From: Blunderov (squooker@mweb.co.za)
Date: Tue Jun 11 2002 - 04:52:57 MDT
[Blunderov]
http://www.safm.co.za/
has the following on offer. I have ordered and am eagerly awaiting it.
Perhaps some of the faithful (?!) would be interested, if not in this,
then the selection of SA music on view.
Warm regards
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The SAfm Summer Lectures 2002
Genesis, Genes and Neugenics
A lecture by Professor Trefor Jenkins
SAfm Summer Lectures
Buy the CD
BACKGROUND:
Since 1948 the BBC has broadcast the "Reith Lectures" - a tribute to the
first Director-General of the BBC, Sir John Reith. The first lectures
were presented by philosopher Bertrand Russell. John Reith maintained
that broadcasting should be a public service which "enriches the
intellectual and cultural life of the nation", and it is in the same
spirit that SAfm is launching the "SAfm Summer Lectures" in 2002.
We're taking the philosophy behind the Reith Lectures one step further -
and using the SAfm series as a vehicle to celebrate the richness of
South African intellectual thought and to acknowledge some of the
cutting edge research work being done in South African Universities.
THE 2002 LECTURE:
The inaugural lecture is to be presented by Professor Trefor Jenkins,
Professor Emeritus and Honorary Professorial Research fellow at Wits'
Department of Human Genetics. The topic he has chosen for the lecture
series is Genesis, Genes & Neugenics.
The series is being launched by a live lecture open to the public and
invited guests on Monday 4 February. It will be followed by a four-part
weekly broadcast on SAfm, commencing on Wednesday 6 February and
continuing throughout the month. CD Copies of the lectures will be sold
from April onwards.
SAfm is delighted that Professor Jenkins has agreed to take the podium
as our inaugural lecturer. Throughout his distinguished career he has
done South Africa proud and has been unwavering in his commitment to
quality research. We believe that his contribution will set the standard
for future lectures in the series, as we continue it in 2003 and beyond.
ABOUT THE LECTURER:
Born at Merthyr Tydfil in Wales, Trefor Jenkins began his long
association with Africa as a mine medical officer in Zimbabwe (then
Southern Rhodesia) in 1960. He retired as Head of the Department of
Human Genetics, School of Pathology, The South African Institute of
Medical Research and The University of the Witwatersrand in 1998 after
23 years in the Chair and is now Professor Emeritus and Honorary
Professorial Research fellow in the same department.
Seeing children with sickle cell anaemia was what drew him both to
Genetics and the peoples of Africa and he has kept up his interest in
the history of pre-literate peoples since, exploiting genetic
characteristics to reconstruct the history of humankind in Africa. His
former Department was actively engaged in research into the diagnosis,
treatment and prevention of inherited disorders in Southern African
peoples. He has been active in teaching medical ethics to undergraduate
students and has written on the medical care of prisoners and detainees,
pre-natal diagnosis and selective abortion, human experimentation and
euthanasia, and the Human Genome project. He received the centennial
award for Science and Humanity at Case Western Reserve University, USA
in 1988, and was Galton Lecturer at the Galton Institute, London in
1989. He is and Honorary Fellow of the College of Medicine, University
of Wales and has an honorary DSc from CUT. He has written hundreds of
scientific papers and has co-authored two books, Health and the
Hunter-Gatherer (with GT Nurse) and The Peoples of Southern Africa and
their Affinities (with GT Nurse and JS Weiner).
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