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On  27 June 1948, South African-born German anthropologist and philologist Dorothea Frances Bleek died in Newlands, Cape Town at the age of 75. She is known for her research on the San in Southern Africa.

This seminar on 2 November by Sharyn Spicer, University of the Western Cape, uses a social justice lens to shed light on human-animal relationships and to develop contextually appropriate and culturally competent animal welfare interventions.

Harry Wels has been appointed Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. Harry's research is about organisational structures of cooperation in the context of nature conservation, touching on broader issues in Human-Animal studies.