Sydney Brenner and Nina Jablonski present lectures at STIAS Prof Sydney Brenner, the 2002 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology/Medicine and a STIAS visiting fellow, and world-renowned anthropologist and palaeontologist Prof Nina Jablonski, received honorary doctoral degrees from Stellenbosch University at a graduation ceremony on Wednesday 10 March 2010.
STIAS Long-Term Project: Being Human Today -- The Effects of Race Over the next five years, the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation will fund seven long term STIAS research projects on selected themes.
STIAS Fellow Nina G Jablonski named Evan Pugh Professor at Penn State Nina G. Jablonski, Distinguished Professor of Anthropology in the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State University, and a fellow at STIAS, is one of three faculty members at that university who have recently been named Evan Pugh Professor, the highest distinction bestowed by Penn State on its faculty.
Nina Jablonski named Permanent Visiting Fellow of STIAS Nina Jablonski, recently named Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropologyin the College of the Liberal Arts at Penn State University, has accepted a nomination as Permanent Visiting Fellow of STIAS;she joins a select group who have an open invitation to work at STIAS whenever they can.
Future must suffocate racism – STIAS seminar by Njabulo Ndebele The Effects of Racegroup at STIAS: Back: Nina Jablonski, Aryan Kaganof and Zimitri Erasmus Front: Göran Therborn, Gerhard Maré, Barney Pityana, Crain Soudien, Njabulo Ndebele, Mikael Hjerm and Chabani Manganyi (Absent: Norman Duncan) Photo: Anton Jordaan Our new future must suffocate racism – racism must not continue to suffocate people, said Prof.
Celebrity culture perpetuates old stereotypes - Fellows' seminar by Nina Jablonski The privileging of light skin colour – both between and within groups – is now recognised as one of the most lamentable cultural universals that exist, said Prof.
What do we wish to change with regard to race, racism and racialism? Fellows' Seminar by the 'Effects of Race' group The project faces a daunting challenge.
The hairy timeline of evolution - Fellows' seminar by Nina Jablonski Human beings are unique among mammals in their possession of visible hair on select parts of the body.
When the rainbow melts – trying to find out why Twenty-six years since the dawn of democracy and race is still a talking point in South African society.
Nina Jablonski elected to US National Academy of Sciences STIAS Permanent fellow and Evan Pugh Professor of Anthropology at Penn State University Nina Jablonski has been elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences.
Wandering in prehistory - Fellows' seminar by Nina Jablonski Skin colour cannot be used as a basis for any classification of people into types or races.
Variation in skin reflectance and pigmentation genes in young adults of Xhosa and Cape Mixed ancestry from the Western Cape, South Africa Jablonski, Nina G., Tina Lasisi, Abhimanyu Abhimanyu, Anna K. Coussens, Celeste E. Naude, George Chaplin, Laurel N. Pearson, Rene Goliath, Mark D.Shriver a...
