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2014
Anticipation. How Individuals and Communities Use the Future
The future is incorporated into all phenomena, conscious or unconscious, physical or ideational, as anticipation, from those forms of anticipation that are observed, for instance, in a tree that loses its leaves in the Autumn to human planning that colonizes the future inspired by imaginary futures.
Apocalyptic themes in the global warming debate
There is major controversy in America today over global warming.
Basic questions of ethics
Today ethics have to be formulated for pluralistic societies that encompass a variety of religions and worldviews including the secular option.
Basic questions of ethics (2)
Work at STIAS will be devoted to additional contributions for English and Chinese translations of the book Ethics.
Challenges and opportunities for the transport sector
The issue of sustainable energy supply is a global problem for pursuing future endeavours in the energy area.
Decolonial thoughts
Work at STIAS will be the final draft of four lectures which were delivered in 2013 at the Centre for Indian Studies in Africa (CISA) in Johannesburg under the general topic of Decolonial Thoughts.
Developing a Theory of Landscape Demography
Many populations of wild organisms exist as scattered populations spread across landscapes.
Discovery and ethical dimensions of the natural sciences
The archives of Nobel Prizes have been used for the production of two books, Nobel Prizes and Life Sciences(2010) and Nobel Prizes and Nature’s Surprises (2013).
Elie Metchnikoff: A Passionate Scientist
Elie Metchnikoff, Nobel laureate in Medicine and Physiology in 1908, is the father of innate immunity, the rapid, but non-specific defense against infection.
Emerging Statistical Renaissance in Africa
The project is about completing the writing of a book entitled Emerging Statistical Renaissance in Africa.
Ethnic differences in obesity-related complications in South African women
Obesity is closely linked the development of type 2 diabetes (T2D), a leading cause of death worldwide.
Exploring interpretations of the constitution and the bible as “sacred texts” in constructing (un)equal gendered environments
Culture, religion, gender, ethnicity, race and history influence processes of identity formation and social relationships.
Falls and related consequences in old age
Older populations are expanding all over the world.
Future Bodies. Preventing organ trafficking - focusing on consequences and alternatives to organ shortage. A "Health in Transition" Theme Project 2014 -- 2016
Todays society is facing a series of new challenges.
Garment of Destiny
Work on a new single-author book with a working title of Garment of Destiny will be started.
Global Human Rights Law and the Boundaries of Statehood
How does a transformation of the boundaries of statehood contribute to recovering the public and political nature of human rights law beyond the international legal order of territorial states?
God, Spies and Lies: How journalists and politicians fought South Africa’s war of ideas, 1800-2015
In the light of the political impasse gripping the country, this study investigates the ideas that made democratic South Africa, through the largely unexplored interaction between its journalists and politicians.
Health transition and injury care and prevention
Apart from making important contributions to morbidity and mortality world-wide (WHO), injuries as a health problem have special characteristics (Byass et al.
Kingfisher Tales
The Greek myth of the European Kingfisher has inspired many poets and writers and left deep traces in European culture.
Listening
It is planned to begin a book called Listening during the stay at STIAS which will present, in a form accessible to readers with diverse interests, a method of psychological inquiry that was developed with graduate students at Harvard and taught for many years.
Lonely Death: An Ecology of Living and Dying in Post-Miracle Japan
Stories of lonely death (kodokushi) are commonplace in what is considered an era of increasing isolation and social disconnectedness in post-Bubble Japan.
Migration Stories: The US Visa Lottery and Global Citizenship
A book about Togolese who apply for the US Diversity Visa lottery will be completed.
Monetary Policy in African Countries: Theory, Practice and Impact
The prevailing macroeconomic frameworks in African countries may be generally characterized as a do no harm approach to policy.
Multiscale Modeling in Tribology
Roughly 30% of global energy consumption today is friction - a colossal loss.
