Upcoming events

Conferences

• 12th Winelands conference: Public leadership for added citizen value
  15 - 19 March 2010
  Biennial conference facilitated by the School of Public Management and Planning at the University of Stellenbosch.
• Art and social justice conference
  21 - 24 March 2010
  The Durban University of Technology and Art for Humanity is organising a three-day international conference on Art and Social Justice which will address a range of issues and themes relating to the arts in promoting human rights and social justice in society.
• Inequalities and social justice: BSA annual conference 2010
  07 - 09 April 2010
  The 2010 Annual Conference is the second year of the new conference format. It will be a less theme-led model to widen the participation of presenters and attendees.
• Dynamics of rural transformation in emerging economies
  14 - 16 April 2010
  This conference is based on the premise that the challenges faced in rural areas can be met successfully if strategies and policies are no longer rooted in the old paradigms of rural development.­
• Sport, leisure and development in the 21st Century: Opportunities and challenges
  13 - 16 June 2010
  Congress sub-themes are as follows: Scoring at the grassroots: Sport, recreation and mega events; Sport, identity politics & social cohesion and Sport, migration and challenges for development in the era of globalsiation.­
• Heritage, regional development and social cohesion: International conference
  22 - 24 June 2010
  The overall theme for this conference is heritage, regional development and social cohesion. Cultural and natural heritage is a resource for development in many different ways for regional and local stakeholders. Tourism, leisure and out of classroom experiences come to mind naturally, but the possibilities and challenges go far beyond that. The agendas of social inclusion, lifelong learning for all and place management have a lot to gain from constructive use of heritage.
• 6th International conference for cultural policy research 2010
  24 - 27 August 2010
  The theme of the conference, ­Truths, taboos and myths of cultural policy, refers to the ways in the field of cultural policy takes place and positions itself in praxis and research.
• Ten years of poverty: what have we learned since 2009 and what should we do 2010-2020?
  08 - 10 September 2010
  A call for the submission of papers that conceptually explore poverty dynamics; present empirical studies on poverty reduction; explain new methodologies of measuring multi-dimensional poverty; and/or inform policymaking in poverty reduction.
• International policy and research conference 2010: Emerging trends in times of instability: New challenges and opportunities for social security
  29 September - 01 October 2010
  The conference will focus on the challenges that various socio-economic developments pose to social security worldwide. The current financial and economic crisis is having an enormous impact in terms of its suddenness, scale, and global reach.
• World social security forum 2010: Securing social stability and economic development
  29 November - 04 December 2010
  The global financial and economic crisis has reaffirmed the key contribution of social security to social stability and economic recovery. The World Social Security Forum will provide a unique opportunity for over 1,000 decision-makers from all regions to share knowledge, recognize good practices and discuss key challenges and innovative strategies for Dynamic Social Security.­

Courses

• Managing for impact in development
  08 - 19 March 2010
  A 12-day accredited graduate level course for development programme and project managers who want to learn how to design, implement and manage holistic, pro-poor development interventions that will achieve greater impact. This course has been accredited at South Africa National Qualifications Framework (NQF) Level 8. NOTE: The application deadline for this course is 29 January 2010.