academia

Panel featuring Annie Holmes (editor) and Zaheera Jinna (ACMS)

Graduate Seminar, SW Engineering
Thursday 22nd September

Sojourn to the City: exploring the link between religion and xenophobia in urban South Africa (Symposium) (October 19, 2011 - 08:30 - 13:00)

Access the presentation and Q&A audio archives here: http://www.migration.org.za/document/sojourn-city-presentation-archives.

Presenters

Chair: Lorena Núñez
Reason Beremauro: PhD, WISER, University of the Witwatersrand
Becca Hartman: MA, African Centre for Migration & Society, University of Witwatersrand

Policing and Human Rights: The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg (October 24, 2011 - 18:00 - 20:00)

The African Centre for Migration and Society (ACMS), the Wits School of Law and the Johannesburg Workshop for Theory and Criticism (JWTC) invite you to the following event:

Book Launch

Policing and Human Rights: The Meaning of Violence and Justice in the Everyday Policing of Johannesburg

by: Julia Hornberger

Date: Monday 24 October

Time: 6-8 PM

Location: Humani

Exorcising the Demons Within; Xenophobia, Violence and Statecraft in Contemporary South Africa (March 13, 2012 - 18:00 - 19:54)