CHART Seminars
2015
Dr Faima Seedat, University of KwaZulu-Natal "An introduction to sources for the study of sexuality in Islam"
Dr Beatrice Okyere-Manu, University of KwaZulu-Natal "HIV counselling and testing (HCT) in schools: Ethical implications to long term support structures"
Rev Phumzile Mabizela, INERELA+ "Sexuality, spirituality and sexual violence: Politics of SRHR in the context of HIV"
Dr Jimmy Dube, United Theological College, Zimbabwe, "The vagina monologues: Envisioning a church that names human sexual encounters"
2014
Mr Albert Bangirana, University of KwaZulu-Natal, “Sexuality, Students and Surveillance: Catholic Moral Teachings on HIV within a Higher Education Context”
Prof Philippe Denis, University of KwaZulu-Natal "Religion and HIV and AIDS in Africa: Recent trends in research"
Dr Faima Seedat, University of KwaZulu-Natal "An introduction to sources for the study of sexuality in Islam"
Dr Beatric Okyere-Manu, University of KwaZulu-Natal "HIV counselling and testing (HCT) in schools: Ethical implications to long term support structures"
Rev Phumzile Mabizela, INERELA+ "Sexuality, spirituality and sexual violence: Politics of SRHR in the context of HIV"
2013
Ms Lucy Chibambo, CHART PhD Fellow, University of KwaZulu-Natal "Kufa Kwa Jongolo Nkhusiya Mphete’: Loss of motherhood identity in the context of HIV and AIDS”
Prof Tabona Shoko, University of Zimbabwe, "Karanga indigenous religion: Health and well-being in the context of HIV”
2012
Prof Philippe Denis, UKZN, “The HIV and AIDS Epidemic - Its impact and its representation thirty years later: What has changed and what has not”
Rev Innocent Iyakaremye (CHART PhD Fellow) “We talk the talk but do not walk to the walk: The response of the free Methodist Church of Southern Africa to HIV and AIDS”
Prof Gerald West (UKZN) “HIV’s re-reading of sacred texts: discerning contending trajectories”
2011
Rev Michael Mbona (CHART PhD Fellow), “The HIV and AIDS epidemic in Zimbabwe: Delayed interventions by churches in Manicaland (1985-1994)”
Prof Donald Messer (Center for the Church and Global AIDS), “Breaking the silence and overcoming the stigma”
Prof James Cochrane (African Religion Health Assets Programme, UCT), "Public Health/Public Theology"
Prof Julie Clague (University of Glasgow), “Popes and prophylactics: Catholic moral reasoning and HIV prevention”
2009
Mr Stephen Joshua (PhD Candidate in History of Christianity) "The Dowling Controversy, the 'message of hope,' and the principle of Oikonomia: a historical critical reflection on the South African Catholic Church's stance on the issue of condoms in HIV prevention between 2000 and 2005"
2008
Prof Isabel Apawo Phiri (UZKN) "Gender, Violence and HIV/AIDS Prevention: Behaviour change interventions for church couples in Slangspruit and Mpumalanga townships, South Africa."
Prof Cheryl Anderson (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, USA) "Interpreting the Bible in the context of HIV and AIDS: Challenging the status quo."
Dr Beverley Haddad (UKZN) "Surviving the HIV/AIDS Epidemic in South Africa: Women living and dying, theologising and being theologised."
Prof Cheryl Anderson (Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois, USA) "Women connecting with 'the other'