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SUMMARY:Frontiers of Scientific Knowledge in South Africa\, Global Science
 \, National Horizons - Saul Dubow\, Smuts Professor of Commonwealth Histor
 y
DTSTART:20181128T173000Z
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DESCRIPTION:Professor Dubow has researched the history of racial segregati
 on and apartheid in 19th and 20th century South Africa. He also has intere
 sts in the history of ideas and political thought\, and in empire and comm
 onwealth.\n\nIn this lecture\, the Smuts professor of Commonwealth history
  turns to the history of science in South Africa. He shows how astronomy a
 nd palaeontology – both sciences rooted in ideas of deep time – have b
 een important to post-apartheid conceptions of South Africa as a site of g
 lobal importance and source of universal humanity.\n\nHe will contrast thi
 s to earlier phases of South African history where similar conceptions of 
 deep time and human origins were oriented to support claims to white supre
 macy.
LOCATION:Cripps Court Auditorium\, 1-3 Chesterton Road
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