Posted on November 12, 2020
UP dominated this year’s Absa Gradstar Top 100 with 19 students making it onto the list, the most from any other institution.
Posted on November 09, 2020
On 9 November, World Adoption Day, we celebrate families who have been brought together through the adoption of a child; we support families who are in the process of adoption, and we raise awareness of adoption as a family option. Whether abandoned, orphaned or willingly chosen to have a child...
Posted on November 09, 2020
The virtual colloquium, Angels, Ancestors, Alchemy and the Arts in Africa: Multi-disciplinary socio-cultural representations/traditions of African spirituality ('seen' and 'unseen'), was held between 29 - 31 October 2020. The colloquium was jointly hosted by the Department of Humanities Education...
Posted on November 07, 2020
We have had a very busy week in the Faculty!
Posted on November 04, 2020
On 20 October 2020, Dr Ian Macqueen, a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, presented the paper, ‘Shaka Zulu in the Polish People’s Republic: Interrogating Cultural Exchanges in the Late Cold War’.
Posted on October 31, 2020
I would also like to recognise our colleagues who have been busy across a variety of media and academic platforms. Here are this week’s highlights:
Posted on October 29, 2020
Obama’s election in 2008 as the first African-American president electrified the country and the world.
Posted on October 26, 2020
A good attitude and hard work will indeed get you far in life – and there’s empirical evidence of that. This is according to the results of a study that was led, in part, by UP's Professor Berendien Lubbe, and was funded by the European Union’s Erasmus Plus Capacity Building...
Posted on October 26, 2020
Our colleagues have been very busy over the past few weeks!
Posted on October 23, 2020
According to Bob Williams, who uses augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), “the silence of speechlessness is never golden. We all need to communicate with each other – not just in one way, but in as many ways as possible. It is a basic human need, a basic human right. And...
Posted on October 23, 2020
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Posted on October 22, 2020
On Friday 16 October 2020, five postgraduate students from the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies delivered papers on their research in Afrikaans at the annual Student Symposium for Social Sciences and Humanities organised by the South African Academy for Science And Arts...
Posted on October 22, 2020
Religion remains more closely linked to politics than most people would like to admit, said panellists during a discussion following the Cape Town premiere of In Gods Naam, a short documentary directed by Dr Siona O’Connell, of the University of Pretoria (UP).
Posted on October 22, 2020
Over the past five years the conversation of, and on, fallism has largely centred on fees, yet the original movement went well beyond financial issues.
Posted on October 10, 2020
World Mental Health Day is commemorated annually on 10 October. On this day, mental health practitioners, organisations and advocacy groups attempt to demystify notions around mental health and build trust in seeking mental health intervention.
Posted on October 07, 2020
On 26 August 2020, a young person with Down syndrome tragically lost his life in a shooting incident close to his home in Eldorado Park, near Johannesburg. Nathaniel Julies was fatally shot while police investigated a robbery in his street. He was simply a bystander and did not understand when...
Posted on October 06, 2020
According to Bob Williams, who uses augmentative and alternative communication (AAC), ‘the silence of speechlessness is never golden. We all need to communicate with each other – not just in one way, but in as many ways as possible. It is a basic human need, a basic human right. And...
Posted on October 03, 2020
The short documentary film In Gods Naam premièred on 27 September 2020. The 26-minute documentary, directed by Dr Siona O’Connell, takes a closer look at the role that the Dutch Reformed Church (NGK) played in endorsing the apartheid policy of the National Party. The film also investigates...
Posted on October 02, 2020
Please join me in congratulating our colleague Carlos Tirado Taipe (Ancient and Modern Languages and Cultures) who graduates with his PhD this week!
Posted on September 30, 2020
“The decolonisation of the humanities curriculum in South Africa is a process, not an event,” said Professor Vasu Reddy, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria (UP), speaking at a recent webinar titled Unsettling Paradigms in the Fault Line of Change:...
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