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Zackie Achmat Lecture @ CUNY

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Zackie Achmat Lecture @ CUNY

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Sean Jacobs

The Social Justice, Gender and Health Reading Group, The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and The Center for the Humanities present:

Remembering E.H. Carr and the Case for a New History in South Africa

Zackie Achmat

Tuesday May 4th, 6:30pm, Room 6402
Venue: CUNY Graduate Center, 365 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY 10016.

Open Society Fellow, Nobel Peace Prize Nominee Zackie Achmat is an AIDS activist who has garnered international acclaim for his leading role in the struggle for access to AIDS treatment in South Africa. After having been active in the anti-apartheid movement, Achmat was a founding member of the Treatment Action Campaign, the most influential social movement focusing on the AIDS epidemic in South Africa. In this lecture, Achmat will examine the work of the critical historian E.H. Carr in re-thinking South Africa’s history and the possibilities for its future. Achmat was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003 for his leadership role in bringing about an orthodox public health response to the AIDS epidemic in South Africa.

This lecture is part of the 2009/10 speaker series entitled:

AXES OF INEQUALITY:
RACE, GENDER, SEXUALITY, AIDS, AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SOUTHERN AFRICA

Please RSVP to: [email protected] to confirm attendance.

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