Public Lectures
The Graduate School Public Lectures
Visionary academics discuss timely topics, from the ways our health is affected by our most intimate environments to charting a more open, just and sustainable future in African cities.
All lectures take place at 7:30 p.m. at Kane Hall.
March 31
People-Place Interactions, Mobility Patterns and Metabolic Health
Basile Chaix, research director, National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM), Paris, France
Walker Ames Lecturer
By integrating methodologies from epidemiology and public health, geography and transport sciences, Professor Chaix explores the ways our health is affected by our most intimate environments, from where we live to the modes of transportation we use.
About Basile Chaix
Basile Chaix is a social epidemiologist with over 85 publications, most of them related to neighborhood effects on health. His research seeks to understand how the multiple environments visited during daily life activities and related mobility patterns and transport mode use influence health status and contribute to social disparities in health. Professor Chaix is the Research Director of INSERM (the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research). He is the coordinator of the Nemesis (Neighborhood Environments and Mobility: Effects on Social health InequalitieS) research team interested in the interrelationships between the environments, mobility, and health. Professor Chaix serves on the Editorial Board of epidemiological, public health, and social sciences journals including Epidemiology; Social Science and Medicine; and Health and Place.
April 12
Towards a Speculative Politics for African Cities
Edgar Pieterse, South African research chair in urban policy, director of ACC, University of Cape Town
Walker Ames Lecturer, Cities Collaboratory Series
Professor Pieterse breaks down how preconceived modes of thinking on urban Africa must be reconsidered so the global South can chart a more open, just and sustainable future.
About Edgar Pieterse
Edgar Pieterse holds the South African Research Chair in Urban Policy and is founding director of the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at the University of Cape Town. ACC is emerging as the preeminent interdisciplinary urban research center on the African continent. He previously served as Special Advisor to the Premier of the Western Cape Provincial Government in South Africa and directed a number of urban policy think tanks before his brief time in government. He is consulting editor for Cityscapes — an international biannual magazine on urbanism in the global South. His most recent co-edited books are “African Cities Reader III: Land, Property & Value” (Chimurenga, 2015), “Africa’s Urban Revolution” (Zed, 2014) and “Rogue Urbanism: Emergent African Cities” (Jacana, 2013). Dr. Pieterse is also on the Advisory Boards of the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, LSE Cities, the Gauteng City-region Observatory and the Open Society Foundation of South Africa, among others. He has recently been appointed as co-lead author of the Urban Chapter of the International Panel on Social Progress’s forthcoming report and he presently leads a team of experts working on an Urban Development Framework for South Africa.
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