Dear Colleague,

It is our great pleasure to invite you to submit an abstract to a Colloquium on ‘A Southern African Dialogue on the Professions and Professional Work’,. The Colloquium will be held on 18-19 September 2017 at the University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.  A notice outlining a Call for Abstracts as well as information on a Graduate Workshop is attached.

We are happy to announce that the keynote speaker is Professor Mike Saks (University of Suffolk) a leading international scholar in the sociology of professions, former chair of RC52 (Sociology of Professional Groups) and a research professor in Health Sociology (https://www.uos.ac.uk/people/professor-mike-saks).

On behalf of the organisers, Debby Bonnin (University of Pretoria) and Shaun Ruggunan (University of KwaZulu-Natal), we cordially invite you to attend the Colloquium.  We look forward to your participation and your contributions.  Please circulate this invitation to your students and forward to your networks.

Sincerely,

Debby Bonnin and Shaun Ruggunan