Posted on September 15, 2021
The vice-chancellor's inaugural lecture took place on the 19th August 2021. It marked Prof. Kupe's installation as a full professor in the English Department. His lecture was entitled 'New Media, New Society: Reimagining Media and Society in a Disrupted Age'.
Posted on May 03, 2021
Playwright Athol Fugard, politician Aziz Pahad and author Dr Abraham De Vries had honorary doctorates in Literature conferred on them in a virtual ceremony on 30 April.
Posted on November 27, 2020
The Faculty of Humanities' Lauren Senna Fouché was jointly awarded the 2020 SATI student prize, a prestigious recognition for the most deserving full master’s dissertation dealing with translation, interpreting, text editing and related areas, including terminography and lexicography.
Posted on September 15, 2020
The Department of Library Services and the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria (UP) recently hosted the annual Mind-Altering Books webinar. The event is typically held in recognition of National Book Week, which runs from 2 to 8 September annually, and is hosted to inculcate a...
Posted on June 18, 2020
The Faculty of Humanities would like to extend its congratulations to Dr Antony Goedhals from the English Department for his book The Neo-Buddhist Writings of Lafcadio Hearn: Light from the East. Dr Goedhals has published before on Hearn, including ‘Revisioning Reality: Transcending Space...
Posted on April 14, 2020
Dr John Boje (83) is one of 11 000 University of Pretoria (UP) graduates who were awarded their qualifications in absentia earlier this week during a virtual ceremony necessitated by the global COVID-19 pandemic.
Posted on March 30, 2020
In 2019, Professor David Medalie received an award from the National Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences for his anthology of short stories, Recognition. This is, however, not the first award Prof Medalie has won for his literary works – he has also received numerous accolades for...
Posted on March 16, 2020
Álvaro Cortés Rodríguez, a linguist from the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen visited the department from 21st February to 28th February as part of an international exchange. He gave a fascinating staff seminar entitled "Multiple Sluicing in English: Theoretical and Experimental...
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