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Latest news and eventsProf. Lindy Heinecken: South African troops are dying in the DRC.
The death of South African soldiers on a Southern African Development Community (SADC) mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has sparked fierce debate about the deployment of South African National Defence Force (SANDF) soldiers there. Some, including...
Dr. Ziyanda Majombozi publishes in The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology!
Dr Ziyanda Majombozi contributed a chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Feminist Anthropology. Her chapter, titled Mothering in the Decolonial Moment, explores how movements like Rhodes Must Fall and Fees Must Fall intersect with the intimate spaces of mothering. She...
Dr. Renugan Raidoo awarded Queer African Studies Association essay prize for 2023!
The Queer African Studies Association of the African Studies Association has recognized Dr. Renugan Raidoo as the (co-)winner of the essay prize for the best scholarly essay published by a junior (un-tenured) scholar in 2023. The article, entitled “Politics of the...
Nomzamo P. Ntombela Wins 2024 Nancy ‘Penny’ Schwartz Student Travel Award!
The decline of Afrikaans and institutional bilingualism at Stellenbosch University
Lloyd Hill, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Thursday 14 November 2024, 13:00-14:30 (SAST), Room 401, Arts Building. Op-ed: What one university’s 30-year transformation reveals about Afrikaans and language planning in South Africa Article: Semantic...
In defense of undergraduate writing: Generative AI and undergraduate reading / writing
Thursday, 10 October 2024, 13:00-14:30; Join the meeting online: https://bit.ly/AI-Seminar4 This seminar is envisaged as a Faculty forum for exploring the impact of generative AI on undergraduate reading and writing in the humanities. Two relatively brief...
Generative AI and the Humanities
Thursday, 26 September 2024, 13:00-14:30; Join the meeting online: https://bit.ly/AI-Seminar3 Ava van Huyssteen and Lennox Olivier First presentation: Generative AI in the Faculty of Arts and Social SciencesLarge language models (LLMs) constitute a new generation of...
Dr Saibu Mutaru to present Evans-Pritchard lecture.
Dr. Mutaru, one of this department's former PhD students, will give his first Evans-Pritchard lecture titled 'Witchcraft "Witch Camps", and Social Life in Northern Ghana'. The lecture will take place on the 30th of April at 4pm. The teams link is on this...
Lecturer post: deadline extended until 18 January
Due to some technical difficulties experienced by applicants in December and early January the deadline for submission of applications for the lecturer post (LSW17/313/1123) has been extended to 18 January. The deadline for the senior lecturer post (LSW17/314/1123)...
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South African Sociological Association Meetings 2024 Call for Papers, hosted by Stellenbosch University
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Statement by members of the Stellenbosch University community on the attacks on Gaza
We, members of the Stellenbosch University community, note with deep concern the ongoing massacre and continued mass displacement of the population of Gaza by the Israeli military since 7 October. We are appalled by the mass murder of innocent civilians and are...
Book Launch: Christi van der Westthuizen’s edited volume “Routledge Handbook on Critical Whiteness Studies”
This is a photo from the recent seminar launching Christi van der Westthuizen's edited volume "Routledge Handbook on Critical Whiteness Studies", Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, 19 October 2023 Pictured: Khayaat Fakier (Seminar Chair), Lwando Scott...
Sharing the outcomes of Prince Claus Chair project ‘Connecting with care’
At the conclusion of Professor Khayaat Fakier’s two-year appointment as Prince Claus Chair (2021-23), Professor Wendy Harcourt, host of the PCC, and Dr Agustina Solera, postdoctoral researcher of the PCC, visited the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa...
OP-ED: The Myth of the Apolitical Commission, by Claire-Anne Lester
“In response to the Johannesburg fire disaster, the South African government has announced a ‘politically free’ commission of inquiry. But there is no such thing.” https://africasacountry.com/2023/09/the-myth-of-the-apolitical-commission
SU Hosts Transformative Conference for Mellon Foundation-funded “Indexing Transformation” Programme
Stellenbosch University’s (SU) Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology recently concluded a significant three-day conference, marking the culmination of the “Indexing Transformation” programme, a groundbreaking endeavour funded by the Mellon Foundation. The...
Indexing Transformation Conference, Mont Fleur, 23-25 August
Final Programme Wednesday 23 August 10.30 Arrival and coffee 11.00-11.30 Steven Robins, PI of Indexing Transformation, Opening Address. 11.30-12.00 Vanessa Mpatlanyane, Sociology and Social Anthropology Alumnus, “Family obligations and...
Shaka Keny Bob wins the South African Sociological Association Student Essay Competition 2023
Public space and informal employment. The contribution of women-led solidarity movements in promoting decent work and social dialogue in South Africa This paper draws inspiration from the Self-Employed Women’s Association, widely cited in labour studies literature as...
SEMINAR: The Work of Repair: Capacity after Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa
2023 SEMINAR SERIES: Thursday 8 June, 13:00-14:30 (SAST)Room 401, Arts and Social Sciences Building, SU The Work of Repair: Capacity After Colonialism in the Timber Plantations of South Africa Dr. Thomas Cousins Clarendon-Lienhardt Associate Professor, University of...
SEMINAR: African Franchise and the making of anti-colonial Blackness in colonial South Africa, 1874-1890
2023 SEMINAR SERIES: Thursday 30 March, 13:00-14:30 (SAST)Room 401, Arts and Social Sciences Building, SU African Franchise and the making of anti-colonial Blackness in colonial South Africa, 1874-1890 Dr. Jonathan SchootsPostdoctoral Fellow, Stellenbosch University,...
SEMINAR: Sex and the Village: Theorizing the Rural through Scandal in Himalayan India
2023 SEMINAR SERIES: Thursday 23 March, 13:00-14:30 (SAST)Room 401, Arts and Social Sciences Building, SU Sex and the Village: Theorizing the Rural through Scandal in Himalayan India Prof. Radhika GovindrajanAssociate Professor, Anthropology, University of Washington...