Playing at/against power: Histories of Trauma and Abuse in South African Music-Pedagogical Spaces
This project will focus on a widespread myth, namely that Sweden is a country mainly without corruption and involved internationally in corruption only because of the demands from corrupt governments and people in the rest of the world.
Post-apartheid state engagement with customary structures
This project will contribute to a greater comparative understanding of state-customary knowledge and its challenges in Africa by way of a study of the experience of the post-apartheid State in this regard.
School Photos and their Afterlives: Assimilation, Exclusion, Resistance
Appearing very early in the history of photography and pervasive throughout the world, school-class photos, like report cards and diplomas, confirm group belonging and exposure to a process of educational acculturation and socialization.
Social-ecological systems and biosphere stewardship
Humanity interacts with the dynamics of the biosphere in new ways.
Some Thoughts and Reflections about Chemistry in Africa
There is little one can read about the history and the pioneers of chemistry in Africa and even that is mostly written by non-Africans.
Synthesis, Design, and Resource Optimization in Batch Chemical Plants
The project at STIAS will involve writing a research book aimed at closing a glaring scientific gap in the area of batch chemical process.
The Aesthetics of Violence: Art, Fiction and Film
One can identify an ‘aesthetics’ of violence in any representation of a violent act where form and textuality are essential elements to the experience to the representation.
The becoming of post-apartheid jurisprudence: Towards a minor jurisprudence of generosity
The project focuses on the interdisciplinary possibilities of law to constitute a discourse of transformation for post-apartheid South Africa.
The Death Drill (a novel)
During the stay at STIAS research and writing on the historical novel ‘The Death Drill, inspired by and based on the sinking of the SS Mendi, a battle ship carrying members of the South African Native Labour Corps, will be continued.
The Foundations of Virology
At STIAS the text of an extended online edition (eBook) of the historic research work, ‘The Foundations of Medical and Veterinary Virology: Discoverers and Discoveries, Inventors and Inventions, Developers and Technology’will be written.
The indirect responsibility of States parties to Human Rights Treaties
Supervisory organs of international human rights treaties have recognised the extraterritorial effects of the prohibition of torture and recently also of the right to a fair trial.
The Porcupine is a Monkey
The aim of the work I would undertake while at Stellenbosch would be to complete the argument of a new book, whose title is The Porcupine is a Monkey.
The provision of ecosystem services and poverty alleviation
How society chooses to use land and allocate resources drives economic development and environmental quality.
The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine
Philosophers tend to explain the success of the scientific enterprise in terms of a so-called scientific method believed to be typical of physics and chemistry.
The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine (2)
Work on the book ‘The Scientific Method in Biology and Biomedicine’ will be continued.
The short history of evidence-based veterinary vaccinology
The project is concerned with vaccinology in the public eye.
Voices
After focusing almost exclusively on the instrumental medium for forty years, I will use the forthcoming STIAS artist residency as an opportunity to concentrate on the voice - and the choir in particular.
Water Governance in the Face of Global Change: From Understanding to Transforming
The sustainable management of global water resources is one of the most pressing environmental challenges of the 21st century.
2013
101 Detectives
The main project I undertook at STIAS was a collection of short fictions called 101 Detectives.
How did Homo sapiens become Homo docens? On the evolution of social learning and teaching during the Paleolithic
The purpose of the project is to analyse why teaching has evolved only in the line leading to Homo sapiens.
Revised edition of the book ‘Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms’
A second edition of the book (entitled Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms.
The Effects of Race
The STIAS Effects of Race project project will address major gaps in our knowledge on race thinking and racialism.
The State of Mathematical Sciences Research and Research Training at South African Universities
This investigation follows up on two reports that appeared in 2008 and 2009.
Understanding Non-Contractual Obligations: Unjust Enrichment and the Law of Torts in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Whereas the European and South African law of contracts is today seen as normatively integrated part of the law of obligations that can be explained coherently on the basis of an overarching theory or a set of intellectually related principles, the rest of the law of obligations is apparently still understood as resulting from various causes that are normatively independent and difficult to explain.