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Community-Based Risk Assessment training in Polokwane
Santam recently commissioned the Research Alliance for Disaster & Risk Reduction (RADAR), in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, to train disaster management and fire service personnel in the Limpopo region on community risk assessment. The training forms...
Subtle and complex processes of knowing and showing explored at conference
Prof Gabeba Baderoon, a poet and scholar from Pennsylvania State University in the USA and the keynote speaker at the Slow Intimacy Conference that was recently held at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies, was raised on the Cape Flats. She recalls how, as...
Spotlight falls on restoration of extinct species in Stellenbosch Forum lecture
What is the point of bringing extinct species like the quagga back to life? This was one of the questions Prof Sandra Swart from the Department of History at Stellenbosch University explored in a recent Stellenbosch Forum lecture. The lecture, the seventh in the...
Prof Lize van Robbroeck explores issues of colonial heritage and race in visual arts
Prof Lize van Robbroeck from the Department of Visual Arts at Stellenbosch University recently delivered her inaugural lecture titled, 'Art and the Legacies of Whiteness at Stellenbosch University's Visual Arts Department'. She spoke to the Corporate Communication and...
Deaf storytellers help Stellenbosch University to create teaching material
A social impact project by Stellenbosch University (SU) and the Deaf community to advance literature in sign language and address the plight of deaf communities with limited work and training opportunities was recently completed. The University and the Deaf...
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‘Somebody Somewhere’ – the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences PhD colloquium, 1-2 April 2025
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...
Launch of the 2024 Report on the State of South Africa’s Fathers
The Tataokhona Project and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Seminar Series on Masculinities invite you to the launch of the 2024 Report on the State of South Africa's Fathers. Tuesday, 4 February 2025, 10am - 1pm Neelsie Cinema in Neelsie Student Centre,...
Call for Applications: Inter-disciplinary PhD Programme by Research in the Fields of Historical Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences
COLLEGE OF HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Office of the Principal Inter-disciplinary PhD Programme by Research in the Fields of Historical Humanities and Humanistic Social Sciences Friday November 1, 2024 Call for Applications Background With funding from the Gerda...








