International Center for Ethnic Studies
cordially invites you to a lecture

by

Michael Neocosmos
(Professor of Sociology, University of Pretoria)

on
“Can a Human Rights Culture Enable Emancipation? ”

on
Monday, September 11, 2006 at 5:30 p.m.

at the
ICES Auditorium,
02, Kynsey Terrace, Colombo 08

Michael Neocosmos is Professor of Sociology, University of Pretoria. Taught Sociology and Development Studies at various universities in Britain and in Africa, most especially the University of Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanzania, the University of Swaziland, the National University of Lesotho and the University of Botswana. Main fields of research have included rural sociology in both Latin America and Africa, development and development studies, migrant labour, ethnicity, citizenship, state and civil society all in Southern Africa, as well as issues of social theory concerning development and democracy. Main publications include Social Relations in Rural Swaziland (editor) 1987, The Agrarian Question in Southern Africa (1993), From Foreign Natives to Native Foreigners (2006) as well as numerous articles in learned journals.