Faculty Achievements!

• Mpume Zondi (African Languages) was invited by the Department of Higher Education to participate in a panel of language experts responding to the Language Policy Framework for Public Higher Education Institutions
• Nisa Paleker (Historical & Heritage Studies) was awarded the Faculty’s Excellence in Teaching Award
• Kyle Rath (School of the Arts) was awarded the Faculty’s Successful and Innovative Teaching under Exceptional Circumstances Award
• Alida Naude (CAAC) was awarded the prestigious ASAIPA National Medical Awards 2021 Healthcare Leadership Award
• Ben Schoeman and Tessa Uys (School of the Arts) received outstanding international reviews of their first of six recordings of Scharwenka’s piano duet arrangements of all nine Beethoven symphonies 
• Monica Klopper (School of the Arts) was awarded a Merit Award in the Sasol New Signatures competition
• Nine Information Design Students (School of the Arts) have been nominated for Loerie Awards

Appearances on Media Platforms

• Alf Nilsen (Sociology) published the article How do we explain India’s descent into religious majoritarianism and empty promises of prosperity? in the Daily Maverick
• Amanda du Preez (School of the Arts) was interviewed about the use of blood in art for the Sunday Times
• Faheema Mahomed Asmail (Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology) published the article UP students inspired by IDA in the South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (SASLHA) e-magazine
• Hein Willemse (Afrikaans) published the article Ons identiteit is deur taal bepaal following the death of former president FW de Klerk on Netwerk24
• Jane Mampane (Dean’s Office) published the article What’s in the Box? An innovative way of teaching history at the honours level in the November issue of the JuniorTukkie
• Andrea du Toit (Political Sciences) published the article Global Classroom: Blending experience across continents in the November issue of the JuniorTukkie
• Mia le Roux (Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology) published the article Learn a ton, Reading is fun! in the South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (SASLHA) e-magazine
• Leigh Biagio de Jager (Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology) published the article First WHO Collaborating Centre in Africa promoting world Hearing Day in the South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (SASLHA) e-magazine
• Renata Eccles (Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology) published the article How have you grown? Developmental screening at an ECD in the South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (SASLHA) e-magazine
• Roland Henwood (Political Sciences) was interviewed on:
  • Spektrum (RSG) about the African Transformation Movement’s election manifesto, Public Protector’s order that Alan Winde must act against Anton Bredal, discussed the consequences of the 2021 local government elections and commented on the progress of forming coalitions in the post-local government election period
  • Monitor (RSG) about South Africa’s voting history and the outcomes and expectations of the 2021 local elections
  • SAFM about the UK/French stand-off over fishing rights and the Poland/Belarus border standoff because of migrants
  • Pretoria FM about independent candidates in the 2021 local elections,  the results of the 2021 local elections and the ANC’s hesitance to forming coalitions
• Sthembiso Ncube (Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology) published the article Representing local SLTs on an international platform in the South African Speech-Language-Hearing Association’s (SASLHA) e-magazine

