Dear Humanities Colleagues

 

Faculty Achievements!

• Shabnam Abdoola (Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology) was invited to join the Research Champion Network of the Royal College of Speech Language Therapists, and is the first international affiliate of the Network

 

Appearances on Media Platforms

• Prof Tawana Kupe published the article Universities must be key drivers of change on our continent

 

• Hein Willemse (Afrikaans) published:
  • Oor plek, inheemsheid en mag on LitNet
  • Vlagpaal nog ‘n Estina, Nkandla on Netwerk24
  • Ons almal is oor ons land skaam on Netwerk24

 

• Jarred Martin (Psychology) published the article Rewriting the wrongs – language that is not gender-inclusive in the Mail & Guardian

 

• Maggie Loubser (School of the Arts) was interviewed on RSG about how radiocarbon dating works

 

• Mariet Conradie (School of the Arts) was interviewed on RSG about the Ditsong Kruger Museum’s ‘Stories op die stoep’ project that aims to encourage community engagement with the museum

 

• Theo van Wyk (School of the Arts) played a selected programme on the Organ in the University’s Chapel for the International Online Organ Festival 

 

• Debjoyti Ghosh (Sociology) and Giné Gebhardt (Faculty Communications Office) published the article Building a shared future for all life! 

 

• Giné Gebhardt (Faculty Communications Office) published the articles:
  • Jazz festival plays on how genre can contribute to unity and peace around the world in The Soweta
  • International Jazz Day – A call for global peace and unity
  • Launching Beyond Fear: Reflections of a freedom fighter by Ebrahim Ebrahim  

 

 

Presentations and publications on academic platforms

• Tharina Guse (Psychology):

  • Edited the book Embracing Well-Being in Diverse African Contexts: Research Perspectives

  • Published the chapter Positive Psychological Interventions in African contexts: A Scoping Review in the book Embracing Well-Being in Diverse African Contexts: Research Perspectives

 

• Pineteh Angu (Unit for Academic Literacy), Tyanai Masiya, Kristine Gustafsson and Ngwi Mulu edited the book South African-based migrants’ responses to COVID-19: Strategies, opportunities, challenges and implications

 

• Avasha Rambiritch (Humanities Writing Centre) delivered the keynote address, titled Navigating the social turn: Reimaging space and safety in the South African writing centre at the Canadian Writing Centre Conference

 

• Benda Hofmeyr (Philosophy) was part of the Horasis Global Meeting’s panel discussion on Ethics in an Age of Catastrophes

 

• Brooks Marmon (Historical and Heritage Studies) published the articles:
  • Neutrality of a special type: George Loft’s abortive racial reconciliation in the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1957-1960 in Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies
  • ‘Bogey Bogey Stuff’: Gold Coastism, federation, and white backlash in Southern Rhodesia, 1951-56 in The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs

 

• Eddie Michel (Historical & Heritage Studies) published the article “Since we can’t now hedging our bets and buying time”. President John F. Kennedy, domestic racial equality and apartheid South Africa in the early 1960s in Safundi: The Journal of South African and American Studies

 

• Marc Wegerif (Anthropology, Archaeology & Development Studies) presented the findings from a 12 country study on the governance of land tenure, fisheries and forests at the 2022 Global Land Forum

 

• Miles Warrington (School of the Arts) co-presented a workshop at the National and Kapodistrian University (Athens, Greece) on compositional processes in electroacoustic music that uses insect sound and stochastic computer models

 

• Oscar Eybers and Emma Paulet (Unit for Academic Literacy) published the article Sociocultural theory for academic literacy research involving argumentation in institutions of higher learning in the South African Journal of Higher Education

 

• Theo van Wyk (School of the Arts) presented the paper South African Organ Culture – An historical and current overview as part the International Online Organ Festival’s webinar

 

Scheduled Events

• The Department of Afrikaans’ virtual seminar on Prof Menán du Plessis’ (Stellenbosch University) paper The Khoisan languages of southern Africa: some of the basics – and some of the debates. The seminar will take place on Blackboard Collaborate on 2 June 2022 at 09:30. For more information, please refer to NewsNotes sent on 20 May and RSVP by 31 May 2022

 

• The Road Home Concert (UP Camerata and Missouri State University Choir) is scheduled for 5 June 2022 at 16:00 at the ZK Matthews Great Hall, UNISA. Click here to purchase tickets

 

• The Centre for Mediation in Africa and Department of Political Sciences’ seminar on War in the Ukraine: Causes and Consequences, with Prof Hubert Zimmermann (Philipps University of Marburg) as speaker. The seminar will take place on 6 June 2022 at 14:00 in the Old College House Lounge. For more information, click here and to RSVP click here 

 

• The NRF-Rating Workshop on getting or improving your NRF rating. The workshop will take place on Blackboard Collaborate on 7 June 2022 at 10:00-14:00. For more information, please refer to the attached invite. RSVP: [email protected]

 

• Professor Siona O’Connell’s Inaugural Lecture on We are Not a Community of Nobodies: What may we yet become? will be held in person in the Senate Hall on 9 June 2022 between 18h00 - 19h30. To attend please RSVP here

 

My congratulations to all our colleagues! 

 

The next NewsClips will be published on 10 June 2022. Please be sure to log the details of your publications, appearances, and events here before 16:00, 9 June 2022 for them to be featured.

 

Warm regards

Vasu