Posted on September 27, 2022
The definition of heritage has always been somewhat ambiguous and has come to describe everything from material, tangible objects such as buildings, monuments, and memorials, to the ethereal and intangible such as, songs, festivals, and languages, and more recently food.
Posted on September 12, 2022
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies (DHHS) was well represented at the annual international conference of the Association for Tourism and Leisure Research and Education (ATLAS) held in Ireland in September 2022.
Posted on August 10, 2022
On 8 August 2022, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken delivered an address detailing the Biden Administration's strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa at the University’s Future Africa Campus. Acting Vice Chancellor Prof. Sunil Maharaj welcomed Minister of International Relations and Cooperation,...
Posted on August 09, 2022
As we celebrate national Women's Day, on 9 August, in a society menaced by violence against women (and children), economic hardships and political malaise and malfeasance, it is perhaps timely to remember the many, and different, sacrifices women have made in both the domestic and public sphere.
Posted on August 09, 2022
As we celebrate national Women's Day, on 9 August, in a society menaced by violence against women (and children), economic hardships and political malaise and malfeasance, it is perhaps timely to remember the many, and different, sacrifices women have made in both the domestic and public sphere....
Posted on July 13, 2022
Dr Jason Musyoka, a former Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Pretoria and now associate researcher at the Centre for Mediation in Africa (CMA) at UP has been appointed to lead the development of the 9th Human Development Report (HDR) for Kenya - the fourth largest economy in Sub-Saharan...
Posted on July 13, 2022
The University of Pretoria, in collaboration with the Emerging Scholars Initiative Press (ESI Press) launched two books last week, both edited by Ms Mary Crewe. On 5 July 2022, the Faculty of Theology and Religion hosted the book launch of Old Ways of Being to New Ways of Seeing. This was...
Posted on June 19, 2022
This month, 46 years have passed since the 1976 Soweto Uprising—an integral moment in the call for democracy in an apartheid-led South Africa. June 16 remains a monumental date in our country’s history. It not only reminds us of our commitment to democracy and the lives sacrificed in...
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