Blogs

IUSSP Fellowship and Orientation Week

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 15 February, 2023 - 00:00

https://iussp.org/en/population-registers-ethics-and-human-rights-initiative

Population Registers, Ethics, and Human Rights

An IUSSP initiative carried out in collaboration with WiSER, ISER & IIGH with the aid of a grant from IDRC. 

Two Wits professors awarded Science for Society Gold Medals

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 24 October, 2022 - 11:43

Two Wits professors awarded Science for Society Gold Medals


The Academy of Science of South Africa has awarded its highest honour, Science for Society Gold Medals, to Wits Professors Karen Hofman and Achille Mbembe.

 

ASSAf annually awards ASSAf Science for Society Gold Medals in recognition of outstanding achievements by individuals. Up to two Gold Medals are awarded per annum for outstanding achievement in scientific thinking for the benefit of society.

Project Page | IUSSP Initiative on Population Registers, Ethics and Human Rights

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 1 October, 2022 - 00:00

The overall purpose of this initiative is to infuse interdisciplinary perspectives, drawing on perspectives from law, history, economics, public policy, demography, and public health, to address the ethical and human rights challenges that are emerging as population register systems are modernized and digitized.  We set out the basic elements of the collaboration on this page.

How Zipline is redefining healthcare delivery in Africa by Georges Macaire Eyenga

Submitted by Keith Breckenridge on 20 September, 2022 - 11:23

MEDICAL DRONES

How Zipline is redefining healthcare delivery in Africa

After proving itself on the African continent, in Ghana and Rwanda in particular, the Californian firm is about to enter the American market for delivering medicines by drone. An activity that has everything to please, insofar as it can save lives, but which raises a number of fears about the use of the data collected…

Antarctica, Africa and the Arts Workshop 2022

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 9 June, 2022 - 18:23

The NRF SANAP project, ‘Antarctica, Africa and the Arts’, hosted a workshop from 23 to 25 May at Cape Agulhas National Park, with a focus on Africa’s relationship to its south-facing coastlines from the perspective of the arts and humanities. The workshop brought scholars from a wide range of academic disciplines together with creative practitioners, with the aim of navigating what it means to think Antarctica from Africa during the era of climate change.

Four novelists, one ocean: how Indian Ocean literature can remap the world

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 8 June, 2022 - 15:43

Novels make worlds. They create an intuitive sense and mental image of a place. And the senses of space produced by fiction shape how readers see the world itself, just like maps do.

WiSER’s Hlonipha Mokoena in conversation with Abongile Nzelenzele

Submitted by Phumeza Majola on 22 April, 2022 - 02:06

Podcast | WiSER’s Hlonipha Mokoena in conversation with @CapeTalk’s Abongile Nzelenzele talking 100-year story of South Africa’s our first history book published in isiZulu.

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