Posted on May 31, 2018
International Museum Day was celebrated at the UP Museums during the month of May.
Posted on May 29, 2018
Lecturers Charlene Herselman and Hannes Engelbrecht gave a presentation in Cape Town recently outlining the potential of film tourism for South Africa.
Posted on May 11, 2018
UP Campus Tours is holding a scavenger hunt in collaboration with the UP Museums in order to celebrate International Museum Day on 18 May.
Posted on May 09, 2018
Historian Romila Thapar was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Pretoria on 8 May 2018. Thapar, one of India’s foremost public intellectuals, was presented with the award earlier this year by the Faculty of Humanities as she is unable to travel to South Africa.
Posted on April 02, 2018
Senior Lecturer, Siona O'Connell was awarded a prestigious Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Award
Posted on November 02, 2017
In a recent article in The Conversation, Dr Ian Macqueen pointed to the significance of the Timol Inquest.
Posted on October 02, 2017
In October 2017, the Department of UP Arts would like to highlight the unique public sculpture route at the University as a means of extending 'museums beyond walls'.
Posted on September 29, 2017
The Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has awarded the Annual Medal in Social Sciences and Humanities to Prof Charles van Onselen from the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship at the University of Pretoria.
Posted on September 27, 2017
World Tourism Day is celebrated on 27 September 2017 and this year the theme is 'Sustainable Tourism — a Tool for Development'.
Posted on September 21, 2017
September is Heritage Month. In celebration of our continent and our country's rich history and heritage, we have published a new feature focussing on the past and present stories of Africa on the Research Matters website.
Posted on September 18, 2017
Campus Tours provided a tour of the Old Arts Building for two Perdeby journalists
Posted on August 31, 2017
31 August is African Traditional Medicine Day. According to Dr Bosco Bae, a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at UP, however, the day is meaningless unless its value and history is recognised.
Posted on August 25, 2017
Emeritus Professor and Acting Head of Department, Professor Alois Mlambo, was interviewed for the Michigan State University podcast series, Africa Past and Present.
Posted on August 16, 2017
Residents of Pretoria woke up to a new landmark on Monday morning after seven massive beams, each 33,55 m in length and weighing 71 tons, were installed over the weekend to construct a bridge across Lynnwood Road.
Posted on August 02, 2017
UP and the Embassy of the Kingdom of the Netherlands present the Footsteps Along the Tracks project, which uncovers the largely forgotten cultural heritage represented by the Netherlands South African Railways Company (NZASM).
Posted on July 07, 2017
University of Florida students attended a series of lectures covering the history of South Africa presented by Prof Karen Harris from the Department of Historical and Heritage Studies.
Posted on July 05, 2017
The Javett-UP, which is slowly taking shape on the Hatfield and South campuses, is set to become Africa's foremost art gallery and will exhibit art of the highest quality, with a specific focus on the art of Africa.
Posted on May 10, 2017
Dr Glen Ncube, a lecturer in the Department of Historical and Heritage studies, discusses the rise of African history as a discipline and the questions that this raises, in an article that was recently published on The Conversation.
Posted on May 09, 2017
The Department of Historical and Heritage Studies has recently made news through its engagement with debates surrounding African history and the discipline’s status given the recent calls for the decolonisation of education in its 2016 postgraduate seminars.
Posted on May 03, 2017
UP Campus Tours (UPCT) will soon be sporting newly branded gear when conducting their professional tours of the Hatfield Campus, thanks to a sponsorship by Enterprises University of Pretoria (Enterprises UP).
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