Projects

Modern technology makes use of nearly the entire periodic table of the elements.

Thomas Graedel

The general focus is on examining critical issues affecting the promotion of constitutionalism in Africa from a comparative perspective.

Charles Fombad Rainer Grote Erika de Wet Dieter Grimm

This project is about South African identity and the key question to be answered would be: what does it mean to be South African as opposed to a white, coloured, African or Indian South African?

Ryland Fisher

While DNA contains the genetic information, a large number of different proteins are the ‘workhorses’ in living organisms executing the orders given through the DNA code.

Pernilla Wittung-Stafshede

It is planned to use the time at STIAS to find out whether something like an African type of constitutionalism is developing or whether constitutionalism in Africa develops more or less along the lines of Western constitutionalism.

Theunis Roux

The target and at the same time the tool of the project is the conceptualisations and imaginations of the social and the economic in various African languages.

Andreas Eckert Axel Fleisch Bo Stråth

A joint book manuscript ‘Conjuring majorities: life, infrastructure, and relational politics in the urban South’ (with AbdouMaliq Simone) will be completed.

Edgar Pieterse

This proposal forms part of a larger project on economic and social rights in general, and the right to housing in particular.

Through quasi-inquisitorial procedures for identifying particular subjects as criminals, law at the Cape circa 1795-1810 fashioned hierarchies of criminals in the name of a particular sovereign’s justice.

George Pavlich

After fifty years of writing plays the forthcoming stay at STIAS will be used to make a second attempt at writing a novel.

Athol Fugard

In this study the theory of flexibly-bounded rationality which is an extension to the theory of bounded rationality is studied.

Tshilidzi Marwala

While Southern countries have largely failed to bring about a new international economic order, they have been more successful in shaping the international agenda in the field of human rights, from the Convention for the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination to the Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and its recent Protocol.

Rainer Grote

It is often believed that in the past, women were confined to the home and supported by their husbands (the male breadwinner model).

Maria Ågren

While at STIAS a novel will be researched and written.

Zakes Mda

The 20th century will be seen by historians as the century of growth.

Reiner Klingholz

During the past decades it became evident that at least 21% of the global cancer incidence is linked to viral, bacterial and parasitic infections.

Harald Zur Hausen

The miniaturisation of animal body cells is limited, and as a consequence, muscle and nerve cells are of similar diameters in large and small animals, to within an order of magnitude.

Harald Wolf

Is it still possible and meaningful, as traditional psychoanalytic theory implies, to understand the relation between psychopathology and (philosophical) anthropology in a positive and structural way?

Vladimir Safatle Philippe van Haute Herman Westerink Ariane Bazan Derek Hook

Over the last three centuries western legal thinking has been driven by notions of nation-states, national legal systems and classical forms of logic.

Patrick Glenn

Work on the ways in which classifications of people affect the people classified, in particular the ways that individuals think of themselves, and how this affects their actions, and open up or close off possible futures will be continued.

Ian Hacking

In resource-poor settings, poor and marginalised populations have little access to burn injury emergency care, which is crucial to achieve the best possible clinical outcomes.

Marie Hasselberg Lucie Laflamme

Grassland systems have been in focus for a long time due to their ecological, socioeconomic and cultural importance.

Jan Bengtsson Regina Lindborg

Although Nietzsche is admittedly one of the most anti-Christian thinkers in the history of philosophy, this does certainly not mean that Christianity has not left traces in his thinking.

Paul van Tongeren

Cardiovascular disease has for many years been the leading cause of death in western societies and the incidence is now also rapidly increasing in many developing countries.

Anna Hultgårdh Jan Nilsson

This is a writing project that would examine South African politics in exile and how that had an impact on the relationship of political parties inside the country.

Mosibudi Mangena

This project seeks to contribute to our understanding of the moral values that underpin procedural rights in criminal trials, with a particular focus on the sentencing process.

Denise Meyerson

The concept of chaos in classical mechanics is well defined.

Sven Aberg

This project will involve the further exploration of a number of issues treated briefly in the 2004 study ‘The Singularity of Literature’, a short book that examined the distinctive character of literary uses of language, emphasizing the interrelated trinity of inventiveness, singularity and alterity.

Derek Attridge

South African literary studies has, in a sense, lost its intellectual project.

Duncan Brown

This research draws upon a general theoretical interest in organisation outside of organisations paired with an ambition to better understand the formation of criminal organising or cooperation.

Christofer Edling

The main purpose of this project is to analyse South Africa’s Foreign Policy towards its own region and towards Latin America (Brazil and Argentina) on a comparative basis and to discuss its role as a regional-middle-emerging power: Leadership?

Gladys Lechini

The apartheid regime of South Africa persistently abstained from ratifying any of the major human rights treaties elaborated under the aegis of the United Nations after 1948.

Ulrike Davy

The underlying circuitry for somatic sensation remains a mystery.

Patrik Ernfors

The project involves the writing of a major monograph, commissioned by the Brenthurst Press in Johannesburg, on the history of astronomy and navigation at the Cape of Good Hope from the late fifteenth century until the middle of the nineteenth century - encompassing times when European expeditions came to the Cape to study the southern sky.

Brian Warner

The research project deals with the impact of a severe global economic crisis on political parties in representative democracies.

Hans-Dieter Klingemann

This project involves the writing of a rather particular anthropological history of contemporary India.

Saurabh Dube

Over the last century, several waves of democracy have swept over the globe, bringing representative democracy to places where it seemed inconceivable.

Bo Rothstein

This study concerns the question whether the manner in which international law informed political consensus in South Africa and Namibia is of relevance to the settlement of the Israel/Palestine conflict.

John Dugard

Nederlandsliedjiesare one of the two most important repertoires of creole songs which feature in the competitions of the Sangkore (also called: Nagtroepe, Hollandse Teams or Malay Choirs); they are also the repertoire that raises the strongest emotions among listeners and singers belonging to the group that was labelled coloured during apartheid.

Denis-Constant Martin

While South Africa is food secure at a national level this is not the case for many households.

Luc D'Haese