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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 Lion’s 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....
“Somebody, Somewhere”, 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. The “Somebody, Somewhere” 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
‘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...
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences scoops 7 awards at this year’s 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...
Research at the Department of General Linguistics backed by R8 million grant
Prof Manne Bylund and his research collaborator, extraordinary professor Panos Athanasopoulos, are in high spirits after receiving the good news that their research project on multilingual decision-making has received sizeable funding from the Swedish Research...
Notices
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...
Departmental Book Launch: WhatsApp in the World
How did an encrypted messaging app become a force in global politics and activism? WhatsApp in the World uncovers how promised privacy can collide with political influence, shaping everything from elections to daily life. Join us for the second event in the...