The Foundation will once again be present at the Cape Town Book Fair. We are promoting our latest publications as well as hosting some seminars and other events. Come visit us at stand D14.

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Events by the Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation at Cape Town Book Fair

Saturday (16 June)

11.00 / Room 1.41
Dag Hammarskjöld, the United Nations and Security Challenges in Africa Today
Presentation of Development Dialogue no. 57 with Maxi Schoeman, Laurie Nathan, Tim Murithi and Henning Melber. Arranged jointly with the Department of Political Sciences/University of Pretoria.

13.00 / Room 1.42
Coming to terms with Genocide and Mass Violence – Cases from Southern Africa
Discussion with Mohamed Adhikary, Jeremy Sarkin and Henning Melber, moderated by Sandy Sheperd. Arranged jointly with UCT Press.

15.00 / Room 1.62
Public Opinion and Interest Group Politics – South Africa’s Missing Links?
With Heather A. Thuynsma, Henning Melber, Robert Mattes and Adrian Di Lollo. Arranged jointly with the Department of Political Sciences/University of Pretoria, the Africa Institute of South Africa (AISA) and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (KAS)

16.00 / Literary Forum in the exhibitors’ hall
Life and Death of UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld
Presentation of the book by Susan Williams, Who Killed Hammarskjöld?  New Routes and other Hammarskjöld publications by DHF, with Henning Melber. Arranged jointly with Jacana Publishers.

Sunday, 17 June

11.00 / Room 1.41
Global Development Perspectives: Rio+20 and civil society
Presentation of Development Dialogue no. 59: No future without justice and the Global State of Civil Society report.
Arranged jointly with CIVICUS.

14.00 / Poetry Café in the exhibitors’ hall
Dag Hammarskjöld’s Waymarks
Excursions into Hammarskjöld’s Poetry.
With Patricia Pinnock and Henning Melber
Arranged jointly with African Sun Press.

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