Projects

The #JustAndEquitableNow team reflects on what it means to make, teach, and research the arts when communities are protesting against longstanding injustices and demanding better futures.

Nicola Cloete Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi Bayo Holsey Chelsy Monie Brett Pyper Kgomotso Moshugi

This novel will blend a sequence of narratives, set at various turning points in the history of the British Virgin Islands from 1807 To present day, concerned with the themes of body and work, individual and collective identity, and the intersections of trauma and Virgin Islander identity.

Richard Georges

Interest in the study of the traumatic repercussions of violent histories on descendants of victims and survivors has proliferated in the sub-field of memory and trauma studies, with earlier research in the field focusing mainly on descendants of Holocaust survivors.

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

Alkebulan: The Return of the Leopard is set in the formative phases of the African Federation made up of the continent and its diasporas – Caribbean Africa, European Africa, N.

Jennifer Makumbi

How did a film, a workshop, an anthology, and a department promote decolonization and steal its potential at the same time?

Charlie Veric

Blind or visually impaired people (BVIP) are increasingly encountering difficulties in their daily lives.

Achille Melingui

Blind or visually impaired people (BVIP) are increasingly encountering difficulties in their daily lives.

It is now recognized that poverty reduction efforts in Africa are undermined by capital flight.

Arcade Ndoricimpa

Bioarchaeology is the study of human remains found in archaeological contexts, also taking these contexts into account to help understand humans on the landscape.

Maryna Steyn Alan Mabin

This project examines the production, enforcement, and impact of the Immorality (Amendment) Act (1950) during apartheid.

Susanne Klausen

Plants produce myriad of compounds with various biological properties.

Ntakadzeni Edwin Madala

My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.

My project focuses on water and sanitation through the technologies that provide them, as a highly specific material index for abstract sensibilities about what constitutes a proper and dignified human life.

Peter Redfield

Gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction has considerable impact on life-quality worldwide.

Ulrika Marklund

Diophantine equations appear when one searches for solutions of algebraic equations in two or more variables which are easy to represent as numbers like integers, or fractions.

Florian Luca

The beautiful colors of stained glass arise thanks to metal nanoparticles embedded in the glass.

Magnus Jonsson

This project poses the question of how authoritarian politics systems institutionalise themselves through everyday life.

Claudia Gastrow

This project focuses on the unique position of South Africa and the Afrikaner minority within the narratives and imaginaries of contemporary transnational radical right-wing movements.

Rita Abrahamsen

Strategies promoting social protection for agricultural growth have been remarkably successful in some countries (mainly Asian countries) but not in others (mainly African countries).

Elina Amadhila

Human population growth threatens the integrity of 0.

Tatenda Dalu

An artist is trained to be visually aware.

Willem Boshoff

The story of Krotoa !Goa /gõas

Sylvia Vollenhoven

An almost maniacal commitment to cost, comfort and convenience has eaten into the infrastructure of collective institutional life.

Bronwen Morgan

To secure access to food for the growing world population, significant increases in agricultural productivity are needed.

Harm-Anton Klok

My aim is to work on a draft of a novel I’ve been writing for several years.

Literary works by African writers of Asian descent construct the experiences of Asian communities in the western Indian Ocean (East Africa) as counter-narratives that seek to provide alternative and more nuanced accounts of Asian presence in the region.

James Ocita

Memory plays an important role in many real-life situations; in particular, it is obvious that remembering past experiences affects future choices.

Rosemary Harris

Evolutionary ecology theory applies principles of biological evolution to explain variation in how living creatures appear and behave.

Michael Jennions

The Sultanate of Oman is in a unique geographical location, at the Southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.

Shahina Daar

Prompted by Roland Barthes’ The Preparation of a Novel, this presentation outlines how in the course of pursuing the creative life as a poet, a translator, an independent filmmaker and as a small press publisher from one of the regions of the Philippines, I now cast myself to another kind of vita nova, by wanting-to-write this tetralogy, which I have happily conceived during my STIAS residency.

Kristian Cordero

Zionism does not only colonize space; it also colonizes time.

Greg Burris

The connection of obesity with major chronic diseases and causes of death is well-known, but knowledge is scarce for rarer diseases, and for other obesity-related markers than a single measure of body mass index (BMI, kg/m2).

The proposed project builds on some of my earlier work on music and violence, and is born of the politico-ethical imperative to break the silence surrounding structural violence and abuse in institutionalised spaces devoted to music pedagogy: the lecture room, the teaching studio, the community project.

Carina Venter

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.

Dennis Töllborg Carina Venter

Since around 500BCE, when Heraclitus declared that everything changes while Parmenides maintained that everything stays the same, the dichotomy of process and substance has been at the heart of Western philosophy.

John Dupré

From #RhodesMustFall to #BlackLivesMatter, an important component of anti-racist protest movements has been concerns about epistemic injustice.

Glenn Adams Kopano Ratele

Parity-time (PT) symmetry has attracted a lot of attention in many fields of physics in recent years.

Philippe Djorwé

A quarter century into democratic South Africa, it is a truism that Apartheid’s forms remain present in various ways.

Sharad Chari

This project engages with the notion of recognition as a crucial moral, political, and theological category.

Robert Vosloo

Spinal cord injury unproportionable occurs in young adults with devastating consequences for their physical, mental, social and professional life.

Christian Göritz

Ending poverty has been the world’s priority for decades.

Antoinette Lombard

Settling Nature documents the widespread ecological warfare practiced by the state of Israel.

Irus Braverman

Is a humanist intellectual with a popular audience more likely to be a credentialed expert or an autodidact?

Saikat Majumdar

The main objective of this project is the finalization of a monograph analysing the linkages between the anthropocene, climate change and International Relations.

Carlos Milani

Increasingly, from the later part of the fifteenth century, European traders and travellers had seen people and places in sub-Saharan Africa.

Scott Nethersole

Perched, inconveniently, at opposite ends of the globe, Scotland and South Africa are nonetheless ‘sisters-in-law’ in the sense that their systems of private law are uncannily close.

Maryna Steyn