Conference presentations

• Antoinette Lombard (Social Work and Criminology) acted as a respondent for Prof Rodreck Mupedziswa who delivered the Prof Edwell Kaseke Memorial Lecture titled Social development in times of COVID-19: What have we learned? at the University of the Witwatersrand 
• Bibi Burger (Afrikaans) co-presented a paper with Earl Basson on a culturally sustaining pedagogical approach to teaching the poetry collection Uit die Kroes (2020) by Lynthia Julius at the Om te Behoort conference at the University of Amsterdam
• Daléne Human (School of the Arts) presented the paper The anti-censorship campaigns and works by Walter Battiss in apartheid South Africa
• Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam (Philosophy):
  • delivered a lecture titled Examining the Logical Problem of Evil in Light of Ezumezu Logic at the workshop on God, Problem of Evil and Death in African Religious Philosophy, hosted at the Centre for Leadership Ethics in Africa, University of Fort Hare
  • co-organised a workshop with Luis Cordeiro-Rodrigues on African Relationality and the Problem of Evil hosted at Hunan University, China
• Linda Smith (Social Work & Criminology) delivered the keynote address, titled Approaching decoloniality in social work: method and praxis, at a symposium arranged by the German Association of Social Work and the University of Würzburg-Schweinfurt, School of Applied Social Sciences on Decolonizing Social Work – Postcolonial Perspectives
• Lufuno Sadiki (Social Work & Criminology) presented the paper Decolonising the curriculum: The (problem) case of criminology in South Africa at the 21^st E-Conference of the European Society of Criminology
• Lufuno Sadiki and Francois Steyn (Social Work & Criminology) presented the paper All hands on deck! Teaching, learning and assessing in the time of Covid-19 at ICERI2021 (14th annual International Conference of Education, Research and Innovation)
• Makhanana Malungane (Anthropology and Archaeology) presented findings from her Master’s research to the City Economic Development Manager’s Forum convened by the Cities Support Programme of the National Treasury
• Miles Warrington (School of the Arts):
  • presented a virtual seminar on electroacoustic music and played the Humanities 100 composition commissioned by the Dean for students of the Royal College of Music in Stockholm
  • was invited by the Swedish Society of Composers to talk on the application of a computer score-following system as well as writing for the French horn and live electronics
• Nisa Paleker (Historical & Heritage Studies) presented:
  • Cinema and Apartheid in South Africa: A historical overview as part of the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies’ ‘Connect with Africa’ lecture series
  • Rhizome networks: Turmeric’s journey from haldi doodh to turmeric latte at the Virtual Humanities Conference – Critical Food Studies: South Africa and Beyond
• Nontembeko Bila (Social Work & Criminology) presented the paper COVID-19 impact on socio-economic and health aspects at the virtual webinar Psycho, Socio-economic Aspects of COVID-19, hosted by the University of Venda
• Rachel Botes (Historical and Heritage Studies) presented the paper The South African milk tart: Beyond indigenization at the Virtual Humanities Conference – Critical Food Studies: South Africa and Beyond
• Yu-Shan Wu (Political Sciences) participated in the Afrobarometer #VoicesAfrica webinar on Africa-China engagement
• Unit for Academic Literacy (UAL), in collaboration with the Centre for Teaching and Learning (CTL) at the University of the Free State and DIRISANA +, hosted the 1^st Joint Virtual Conference on Academic Literacy and Writing Centre Practitioners response to Covid-19 and the move to Online/Blended Teaching and Learning

Publications on academic platforms

• Amanda du Preez (School of the Arts) published the chapter Is Human to Posthuman as Earth is to Post-Earth? Notes on Terraforming and (Trans)Forming in The Posthuman Pandemic 
• Benda Hofmeyr (Philosophy) published: 
  • The feasibility of resistance in the workplace: A critical investigation in the Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology 
  • Neoliberal governmentality, knowledge work, and thumos in the Journal of Philosophical Economics
• Jonathan Okeke Chimakonam (Philosophy) published:
  • an edited anthology titled Essays on Contemporary Issues in African Philosophy
  • the chapters The Unfolding Palms of Contemporary African Philosophy and Why the Normative Conception of Personhood is Problematic: A Proposal for a Conversational Account
  • with Munamoto Chemhuru the chapter Eight Practical Issues in Contemporary African Philosophy
• Liana le Roux (Social Work & Criminology) and Lisenga Manuntse published the article Vatsonga people's perceptions on children's rights in Social Work/Maatskaplikewerk
• Nadia Kamies (Historical & Heritage Studies) published the article Respectability – Armour Against Inferiority: An Enquiry into Self-Representation through Family Photographs and Oral History as a Form of Resistance During Apartheid in the Third Text Journal
• Rachelle Chadwick (Sociology) published the article The Dangers of minimising obstetric violence in Violence Against Women

Scheduled Events

• UP Campus Tours will present the ATLAS Africa Webinar: Mental Health the New Wealth in Social Prescribing Tourism on 24 November 2021 at 11:00 – registration is required
• The Department of Historical & Heritage Studies will host the virtual book launch and seminar on Abraham Mlombo’s recent publication Southern Rhodesia-South Africa Relations, 1923-1953: Political, Social and Economic Ties on the 29 November 2021 from 16:00 – 17:30 –  register here
• The Digital Humanities Association of South Africa’s three-day ‘Digitally Human, Artificially Intelligent’ conference will take place from the 29 November to 3 December 2021 – the conference programme is available here

My congratulations to all our colleagues!