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  • Dr Samuels awarded HELTASA TAU Fellowship

    Posted on September 12, 2016

    Dr Alecia Samuels, from the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) at the University of Pretoria (UP), was recently awarded the HELTASA TAU Fellowship for 2015-2016.

  • UP hearScreen project sees preschoolers hear again

    Posted on September 12, 2016

    Two children identified with hearing loss in Mamelodi recently received hearing aids through a University of Pretoria initiative.

  • CAAC presents research at ISAAC conference

    Posted on September 09, 2016

    Staff and students from the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (CAAC) at the University of Pretoria attended the 17th Biennial Conference of ISAAC (the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication) in Toronto, Canada, from 6 to 13 August 2016.

  • Principal's Concert a huge success

    Posted on September 05, 2016

    The University of Pretoria staged its annual Principal's Concert on Wednesday, 31 August, and Thursday, 1 September 2016. The concert showcased the University's in-house performing talent and made use of pieces from UP's own art collection, bequeathed by various illustrious artists, as on-stage...

  • The Social Life of Waste-Art Project

    Posted on September 01, 2016

    On Thursday, 1 September 2016, the first Thursday of the Art Week Joburg festival, SLOWart will present a pop-up exhibition at the Museum of African Design in Maboneng, Johannesburg.

  • African authors share short stories at UP

    Posted on August 25, 2016

    Sowetan-born African writer and journalist Niq Mhlongo and African short story writer, novelist and professor in the Department of English at the University of Pretoria David Medalie, recently shared their literary works during an event held in the Library Auditorium on the University's Hatfield...

  • Research on electronic lexicography put to practice

    Posted on August 25, 2016

    Staff members in the Department of African Languages have developed new methods for preparing electronic dictionaries, as part of an exciting project funded by the German Academic Exchange Service.

  • Singer Letta Mbulu inspires young artists at UP

    Posted on August 25, 2016

    In the spirit of Women's Month, the first lecture in the Living Legends Legacy Lecture Series was presented by legendary singer and performer Letta Mbulu in the Masker Theatre on the Hatfield Campus on Friday, 19 August.

  • UP sociology professor elected Vice-President of international research committee

    Posted on August 22, 2016

    At the recent International Sociology Association Forum in Vienna, Austria, Professor Debby Bonnin, from the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities, was elected the Vice-President of the Research Committee on Sociology of Professional Groups.

  • Zelda Stroud makes the nation proud

    Posted on August 22, 2016

    Zelda Stroud, a master's student in the Department of Visual Arts at the University of Pretoria, has produced four life-size bronze sculptures of iconic South African women for the Women's Living Heritage Monument in Pretoria.

  • Prof Bornman awarded prestigious ISAAC Fellowship

    Posted on August 19, 2016

    Prof Juan Bornman, Director of the Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication at the University of Pretoria, was recently named a Fellow of the International Society for Augmentative and Alternative Communication (ISAAC) at the 17th Biennial Conference of ISAAC in Toronto, Canada.

  • One of SA's most extensive ceramics collections housed in the Faculty of Humanities

    Posted on August 17, 2016

    The University of Pretoria curates and manages one of the most extensive ceramic collections in South Africa.

  • Lecture on the health of sexual minorities presented at UP

    Posted on August 15, 2016

    Prof Theo Sandfort from Columbia University in New York, delivered a public lecture in the Merensky II Library Auditorium on the University of Pretoria's Hatfield Campus on Thursday, 4 August 2016. The topic of the lecture was 'The health of sexual minorities: theory, realities and further...

  • Litnet interview with Hein Willemse

    Posted on August 12, 2016

    Interview: Hein Willemse on Adam Small, Nathan Trantraal, skin colour and deconstruction

  • Tribute to Adam Small

    Posted on August 12, 2016

    The Department of Afrikaans, in collaboration with the Department of Library Services, cordially invites you to attend this tribute to activist, poet and academic, Adam Small.

  • Meeting your African poets at UP

    Posted on August 12, 2016

    The Department of English, in collaboration with the Department of Library Services recently hosted an event titled: 'Meet your African poets: Dr Raphael d'Abdon and Phillippa Yaa de Villiers'.

  • Southern African cross-border tourism in the research spotlight

    Posted on August 10, 2016

    An investigation into cross-border tourist guiding in southern Africa, undertaken by the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria is yielding interesting and surprising results.

  • Decolonisation gains momentum

    Posted on August 04, 2016

    The MA programme in African-European Cultural Relations is unique on the African continent and is, for the first time, programmatically challenging the perspectives of coloniser and colonised, north and south, from the perspective of critical cultural studies.

  • Prof Robin Crewe appointed to co-chair IAP committee

    Posted on August 02, 2016

    Prof Robin Crewe, Director of the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria, has been appointed as co-chair of the committee established by the InterAcademy Council / InterAcademy Partnership for Research to consider 'harnessing science, engineering and medicine to...

  • The upcoming South African local government election - What can we expect?

    Posted on August 01, 2016

    WATCH: Mr Roland Henwood from the Department of Political Sciences at the University of Pretoria explains what we can expect from the upcoming South African local government election.

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