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Celebrate WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY with Journalism Department!
Youâre Invited!Join us on 5 May 2025 as we commemorate #WorldPressFreedomDay with a powerful and timely conversation centered around media sustainability and independence. đď¸ Gain valuable insights from renowned journalists, media experts, and thought leaders as they...
Recognize and Celebrate World Intellectual Property (IP) Day through music, creativity and innovation
Saturday, 26 April 2025 In celebration of World Intellectual Property (IP) Day, the Stellenbosch University Technology Transfer Office has launched an exciting, student-focused competition that explores the intersection of music and science. This two-part competition...
Prof Swarts book (The Lionâs Historian) received an honourable mention-2025 ASSAf book awards.
The Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf) recently announced the winners of the 2025 Humanities Book Prize Awards. These awards recognise and celebrate outstanding scholarly contributions to humanist knowledge and intellectual discourse in South Africa....
âSomebody, Somewhereâ, the inaugural PhD colloquium of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences showcased outstanding research projects
Doing a PhD can be a long, lonely journey no matter the field or year of study. Â The âSomebody, Somewhereâ PhD colloquium, held on 1 and 2 April for all PhD students across the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, under the custodianship of the Graduate School, proved...
SU students: Join the Ubuntu Learning Centre Information session
Students! Do you want to be part of Education for change and Empowerment? Join a unique and special Learning Programme focusing on incarcerated individuals in Brandvlei Correctional Centre? Through this programme Stellenbosch University students will be learning with...
UNCHARTED CROSSINGS-The New Wits Artist-in Labs Programme in Context!
The Wits Artist-in-Lab programme, launched in 2023, seeks to stimulate new forms of practice and research questions for the arts and sciences through interdisciplinary engagements. In this seminar, Prof. Doherty situates the Wits initiative within similar programmes...
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) Training in EAST AFRICA
Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy (EFCT) is one of very few relationship therapy models with evidence of effectiveness in diverse cultural contexts. However, most of this research has been conducted in North American and European contexts and more work needs to be...
PHD SKILLS SEMINARS
PhD skills seminar workshop! You are hereby invited to attend first PhD Skills Seminar, details below: https://arts.sun.ac.za/files/2025/02/2025_PHD-SKILLS-SEMINARS_Semester-1-.pdf
âSomebody Somewhereâ â the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences PhD colloquium, 1-2 April 2025
FACULTY OF ARTS AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Interdepartmental PhD Colloquium âLoneliness is not lack of company, loneliness is lack of purpose.â -Guillermo del Toro âYou can only start from where you areâ-Fred Rococo (in âSomebody Somewhereâ, 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 Â Call for Applications Background With funding from the Gerda...
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences scoops 7 awards at this yearâs Stellenbosch University Research and Innovation Awards.
As the academic year 2024 draws to a close, the Research and Innovation Awards were presented to SU outstanding academic staff on 31 October 2024. The event was held at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS). This event is a special gathering and a unique...
Notices
US Drama Department Presents: Hamlets
US Drama Department Presents: Hamlets Something is rotten in the state of Denmark. A bleeding world accepts its fate as destruction marches on. We have failed this earth and each other. Remember me. The SU Drama Department is proud to present Hamlets, a devised...
Policing crisis: Faculty postgrads bring new insights
Article By Desmond Thompson Policing in South Africa is under intense scrutiny. In July, KwaZulu-Natal Police Commissioner Nhlanhla Mkhwanazi accused national Police Minister Senzo Mchunu of shielding criminal networks and shutting down sensitive investigations. In...
Major grant awarded to the Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) to convene partnerships in Global South
A grant of more than R20 million has been awarded to the Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) at Stellenbosch University to convene multidisciplinary partnerships to strengthen information integrity in the Global South. The grant, provided by the...