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2014
“Many Voices One Song.” Health-promoting Schools: Evidence, Strategies, Challenges and Prospects
Globally, a moral imperative exists to ensure that all children are provided with the resources and environment necessary to enable them to reach their individual potential, and the call for investment to improve the health of children is almost universal.
Animal, Mineral or Vegetable?
During my time at STIAS I will collaborate with Stellenbosch faculty in both the humanities and the sciences to examine ancient Egyptian mummies, particularly those belonging to animals.
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.
Celebrating South African outsider artists: Helen Martins and Nukain Mabusa
In 1972, the British scholar Roger Cardinal coined the term outsider art as an English equivalent of art brut, French artist Jean Dubuffet’s term for artists creating extraordinary work outside the boundaries of mainstream western art.
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.
Conceptafrica
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.
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.
Deconstructing Shadows: Human behaviour through the prism of evolution
This project involves an in-depth analysis of human behaviour from an evolutionary perspective, as a basis for integrating our modern understanding of behavioural psychology with its neurobiological basis.
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).
Education, Skills and Inequality in the Labour Market
The race between education and technology is a key factor in determining earnings inequality.
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.
Ethnicity and Constitutionalism in Africa
The focus of the study for this year, under the broad theme of constitution-building in Africa will be the issue of separation of powers.
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.
Faith and Fabric (The status of ‘secular modernity’ in an African context)
In 2005/2006 the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin hosted an inter-disciplinary research project on secular modernity in which world-renowned Fellows like Hans Joas (German sociologist at the Freiburh Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), professor of the University of Chicago), who led the project, Charles Taylor (Canadian philosopher) and Jose Casanova (sociologist of religion from New York), amongst others, studied the nature of secularisation and the presence and role or religion in different so-called modern societies.
Falls and related consequences in old age
Older populations are expanding all over the world.
Food and nutrition security in rural communities
A book is being developed which takes into account multiple objectives of providing enough food at household and individual level, an acceptable monetary income and sustainable production under the constraints of limited access to resources (land, credit, water, technology, information, level of education and more), dependency on remittances and social security programs, and limited access to markets.
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.
Genres of Critique
This project seeks to open and explore a liminal space for critique between aesthetics and politics.
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.
High-Resolution Laboratory X-Ray Bio-Imaging
This project concerns methods to obtain higher spatial resolution and improved contrast when imaging thick biological samples – a classical and generic bio-imaging problem.
Hypervalent Iodine Compounds as Green Reagents in Organic Synthesis
The need for environmentally benign methodology to perform reactions in organic chemistry is continuously increasing, in order to minimize health and climate effects caused by the chemical industry.
Impact of sustainable intensification of food production on environment and human well-being
Africa, once considered the breadbasket of the world, is now strongly affected by problems with food insecurity and malnutrition.
It’s the Education, Stupid! Martin Luther’s unfinished business
At the beginning of the 21th century mankind is confronted with a number of global challenges.
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.
Macrophages in Human Tissues-Phenotypic Diversity in Health and Disease
Macrophages represent a heterogeneous family of white blood cells which are widely distributed throughout the body.
mHealth for Burn Diagnostic and Care in South Africa
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.
Migration Stories: The US Visa Lottery and Global Citizenship
A book about Togolese who apply for the US Diversity Visa lottery will be completed.
Mobile telephony and acute injury care
In the context of a collaboration between Stellenbosch University (SUN) and Karolinska Institutet (KI) the project aims to facilitate the diagnosis and care of burns patients in resource poor areas, building on modern information communication technologies like camera phones.
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.
Multifunctionality in managed grassland systems: Biodiversity and ecosystem services
Grassland systems have been in focus for a long time due to their ecological, socioeconomic and cultural importance.
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.
Rethinking Development in the Global Information Age: Implications for Africa
This seminar conducted by Manuel Castells is a follow-up to his previous STIAS seminar Informational Development and Human Development: South Africa in a Global Perspective (24–26 August 2011).
Revised edition of the book ‘Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms’
A second edition of the book (entitled Biochemical Oscillations and Cellular Rhythms.
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.