Presentations

GCRO staff present to academic and other audiences on a regular basis, as part of academic citizenship and scholarship.

Selected presentations:

• Annsilla Nyar (November 2009), “‘Re-inventing the Foreigner’: Critical Reflections of Identity Politics in South Africa”, to be presented to the South African Association of Political Studies (SAAPS) Colloquium, 19-20 November 2009, University of KwaZulu-Natal
• David Everatt (November 2009): ‘Access to services, social cohesion and xenophobia’, presented to National Department of Social Development national conference on social cohesion and xenophobia, Pretoria
• Chris Wray (November 2009), ‘The GCRO: Changing the way GIS data is visualized and accessed in the Gauteng City-Region’, Geo-Information Society of South Africa (GISSA), North-West inaugural meeting, Potchefstroom, 12 November 2009
• Graeme Gotz (November 2009), ‘Making local government work better: City structures and governance’, DBSA Knowledge Week, Midrand, 4 November 2009
• David Everatt (October 2009), ‘Think Metropole, Think … city-region, Think … democratic space or planner’s wet-dream?’, Think Metropole Workshop, Wits School of Architecture & Planning, Johannesburg, 22 October 2009
• Graeme Gotz (October 2009), ‘Visualisations? infrastructures? institutional conditions?’, Think Metropole Workshop, Wits School of Architecture & Planning, Johannesburg, 22 October 2009
• Chris Wray (October 2009), ‘The GCRO: Changing the way GIS data is visualized and accessed in the Gauteng City-Region’, GIMS User Conference, Drakensburg, 21-23 October 2009
• Graeme Gotz (October 2009), ‘Possibilities for planning the South African City’, Wits School of Architecture & Planning Beyond Modernism workshop to launch the UN Habitat Sustainable Cities Report, Johannesburg, 21 October 2009
• Graeme Gotz (October 2009), ‘On walls – safety in the South African city’, Goethe Institute, GTZ and CSIR Seminar on Cracking Walls, Johannesburg, 6 October 2009
• Graeme Gotz (September 2009), ‘Spatial development outcomes in South African cities’, World Bank and National Department of Human Settlements Workshop, Pretoria, 29 September 2009
• David Everatt (September 2009) ‘Class, nationalism and non-racialism: the search for convergence’, presented to the ‘Yusuf Dadoo Centenary Conference: Marxism, non-racialism and the shaping of South Africa’s liberation struggle’, University of Johannesburg, September 2009
• David Everatt (July 2009), ‘The Gauteng ANC election campaign: data and implications’, P&DM, Wits
• Sizwe Phakathi (June/July 2009), ‘Worker reactions to the stope team incentive scheme: Manufacturing consent or conflict?’ South African Sociological Association's (SASA) Annual Conference, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 28 June - 2 July 2009.
• Sizwe Phakathi (June 2009), ‘Race and the changing nature of work in the South African gold mining workplace.’ Hard Labour: Sociology and the Transformation of Working Life, A Colloquium in Honour of Professor Edward Webster, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 27-28 June 2009.
• David Everatt (April 2009) presented on GCRO to South African Cities Network: Indicators Reference Group