Posted on June 23, 2021
On 31 May 2021, the Engaging the Environmental Publics seminar series hosted the very first webinar for 2021 focusing on Climate Change and Problems of Scale. The Centre for the Advancement of scholarship virtually hosted two experts to unpack the effects of climate change in different...
Posted on June 23, 2021
In his second year at Wits, John Schlapobersky was summoned by a university administrator from a lecture hall, and handed over to South Africa’s notorious security police. It was mid-winter, 1969. This book tells the story from the build-up to that event, to what happened to him in...
Posted on June 09, 2021
Warmer weather makes feeding time much easier, and more effective, for honeybees, according to Professor Sue Nicolson of the University of Pretoria (UP) and colleagues from various Chinese universities, who made this discovery after analysing several high-speed videos. The results were published...
Posted on May 31, 2021
The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at UP and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study co-hosted a virtual centenary commemoration of the Bulhoek Massacre of 1921.
Posted on May 14, 2021
On 7 May 2021, the University of Pretoria’s Faculty of Education awarded Professor Teboho Moja, visiting research fellow at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, an honorary doctorate.
Posted on March 15, 2021
Professor Charles van Onselen received the prize for his much-applauded book, "The Night Trains: Moving Mozambican Miners to and from South Africa, circa 1902-1955".
Posted on March 12, 2021
In 2020, Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship research fellow Professor Peter Vale and his co-author from Leiden University, Professor Vineet Thakur, published South Africa, Race and the Making of International Relations. In late 2020, the book was awarded the 2021 Francesco Guicciardini...
Posted on March 10, 2021
As cases of poaching rise across Africa’s protected areas, some governments have responded with a military approach to nature conservation. From as early as the mid 1980s, military forces themselves were used to enforce conservation, as were military strategies and technologies and...
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