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2023
#JustAndEquitableNow: Reimagining Arts and Humanities in Our Universities
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.
Aesthetics of Trauma: Transgenerational Memory and the Poetics of Repair
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.
Alkebulan: The Return of the Leopard
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.
Assistance to Visual Impairing People using Deep Learning and Type-2 Fuzzy Logic
Blind or visually impaired people (BVIP) are increasingly encountering difficulties in their daily lives.
Criminal Desire: Race, Gender, and Illicit Interracial Sex in Apartheid South Africa
This project examines the production, enforcement, and impact of the Immorality (Amendment) Act (1950) during apartheid.
Defining Humanity through Water and Sanitation
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.
Developing a cross-species nomenclature for the neural cells of the gastrointestinal tract
Gastrointestinal (GI) dysfunction has considerable impact on life-quality worldwide.
Dynamic organic nanooptics
The beautiful colors of stained glass arise thanks to metal nanoparticles embedded in the glass.
KROTOA IS PRESENT: A 17th Century story that refuses to die
The story of Krotoa !Goa /gõas
Legal Infrastructure and the Living Law of Livelihood
An almost maniacal commitment to cost, comfort and convenience has eaten into the infrastructure of collective institutional life.
Leveraging Polymer Nanotechnology in Agronomy
To secure access to food for the growing world population, significant increases in agricultural productivity are needed.
Limbo: A Novel
My aim is to work on a draft of a novel I’ve been writing for several years.
Modelling how Diversity Sustains Societies’ Resilience (MODUS): How does incorporating biodiversity change solutions of optimum resource-use problems?
Throughout environmental history, humanity has prospered from the natural resources provided by the biodiversity in their environments.
Nature is beautiful
Evolutionary ecology theory applies principles of biological evolution to explain variation in how living creatures appear and behave.
PAGASA
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.
Palestine Time: Temporality, Cinema, Liberation
Zionism does not only colonize space; it also colonizes time.
Pinpointing the association of obesity with the risk of cancer and mortality
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).
Process Biology
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.
Psychology Otherwise: A Decolonial Africa(n)-centered Approach
From #RhodesMustFall to #BlackLivesMatter, an important component of anti-racist protest movements has been concerns about epistemic injustice.
Queer Transitions: Biographical Space and Black Visuality in the Remains of Apartheid
A quarter century into democratic South Africa, it is a truism that Apartheid’s forms remain present in various ways.
Recognition and Identity: Ethical and Theological Explorations
This project engages with the notion of recognition as a crucial moral, political, and theological category.
Reducing fibrotic scar tissue to treat spinal cord injury
Spinal cord injury unproportionable occurs in young adults with devastating consequences for their physical, mental, social and professional life.
Reviewing poverty as a human-nature disaster to achieve sustainable livelihood outcomes
Ending poverty has been the world’s priority for decades.
Settling Nature Managing and Imagining Nature Reserves and National Parks in Palestine/Israel
Settling Nature documents the widespread ecological warfare practiced by the state of Israel.
The Amateur
Is a humanist intellectual with a popular audience more likely to be a credentialed expert or an autodidact?
The Anthropocene, the Climate Emergency and International Relations: Brazil and South Africa in a Changing World Order
The main objective of this project is the finalization of a monograph analysing the linkages between the anthropocene, climate change and International Relations.
The Art and Visuality of Contact between Sub-Saharan Africa and Europe, c. 1450-1550
Increasingly, from the later part of the fifteenth century, European traders and travellers had seen people and places in sub-Saharan Africa.
The Geopolitics of Language and Literature Migration
The Anglophone diaspora arose during the period we identify as the Anthropocene.
The lifeworld-phenomenology of rehabilitation: developing a practice based theory of life-changes and learning
Worldwide, at least 2.2 billion people live with visual impairment and there is a huge need for these cases to be addressed or prevented.
The logic of decoloniality
Whilst most decolonial scholars have made important contributions on the nature of coloniality as an intellectual problem and the need to decolonise, the practical deployment of decolonial programme is yet to commence.
The political economy of oral health in sub-Saharan Africa – uncovering the silent oral health crisis and exposing reasons for low public health priority
Oral diseases are among the most common and among the most neglected diseases of mankind.
The rare earth metals, from intriguing materials to political hot potatoes
This project will be a comprehensive review of the rare earth elements (REE) .
Transdisciplinary thinking through food in South Africa
The communicative, semiotic, creative and relational meanings surrounding food expand understandings of power dynamics, identity-constitution and discursive perceptions of being human.
Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
The Indian Ocean has been called the ocean of the South, as well as the ocean of the future.
West African Migrants in Urban Spaces: Dakar, Tangier, and Barcelona
This project analyzes the presence and impacts of West African migrants in urban spaces in North Africa and Southern Europe: how the sociopolitical contexts they enter shape their lives and livelihoods and, in turn, how they challenge and alter those contexts, raising questions about rights, membership, and lived diversity.
Work at Sea: Port dynamics, migrant workers, and industrial fishing fleets in African waters
Industrial fishing is a dangerous, difficult job: workers endure long working hours, cramped living conditions, inadequate provision of food and water, and low wages.
2022
Chinese investments in Africa: Exploring the developmental potential
The global economic architecture has in recent decades undergone a significant level of reconfiguration in terms of trade and investments as a result of the emergence of China as a direct competitor to highly industrialised countries of the North.
Citizenship on Catfish Row: Race and Nation in American Popular Culture
Citizenship on Catfish Row focuses on three seminal works in the history of American culture: the first great film, D.
Consistent Quantification as a Unifying Principle in Physics and the Sciences
Science relies on numeric quantification, which can be traced back to Euclid, Galileo, and Newton.
Deadly Illusions: The Ukraine War and Russian Historical Imagination
Some commentators have aptly called Russia’s Ukraine war a war of obsession.
Decoding the Ancient Sacred Landscapes of the Arid Southern Levant (Southern Jordan/Israel): The Desert Cults Mapping Project
The proposed project investigates the sacred landscapes of the southern arid margins of the Levant (now southern Jordan/Israel), as observed by the spatial distribution and the material culture of the cultic and funerary sites of the mostly semi-pastoral peoples that lived in the area from the Neolithic to the Early Islamic period (ca.
Fintech for SME financing in Africa
SME financing has often been described as the missing middle piece of finance as SMEs are less likely to obtain financing than larger corporates or even micro borrowers.
Oman: a genetic melting pot – Historical background relating to inherited blood disorders in Oman
The Sultanate of Oman is in a unique geographical location, at the Southeastern corner of the Arabian Peninsula.
Psychosocial evaluation of patients with beta thalassemia major in Oman
Homozygous Beta thalassaemia is a lifelong condition requiring regular blood transfusions from infancy.
Reversible Technologies
Despite tremendous economic growth rates, especially in rural areas of South Africa and in its neighbouring countries, there is still a subsistence economy predominant.
Social Regionalism in the Idea of Transnational Labour Law
We have entered a moment of profound challenge for open societies.
Sounding Black Worlds
My project investigates black archives of Atlantic worlds as praxis and method, with a particular focus on sonic aspects.