The Law Race & Gender Research Unit and Centre for African Studies cordially invite you to a seminar on: The Land Question in Sub-Saharan Africa: longer term processes and the recent "land rush".

Presenter: Professor Pauline Peters, Harvard University and current Mellon Fellow at UCT's Faculty of Law

Date: Monday 23 April 2012

Time: 12h30 - 14h00

Venue: Centre for African Studies Gallery, Harry Oppenheimer Institute Building, Upper Campus, UCT

Professor Pauline Peters joined Harvard in 1982 and retired from her teaching faculty position (Department of Anthropology and School of Government) in 2008. She continues her research, which has concentrated in Malawi and Botswana though she has also collaborated with researchers in other countries of Southern Africa. Since retiring, she has been a Visiting Research Professor, Chiao-Tung University, Taiwan (2009-10) and Fellow, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (2011).

Recent publications include 'Our daughters inherit our fields and our sons use their wives' fields': matrilineal-matrilocal land tenure and the new land policy in Malawi, JEAS, 2010 (4,1); Contestations over 'tradition' and 'culture' in a time of AIDS in Malawi, Medical Anthropology, 2010 (29,3); Challenges in land tenure and land reform in Africa, World Development, 2009 (37,8).

All interested parties are welcome - no need to RSVP.