This is an invitation to attend what should be a fascinating and invigorating discussion with a leading thinker on sexualities and rights in Africa. It forms part of an ongoing series of seminars on sexuality and gender, hosted by the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, the Centre for the Study of AIDS, the Centre for Human Rights, the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology and the Department of Philosophy Departments here at the University of Pretoria.

Date: 23 May 2013
Time: 13:00 – 14:00
Venue: Faculty of Law Room: 1-30.1, University of Pretoria, South Africa
RSVP: shirley.damons@up.ac.za

This is an invitation to attend what should be a fascinating and invigorating discussion with a leading thinker on sexualities and rights in Africa. It forms part of an ongoing series of seminars on sexuality and gender, hosted by the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies, the Centre for the Study of AIDS, the Centre for Human Rights, the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology and the Department of Philosophy Departments here at the University of Pretoria. 

Sylvia Tamale is a feminist lawyer, academic, activist and writer. She holds a Master’s degree from Harvard Law School, a PhD in Sociology and Feminist Studies from the University of Minnesota and is currently an associate professor of law at Makerere University (Uganda). She was elected as the first female Dean of Law at Makerere in 2004, founded the Law, Gender and Sexuality Research Project in the same institution, was instrumental in introducing its Policy on Sexual Harassment, and has lectured at several universities, including Cape Town, Pretoria, Wisconsin and Zimbabwe.

Professor Tamale has published widely on a variety of topics, including her ground breaking book, When Hens Begin to Crow: Gender and Parliamentary Politics in Uganda in 1999. More recently she published the widely acclaimed African Sexualities: A Reader. In combining academia with activism, she adopts a critical approach to the law that aims at enhancing students’ transformative personal growth and action. Professor Tamale has won several awards for her work in defending the rights of marginalized groups such as women, sexual minorities and refugees.

In combining academia with activism, she adopts a critical approach to the law that aims at enhancing students' transformative personal growth and action. Professor Tamale has won several awards for her work in defending the rights of marginalised groups such as women, sexual minorities and refugees.