The State We Are In:

A Seminar series hosted jointly by the Wits Institute for Social and
Economic Research (WISER) and the Graduate School of Public and Development
Management (P&DM)

Programme for First Quarter 2003

Date
Speaker
Paper Title
Discussant
Venue
Biography

27 February
Oscar Monteiro
Traditional Weberian Bureaucracy and New Public Management: Exclusive
or Complimentary
To Be Announced
WISER
Visiting Prof at P&DM, Wits University

6 March
Barry Munslow - special seminar
Complex emergencies and

development: When the state breaks down
TBA
WISER
Prof, University of Liverpool

13 March
Lucy Abrahams
The State of the Knowledge Economy in South Africa
TBA
WISER
Director Link Centre

20 March

27 March
Bill Melody
Developing the Information Infrastructure for South Africa's
Information Society: How Markets and Regulation are Shaping Network
Development and Access Opportunities
TBA
P&DM
Vodacom Foundation Visiting Professor

LINK Centre, Wits University

3 April

10 April
Steven Robins
Grounding 'globalization from below': 'Global citizens' in local
spaces.
TBA
WISER
Professor in the Dept of Anthropology and Sociology, University of
Stellenbosch

17 April

18 April - 4 May, Vacation/ Study Break

8 May
Tom Lodge
The ANC and the development of party politics in modern South Africa
TBA
WISER
Professor and Head of the Department of Political Studies, Wits
University

15 May
Patrick Fitzgerald
The Africa Works Hypothesis: South Africa In or Out?
TBA
WISER
Professor and Director of the Graduate School of Public and Development
Management, Wits University

22 May
Kealeboga Maphunye
Provisional Title: Maladministration/ Mismanagement in South Africa's
Public Sector. The case of selected departments and provinces
TBA
P&DM
Senior Lecturr in the School of Government, University of the Western
Cape

5 June
Peter Hudson
Concept of the Subject in Recent Political Theory
TBA
WISER
Senior Lecturer in the Political Studies Department, Wits University

12 June

19 June
Isabelle Hofmeyr
Thinking the relevance of the State - a literary view.
TBA
WISER
Professor in the Department of African Literature, Wits University

26 June - 13 July University Break

Venue: Unless otherwise stated seminars will be held at the WISER offices,
6th Floor Richard Ward Building, East Campus, University of the
Witwatersrand