BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//African Centre for Cities - ECPv6.7.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:African Centre for Cities
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for African Centre for Cities
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Africa/Johannesburg
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0200
TZOFFSETTO:+0200
TZNAME:SAST
DTSTART:20150101T000000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181025T130000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20181025T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T071948
CREATED:20181023T073150Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T073150Z
UID:10001975-1540472400-1540476000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page
SUMMARY:Urban Humanities: False Bay: Perspectives from the Environmental Humanities
DESCRIPTION:ACC is very excited to host Dr Shari Daya in conversation with Dr Hedley Twidle\, reflecting on the Environmental Humanities through encounters with False Bay. \nDr Twidle is a senior lecturer in the English Department at UCT. \n“I joined the department in 2010 as a lecturer in southern African and postcolonial literatures. Much of my current work addresses contemporary life-writing and non-fiction narrative. What\, after all\, does the word ‘literary’ signify in a phrase like ‘literary non-fiction’?  And how can one explore the array of non-fictional modes that are simultaneously drawn on\, refashioned and blurred into each other in South African writing: experimental auto/biography\, investigative journalism\, the Struggle memoir\, the diary\, microhistorical and archival reconstruction. \nMy research also explores the difficult relation between environmental thought and social history in southern Africa. Since 2013 I have been involved in the conceptualisation and planning of a new interdisciplinary M Phil in the Environmental Humanities\, launched in February 2015. I am also a member of the Archive and Public Culture research initiative\, a dynamic intellectual space where new research can be presented to experts in the field”.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/urban-humanities-false-bay-perspectives-environmental-humanities/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Brownbags
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/unnamed.jpg
GEO:-33.9375585;18.4721169
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 1 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building Upper Campus UCT Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT:geo:18.4721169,-33.9375585
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171207T030000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171207T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T071948
CREATED:20171012T105923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171012T105923Z
UID:10001941-1512615600-1512664200@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page
SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Producing water scarcity in São Paulo\, Brazil: The 2014 Water Crisis and the Binding  Politics of Infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:The last instalment of the annual ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series is presented by Dr Nate Millington on Producing water scarcity in São Paulo\, Brazil: The 2014 Water Crisis and the Binding  Politics of Infrastructure at 15:00 in Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nABSTRACT \nIn 2014\, political intransigence combined with a severe drought to push São Paulo\, Brazil\, to the edge of a profound water crisis. In this paper\, I consider the response to the crisis on behalf of the state government\, focusing on both the way that the crisis was narrated as well as responded to. I consider the suite of actions taken to cope with scarcity\, focusing specifically on the state’s employment of pressure reductions in the water pipes as opposed to a formal rationing. I argue that despite the state government’s claims that only a small minority was going without water\, the reality was that residents of the urban periphery were facing consistent water shortages. I argue that these shortages are representative of a form of infrastructural politics\, in which the seemingly most technically viable solutions to the crisis exacerbated inequality due to the inequity that is built into the city’s hydrological infrastructure itself. I conclude by thinking of the city’s crisis as indicative of the changing nature of daily life in contemporary cities in the wake of climate change at both the local and global scale. \nMore on the full seminar series here. \nMore on the NOTRUC programme here.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-producing-water-scarcity-sao-paulo-brazil-2014-water-crisis-binding-politics-infrastructure/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Seminar-series_6-1.jpg
GEO:-33.9375585;18.4721169
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 1 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building Upper Campus UCT Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT:geo:18.4721169,-33.9375585
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171011T150000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20171011T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T071948
CREATED:20171004T131219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171011T115520Z
UID:10001935-1507734000-1507739400@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page
SUMMARY:ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series: Post-Apartheid Spatial Inequality: Obstacles of Land in Township Micro-Enterprise Formalisation
DESCRIPTION:The annual ACC NOTRUC Seminar Series kicks off with its first seminar by Andrew Charman on Post-Apartheid Spatial Inequality: Obstacles of Land in Township Micro-Enterprise Formalisation at 15:30 in Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, University of Cape Town. \nABSTRACT \nThe presentation addresses the topic of micro-enterprise formalisation from a land perspective\, considering the various ways in which land shortage\, tenure insecurity\, land use management and land-related business regulations hinder the process of formalisation. The argument I advance will consider specific case-studies from the settlement of Ivory Park\, Johannesburg. The cases illustrates how informality (of land systems and business regulatory systems) presents both opportunities and constraints to economic growth. In making the case for formalisation\, I will argue that the land-related processes which people have to navigate to obtain business compliance resembles a Kafkaesque work: one in which the rules of nightmarishly complex\, incomprehensible and illogical. Partially as a result of these challenges\, the great majority of township informal micro-enterprises do not comply with land management systems requirements and gain few or no benefits. \nFrom the perspective of micro-entrepreneurs\, the research contents that the objectives of spatial justice and spatial resilience have little advanced since 1994. I will argue that this outcome can be attributed to the combination of inappropriate policy framing\, non-supportive legislation (especially at municipal level)\, the absence of political will to foster township economic growth and the persistence of apartheid era concerns with maintaining control to prevent ‘unruly’ social and economic activities. \nMORE ON ANDREW CHARMAN \n \nAndrew Charman is a Director of the Sustainable Livelihoods Foundation. He trained as a sociologist and development economist\, studying at the University of Cape Town and Cambridge University. Andrew has worked across the Southern African region on addressing development challenges in a broad range of contexts\, both rural and urban. His current work focuses on influencing policy towards micro-enterprises and promoting development interventions to foster growth in the township economy. \nAs a social science researcher seeking to better understand development constraints within the township economy\, I have used a range of qualitative and quantitative research methods\, including: methods to enhance stakeholder participation (participatory visual methods and action research); social-spatial methods to document specific business environments in their enterprise\, social and spatial dimensions; area based enterprise surveys to record and map the spatial dynamics of micro-enterprise activities; and qualitative in-depth interviews to comprehend the challenges that confront livelihood activities. \n  \nMore on the full seminar series here. \nMore on the NOTRUC programme here. 
