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FW: REMAKING LAW IN AFRICA - CAS Conference Edinburgh 21-22 May
Natalie Bradshaw
natalie.bradshaw at stir.ac.uk
Fri May 9 14:38:27 BST 2003
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michelle Keown
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 1:28 PM
> Subject: FW: REMAKING LAW IN AFRICA - CAS Conference Edinburgh 21-22
> May
>
> Dear All,
>
> I'm forwarding to you a message from Kenneth King at the University of
> Edinburgh regarding a conference entitled 'Remaking Law in Africa'.
> Kenneth's contact details are provided at the foot of the message.
> All the best,
> Michelle
>
> ----------
> From: Kenneth King[SMTP:kenneth.King at ed.ac.uk]
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2003 9:23 AM
> To: Michelle Keown
> Subject: REMAKING LAW IN AFRICA - CAS Conference Edinburgh 21-22 May
>
> Dear Michelle
> Would you pass this information round your email list - especially
> those likely to be interested in Commonwealth Africa.
>
> I tried to send this to John McCracken at his new - non-university
> address. Could you perhaps try him as well?
>
> Kenneth
>
> REMAKING LAW IN AFRICA
>
> Remaking Law in Africa: Transnationalism, Persons and Rights
> Draft Programme Outline (1.5.03),
> May 21 and 22, 2003
>
> Wednesday 21 May 2003
>
> 12.30-1.30 Registration and Book Displays
> David Hume Tower, Ground Floor
>
> 1:30-2:00 Welcome
> David Hume Tower, Faculty Room South
> Kenneth King (Director, CAS & Conference Chair)
>
> 2.00-3.30 Human Rights
>
> Abdullahi An-Na'im (Emory) Negotiating universality of human
> rights through practice
>
> Chidi Odinkalu (Interrights) Globalizing Rights, Africanizing
> Wrongs: Africa and international law in a changing world
>
> 3.30-4.00 Tea
> David Hume Tower, Ground Floor
>
> 4.00-5.30 Constitutional Issues
>
> Ahmednasir Abdullahi (Law Society of Kenya) Rewriting the
> Kenyan constitution - old ways old ideas
>
> Kristin Henrard (Groningen) South Africa's Constitution: the
> challenge of implementation
>
> 5.45-6.15 Reception & Book Launch of new volume on NEPAD
> (2002 Conference
> Proceedings)
>
>
> 6.30-7.30 ROYAL AFRICAN SOCIETY LECTURE
> Issa Shivji (Dar es Salaam) Derailing the rule of law: imperialism
> revived - implications for Africa To be delivered by Tam Dalyell
> (Rector, University of Edinburgh)
>
> 8.00-10.15 Conference Dinner
> Raeburn Room, Old College
>
> Thursday 22
>
> 9.00-10.30 Tribunals and Other Forms of Justice
>
> Aloysea Inyumba (Kigali) Reconciliation via Gechacha: local and
> national impacts
>
> Cathy Jenkins (SOAS) The Truth and Reconciliation Commission:
> a breakthrough for Africa?
>
> Matthew Hassan Kukah (Lagos) Sharia, Justice and
> Constitutionalism in Nigeria
>
> 10.30-11.00 Tea
> David Hume Tower, Ground Floor
>
> 11.00-12.30 Development and Gender
>
> Anne Stewart (Warwick) Entitlement, Pluralism and Gender Justice
> in
> Sub Saharan Africa
>
> Fareda Banda (SOAS) The end of relativism? Changing gender
> relations in Africa
>
> Winnie Byanyima (Kampala) Governance, citizenship and
> gender; the struggle to achieve equal economic and political rights
> in
> Uganda
>
> 12.30-2.00 ROYAL AFRICAN SOCIETY LECTURE lecture during
> lunch-hour
>
> Zackie Achmat (Treatment Action Campaign, Cape Town)
> Law, trade, governance and access to medicines in Africa.
>
> 2.00-3.30 Resource Entitlement
>
> George Frynas (Birmingham) Social and environmental Litigation
> against transnational firms in Africa.
