En collaboration avec le Département d’histoire de l’Université McGill, le CRÉUM reçoit le professeur Francis Wilson de la School of Economics de l’Université de Cape Town, qui prononcera une conférence intitulée:

Half-way there: the long walk to freedom and economic justice in South Africa

Le jeudi 19 octobre 2006 de 12 h à 14 h
Salle de séminaire du CRÉUM (309)
2910 Édouard-Montpetit
Métro Université de Montréal

Francis Wilson grew up in the Eastern Cape, was trained in Physics (at the University of Cape Town) and Economics (Cambridge). He spent a year at the University of Virginia, 1964/5, doing doctoral research on the economics of discrimination. He has been teaching in the School of Economics at UCT for the past 40 years apart from sabbaticals in Harvard, Lyon (working in a lorry factory), New Delhi (Jawaharlal Nehru University), Oxford (All Souls and Balliol), Princeton and Sussex (Institute of Development Studies). In 1975 he founded SALDRU, the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit which he directed until 2000 when he started Data First, a resource unit For Information Research & Scientific Training. His main work has been in labour (gold mines; migrant; farms), some South African history, data collection and in poverty about which, to find out more, he directed the second Carnegie Inquiry into Poverty and Development in Southern Africa during the 1980s and co-ordinated one national and one local integrated household survey in the 1990s. He was chairman of council at the University of Fort Hare,1990-1999, and first chairman of the National Water Advisory Council set up by the new democratic government in 1996.