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The 4th Steve Biko/Frantz Fanon Award for Psychological Liberation was conferred upon the South African Legal Team at the International Court of Justice to uphold the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in Gaza. The award was presented at the 30th PsySSA and 10th PAPU Anniversary Opening Ceremony and Gala Dinner on Tuesday, 8 October 2024 by Mr Nkosinathi Biko (Steve Biko Foundation), Dr Mireille Fanon-Mendes France (Frantz Fanon Foundation), Prof Saths Cooper (PAPU) and Prof Mercy Tshilidzi Mulaudzi (PsySSA).
The award was awarded to:
John Dugard, SC
Adila Hassim, SC
Tembeka Ngcukaitobi, SC
Blinne Ni Ghrálaigh, KC
Max du Plessis, SC
Vaughan Lowe, KC
Tshidiso Ramogale
Sarah Pudifin-Jones
Lerato Zikalala
Helena Van Roosbroeck
Rebecca Brown
Susan Power
This Lecture Series seeks to highlight the new frontiers and challenges facing the culture of democracy, peace, safety and human rights in South Africa and globally.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Dr Thandi Gamedze
Desmond Tutu Centre for Religion and social Justice, University of the Western Cape Dr Gamezde is an academic, a facilitator, a cultural worker, a writer, a poet, an educator, and a theologian. She has broad experience working across multiple sites, including churches, universities, and community organisations. Her focus is developing critical consciousness for enacting change in communities.
RESPONDENT
Zandi Radebe
University of South Africa Zandi Radebe is a lecturer at the University of South Africa. Her interest include Liberation historiographies, Memory and Resistance, Anti-Black Racism, and Africana womanism. Her specialisations include Political Theory/Political Philosophy, Pan African Black Consciousness Philosophy and Decoloniality.
PsySSA is proud to present a series of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) workshops taking place throughout South Africa! Get ready for an immersive experience of ACT where you’ll learn tools that will transform the lives of your clients.
Werner Teichert is an internationhal speaker and clinical psychologist based in Sydney, Australia. He was trained in ACT under Russ Harris, Robyn Waiser, Steve Hayes and Kirk Strosahl. Werner has trained over 2500 healthcare professionals across South Africa, Namibia, Australia and the UK.
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In a period of youth turmoil across the globe, it is apposite to consider the condition of youth in our country and continent. In the early 1980s, the question was asked, “Are we creating a lost generation?”
Over four decades later, it seems that we have created lost generations with a rising sense of helplessness and hopelessness, intolerable levels of disaffection, joblessness, violence, dependency, and the inability to engage meaningfully in disrupting prevailing narratives and emerging with a qualitatively different and inclusive trajectory for the future.
Was Shakespeare correct in stating, “The fault… is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings”? Can we cohere in the quest to find meaning for youth and enable them to fully assume their rightful roles in society? These and other critical issues affecting all of us will be traversed in this lecture, to enable us to work together in our various roles and disciplines towards a quest for our common humanity and future.
Date: 10 September 2024
Time: 15:00 – 17:00
Format: Virtual
Prof. Saths Cooper is the current president of the Pan-African Psychology Union and the past president of the International Union of Psychological Science and the Psychological Society of South Africa. Prof Cooper is also a Fellow of the Psychological Societies of South Africa, India, Ireland, Britain and Nigeria. He is a founding governing Board Member of the International Science Council and a Foundation Fellow serving on its Committee for Freedom and Responsibility in Science. Prof Cooper was a close colleague of the Black Consciousness Movement founder, the late Bantu Stephen (Steve) Biko. At the age of 22, Cooper was banned, placed under house arrest, and thereafter jailed for nine years, five of which he spent in the same cell block as the late South African President Mandela. He was Accused No. 1 in the seminal South African Students’ Organisation/Black Peoples Convention (SASO/BPC) trial, a leader of the struggle against apartheid oppression and exploitation from the late 1960s. He obtained his PhD from Boston University as a Fulbright Scholar. Prof Cooper has taught at the University of Witwatersrand, Boston University and the University of the Western Cape. He also served as the last Vice Chancellor of the University of Durban Westville. Prof Cooper chairs the Robben Island Museum and the 1970s Group of Activists.
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Around 5 pm on Thursday, April 18, 2024, Hebrew University professor and internationally renowned feminist scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian was arrested by Israeli police at her home in the Old City of Jerusalem on the charge of incitement to violence.
Take action today for Prof Nadera Shalhoub Kervokian’s immediate release!
Use the hashtag #FreeNadera and tag @HebrewU on all social media platforms.