Announcement : Hope in the time of AIDS: Workshop
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Pauw Building , Seminar Room 2, University of South Africa 4-5 November
2005
The South African Communication Association (SACOMM) works for the
enhancement of Communication Studies (including Media Studies) as an
academic discipline in Southern Africa; and encourages contact and
co-operation among various departments in tertiary education
institutions offering Communication Studies, as well as acknowledged
communication research bodies and communication practitioners.
SACOMM's URL is: http://www.ukzn.ac.za/ccms/sacommdraft/misc_info.asp
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The acting SACOMM President is Prof. Kenyan Tomaselli (UKZN) and e-mail
is ndle...@ukzn.ac.za
Workshop Programme
Day One
Friday 4 November
8.00 - 9.00 : Registration and coffee
9.00 : Welcome and Opening:
Prof Pieter Fourie (Host)
Dr Volker Hooyberg (Convenor)
Prof N B Pityana (Rector, UNISA)
9.15 -10.30 : Chair : Dr Lincoln Michell
Responding to AIDS in the workplace: Mr Robin Hamilton (Training
Manager, Aurum Health Research)
Discussion
10.30 - 11.00 : Tea
11.00 - 12.30 : Chair : Dr Lincoln Michell
Africa's Orphan Crisis - Is it the Teacher's Concern? : Prof Marike de
Witt (Faculty of Education, UNISA)
Policy Perspectives : Affirming Negative Status : Dr Volker Hooyberg
(University of Zululand)
12.30 - 1.30 : Lunch
1.30 - 3.00 : Chair : Dr Volker Hooyberg
The role of the church: fighting injustice or shielding stigma? Dr
Sunette Pienaar (Heartbeat)
Eastern Religious Perspectives on HIV and AIDS: Dr Michel Clasquin
(UNISA)
Theological and ethical challenges of the AIDS crisis: Dr Lincoln
Michell (University of Zululand);
3.00 - 3.30 : Tea
3.30 - 5.00 : Chair : Dr Lincoln Michell
Student Presentations: Tom Were Okello , Mothae Moletsane (University
of Zululand) on HIV - Related , Discrimination and Human Rights
Violations in a University Community
Suffering and the Christian : A Philosophical Problem and a Pastoral
Response : Rev Godfrey Harold (University of Zululand)
Towards an HIV/AIDS-sensitive curriculum : Prof T S Maluleke
(Director of Research UNISA)
5.00 : Close of Day One
Day Two
Saturday 5 November
8.30 - 10.00 : Chair: Dr Volker Hooyberg
Testing and AIDS Treatment Management : Prof Chabikuli (Department
of Family Medicine, University of Pretoria)
Counselling and Caring: Ms Wellie den Hollander (social worker, McCord
Hospital, Durban)
Transformation through Crisis : A Muslim Perspective : Mr Etsko
Schuitema (Schuitema Organisational Transformation Consultancy)
10.00 - 10.30 : Tea
10.30 - 12.00 : Chair : Dr Lincoln Michell
Micro-aspects of HIV/AIDS campaign design as a matter of life and death
: Prof. P Swanepoel and company (Department of Afrikaans and Theory of
Literature, UNISA)
Mainstreaming HIV and AIDS into Academic Programmes: Case Study of
UNISA: Mr Leon Roets (Programme Coordinator: Unit for Social Behaviour
Studies in HIV/AIDS and Health, UNISA)
Student presentation : Gus Luthuli - A challenge to communicators:
HIV/AIDS exposure among KwaZulu-Natal youth (Masters Student,
University of Zululand)
12.00 - 12.30 : Research database : Dr VJ Rugbeer (University of
Zululand)
Where to from here? Networking and general discussion of
value/implications of preceding workshop and mooting of a follow-up
workshop (date/venue)
1.30 : Vote of thanks (Dr Michell, co-convenor)