[Graduate-research-list] FW: REMAKING LAW IN AFRICA - CAS Conference Edinburgh 21-22 May

-----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@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(a)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(a)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(a)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