Dear Humanities Colleagues

Faculty Achievements!

• Christopher Isike (Political Sciences) has been appointed as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des études africaines
• David Maree (Psychology) has been appointed to the editorial board of the journal Scientific Reports
• Members of the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies were on the winning team in a Hackathon hosted as part of the Erasmus+ SUCSESS project

Appearances on Media Platforms

• Henning Melber (Political Sciences) published the article White Malice: how the CIA strangled African independence at birth on The Conversation
• Abdi Samatar (Political Sciences) published the article Somalia is the tribalist Humpty Dumpty that nobody has been able to put back together again on The Daily Maverick
• Alf Nilsen (Sociology) was interviewed about the election in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh on SAFM
• Antony Goedhals (English) published the article The Forest In Chaucer’s The Book of the Duchess, Ll. 416-426: Echoes of The Nave And Tower of Old St Paul’s Cathedral in Notes and Queries
• Christopher Isike (Political Sciences) was interviewed about:
  • President Biden’s first year in office on CGTN Africa
  • Nigeria’s Foreign Affairs on Channels Television
• Roland Henwood (Political Sciences) was interviewed on:
  • KykNet discussing the unfolding of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine
  • SAFM about the Russia/Ukraine tensions and latest developments and the anti-vaccine mandate protests currently taking place in Canada
  • RSG discussing how the premier of the Western Cape and the DA handled the situation around the suspension of community safety MEC, Albert Fritz, the Mauritian government sending a ship to the Chagos Island Group in the Indian Ocean amid the dispute over ownership of the islands, the Tshwane Metro’s collection of debt and whether other municipalities are facing the same challenges, the State of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, the latest developments in the Russia/Ukraine conflict, and the anti-vaccine mandate protests currently taking place in Canada 
  • Radio Islam about July 2021 unrest in South Africa and the debate surrounding the State of the Nation Address
  • GrootFM  discussing the seriousness and background of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine and then a follow up interview on latest developments in the Russia/Ukraine conflict.

Presentations & publications on academic platforms

• Amanda du Preez (School of the Arts) published the book Art, the Sublime, and Movement: Spaced Out
• Karen Harris and C.R. Botha (Historical & Heritage Studies) co-hosted the ATLAS Africa online conference, Falling back in love with tourism – An African affair. The conference featured presentations by Historical & Heritage Studies staff and postgraduate students:
  • Karen Harris delivered the opening address entitled Into Africa: The historical periodization of tourism
  • Berendien Lubbe presented the paper The past, present and future impact of air transport on tourism in Africa and South Africa
  • C.R. Botha presented on Benchmarking best practice in Africa: A conceptual model for tourist guiding
  • Danolien van den Berg presented Africa’s First people, Africa’s last voice: Is tourism the key cultural survival?
  • Helen Nel presented Lighting the Cape of Storms: Lighthouse Tourism along South Africa’s Atlantic Coastline
  • Richard Wyllie presented Community-Based Tourism in Marine Protected Areas in Africa
  • Victoria-Ann Verkerk presented Virtual Reality: Saving South Africa’s Tourism?
  • Winnie Senoamadi presented Making African Tourism Safe: The case of South Africa
• Vusilizwe Thebe and Moffat Chiba (Anthropology & Archaeology) published the article Changing Households Socials Dynamics and Agriculture Crisis in Shamva District, Zimbabwe in the Journal of Asian and African Studies
• Tharina Guse (Psychology):
  • and Itumeleng Khumalo published the article Factor structure of the Dispositional Hope Scale amongst South Africans: An exploratory structural equation modelling study in the African Journal of Psychological Assessment
  • published the article The Satisfaction with Life Scale in Adolescent Samples: Measurement Invariance across 24 Countries and Regions, Age and Gender in Applied Research in Quality of Life
• Bibi Burger (Afrikaans) published article The nonhuman object in Ama Ata Aidoo’s ‘Nowhere cool’: A black feminist critique of Object-oriented Ontology in Agenda
• Cori Wielenga and Chenai Matshaka (Political Sciences) published the article Who is Being Served? How Competing Norms and Values Shape the Transitional Justice Agenda in Zimbabwe in Politikon
• Edwin Smith (Historical & Heritage Studies) published the article Education and the public good: Foregrounding education in history in Yesterday & Today
• Lufuno Sadiki and Francois Steyn (Social Work & Criminology) published the article Decolonising the Criminology curriculum in South Africa: Views and experience of lecturers and postgraduate students in Transformation in Higher Education
• Karen Booyens (Social Work & Criminology) and Ann-Mari Hesselink published the article Locked-Down, Locked-UP or a Double Lockdown for Inmates? A Criminological Analysis on the Psychosocial Impact of COVD-19 on Inmates in the African Journal of Criminology and Victimology
• Marc Wegerif (Anthropology & Archaeology) presented the paper Land Policy Assessment: Learning lessons from the implementation of the AU Agenda on Land at the African People’s Summit on the EU-Africa Partnership
• Susan Haskins (Ancient & Modern Languages & Cultures) published the article The Construction of a Goddess: Isis in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses in Religion and Literature
• Tinashe Nyamunda (Historical & Heritage Studies) acted as discussant for the launch of Zoe Grove’s book Malawian Migration to Zimbabwe, 1900-1965

Scheduled Events 

• DUT-SAQA-UP webinar Can we imagine a world that is post-colonial will take place from 14:00 to 16:00 on 23 February 2022. Click here to RSVP
• Department of Historical and Heritage Studies will host a virtual seminar on Ushehwedu Kufakurinani’s paper ‘A Promising Start and a Frustrating End: The Rise and Fall of the Economic History Department at the University of Zimbabwe’, with Professor Gareth Austin (Cambridge University) as discussant. The seminar will take place on 28 February 2022, 15:00 – 16:00
• Professor Anton Kok’s (Faculty of Law) inaugural address taking place on 3 March 2022 at 18:00 in the Senate Hall.  The invitation is attached with more information. Please RSVP by 23 February 2022 to [email protected]
• Disease and Destiny: A Colloquium on Pandemics Past and Present, taking place on 9 March 2022. Please RSVP and visit the Faculty’s events calendar for more information

My congratulations to all our colleagues! 

The next NewsClips will be published on 4 March 2022. 

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