Dear Humanities Colleagues

Faculty Achievements!

• Antoinette Lombard (Social Work & Criminology) received funding from DRD GOLD Limited to develop An Integrated Community Re-Generation Model (Phase 2), an inter-faculty and -departmental project
• TUKS Camerata has released a new choral album Written in the Stars conducted by Michael Barrett (School of the Arts). The album is available on all music streaming platforms or contact Helena Vorster to order a CD
• Ntembie Bila (Social Work & Criminology) was elected as Secretary of the Association of South African Social Work Education Institutions (ASASWEI)
• Bibi Burger's (Afrikaans) review of Skepsel by Willem Anker has been nominated for the kykNET-Rapport book prize for being the best longer Afrikaans review published in 2020
• Willie Burger’s (Afrikaans) review of Soekmekaar by Dana Snyman was nominated for the kykNET-Rapport book prize for being the best non-fiction Afrikaans review published in 2020

• Christoffel Botha (Historical &Heritage Studies) was awarded the University Capacity Development Program (UCDP) for his research work on tourism development and tourist guiding in the BRICS countries

Appearances on Media Platforms

• Christopher Isike (Political Sciences) wrote a review titled Book predicts ANC’s last decade of political dominance in South Africa for The Conversation
• Karen Leigh Harris and Tinashe Nyamunda (Historical & Heritage Studies) presented a paper on the Pandemic Classroom: grouping or groping the digital divide at the Flexible Futures Conference organised by the University of Pretoria, under the theme ‘’Reimagining Teaching and Learning in Higher Education’’
• Christoffel Botha and Karen L Harris (Historical & Heritage Studies) presented a paper Bigger, Bolder Better: Post-Covid-19 domestic tourism - South Africa as a case study, ATLAS ANNUAL CONFERENCE,  Tourism-21; Rebuilding tourism - Continuities and Changes
• Jacomien van Niekerk (Afrikaans) gave a keynote address at the Virtual Spring Lectures hosted by the University of Limpopo, under the theme ‘’The new normal: Redefining our lives in the context of Covid-19’’. She spoke as editor of the journal Tydskrif vir Letterkunde and presented on ‘publishing research in scholarly journals: from submission to publication’
• Victoria Graham (Political Sciences) presented a paper on youth participation in Africa at the South African Association of Political Studies 15th Biennial Virtual Conference hosted by Rhodes University under the theme ‘’Rethinking Politics in a time of Crisis’’
• Yanga Malotana (Political Sciences) wrote an opinion article titled Political will needed to fix literacy levels, affected by the pandemic on News24. The article can also be accessed on the Faculty’s website
• Alecia Samuels (Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication) wrote an article Digital accessibility in the university space available in the Tukkievaria and on the UP website
• Jonathan Chimakonam Okeke (Philosophy) was Interview by Marcos Carvalho Lopes, Filosofia Pop, UNILAB, Brazil on African philosophy as building systems
• Stephan Geyer (Social Work & Criminology) presented a paper titled "Hey, it is rough out here": A resilience lens on the biopsychosocial circumstances of homeless older persons in the City of Tshwane, South Africa at the ASASWEI Conference 2021: International Social Work Conference
• Lufuno Sadiki (Social Work & Criminology) presented a paper titled Decolonising Criminology in South Africa: A pipe dream? at the virtual colloquium Creating an inclusive Criminology organised by Criminological Society of Africa (CRIMSA)
• Juan Bornman (Centre for Augmentative and Alternative Communication) was interviewed on Good Hope FM on the topic Disability 360, part of their feature for Women’s Month to ensure access to social justice for women with complex communication needs
• Molly Brown (English) appeared on Tygerberg FM to discuss World Literacy Day

Publications on academic platforms

• Marlie Holtzhausen and Jason Musyoka (Centre for Mediation in Africa, Political Sciences) have published an article titled A Case for a Relational Approach in Development Interventions: Measuring the Relationships of an NGO in South Africa in the Southern African Journal of Social Work and Social Development.
• Jonathan Chimakonam Okeke (Philosophy) co-authored a policy brief What is violence prevention published by the Institute for Security Studies.
• Jarred Martin and David Maree (Psychology) and Charles Van Wijk  published the article Clinical validation of brief mental health scales for use in South African occupational healthcare in the SA Journal of Industrial Psychology
• Lufuno Sadiki and Francois Steyn (Social Work & Criminology) published the article Destitute and vulnerable- Fear of crime and victimisation among the homeless in urban and rural settings in South Africa in the Strategic Review of Southern Africa
• Alois Mlambo (Historical & Heritage Studies) published the chapter Nationalism and Politics in Zimbabwe in M. Tendi, J. McGregor and J. Alexander (eds) Zimbabwean Politics
• Alois Mlambo (Historical & Heritage Studies) published the article South Africa and Rhodesia/Zimbabwe in Oxford Research Encyclopaedia of African History

• Rachelle Chadwick (Sociology): 
  • Published the article Breaking the frame: Obstetric violence and epistemic rupture in Agenda
  • Interviewed about her book in the article 'Bodies that birth' and the violence it bears: In Conversation with Rachelle Chadwick that also appeared in Agenda

Scheduled Events

• Nominations for the Humanities Teaching Excellence Awards 2021 will close on Monday, 13 September 2021 and submissions should be forwarded to Aretha Roux. Click here for more information
• The Department of Historical & Heritage studies cordially invites you to attend a webinar presented by Dr Alden Young entitled “After Sudan: Hajj Hamad and the Geopolitics of the Horn of Africa” on 20 September 2021 at 16:00. Click here to RSVP
• Call for Research Proposals: The Mellon-funded Critical Food Studies Programme is accepting proposals for small research projects that aim to explore the significance of food and the various ramifications of how food is produced and marketed through a critical humanities lens. Click here to submit applications and here to view the advert. Closing date is 30 September 2021
• Submissions for the prescribed book list for the first Semester of 2022 will close on 5 October 2021. Click here to submit a list of prescribed books or contact Mart Muller on [email protected] for further assistance. 
• Tangible Heritage Conservation programme (School of the Arts) will host the Global Consortium for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage’s annual meeting between 28-29 October 2021 
• Call for Papers for the virtual conference on Critical Food Studies: South Africa and Beyond 17 -19 November 2021. To submit an abstract please click here or visit this website by 15 September 2021
• Call for Papers for the hybrid conference on Transnational Contact Zones: African and South Asian Sexualities and Genders which will take place on 26- 28 July 2022. The first submission deadline is 30 September 2021. Click here to submit your abstract and here to view the advert. 

My congratulations to all our colleagues!