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2025
“S'obashaya Ngamatye”: Women and Sixty Years of the Armed Struggle in South Africa
This project brings together chapters written by 17 women former guerrillas from uMkhonto we Sizwe, the African National Congress military wing and the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA) and the Azanian National Liberation Army, the military wing of the Azanian Peoples Organisation (AZAPO).
A new History of the University and addressing the fundamental issue of the future for cinema studies in times of media convergence.
As former President of Stockholm University, stepping down on Jan 31 2025, my first concern will be to write a brief chapter to a new History of the University, to be published for its 150 year anniversary in 2028, where I have been asked to contribute with a brief summary of my experiences from 12 years of presidency.
A three-dimensional view of exploding stars
A supernova explosion marks the spectacular end in the life of a massive star.
A two-prong approach – preventing head injury in rugby through law changes and effective tackle training.
The nature of the tackle in rugby exposes players to high risk of injury - specifically head injuries and concussions.
Avian malaria and flavivirus prevalence in the savanna regions of South Africa
Avian malaria and flaviviruses are widely distributed vector-transmitted infections that can affect the fitness of birds and the later can also cause significant human disease.
Beware of Bad Dogs, A Novel
A story set in contemporary Sierra Leone about a group of politicians who view themselves as leading a prosperous and progressive country versus those of the masses, the citizens, whose experiences differ.
Bringing unique data to wicked problems: developing health system models for equitable access to healthcare in sub-Saharan Africa
Injuries are one of the leading causes of death and disability in low- and middle-income countries, especially in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cell Reprogramming for Neurological Insights and Brain Repair
Mental disorders such as Schizophrenia affect up to 5 million in Africa and epilepsy is the most widespread neurological disorder on the continent.
Civil Aviation in East Africa 1946-1986 - Outline of a History
With this project I aim to outline the unwritten history of civil aviation in East Africa.
Clinical high-resolution phase-contrast x-ray medical imaging
X-ray imaging is a workhorse in the clinic due to its speed, low cost and relative simplicity.
Corporate regulation to address ESG sustainability
Over the past 25 years or so, large corporations have been under increasing pressure both to improve their performance on environment, social and governance (ESG) issues, and to report better on what they have (or haven’t) done.
Dealing with the Past (Historical memory)
Why do some individuals or societies transcend a divisive past and why do some remain prisoners of their own past?
Decolonisation and affective worlds: On the worldmaking potential of shame and rage in the South African “post”-apartheid present
This long-term project, with it’s focus on affect, particularly melancholy, shame and rage, is located in a feminist decolonial framework and is aimed at disrupting gender, raced and other entangled binaries and associated violences.
Dogon Muslims, “Pagan” Saints, and Other Seeming Oxymorons in West Africa
Dogon Muslims and pagan saints are key figures emblematic of the dramatic social transformations Mali has witnessed since the mid-20th century.
Environmental degradation, economic development, and gender: A comparative analysis
The project has as its goal to advance a comparative law analysis between Colombia and South Africa in terms of legal interventions to counteract or prevent environmental destruction and its particular gendered effects.
Freedom Between Order and Chaos: Towards an Indian Theory of Freedom
Any serious study of the Indic ideas of freedom must begin with acknowledging the centrality accorded to order in a polity.
From first-generation students to the second: An inter-generational study of post-apartheid South African higher education
During this last half century of global expansion in higher education, attention focused on the population of first-generation students: those whose parents had not been to university.
Gender in Turbulent Times: Sexual Violence, Bare Life and Necropolitics
Gender based violence and sexual violence in specific have reached unprecedented levels in countries in the Global North and South.
Generation of a Chronic Myeloid Leukemia single-cell genomic atlas
Chronic Myeloid Leukemia (CML) is an aggressive type of blood cancer that requires life-long therapy.
Identification of novel biomarkers for gynecological cancer – when is screening becoming a reality?
Over 1.3 million women are each year diagnosed with one of three major gynecologic cancers, ovarian cancer, endometrial cancer or cervical cancer.
Inclusive multimodal (re)design for higher education pedagogies in South Africa and Sweden
Higher education globally is undergoing significant transitions due to increasing levels of diversity amongst student populations.
J.M. Coetzee, Connection, Cognition: Perspectives from the South
The project is a comparative study of the South African-born, now Australian writer J.
Jan Bouws and the Instituut vir Volksmusiek (1960-1972) at Stellenbosch University
The proposed project looks into the activities of the Instituut vir Volksmusiek at Stellenbosch University.
