Talk at Department of Psychology: Apartheid’s body-in-pieces (26 March)
Derek Hook, a Reader in Psychosocial Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London, and a visiting lecturer at the London School of Economics and Wits University, will present a talk at the...
View ArticleArtist Jan-Henri Booyens talks about his work (16 April)
The Department of Visual Arts presents: Speaker: Jan-Henri Booyens Jan-Henri Booyens studied at the Durban Institute of Technology and the Gerrit Rietveld Academie voor Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam....
View ArticleBiochemistry Forum: Losing carbs and calories at high temperature (28 March)
Biochemistry Forum Speaker: Prof Jacky Snoep Title: Losing carbs and calories at high temperature Date: Thursday 28 March 2013 Time: 13:00 Venue: Biochemistry Seminar Room A111, JC Smuts Building,...
View ArticleResearch seminar: Department of Economics (8 April)
The Department of Economics will host a research seminar. Speaker: Dr Martine Mariotti (Australian National University) Topic: Father’s employment and sons’ stature: the long-run effects of a positive...
View ArticleInaugural lecture: Prof Niel Krige (16 April)
Prof Niel Krige of the Department of Business Management and the University of Stellenbosch Business School will be presenting his inaugural lecture on Tuesday 16 April 2013. Title: Some perspectives...
View ArticleSeminar: Department of Statistics (5 April)
The Department of Statistics will present a seminar: Presenter: Rainer von Sachs, ISBA (Institut de statistique, biostatistique et sciences actuarielles), Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium...
View ArticleChief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng to present Annual Human Rights Law lecture: 25...
Prof Sandra Liebenberg, HF Oppenheimer Chair in Human Rights Law and Prof Sonia Human, Dean of the Faculty of Law at Stellenbosch University invite you to the Annual Human Rights Law Lecture presented...
View ArticleSeminar: Department of Statistics (12 April)
The Department of Statistics will present a seminar: Presenter: Zurab Janelidze (Department of Mathematics, SU) Topic: Mathematics today – form and function Date: Friday 12 April 2013 Time: 13:00 to...
View ArticlePolitical Science Friday Seminar (12 April)
The Department of Political Science will present its weekly Friday seminar: Speaker: Simone Claar, Goethe University, Frankfurt Topic: A BICS Variety of Capitalism? Date: 12 April 2013 Time: 12:15 –...
View ArticleScience and Engineering teaching for the 21st century (15 April)
The Science Teaching and Learning Discussion Forum, led by Prof Ingrid Rewitzky, would like to invite you to a seminar by Prof Jenni Case from UCT this coming Monday 15 April 2013. Venue: Den Bosch,...
View ArticleSeminar: Changing perceptions of intellectual disability (9 April)
Prof Roy McConkey, Professor of Developmental Disabilities at the University of Ulster in Northern Ireland will give a talk at the Department of Psychology with the title: Changing perceptions of...
View ArticleDepartment of Economics: Research seminar (15 April)
The Department of Economics will present a research seminar: Speaker: Marjorie Lecerf (Strasbourg Business School) Topic: The internationalization process of French and German SMEs – an empirical study...
View ArticlePublic lecture: The legacy of pope Benedict XVI (17 April)
The Beyers Naudé Centre for Public Theology at the Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University, will present a public lecture with the title: The legacy of pope Benedict XVI – On the tensions between...
View ArticleHistory Seminar: 17 April
Speaker: Prof Louise du Toit (Stellenbosch University) Topic: “Rumours of Rape: a critical consideration of interpretations of sexual violence in South Africa” Date: Wednesday 17 April Time:...
View ArticleBiochemistry Forum: MSc Progress Lecture (11 April)
Student: Christopher van Niekerk Title: ’Investigating aspects of self-production in the context of artificial chemistries’ Supervisor: Prof J-HS Hofmeyr Date: Thursday 11 April 2013 Time: 13:00 Venue:...
View ArticleWorkshop: Barefoot running and training in minimalist shoes (11 April)
Dr Ranel Venter and Mr Kurt Schutte will present a workshop on barefoot running and training in minimalist shoes. The presenters have done in this field over a period of five years. This workshop has a...
View ArticleWell-known Egyptologist to speak on dogs in ancient Egypt (4 May)
Well-known Egyptologist Prof Salima Ikram from the American University in Cairo (AUC) will visit the Cape as the guest of Prof Sakkie Cornelius of the Department of Ancient Studies at Stellenbosch...
View ArticleSeminar: Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology (11 April)
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Heather Brookes, Schools Development Unit, School of Education, University of Cape Town Topic: Tsotsitaal, style and performance among urban black...
View ArticleDepartment of Business Management: Seminar (19 April)
Speakers: Prof C Gerber, Prof S Viviers and Prof P Erasmus (Stellenbosch University) Topic: Postgraduate research training: Are we really succeeding? Date: 19 April 2013 Time: 12:00-13:00 Venue: R716...
View ArticleDepartment of Economics: Research seminar (22 April)
Speaker: Prof Estian Calitz (Stellenbosch University) Topic: The accuracy of fiscal projections in South Africa Date: Monday 22 April 2013 Time: 12:00-13:00 Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Second floor,...
View ArticlePolitical Science Friday Seminar (19 April)
Speaker: Prof Jeremy Seekings, Centre for Social Science Research, UCT Topic: The politics of job destruction in the clothing industry: Capital, labour and state in post-apartheid South Africa Date: 19...
View ArticleSeminar: Suicidal behaviour as communication (16 April)
Prof Heidi Hjelmeland, a professor of Health Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim as well as Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health in Oslo,...
View ArticleSTIAS Lecture: Prof Ian Hacking (30 April)
You are hereby invited to attend the fourth public STIAS lecture of 2013. This presents an opportunity to academics, researchers and students at SU and in the Western Cape, as well as members of the...
View ArticleBiochemistry Forum: MSc Progress Lecture (18 April)
Biochemistry Forum: MSc Progress Lecture Student: Sunette Klopper Title: Cloning and functional charaterization of thiol disulfide interchange system proteins from Staphylococcus aureus Supervisor:...
View ArticleHistory seminar (24 April)
Speaker: Glen Thompson (Stellenbosch University) Topic: “From Femlins to Saltwater Girls: Sport, Lifestyle and Femininities in South African Surfing Culture, c.1965 to present.” Date: Wednesday 24...
View ArticleSeminar: Department of Psychology (25 April)
Professor Birthe Loa Knizek, a clinical psychologist at the Faculty of Nursing, University College of Sør-Trøndelag (Norway), will present a seminar at the Department of Psychology about Moral...
View ArticleSeminar: Lay health worker (LHW) policy and practice (23 April)
Karen Daniels, employed as a Specialist Scientist at the Health Systems Unit of the Medical Research Council of South Africa, will speak about: Lay health worker (LHW) policy and practice: Lessons from...
View ArticleSeminar: Department Sociology and Social Anthropology (23 April)
Department Sociology and Social Anthropology Speaker: Dunbar Moodie, Department of Sociology, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva and New York Topic: “Cyril’s eyes lit up.” Roelf Meyer, Francois...
View Article‘Despairing youth should be given hope of a better future’ – Prof Russel...
Globalisation could increasingly drive the youth worldwide into the arms of fanatical and extremist groups because of public and economic policy that continue to exclude the poor and other marginalised...
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