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Director HAICU-UCT: Cal Volks Cal has several awards for her work including the Erasmus Mundus, The Department of Health and Rotary. She has co-edited the University of Pretoria’s 2012 Special Edition of AIDS Review entitled Third Degree: Her research and publications focus on HIV/AIDS; Constructions of Gender; HIV and Violence Against Women; HIV & LGBQTI.	Richard Freedman Richard Freedman has conducted seminars on Holocaust Education in South Africa in South Africa, Germany, Israel; UK and Namibia, France and Australia, USa and Turkey. He is a fellow of the United States Holocaust Museum and the Salzburg Global Seminars and has been a guide on the International adult “March of the Living” to Poland. In 2006 he was appointed director of the Cape Town Holocaust Centre and Director of The South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. He holds both positions.	Tracey Petersen Tracey Petersen is the Director of Education for the Cape Town Holocaust Centre, South African Holocaust and Genocide Foundation. She has an M.Phil in education from the University of Cape Town, and is a History Ph.D candidate at the University of the Western Cape. Her areas of interest lie in the field of Human Rights education, and teacher development in societies recently emerging from repressive regimes.
Juliet Rodgers Dr Juliet Rogers completed her PhD at the Melbourne Law School in 2007 on "Fantasies of Female Circumcision: Flesh, Law and Freedom Through Psychoanalysis". Through psychoanalysis she focuses on the politics of anti-terrorism and possibilities for mourning trauma in international law. She has published extensively in the areas of political, legal and postcolonial theory using psychoanalysis as a tool for interrogating the subject's relation to prohibition and sovereignty.	Professor Ken Wald A distinguished Professor of Political Science and the Samuel R. "Bud" Shorstein Professor of American Jewish Culture and Society at the University of Florida. He has written extensively about the relationship of religion and politics in the United States, Great Britain, and Israel. At the University of Florida, he served as Chair (1989-1994) and Graduate Coordinator (1987-1989) of the Department of Political Science.	Paster Norbert Littig Born in 1956 living in Grossroehrsdorf near Dresden in Saxony/Germany, Pastor Norbert Littig is married with four children. He studied Protestant Theology in Naumburg and Berlin from 1975 to 1981 and is currently the Pastor of the Protestant-Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony and works part-time as a teacher for Religious Education at a grammar school. Norbert, initiates and organizes student exchange programmes between Gymnasium Grossroehrsdorf and the Arab Orthodox College of Haifa.
Tali Nates Tali Nates, Director of the Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, has lectured internationally about Holocaust education, genocide prevention, reconciliation and human rights. Ms. Nates was chosen as one of the top 100 newsworthy and noteworthy women in South Africa, published in the Mail & Guardian Book of South African Women. Ms. Nates acts as a scholar and leader of many Holocaust education missions to Eastern Europe as well as educational missions in South Africa and Rwanda.	Allengary Naicker After being an educator for more than a decade Allengary Naicker qualified as a clinical psychologist from the University of Cape Town (UCT). Currently she divides her working time between her private practice and UCT’s Student Wellness Service. Allengary is the co-managing editor of the journal Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa and a member of the Cape Town Society for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (CTSPP).	Tarryn Frankish Tarryn Frankish is a PhD candidate in the Vrije University Amsterdam NRF Desmond Tutu doctoral programme. She is a student of the Vrije University Amsterdam and the University of the Witwatersrand. Her work with ‘born-free’ South Africans, born after the transition to democracy in 1994, reveals questions and insights into how memory, and in particular the transmission of received memories, is implicated in personal identity-making of the second generation.
Zwelethu Jolobe Mr Zwelethu Jolobe has an MA in International Relations from the University of Cape Town. He joined the Political Studies Department staff as a lecturer at the beginning of 2005. His research areas include Comparative politics; international relations; African politics; political violence; revolutions; contemporary South African politics; democratisation.	Romi Kaplan With a fascination for the diversity of human culture, Romi has produced and directed a number of features for TV and film festivals on the issues of migration and co-existence. On the 60th anniversary of the UN Genocide Convention she convened an international conference with the Aegis Trust, as a way to highlight the plight of Darfuri refugees in Israel.	Stella Mukoza Stella is the Peer Programme Coordinator at HAICU. She holds a Master of Philosophy in Programme Evaluation from the University of Cape Town. Her position at HAICU entails co-ordinating the Peer Education Programme on campus and managing training for the peer educators. She also conducts evaluations for HAICU campaigns and projects.
Professor Sean Field His academic career involves using and teaching oral history research methodology. He has coordinated the Western Cape Oral History Project and served as Director of the Centre for Popular Memory (CPM) from 2001 to 2012. He was also a founder member of the Oral History Association of South Africa (OHASA) and Vice-President of the International Oral History Association (IOHA) from 2008 to 2010.	Buyani Zwane Buyani Zwane is an inspirational speaker, network builder, student, educator and leadership development facilitator. He has been involved in human resources management and leadership Development for over 20 years with local and international companies. He served as executive chairperson at Franklin Covey Southern Africa for 4 years and continues as director of Dynamic Leadership Solutions Limited and Magnificent Mile Trading Limited, as well as CEO of Breakthrough Leadership Development	Marlene Silbert Marlene Silbert is the former Education Director at the Cape Town Holocaust Centre and National Education Director at the South African Holocaust Foundation. She is also Project Director at the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative Interfaith Intercultural Twinning and Exchange Programme. Marlene has published extensively in the subject area of transformation and human rights.
Sianne Abrahams Sianne Abraham’s role as the HEAIDS and Curriculum Integration Officer at HAICU entails integration of HIV/AIDS education into each Faculty at UCT. Sianne holds a MSocSc in Social Policy Management (UCT) and a Management Diploma from the University of Stellenbosch. Prior to joining UCT, Sianne worked in various research and social development consultancies and more recently has managed an NGO which provided a joint programmatic responses for government, business and civil society.	Director SAVI: Guy Lamb Guy Lamb was appointed as the Director of SaVI in October 2012. Prior to this he was a Senior Research Fellow and Programme Head of the Arms Management Programme at the Institute for Security Studies. He has undertaken research on arms control, violence reduction, conflict management and peace building issues in Africa for moecurity Council Panel of Experts on Liberia as the arms and security specialist, and is a member of the UN’s small arms control standards generating expert reference group.	Lucina Reddy Her research includes understanding behaviours, in particular Men who have sex with Men, HIV/AIDS peer education, and education communication change. She has delivered papers and posters at regional and in Recently she has broadened her scope of work to include transformation and diversity management training and research. Through her work she has worked regionally and nationally with the tertiary sector in thinking about transformation in this sector as well as systems management.
Jaco Bernard Naude He has authored numerous studies on sexual minority freedom, transformative adjudication in the law of contract, apartheid reparations, law and literature and critical legal theory. He serves on the board of directors of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation and the Triangle Project, both in Cape Town. Jaco is an honorary research fellow in the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities at the University of London andHe is an NRF-rated researcher and a past recipient of the UCT Fellows Award.

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