From joelp at pari.org.za  Wed Mar  1 11:22:10 2017
From: joelp at pari.org.za (Joel Pearson)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 11:22:10 +0200
Subject: [State@Wits] Introduction
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Dear all,

Thanks for the opportunity to be on this list -- and apologies for the very
late response, Keith. I'm a researcher at the Public Affairs Research
Institute (PARI), affiliated to Wits University. For the past two years, I
have been working in a team studying local government in the Waterberg
district of Limpopo, specifically looking at how the context of burgeoning
mineral extraction has impacted local administrations from the inside.

Having seen how documents have played a central role in many of the
deepening political disputes between different rungs of party and state -
forensic audits, letters, petitions, legal opinions, minutes and agendas -
I am pursuing more sustained research on these 'documentary wars' of the
state - the dynamics of outsourced document production, confidentiality and
secrecy, questions of authenticity and evidentiary power, the leaking of
documents, relations to the legal adjudication of disputes etc.

PARI, along with the NRF Local Histories and Present Realities, and the
Center for Urbanism and Built Environment (CUBES), has also begun what we
are calling the Research Collaboration on the State, which aims to provide
a platform for academics, researchers, officials, and civil society actors
to speak to each other about various aspects of the state. The first of the
public seminars began last week, and I will keep you informed of upcoming
events.

I am keen to learn a great deal more through the discussions on this list.

All the best,

Joel Pearson
joelp at pari.org.za

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On 8 February 2017 at 11:01, Lawrence Hamilton <Lawrence.Hamilton at wits.ac.za
> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I am a political theorist based in political studies at Wits and politics
> and international studies, Cambridge (see below). I work on the state,
> amongst other topics in contemporary political theory, as informed by the
> perspective of the global South and the history of political thought. Some
> say I'm too focused on the state, but anyway.
>
> A heads-up on two forthcoming events associated with my Chair:
>
> 1) On the 15-17 March, I (or my Chair) will be hosting Ian Shapiro (Yale).
> He'll be giving a public lecture at midday on 16 March on democracy and
> political competition in the wake of the 2016 referenda and elections (full
> details and final title to follow);
>
> 2) From 30 Aug-1 Sept, David Boucher (Cardiff) and Ayesha Omar (UJ) are
> hosting a conference entitled ‘The Prelude to Decolonisation: the turning
> of the tide'. I'm giving a paper there on 'Amilcar Cabral, Resistance and
> Freedom'. It is an interdisciplinary conference and they already have a lot
> of good and varied interest. Please see attached the first version of their
> call for papers and please circulate widely.
>
> Thanks, and thank again to Keith for creating this list, etc.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Lawrence
> --
> Lawrence Hamilton BA (MA), MPhil, PhD (Cantab) MASSAf
> NRF/British Academy Bilateral Research Chair in Poltical Theory,
> University of the Witwatersrand and University of Cambridge
> Editor-in-Chief, Theoria: A Journal of Social and Political Theory
>
> Single-authored books:-
> The Political Philosophy of Needs (Cambridge University Press 2003)
>
> Are South Africans Free? (Bloomsbury 2014)
>
> Freedom is Power: Liberty Through Political Representation (Cambridge
> University Press 2014)
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From Jonathan.Klaaren at wits.ac.za  Wed Mar  1 12:38:17 2017
From: Jonathan.Klaaren at wits.ac.za (Jonathan Klaaren)
Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2017 10:38:17 +0000
Subject: [State@Wits] SABIT Seminar: 13 March 2017
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Dear Fellow Members of the State List:

Greetings – I thought members of this list might be interested to know of this seminar to be held in two weeks’ time – on Monday.  I would encourage you to attend.

Ed Balleisen is a regulatory scholar as well as a business historian – and he taught at Wits for five years in the 1990s so has some familiarity with our context.

Regards

Jon Klaaren

From: David Francis
Sent: 20 February 2017 02:55 PM
To: Imraan Valodia
Cc: David Francis
Subject: SABIT Seminar: 13 March 2017

Dear members of the SABIT group,

Invitation to SABIT Seminar - interdisciplinary research on business fraud regulation: 13 March 2017

Please save the date for the next working session of our group with a visiting American scholar, Professor Ed Balleisen, on the topic of interdisciplinary research on business fraud regulation.

The session will start with a 10 to 15 minute introduction by Prof Valodia and Prof Padayachee on the status and current plans for SABIT, and then pass over to Duke University Professor Ed Balleisen for a 30 minute input based on (a) his recent book (see below), (b) his experience initiating, funding and leading several interdisciplinary research communities, and (c) he will address the issue of how to study business and corporate history.

Prof Balliesen currently serves as Duke’s Vice Provost for Interdisciplinary Studies, working with university-wide institutes and initiatives to foster collaborative, interdisciplinary research, teaching, and engagement. Prof Balliesen’s recent book is Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff (Princeton University Press, 2017).  In his wide-ranging history, Balliesen emphasizes the enduring connections between capitalist innovation and business fraud, as well as the vexed efforts by private organizations and state agencies to curb the worst economic deceptions.  Placing recent fraud scandals in long-term context, he argues that a mixture of public education, sensible disclosure rules, and targeted enforcement campaigns can contain the problem of business fraud.  He is also the editor of an edited three-volume multidisciplinary research collection, Business Regulation, (Edward Elgar, 2015).

Details

Date and time: Monday, 13 March 2017, 09:30-12:00
Location: Duncan Reekie Boardroom, CLM Building, West Campus, Wits University

We will have tea and coffee from 09:30 am and start the session at 10:00, ending promptly at 12:00.

Space is limited, so please RSVP to David Francis, at david.francis at wits.ac.za<mailto:david.francis at wits.ac.za> by Wednesday, 8th March 2017.

Kind regards
David on behalf of the SABIT team

David Francis
Researcher
Office of the Dean: Commerce, Law and Management
University of the Witwatersrand
Cell: 084 433 6738



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