Posted on April 15, 2016
A foundation essay by Prof Henning Melber, Extraordinary Professor in the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria that was recently published on The Conversation.
Posted on April 14, 2016
Juanita Haug from the Department of Psychology and her eldest son, Ricky, both received their BAdmin Degrees during the University of Pretoria's Graduation Ceremony on 12 April 2016.
Posted on April 13, 2016
In celebration of World Social Work Day, which was celebrated on 15 March this year, the Department of Social Work and Criminology hosted a seminar at the University of Pretoria's Hatfield Campus.
Posted on April 11, 2016
Distinguished visiting scholar, Prof Catherine Campbell presented a public lecture at the Hatfield Campus of the University of Pretoria on Thursday, 17 March 2016, titled, 'Against "human rights": a blunt tool for community mobilisation in highly marginalised settings?'.
Posted on April 05, 2016
Drama and the Standard Bank Young Artist for Dance 2015, Luyanda Sidiya, present The Broken Whole.
Posted on April 05, 2016
The Centre for Japanese Studies hosted Professor Tomohiro Akiyama from the University of Tokyo, Japan in March this year.
Posted on April 05, 2016
Photos from the Burundi seminar discussion held on 4 April 2016
Posted on March 19, 2016
According to Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti, the celebration of the International Day of Happiness on 20 March reminds us of the intimate connection between this concept and our social, economic and political systems.
Posted on March 17, 2016
The University is pleased to announce the appointment of Prof MME (Maxi) Schoeman as Deputy Dean: Postgraduate Studies and Ethics in the Faculty of Humanities, with effect from 1 March 2016.
Posted on March 03, 2016
An app that lets users test their hearing using their smart device has been developed and validated by researchers at UP and was officially launched on 2 March 2016 ahead of World Hearing Day on 3 March.
Posted on March 02, 2016
Five Mandela Rhodes Scholars have decided to pursue their postgraduate studies at the University of Pretoria this year.
Posted on February 23, 2016
In its work at UP, the Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender encourages students, under the rubric of ‘Imagined Futures’, to imagine a transformed society that is not defined by status quo thinking.
Posted on February 22, 2016
In this contribution I have chosen to concentrate on reminding us of the varied history of the Afrikaans language. I focus mostly on the ‘black history’ of Afrikaans rather than the known hegemonic history inculcated by Afrikaner Christian national education, propaganda and the media.
Posted on February 16, 2016
Prof Zitha Mokomane, from the Department of Sociology in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Pretoria, has been appointed as a member of the International Advisory Board of the India-based Service and Research Institute on Family and Children (SERFAC) for a term of five years.
Posted on February 04, 2016
Professor Alexander Johnson has been appointed as the Head of the Department of Music from 1 January 2016. He succeeds Prof Wim Viljoen, who retired at the end of 2015.
Posted on February 03, 2016
UP's recently established African Observatory for Environmental Humanities promotes the notion of ‘earth keeping’ and positions itself at the intersection of indigenous value systems and modernity.
Posted on February 01, 2016
On 20 June 2016, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies at the University of Pretoria will host a colloquium on South Africa's 'long 1970s', defined as the period stretching from the death of Hendrik Verwoerd (1966) to the Soweto uprising and its aftermath.
Posted on December 23, 2015
Elizabeth Steinberg, a BA Information Design alumnus of the University of Pretoria, received an Emmy Award for graphic design and art direction in a documentary during the most recent Emmy Awards in New York.
Posted on December 15, 2015
The Mandela Rhodes Foundation recently announced the names of the 12th cohort of Mandela Rhodes scholars, who will make up the ‘Class of 2016’. Three students from the University of Pretoria are among those selected to be part of this elite group of students.
Posted on December 14, 2015
In a time of worrying discoveries about the state of our planet's climate, new research on emotive communication offers new avenues to effect behaviour change in favour of mitigating climate change.
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