Mmakgabo Helen Sebidi at the University of Pretoria

Posted on August 20, 2019

Mmakgabo Sebidi is on a 3-month Residency at the University of Pretoria that is funded by the Mellon Foundation. The residency includes working with Fine Art students at the Tshwane University of Technology and the University of Pretoria. She will deliver a Master Class at the Student Gallery,...

UP student, Dian Labuschagne, wins HOMEMAKERS design Expo competition

Posted on July 21, 2019

HOMEMAKERS Expo has collaborated with the University of Pretoria (UP) in the creation of the theme for next year’s show. UP's third-year Information Design students were required to create a visual design concept that would become the theme for HOMEMAKERS Expo 2020. This year's winner, Dian...

A German repository of African knowledge, and a translator in the waiting room

Posted on June 12, 2019

On 18 April Prof Lize Kriel from UP and Ms Margrit Schulze from the University of Limpopo presented a paper at the joint Conference of the Association for German Studies in Southern Africa and the GAS (Germanistik in Afrika Subsahara), hosted by the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein.

Colloquium on Environmental Humanities held at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, University of Pretoria on 29 – 31 May 2019.

Posted on June 07, 2019

Colloquium on Environmental Humanities held at the Centre for the Advancement of Scholarship, the University of Pretoria on 29 – 31 May 2019.

Launch of Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities (2018) edited by Prof Amanda du Preez

Posted on May 21, 2019

Prof Amanda du Preez’s edited volume Voices from the South: Digital Arts and Humanities was recently launched at an event organised by the Visual Studies Programme in the School of the Arts. The following authors contributed chapters: Prof Amanda du Preez, Prof Charles Travis, Dr Chris...

DHASA conference

Posted on April 14, 2019

The Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa (DHASA) held their second conference at the University of Pretoria from 25 to 29 March 2019.

BA Information Design: Information Day 2019

Posted on April 14, 2019

Get rooted in our culture We invite you - prospective students, parents and teachers - to meet staff and students, walk around the Department and learn more about what we have to offer.

UP Visual Arts lecturers and artists feature large at Aardklop, the Potchefstroom National Arts Festival 1- 7 October 2018

Posted on October 17, 2018

UP Visual Arts lecturers and artists feature at Aardklop, the Potchefstroom National Arts Festival