Dear Humanities Colleagues

Faculty Achievements!

• Carrick Keating and Kagiso Masinda (School of the Arts: Drama) were awarded first prize in the JOMBA! Open Horizons (short form) category for their screen dance Fenya.
• Dewet Swanepoel (Speech-language Pathology- and Audiology) was awarded an Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAF) membership.
• Tim Forssman (Archaeology) was awarded a grant by the NRF under the African Origin Platform (AOP) which supports research, skills development, and infrastructure in the palaeosciences.
• Miles Warrington (School of the Arts: Classical music) will be featured in the Purpur Music Festival that will be taking place on the 9^th of October. The Festival hosts New Music parallel to sound, art, video, dance, theatre and various other art forms, and showcases a variety of South African and international performers.
• Hannes Engelbrecht (Historical and Heritage Studies) coordinated the  fourth annual Heritage Seminar. The seminar is a collaboration between the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies and the South African Heritage Resources Agency (SAHRA). This year’s theme was “Heritage Evolution: Heritage and Tourism Technology”.

Appearances on Media Platforms

• Roland Henwood (Political Sciences) was interviewed on:
  • Pretoria FM about election campaigns and Covid-19 regulations
  • Pretoria FM about the ANC’s expectations of the local government elections in Tshwane
  • Monitor (RSG) about the Canadian 2021 elections
  • Spektrum (RSG) about former president Zuma and the dictation of the Constitutional Court
  • SAFM about anti-vaccine and lockdown protests in Melbourne, Australia 
• Rachelle Chadwick (Sociology) presented the paper Intimate Labours: Birth as Un/Happy Archive hosted by UNISA’s Department of English in collaboration with the South African Association of Gender Studies.
• Thaddues Metz (Philosophy) presented ‘Ubuntu’s Implications for Philosophical Ethics’ for the 27^th UP Expert Lecture.
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Publications on academic platforms

• Francois Gilles de Pelichy (Political Sciences) published the article Moja Gabedi: Volunteering in community-based projects opens the doors of possibility­ in the University's Unit for Community Engagement Newsletter: Spring 2021, Lentsu La Sechaba.
• Nina Sieber (Historical and Heritage Studies) published the article UPCT 2021 celebrates Mandela Day! in the University's Unit for Community Engagement Newsletter: Spring 2021, Lentsu La Sechaba.
• Nontembeko Bila (Social Work and Criminology) published the article Resilience and persistence can change your life trajectory in the University's Unit for Community Engagement Newsletter: Spring 2021, Lentsu La Sechaba.
• Marié-Heleen Coetzee (School of the Arts: Drama) published the article Auntie Covidia and the curious calamities of Covid-19: using drama for science communication in the University's Unit for Community Engagement Newsletter: Spring 2021, Lentsu La Sechaba.
• Eddie Michel (Historical and Heritage Studies) published the article A Principled Pragmatism: Gerald R. Ford and Apartheid South Africa in the  South African Historical Journal.
• Tinashe Nyamunda (Historical and Heritage Studies) published:
  • ‘Open for Business’ but Bankrupt: Currencies, the ‘New Dispensation’ and the Zimbabwean Economy in the Journal of Asian and African Studies.
  • (with Johan Fourie, Faeeza Ballim, Gerald Groenewald, Jennifer Upton and Julie Parle) Making South African Historians count in Historia.
• Angela Thomas (Psychology) published the article Social Support Experiences of Spousally Bereaved Individuals in a South African Township Community: The Botho/Ubuntu Perspective in Frontiers in Psychology.

Scheduled Events

• Art, Access and Agency Conference Keynote event: Flowers, sex, loss and labour will take place on Saturday 9 October from 16:00 – 16:50. Registration beforehand is necessary to receive the Zoom link.
• The Afrikaans Department will host the second annual Van Rensburg Memorial Lecture on the 21^st of October (14:00 – 17:00). RSVP
• Corinne Sandwith Inaugural Lecture: The Social Lives of Print: Circuits, Citation and Public Debates will take place on the 26^th of October at 18:00.
• The 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 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 November 2021. Click here to submit your abstract and here to view the advert.

My congratulations to all our colleagues!