Call for Applications for NRF Freestanding, Innovation and Scarce Skills Postdoctoral Fellowships for 2017
The National Research Foundation (NRF) in partnership with the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Department of Higher Education and Training (DHET) are pleased to announce the call for scholarship applications for 2017 in the following categories:
Sinethemba Makanya, a WiSER medical humanities doctoral student, has been named one of the Mail & Guardian's 200 Young South Africans in the field of Science & Technology...
Submitted by Sarah Nuttall on 27 November, 2018 - 17:43
Statement from Sarah Nuttall and Achille Mbembe on “Recognition, Reparation, Reconciliation” Conference (Stellenbosch University)
We, like a large number of South African and international scholars, firmly oppose Israeli occupation of Palestinian land and support the boycott as a non-violent strategy for ending the occupation.
Congratulations to Editor Makhosazana Xaba, and the 23 contributors on winning the NIHSS award for non-fiction. The compelling book, Our Words Our Worlds, explores the history and impact of poetry by black women.
The vastly different perspectives and treatments in two recent books about Zimbabwean author Dambudzo Marechera leave the reader with tantalising questions beyond the subject matter.
My first encounter with Dambudzo Marechera is at assembly at an out-of-the-way rural boarding school. I was twelve. At this point I don’t know his story or reputations. His gender is fluid. For a while he stayed a woman in my imagination. He is not a man. Androgynous. – Tinashe Mushakavanhu
Can high-level meetings and summits build trust and change a historically complex set of relationships between France and post-colonial African nations?
French president Emmanuel Macron visited Rwanda on 27 May, the first such trip for France’s head of state since Nicolas Sarkozy over 10 years ago. This was a highly anticipated visit aimed at normalising relations between the two countries, which have been tense over conflicting narratives about France’s role during the 1994 genocide.
‘Hamwe Festival is a wonderful initiative.’ We are thrilled to welcome WiSER’s Prof. Nolwazi Mkhwanazi, a prominent medical anthropologist, on our first Board of Advisors, who will play a critical role in the growth and impact of #HamweFestival.
PATRICIA HAYES AND IONA GILBURT
Centre for Humanities Research, University of the Western Cape
Retakes in Liquid Time*
In the wake of intensifying debates on decolonisation and restitution in Africa and
its francophone diaspora, a Facebook posting of 6 February 2020 gave an other life
to a photographic portrait of the French-Italian explorer Savorgnan de Brazza taken in 1882.
