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Being Human
Research Groupings
associated with this theme
education, sociology, comparative literature, and
the spectrum of Hebrew and Judaic studies.
Director: Professor M Shain
E-mail: milton.shain@uct.ac.za
Web: http://www.kaplancentre.uct.ac.za/
Lucy Lloyd Archive,
Resource and Exhibition Centre
The Lucy Lloyd Archive, Resource and Exhibition Centre
(LLAREC) is a research centre to promote the visual
as a site of meaning and knowledge. Its focus is on
collections and curatorship in which objects are allowed
to become both sites of knowledge and mnemonics in
which reference can be made to a wider meaning.
At the heart of the centre’s curatorial practice is
the issue of representation; many of its projects
interrogate the ways in which the historical, social
and medical construction of identity are revealed
through representation. Major projects have included
the publication of the Bleek and Lloyd archive, the
production of portfolios and artists’ books, and the
installation of exhibitions at various venues. LLAREC
incorporates the Katrine Harries Print Cabinet, and is
now part of the Centre for Curating the Archive, which
includes major photographic collections and a visual
history archive, as well as the projects that curate them.
Director: Professor P Skotnes
E-mail: pippa.skotnes@uct.ac.za
Web: http://michaelis.uct.ac.za
Research Institute on
Christianity and Society in Africa
The Research Institute on Christianity and Society in
Africa (RICSA) is engaged in research into religion in
public health, globalisation, and public theology. Its
primary activity has been the International Religious
Health Assets Programme (IRHAP) – a multi-institutional,
multisite, inter-religious, transdisciplinary collaborative
research project co-ordinated at UCT.
Initiated in 2003 together with colleagues from Emory
University, it includes academics and practitioners
from other South African centres, and has a strong
partnership with Methodist Le Bonheur Healthcare (a
seven-hospital system in Memphis, USA), while working
with other partners in Africa, Europe and the USA.
IRHAP maps and assesses religious health assets, policy
processes, and capacity-building at the interface of
religion and public health. Its more recent work is with
the Hospice Palliative Care Association of South Africa,
building community partnerships for the strengthening of
health systems. It is conducting research on male peace
and safety in the context of interpersonal violence (three
sites in South Africa and the USA, in conjunction with the
Medical Research Council and the UNISA-based Peace and
Safety Lead Programme), and is taking more of an interest
in health systems and primary health care. RICSA is also
known for its published multiyear, multivolume project on
the social history of Christianity in South Africa (UNISA
Press, CD-ROM).
Director: Professor JR Cochrane
E-mail: jim.cochrane@uct.ac.za
Web: http://web.uct.ac.za/depts/ricsa/