Africa Table - The Other Cape Flats Mothers

Join the Center for African Studies for our weekly lunchtime lecture series.

Speaker: Jonathan Jansen, Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University; President of the South African Institute of Race Relations and the South African Academy of Science

Professor Jonathan Jansen is the immediate past Vice-Chancellor and Rector of the University of the Free State (UFS) and is currently a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. He is a Fellow of the American Educational Research Association and of The World Academy of Sciences (TWAS). He is President of the South African Institute of Race Relations and of the South African Academy of Science.

His book Knowledge in the Blood: Confronting Race and the Apartheid Past (Stanford, 2009) won the Nayef Al Rodhan Prize, the largest award from the British Academy for the Social Science and Humanities, for its contribution to scholarly excellence and transcultural understanding. In 2013, he was awarded the Education Africa Lifetime Achiever Award in New York and the Spendlove Award from the University of California for his contributions to tolerance, democracy and human rights. He holds honorary degrees from the University of Edinburgh, the University of Vermont and Cleveland State University. His recent books include Leading for Change (Routledge, 2016) and in 2017, As by fire: the end of the South African university; Making love in a war zone: interracial intimacies on university campuses; and Song for Sarah: lessons from my mother.