Life: autonomy in evolution
This project consists in writing a monograph about the irreducible and pervasive complexity of the natural world (the biological world, in particular), and about the importance of becoming increasingly aware of this intrinsic complexity, in continuous development and evolution (more so when combined with the artificial worlds recently created by humans), if we are to handle adequately future challenges for science and society.
Lift Stories: The intimate publics of elevators in 20th century Johannesburg
This project thinks through the space of the lift as urban affective infrastructure in Johannesburg over the 20th century.
Merging the layers of life
Developing a (mathematical) model suitable for the integration of the different levels of biological research (sub-molecular, molecular, organisms, populations) in one framework.
Metapopulation modelling of disease spread in the context of war and other natural disasters
The spread of most diseases is strongly affected by the migrations of populations due to wars, natural disasters or prevailing economic circumstances.
Metaquestions: The Space of Thought in Philosophy and Beyond
This book-length project is tentatively titled Metaquestions: The Space of Thought in Philosophy and Beyond.
Omics Approach for Personalized Prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus for African and European Populations (OPTIMA)
The global prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is increasing, with sub-Saharan Africa having the highest projected increase.
Out of Africa: Human Generative Creativity and the Origins of Language
What makes us human? We have long known that humanitys uniqueness–language and our openended creativity–arose from our ancestors in Southern Africa, a generative promiscuity pervading all we do, from combinatorial tool making to combinatorial language; and from there to music and mathematics.
Paulin Hountondji: The Last of the Titans
Since the publication of his landmark book, African Philosophy: Myth and Reality(1976), Paulin Jidenu Hountondji (1942-2024) has become one of the most important names in modern African philosophy.
Phytospheric Justice
This book project follows the symbiotic atmospheric pathways that connect plant and human breath to develop forms of cultural theorizing accountable to an increasingly climate-deranged world.
Race Changes: Shifting Identities in World History
Race Changes is a book about people whose seemingly permanent racial or ethnic identities in fact change over the course of their lifetimes.
Reproductive Legacies: Missionary Medicine and Demographic Change in Southeast Africa, 1890–Present
As the global population is projected to rise from 8.
Signs on stage: Translating theatre into a sign language
Sign languages, the visual-gestural languages of Deaf communities, lack a written form.
Social and Economic Justice
The South African Constitution contains extensive social and economic rights.
South African Literature: Global Challenges, New Humanities
This project positions South African Literature within the emergence of the New Humanities (Medical, Environmental, Digital), and orients both toward Medical, Scientific and Social Sciences’ emphases on the Sustainable Development Goals.
Speaking Through Houses: Property and Personhood in Zimbabwe’s Urban Margins
In contexts of displacement and marginality, people’s aspirations and active material and political struggles for secure housing – alongside their multi-layered efforts at home-making – might be construed as acts of either insurgent optimism or necessary anticipatory investment.
String Theory and Quantum Gravity – New Developments and Links to Low-energy Physics
The project explored the relationship between classical gravity and quantum field theories, as well as possible applications of the mathematical structures of string theory to low energy systems such as Quantum Hall Fluids.
Susceptibility to amyloid-related neurodegenerative diseases evoked by functional amyloid proteins of the gut microbiome – a comparative study of European and African populations
Amyloids are proteins able to form very regular insoluble fibrils.
The Future of Human Mobility and Migration
The future of human society – and indeed, the very meaning of what it is to be human – is inextricably related to mobility.
The New Internationalist - The Life and Times of Radhabinod Pal
Judge Radhabinod Pal is a forgotten man in international law.
Towards re-conceptualization of socio-cultural climate change maladaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa
Reconceptualization of socio-cultural climate change maladaptation in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) demands a nuanced understanding of regions diverse social, cultural and environmental contexts.
Understanding Alzheimer’s Disease: Basic mechanisms and clinical developments
The abnormal processing of amyloid precursor protein (APP), aggregation of Aβ, Tau hyper phosphorylation and propagation of these abnormally folded proteins have been collectively recognized as hallmarks of the initial, biochemical phase of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) [De Strooper 2016].
Upcycling of textile waste
The textile and clothing sector generates a large amount of waste that are either incinerated or disposed in landfills.
Word-prosody systems of the Creole languages of the Gulf of Guinea
Creole languages result from extreme linguitic contact between languages with distinct prosodic systems and often do not fit neatly into prototypical linguistic categories.