-----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
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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
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www.ed.ac.uk/centas
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cfbt.com/oxfordconference
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--
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