Dear Humanities Colleagues

Faculty Achievements!

• Corinne Sandwith (English) delivered her inaugural lecture The Social Lives of Print: Circuits, Citation and Public Debates

Appearances on Media Platforms

• Adele May (CAAC) published an article on dementia and Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) on the Faculty website
• Alf Nilsen (Sociology) was interviewed about his research on India’s second Covid-19 wave on the podcast The Modi Wave
• Anushka Mantri-Langeveldt (CAAC) published the article International Day of Older Persons – Creating awareness and enhancing support for older persons on News24
• Bibi Burger (Afrikaans) interviewed:
  • Azille Coetzee for the launch of her novel Die teenoorgestelde is net so waar for Graffiti Books & Stationery
  • Earl Basson, member of the Trilingual Kaaps Dictionary's local advisory committee, for the podcast Sitkamer on AnchorFM
• Hein Willemse (Afrikaans): 
  • Published opinion articles on Netwerk24 on Dis die kern van Afrikaans-stryd, Tutu, ‘n kompas en vredemaker, and Wegblystem is meer as apatie
  • Reviewed Mosibudi Mangena's latest book We can fix ourselves on Litnet and participated in a virtual commemoration of the Life and writing of Achmat Dangor (1948-2020) presented by the Johannesburg Review of Books
• Sonja Mostert and Nicoleen Coetzee (Psychology) published the article Covid-19 Fatigue: The Value of Friendship on the Psychology website
• Marc Wegerif (Anthropology and Archaeology) was interviewed on SAFM’s The Talking Point about the impact of Covid-19 on food systems
• Ngwanamashiane Rahab Blondie Mothapo (CAAC) published the article Communication for all: Designing augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) systems for persons from minority language backgrounds on the Faculty website
• Rachelle Chadwick (Sociology) published the article The Battle for Recognition: Obstetric violence and its long controversies on the University of Durham’s Obstetric Violence Blog
• Refilwe Morwane (CAAC) published an article on persons with sever communication disabilities on the Faculty website
• Robyn White (CAAC) published the article Participation in court: How persons with severe communication disabilities can be accommodated on the Faculty website
• Roland Henwood (Political Sciences) was interviewed on:
  • SAFM about the China/Taiwan tensions
  • Radio Islam about elections and race in South Africa
  • Pretoria FM to discuss an overview of election related events
  • Spektrum (RSG) about ethical requirements and officials’ participation in elections
• Thula Simpson (Historical and Heritage Studies) was interviewed about his new book History of South Africa: 1902 to the Present which he also launched with Saul Dubow as discussant
• Willie Burger (Afrikaans) had a discussion with Van Wyk Louw's children, 50 years after the poet's death, about the book “Vuur in sy vingers” that was published earlier this year. This discussion was broadcast on DStv as part of the televised Stellenbosch Woordfees

Conference presentations

• Alf Nilsen (Sociology) presented the paper Contesting Resources, Contesting the Nation at the (virtual) Annual Conference on South Asia hosted by the University of Wisconsin-Madison

• Glen Ncube (Historical and Heritage Studies) presented the paper Health, well-being and society in Matebeleland in the aftermath of Gukurahundi in Zimbabwe at the virtual Gukurahundi and the culture of violence in Zimbabwe conference

• Karen Harris (Historical and Heritage Studies) presented an online lecture entitled South African History: An Exploratory Introduction as part of the Connect with Africa Programme at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
• Leanne Jordaan and Gerna Wessels (Social work and Criminology) presented the paper Ready Or Not, Here It Comes: Finding Connection Through Online Supervision at the 13th International Conference on Practice Teaching and Field Education in Health and Social Work 
• Marc Wegerif (Anthropology and Archaeology) presented the paper Ten Years of implementation of AU Agenda on land: An Assessment of Progress at the virtual Conference on Land Policy in Africa
• Peggie Chiwara (Social Work & Criminology) presented the paper An early career academic’s reflections on emergency remote teaching at a South African tertiary institution during the COVID-19 pandemic at the Humanities and Social Sciences Alumni Annual Virtual Conference

• Rebecca Hodes (Centre for Sexualities, AIDS and Gender) presented the paper Pandemics and Participatory Research: Lessons from HIV for Covid at the Faculty of Education’s (UP) Teaching and Learning Festival

• Thaddeus Metz (Philosophy):
  • Delivered the keynote address titled The Open Society and African Ethics at the virtual conference Forget Open Society? Critical Conversations on a Contested Concept
  • Presented the paper Duties to Oneself in the African Tradition: Two Theoretical Approaches at the What We Owe to Ourselves: A Conference on Duties to Oneself webinar
  • Presented the paper Lacking Identity and Solidarity with Others in Mental Disorders: An Insight from Africa at the 20^th National Congress of the South African Society of Psychiatrists (SASOP)
  • Presented The Costs and Benefits of the African Conception of God in Respect of Life’s Meaning at the Workshop on God, the Problem of Evil, and Death in African Religious Philosophy
  • Presented Ubuntu and Social Work: Comments on China at the Workshop on Making the Invisible Visible: Art as a Connecting Force at the Dzaleka Refugee Camp, Malawi
• Willie Burger (Afrikaans) presented the paper Stemme wat my onskendbaarheid sonder waarskuwing ophef at the hybrid symposium on Karel Schoeman’s work 

Publications on academic platforms

• Alf Nilsen (Sociology) published the chapter India’s trajectories of change in Destroying Democracy
• Bibi Burger (Afrikaans) co-authored the chapter 'Put yourself first in a sexy way': Metamodernist feminism in Perspectives on Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
•  Jarred Martin (Psychology) with Charles van Wijk and Jack Meinitjes published the article Burden of common mental disorders in South African workplace settings in the Occupational Health Southern Africa
• Leanne Jordaan (Social work and Criminology) published the article Rediscovering the power of group work in promoting social justice for older persons in the Group work for social justice in the Conference proceedings of the XL International Symposium of the International Association for Social Work with Groups, South Africa
• Rachelle Chadwick and Jabulile Mary-Jane Mavuso (Sociology) edited the special issue of the journal Agenda on the topic Reproductive Violence: Afrofeminist perspectives and contributed the introduction titled On Reproductive Violence: Framing notes

• Thaddeus Metz (Philosophy) published:
  • Meaning and medicine: An underexplored bioethical value in Ethik in der Medizin
  • Problems of living meaningfully in psychiatry and philosophy in the Brazilian Journal of Psychiatry
• Tsholofelo Angela Thomas and David Maree (Psychology) published the article A coat of many colours: A critical race theory analysis of language uses at two South African higher education institutions in the Journal of Language, Identity & Education

Scheduled Events

• The two-day conference on Speech-language therapy services for young children in the African Context hosted in collaboration with the SpeechBase project, will take place on the 16 & 17 November 2021
• The African Science Fiction Reading Room event will take place on the 13 November 2021 from 11:00 – 14:00 in Melville. To RSVP send an email to [email protected]
• 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. Deadline for submissions is 30 November 2021. Click here to submit your abstract and here to view the advert.  

The next NewsClips will be published on the 19 November 2021, so please remember to forward details of your publications, appearances, and events to Heather Thuynsma ([email protected]) and Danolien van den Berg ([email protected]).