FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Interdepartmental PhD Colloquium

“Loneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.” –Guillermo del Toro

“You can only start from where you are“-Fred Rococo (in ‘Somebody Somewhere’, HBO)

Dear PhD Students,

Please join us for ‘Somebody Somewhere’ – the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences PhD colloquium, happening 1 – 2 April 2025 at Stellenbosch University. The event will be a time of covert community-building, an antidote to the intellectual solitude and anxiety, the feeling of lostness, that one often experiences during a PhD.

The colloquium is open to all doctoral students and supervisors but only PhD students in their second year of study or later may apply to present their research at the colloquium.

Why attend: To showcase your PhD project to future collaborators, receive constructive feedback from an attentive audience, discover new sources and methods of research, and to forge new friendships across disciplines. It will be a hybrid event with in-person and virtual conference-style 15-minute papers. We also welcome arts-based research submissions (art, film, poetry, creative writing).

Registration:

https://forms.gle/1MyiGssYAaFKNmhJA

 Further details:

https://arts.sun.ac.za/somebody-somewhere_phd-colloquium-cfp-10-feb-20254