Dear Humanities Colleagues

 

Faculty Achievements!

 

• Christopher Isike (Political Sciences) was awarded a grant from the American Political Science Association (APSA) 2022 Special Projects Fund

• Lize Kriel (School of the Arts), Mary Clare Kidende and Ernst Wagner edited to book Visual Cultures of Africa

 

 

Appearances on Media Platforms

 

• Miles Warrington’s (School of the Arts) ‘Facade’ for horn and live electronics was performed in Sweden by acclaimed international contemporary French horn virtuoso Sören Hermansson at the Föreningen Levande Musik event

• Cori Wielenga (Political Sciences) published the article Murder of 12-year-old Emihle Tukani galvanises rural community into action while spectre of apartheid lingers in The Daily Maverick

• Roland Henwood (Political Sciences) was interviewed on:
  • KykNET about the Philippine elections, the possibility of Sweden and Finland joining NATO, the war in Ukraine and the ANC Eastern Cape elective conference
  • Newsroom Afrika about a possible declaration of war on Ukraine
  • RSG about the second round of the French presidential elections, the Tshwane and Johannesburg State of the City addresses, the outcome of the French presidential elections, Workers Day and other political matters, the political implications of Elon Musk buying Twitter, French President Emmanuel Macron’s suggestion that the Ukraine become an EU member and the Chinese Government’s strict COVID-19 regulations
  • Radio Pretoria about the release of part 4 of the Zondo Commission of Inquiry into State Capture report
  • Radio Islam International about the death of a Nelson Mandela Bay councillor and his assistant a day before the ANC Eastern Cape elective conference

• Peggie Chiwara (Social Work & Criminology) was interviewed on the Alternate Horizons podcast about the road to South Africa’s recovery in the post-COVID era  

• Giné Gebhardt (Dean’s Office) published articles on: 
  • International Children’s Book Day – giving wings to the importance of reading in the JT Newsletter 
  • Jazz festival plays on how genre can contribute to unity and peace in world in the Sowetan

• Robyn Schnell (Department of Historical & Heritage Studies) published articles on:
  • Why South Africa needs the humanities in the JT Newsletter 
  • Humanities on the rise in Future SA Magazine

• Rudolph Boraine’s (Department of Historical & Heritage Studies) cum laude graduation has been covered on multiple platforms including the Cape Times, TimesLive, front page of the Beeld, Die Burger, Volksblad, Netwerk24, Maroela Media and on Radio Islam International   

 

 

Presentations and publications on academic platforms

 

• Alf Nilsen (Sociology) 
  • presented the following papers: 
    • To Reclaim the People: Unsettling the Hindu Nationalist Hegemonic Alliance at the Unpacking the Idea of the People: India at 75 seminar
    • The Power of Law and the Power of Violence in the Making of the Hindu Nation at the British Association of South Asian Studies 2022 seminar
  • published:
    • India’s pandemic: spectacle, social murder and authoritarian politics in a lockdown nation in Globalizations
    • Contesting resources, contesting the nation? in Contemporary South Asia

• Amanda du Preez (School of the Arts):
  • presented the paper Thinking Through Images: Approaching Aby Warburg and the Digital Arts and Humanities at the SADiLaR DH Colloquium 
  • published the chapter The right to be seen and to look. Selfies #FeesMustFall and #endSARS in Visual Cultures of Africa

• Brooks Marmon (Department of Historical & Heritage Studies) published the article ‘Bogey Bogey Stuff’: Gold Coastism, federation, and white backlash in Southern Rhodesia, 1951-56 in The Round Table 

• Avitha Sooful (School of the Arts) published the chapter Breaking traditional rules: Artmaking practices of Muelwa Noria Mabasa and Mmakgabo Helen Sibidi in Visual Cultures of Africa

• Christopher Isike (Political Sciences) presented the paper Soft Power as the contextual basis of African Diplomacy at the World Protocol Matters online conference

• Jeannie van der Linde, Renata Eccles and Maria du Toit (Speech-Language Pathology & Audiology) published the chapter Supporting early childhood development during COVID-19 using telehealth: Stakeholders’ perspectives in the South African Health Review 2021 – Health sector responses to COVID-19

• Lize Kriel (School of the Arts) published the chapter Book cover design and the visual culture of land and ancestors. The case of Botlale Tema’s Welgeval, Pilansberg, South Africa in Visual Cultures of Africa

• Stephan Mühr (Ancient and Modern Languages and Cultures) presented the paper Blood and Soil. African-European dynamics on the term of land property: a case study on Namibia at the Epistemologies of the South research colloquium

 

INVITATIONS

 

You are welcome to attend the following events:

 

• Prof Tawana Kupe and Minister of International Relations and Cooperation Dr Naledi Pandor will launch the book Beyond Fear: Reflections of a Freedom Fighter at Future Africa on 16 May 2022 at 17:00. Click here for more information

• Prof Tawana Kupe will launch the African Centre for the Study of the United States (ACSUS-UP) at the Javett-UP Art Centre on 17 May 2022 at 17:00 please RSVP

• The virtual launch of the Centre for the Future of Work will take place on 17 May 2022 at 10:00. For more information, please refer to the attached invite, please RSVP

• UP Museums’ International Museum Day tours will take place on 18 May 2022. To book a tour, contact [email protected]. For more information, click here

• The Unit for Academic Literacy’s virtual seminar on academic literacies in English and politics of language in South African higher education will take place on 25 May 2022 at 11:30. Click here to attend

 

 

Well done colleagues!

 

The next NewsClips will be published on 27 May 2022. Please be sure to log the details of your publications, appearances, and events here before 16:00, 26 May 2022 for them to be featured.