Posted on July 09, 2021
The History Honours students in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies (DHHS) were once again the proud presenters of the annual archives project that forms part of one of their core research and methodology modules.
Posted on June 25, 2021
World Environment Day, which we celebrate on 5 June this year, is a day that focuses on the environment and ecosystem restoration. This year kicks off the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (2021–2030). As the environment continues to suffer at the hands of humans, forests, peatlands and...
Posted on June 25, 2021
Remembering Sam Mzima’s iconic photograph of Hector Pieterson, memorialised at the Hector Pieterson Memorial and Museum in Soweto[1], the Soweto Poet Laureate[2] Ingoapele Madingoane’s poem Africa my beginning, Africa my ending,[3] and Ingrid Jonker’s The child who was shot dead...
Posted on June 17, 2021
The University of Pretoria’s Department of Historical and Heritage Studies lecturer, Dr. Glen Ncube, recently co-hosted a youth research and learning workshop with the University of the Free State’s Dr Faith Mkwananzi, in Pretoria, from 13 – 17 June.
Posted on June 15, 2021
16 June 1976 should serve as a stark reminder of the power and agency of young people when they face a colossal threat to their future, such as South Africa is once again teetering on, writes UP postgraduate student Edwin Smith.
Posted on June 14, 2021
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies and the Faculty of Humanities hosted a talk given by Professor Charles van Onselen on 7 June 2021
Posted on May 31, 2021
The University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT) proudly presented International Museum Day (IMD) on 18 May 2021. Although Museum Day is a regular annual event on the University of Pretoria (UP) calendar, this was the first time the event was held on a virtual platform.
Posted on May 31, 2021
The Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at UP and the Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study co-hosted a virtual centenary commemoration of the Bulhoek Massacre of 1921.
Posted on May 27, 2021
On 3 May 2020, the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies hosted a seminar by Dr. Eddie Michel entitled “‘You haven’t been too horrible to us recently.’ Lyndon B. Johnson and apartheid South Africa”.
Posted on May 19, 2021
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies would like to extend its congratulations to two recent Master’s students, Nicole Sithole and Reatile Moncho, who have secured scholarships to undertake their doctoral studies.
Posted on May 17, 2021
Brooks Marmon, a post-doctoral fellow in the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies has been named the 2021 recipient of the International History Review’s Research Award.
Posted on May 06, 2021
Congratulations to the 10 UP academics and researchers who won big at the recently announced Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science and the Arts) annual awards.
Posted on April 30, 2021
UP’s Tangible Heritage Conservation programme has capped its inaugural master’s students. The degree, launched in 2018, is the first of its kind in sub-Saharan Africa.
Posted on April 23, 2021
Dr VR (Vicky) Heunis, a doctoral student from the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies has recently been awarded the Protea Books prize for a thesis in Afrikaans.
Posted on March 29, 2021
On March 25, the 2021 UP history honours class was joined by the distinguished historian, Professor Daniel Woolf, who is internationally renowned for his specialization in the field of historiography.
Posted on March 15, 2021
Professor Charles van Onselen received the prize for his much-applauded book, "The Night Trains: Moving Mozambican Miners to and from South Africa, circa 1902-1955".
Posted on February 22, 2021
Elize Soer, a graduate from the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies (DHHS), recently landed a scholarship to complete a multidisciplinary PhD at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.
Posted on December 10, 2020
On 4 December 2020 the Heritage and Cultural Tourism honours students held their annual year-end-function in celebration
Posted on December 10, 2020
On 2 December 2020 the University of Pretoria Campus Tours (UPCT) team presented an international webinar hosted by the Association for Tourism and Leisure Education and Research (ATLAS).
Posted on November 23, 2020
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies proudly hosted the screening of its first MA coursework short film on Wednesday, 18 November 2020.
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