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/acc-notruc-seminar-series-post-apartheid-spatial-inequality-obstacles-land-township-micro-enterprise-formalisation/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Seminar-series_1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="African Centre for Cities":MAILTO:accurbanconference@gmail.com
GEO:-33.9375585;18.4721169
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 1 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building Upper Campus UCT Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT:geo:18.4721169,-33.9375585
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160504T090000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20160504T140000
DTSTAMP:20260418T071948
CREATED:20160429T121759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160429T121759Z
UID:10001896-1462352400-1462370400@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page
SUMMARY:Realising the Just City
DESCRIPTION:The African Centre for Cities in collaboration with Mistra Urban Futures is hosting a workshop on Realising the Just City. \nThe signing of the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015 demonstrated that there is an increasing global pledge to foster just cities that are ‘inclusive\, safe\, resilient and sustainable’. Although there is a shared commitment to socio-spatial justice\, how this can be realised is more complicated. This workshop aims to draw representatives from academic institutions\, civil society and the public sector together to discuss how just cities are understood\, and how to achieve them. \nMistra Urban Futures is made up of five local interaction platforms in four cities around the world: Cape Town (based at ACC)\, Gothenburg\, Greater Manchester\, Kisumu and Malmö. The purpose is to develop coproduced\, collaborative and comparative research across the cities. This workshop forms part of this research process. \nFor more information\, contact Rike Sitas on rike.sitas@uct.ac.za.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/realising-just-city/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Conferences & Workshops,Workshop
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/land_luzan_20140708_1172-960x640.jpg
GEO:-33.9375585;18.4721169
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 1 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building Upper Campus UCT Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT:geo:18.4721169,-33.9375585
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150608T030000
DTEND;TZID=Africa/Johannesburg:20150608T163000
DTSTAMP:20260418T071948
CREATED:20150515T130438Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20150521T133243Z
UID:10001876-1433732400-1433781000@nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page
SUMMARY:Comparing urban civic networks: Insights from Britain
DESCRIPTION:In this seminar Prof Mario Diani from the University of Trento and ICREA at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, Barcelona will be presenting a paper entitled ‘Comparing urban civic networks: Insights from Britain’. \nAbstract \nComparative analyses of urban political civic networks are still relatively rare\, and those available are mostly conducted by an “aggregative” rather than a “relational” logic. They focus\, in other words\, on the distribution of the characteristics of individual and organizational actors rather than on the patterns of relation and interdependence between them. Drawing upon my just published book The Cement of Civil Society (Cambridge UP\, 2015)\, and focusing on civic networks in two British cities\, Bristol and Glasgow\, my talk illustrates how network analysis can contribute to a more nuanced understanding of local political networks. It shows in particular how the concept of “mode of coordination” may enable us to capture the differences between different styles of collective action. \n \nBio \nMario Diani is professor of sociology at the University of Trento\, and ICREA research professor at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra\, Barcelona. His research focuses primarily on social movements\, collective action\, and political networks. Publications include The Cement of Civil Society: Studying Networks in Localities (Cambridge University Press\, 2015)\, Social Movements (with Donatella della Porta\, Blackwell\, 20062)\,  and Social Movements and Networks (co-edited with Doug McAdam\, Oxford University Press\, 2003)\, as well as articles in leading journals such as American Sociological Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, Social Networks\, and Mobilization.
URL:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/event/comparing-urban-civic-networks-insights-from-britain/
LOCATION:Studio 1\, Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT\, Cape Town\, South Africa
CATEGORIES:Seminar Series
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://nervous-rhodes.38-242-239-132.plesk.page/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mario1.jpg
GEO:-33.9375585;18.4721169
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Studio 1 Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building Upper Campus UCT Cape Town South Africa;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Environmental and Geographical Sciences Building\, Upper Campus\, UCT:geo:18.4721169,-33.9375585
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR