UP’s ESI Press launches free book on history of De Aar

Posted on June 23, 2023

Dr Giorgio Miescher’s ‘De Aar: Lines of Architecture in the Making of a South African Town (1902–1977)’ unpacks the history of the town once known as the second most important railway junction in South Africa.

DHHS at ATLAS international

Posted on June 19, 2023

UP-DHHS's Prof. Karen Harris reflects on the role of tourism in intercultural competence at an international tourism conference.

Book Launch: Afterburn: War Stories (2023) by Dr Stephen Symons

Posted on June 15, 2023

War and armed conflict has cost hundreds of millions of lives since the first civilisations. In his latest publication, Afterburn: War Stories (2023), Dr Stephen Symons confronts this subject of conflict through a grassroots approach without romanticising the horrific act of war. By portraying...

A Gift to all Mothers – Umalusi (The Shepherd)

Posted on May 15, 2023

On Tuesday, 9 May ESI Press and the Faculty of Humanities launched Edwin Smith’s second collection of poems, Umalusi (The Shepherd). The collection, which consists of 32 poems written in both Xhosa and English, is an ode to Smith’s mother who passed away on the 9th of May in 2010....

UP celebrates World Social Work Day 2023!

Posted on April 12, 2023

This year, World Social Work Day (WSWD2023) fell on South Africa’s Human Rights Day, 21 March. To celebrate the occasion, the Social Work and Criminology Department at the University of Pretoria (UP) organised three separate events between 17-28 March 2023 that broadly addressed the theme...

Celebrating our Dean and launching our cookbook, HumanEATies!

Posted on April 09, 2023

On 30 March 2023, the Faculty of Humanities bid farewell to its Dean, Prof Vasu Reddy, who has been appointed as Vice-Rector: Research and Internalisation at the University of the Free State (UFS).

The Texture of Dissent - Book Launch

Posted on April 04, 2023

On 23 March 2023, the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria in collaboration with the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) hosted the launch of the book, The Texture of Dissent: Defiant Public Intellectuals in South Africa (2022) at the Javett-UP Arts Centre.

ARCHIVES of COVID-19: UP Recollections and Reflections - A CHRONICLE OF OUR RESILIENCE

Posted on April 04, 2023

The first COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in South Africa began on 26 March 2020. Over the past three years, isolation, anxiety and loss seemed to have spread just a quickly as the disease itself. On 1 March 2020, South Africa recorded its first COVID-19 infection and since then the country has seen...