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Confronted by ethical issues is your profession? Pursue an MPhil in Applied Ethics in 2025.
MPhil specialisation fields: Bioethics, Business Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Ethics of Artificial Intelligence, or Social and Political Ethics. These programme streams aim to engage the challenges of a developing nation by equipping professionals in in the fields of...
Overview of types of African Languages postgraduate Honours, Master’s and PhD study fields and their value to professional development and careers.
Overview of types of postgraduate Honours, Master’s and PhD study fields and their value to professional development and careers requiring scholarly knowledge and competencies of African languages. The Department of African Languages at Stellenbosch University has...
The mental health crisis in Gaza by Dr. Diab
About the talk DR MARWAN DIAB TUESDAY 3 SEPTEMBER 2024 13:00-14:00 Hybrid event In person Room 3002, Krotoa Building Online Join the meeting now The Gaza Strip, besieged by decades of conflict and deprivation, presents one of the most challenging environments...
CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS 2025 ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION “TURNING THE TIDE” MASTERS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2025(Closing date: 31 October 2024)
CALL FOR SCHOLARSHIP APPLICATIONS 2025 ANDREW W. MELLON FOUNDATION “TURNING THE TIDE" MASTERS SCHOLARSHIPS FOR 2025 The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University is pleased to announce, in partnership with the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, a...
CREDO Launches Democracy Essay Award for Undergraduates in South African Universities
CREDO Launches Democracy Essay Award for Undergraduates in South African Universities To advance the study of democracy by African students, the Centre for Research on Democracy (CREDO) at Stellenbosch University is pleased to announce the third edition of our annual...
Drama Student, Courtney Schelhase, Riding the Wave of Success at this Year’s Waveski Surfing Championship in East London
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences first-year drama student, Courtney Schelhase, proved that she is more than just a drama queen and bagged herself podium position number three in the Ladies Junior division and placed in ninth position overall in the Women’s Open...
Department of Social Work Alumna and Benefactor, Dr Orton and her Family, Visit Stellenbosch University
On 29 July 2024, the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences’ Department of Social Work pulled out all the stops to host a luncheon in honour of Dr Dianne Orton and her family. Dr Orton is an alumna and, along with her late husband, Gordon Howard, a long-standing...
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Call for Contributions [En]countering Transformation!
CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS [En]countering Transformation! 1-2 November 2024 Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study The critical scope of this symposium is staked out by the notion of [en]counter: to attend to transformative encounters and energies sparking...
Reading Biko and Race in the Afterlife of Colonial-Apartheid
CIRCoRe invitation - Joel Modiri seminars We invite you to two seminars that the Committee for the Institutional Response to the [Khampepe] Commission’s Recommendations (CIRCoRe) will be hosting, with guest speaker Professor Joel Modiri in conversation with CIRCoRe...
Philosophy lecturer Msimang chairs SU conference on race, human categorisation and science
Stellenbosch University (SU) hosted a conference, entitled, “Controversies in the use of race and other human categorisations in the South African higher education sector" on 12 and 13 June 2024. This conference was held at the Stellenbosch Institute for...
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Post Graduate Studies continue to soar to greater heights with new PG studies programmes: Master of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Arts Studies and Doctor of Philosophy in Interdisciplinary Arts Studies (PhD Interdisciplinary Arts Studies)
As the First semester drawers to a close, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Post Graduate Studies continue to soar to greater heights with the recent report that FASS have received SAQA registration for the following programmes: FASS Master of Philosophy in...
Maties and Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences alumnus Carmen Coetsee bags herself Young Linguist of the Year Award for her MA research on Afrikaans
Talking about a good start to a stellar career in Linguistics, that’s the feeling Carmen Coetsee got when she recently received the Young Linguist of the Year Award at this years South African Linguistic and Applied Linguistic Conference (Salals) held in Johannesburg...
Notices
US Drama Department Presents: Cantos of a Life in Exile.
US Drama Department Presents: Cantos of a Life in Exile Cantos of a Life in Exile Winner of the 2024 Standard Bank Silver Ovation Award Cantos of a Life in Exile is a powerful and deeply moving solo show that blends storytelling, poetry, and song—drawing from the rich...
First-of-its-kind summit hosted by SU’s Centre for Information Integrity in Africa
A first-of-its-kind Summit on Information Integrity featuring leading researchers, policy activists, industry roleplayers and media practitioners was hosted this week by the Centre for Information Integrity in Africa (CINIA) to address pressing issues facing the...
Lecture series: SONIC DEFIANCE 2 by Ari Sita
The concluding four lectures by Ari Sitas will again be delivered across two sessions. They continue the search for a way into music through words, and through examples of musical works that have grappled with the horrors of history while asserting a sense of...