>
> Anne Hellum (Oslo) & Bill Derman (Michigan) From rights-based
> to negotiated water rights: some reflections on law, identity and
> power
> in contemporary Zimbabwe
>
> Tea
> David Hume Tower, Ground Floor
>
> 3.30-5.00 Rights to Health, Education and Intellectual Property
>
> Charles Clift (Intellectual Property Rights, DFID) The imposition of
> Intellectual property law: from colonial times to TRIPS.
>
> Patrick Watt (ActionAid) Education in Africa: responding to a
> human rights violation
>
> Olive Shisana & M. Zungu- Dirwayi (HSRC, Pretoria) HIV/AIDS in
> South Africa: rights to health - implications of the 2002 Household
> Survey
>
> 5.00- 5.30 Concluding Remarks
>
> The Centre of African Studies thanks the Binks Trust, the British
> Academy, the Ford Foundation, the Royal African Society/
> ASAUK, the School of Social and Political Studies, the School of
> Law, the
> University of Edinburgh Development Trust and the British Council
> (Johannesburg) for their support to this conference.
>
> For further information and bookings: P.King at ed.ac.uk
>
> [+44 (0) 131 650 3878]
>
> REGISTRATION FORM
> CENTRE OF AFRICAN STUDIES INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
> 21-22 May 2003
> REMAKING LAW IN AFRICA: TRANSNATIONALISM, PERSONS,
> AND RIGHTS
>
> You may return the completed registration form by email to:
> P.King at ed.ac.uk or return to the address below. On registration,
> final information about the conference programme and
> accommodation
> in Edinburgh will be sent.
>
> The conference will begin at 1.30 on May 21 and finish at 5.30 on
> May 22.
>
> On the evening of Wed 21 there will be a Royal African Society
> Scotland Lecture (by Prof. Issa Shivji) and a conference dinner,
> and
> another RAS lecture on 22nd lunchtime (by Zackie Achmat).
>
> Full Conference Fee: £ 60.00
> Edinburgh Staff: £ 40.00
> Student: £25.00
> [The Conference Fee, whether for students, Edinburgh staff, or
> other
> participants, includes a full folder of the conference papers, teas,
> coffees and a reception. The Conference Dinner is extra.]
> Dinner: £15.00 [In the Raeburn Room, Old College, University of
> Edinburgh]
> Attendance at single sessions/RAS Lecture =£5.00
>
> Tel. +44 (0)131 650 3878; Fax: +44 (0)131 650 6535; Email:
> African.Studies at ed.ac.uk
>
> PLEASE COMPLETE
>
> Name
> Organisation
>
> Address
>
> Phone
> Fax
> E-mail
>
> I enclose a cheque, made payable to the Centre of African Studies,
> for £ ___. Please register me for the CAS conference under the
> following category [ remember to include dinner, if attending that]:
>
> Full conference fee
> Edinburgh staff
> Student
> (evidence of status required)
>
> I do / do not wish to attend the conference dinner on May 21.
> Delete
> as applicable
>
> I am / am not a vegetarian. Delete as applicable
>
>
> --
> Kenneth King,
> Director, Centre of African Studies &
> Professor of International & Comparative Education
> University of Edinburgh, 21 George Square,
> Edinburgh EH8 9LD, Scotland, UK
>
> Phones : Office +44 (0) 131 650 3879/8; Home: +44 (0)1875 340
> 418;
> Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 6535
>
> CAS website: www.ed.ac.uk/centas
> NORRAG website: www.norrag.org
> Oxford Conference 2003 ukfiet.fsnet.co.uk OR
> cfbt.com/oxfordconference
> EADI www.eadi.org
> ESRC Knowledge project www.ed.ac.uk/centas/futgov-home.html
> --
> Kenneth King,
> Director, Centre of African Studies &
> Professor of International & Comparative Education
> University of Edinburgh, 21 George Square,
> Edinburgh EH8 9LD, Scotland, UK
>
> Phones : Office +44 (0) 131 650 3879/8; Home: +44 (0)1875 340 418;
> Fax: +44 (0) 131 650 6535
>
> CAS website: www.ed.ac.uk/centas
> NORRAG website: www.norrag.org
> Oxford Conference 2003 ukfiet.fsnet.co.uk OR
> cfbt.com/oxfordconference
> EADI www.eadi.org
> ESRC Knowledge project www.ed.ac.uk/centas/futgov-home.html
>
>
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