Special Colloquium Series, 2021. Hosted by the Department of Philosophy and the Department of Political Studies. 

You must register at the links below to attend. Upon registering, a Zoom link will be provided 24 hours prior to the event.

Dr. Madalitso Zililo Phiri: "The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil: Making Sense of Transformative Social Policy "

Dr. Madalitso Zililo Phiri, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study, University of Johannesburg (UJ), South Africa, is a critical Black Studies scholar of political economy of development, social policy, historical sociology, and Black Radical Thought. He is a Pan-Africanist: Malawian citizen by birth, a South African permanent resident, with a transnational upbringing having lived in Mozambique for over ten years. Phiri pursues a research program of three complementary lines of inquiry: comparative social policy in South Africa and Brazil, race and the political economy of development in Africa, and Black Radical Thought. He is currently working on a book manuscript that builds on his doctoral thesis tentatively entitled ‘The Colour of Inequality in South Africa and Brazil: Making Sense of Transformative Social Policy’ under contract with Brill Academic Press... (full description at link below).