Posted on November 21, 2020
These are the NewsClips for the week:
Posted on November 20, 2020
For too long, Ethiopian political history has been dominated by the elites of two minority groups, the Amhara and the Tigray. These elites considered people of the Oromo origin and others as subjects incapable of governing Ethiopia – but now an ethnic Oromo, Abiy Ahmed, is the prime...
Posted on November 17, 2020
The Department of Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology at UP has been formally designated as a World Health Organisation Collaborating Centre for the prevention of deafness and hearing loss.
Posted on November 16, 2020
The Faculty is very proud to congratulate:
Posted on November 13, 2020
Professor Fransjohan Pretorius, professor emeritus of the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies, is the winner in The Conversation Africa Science Communication Awards category Science Communication Excellence for the most read article published on The Conversation in 2019.
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
The raffle winners are
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.
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