Monday 17 August 2026 12:10-13:10 Dr. Tim Köhler (Development Policy Research Unit at the University of Cape Town)
Topic: "Cash transfers and labour supply under structural unemployment" Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 225 Download: kohler-stanwix-and-bhorat-2026.pdf (1.0 MB)
Monday 24 August 2026 12:10-13:10 Joshua Budlender (School of Economics at the University of Cape Town)
Topic: "Surplus labour and structural transformation after land dispossession" Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 225
Monday 07 September 2026 12:10-13:10 Dr Allan Davids (University of Cape Town)
Topic: "When the Lights Stay On: Electricity Reliability and House Prices" Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 225
Monday 14 September 2026 12:10-13:10 [protected email address]
(Department of Economics at Stellenbosch University)
Topic: "Faculty as Culture: Social Comparison and Gendered Self-Views as Precursors to Occupational Segregation" Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 225
Monday 21 September 2026 12:10-13:10 Arianna Zanolini (Youth Impact)
Topic: "Cheaper (and more effective) by the dozen: Evidence from 12 randomised A/B tests optimising tutoring for scale" Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 225
Monday 28 September 2026 12:10-13:10 Prof Andreas Freytag (Friedrich Schiller University Jena)
Topic: "Do not replace doctors and schools by TikTok: Explaining electoral successes of the German right-wing populists" Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 225 Download: asutay_freytag_meyer---paper.pdf (691 KB)
Monday 05 October 2026 12:10-13:10 Prof Ilana van Wyk (Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University)
Topic: "Paper coins and trustworthy money in the Dutch East India Company's Cape of Good Hope, 1780-1795?" Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor, Room 225