March 2026
Contracts in South African customary marriages: What they do, can’t do and their impact on inequalities
March 2026
How an accidental burp shaped my research career — A tale of vegetables, mouth bacteria, stomach acid and improved cardiovascular health
March 2026
How do insects breathe? — And other fascinating things you may not know about bugs
March 2026
Desire-Design-Delete: The global fertility industry and future of humanity
March 2026
Mapping the Interconnectedness of Things: Narrating (human) migration and interspecies relations
February 2026
American DNA — Race, Genomics, and the Cultural Politics of Bioethics
February 2026
When clothing is not just clothing — Chitenje dress in Malawian popular culture
February 2026
How the humble fruit fly assists in understanding human disease
February 2026
Critical Raw Materials and Technological Transitions — Global politics, risks and geographical inequality
February 2026
Igniting conversations to nurture equitable collaboration and co-creation
February 2026
Studying the emergence of tone systems in the Gulf of Guinea creoles
January 2026
Extractivism’s gendered burdens — Women, exploitation, and exclusion at sites of extraction
December 2025
Aiming for personalised prevention of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus for African and European populations
December 2025
Reimagining chemistry
December 2025
The Last of the Innocents — A conversation and reading
December 2025
Clearer and brighter images for the future — Toward clinical applications in high-spatial-resolution laboratory X-ray imaging
December 2025
Historical feeling — affective knowledge as historical knowledge in history education
November 2025
How to fix a lift: The political intimacies of elevators in 20th century Johannesburg
November 2025
One cell at a time — A decade of exploring chronic myeloid leukaemia stem cells
November 2025
Nature under siege — Wetland gentrification in African cities
November 2025
Reproductive legacies? — Colonialism, missionaries and demographic change in Southeast Africa
November 2025
Exploding Stars – observing the Rosetta Stone of supernovae physics
November 2025
Silent passengers — Exploring hidden infections in Afrotropical birds
November 2025
Putting the puzzle pieces together - Fellows' seminar by David Niyukuri
October 2025
Gender in turbulent times - Fellows' seminar by Amanda Gouws
October 2025
The literary tradition of scientific recantation - Fellows' seminar by Rick de Villiers
October 2025
A tale of two feminists and a town — Slow Affect in action
October 2025
Which knowledge? And for whom? - Fellows' seminar by Sanya Osha
October 2025
An update on advances in understanding, diagnosing and treating Alzheimer’s Disease - Fellows' seminar by Carlos Ibanez
October 2025
Civil aviation in East Africa 1946−1986: Outline of a history - Fellows' seminar by Baz Lecocq
October 2025
A drink from the well of player welfare - Fellows' seminar by Sharief Hendricks
October 2025
Dogon Muslims, ‘Pagan’ Saints, and other seeming oxymorons in West Africa - Fellows' seminar by Benjamin Soares
September 2025
Writing my truth - Fellows' seminar by Ishmael Beah
September 2025
Listening to houses speak - Fellows' seminar by Amanda Hammar
September 2025
Focusing on the emancipation of women — meet Pumla Ngozwana
September 2025
Commercialisation of sex education - Fellows' seminar by Victoria Namuggala
September 2025
Towards re-conceptualisation of climate-change maladaptation in sub-Saharan Africa - Fellows' seminar by Christopher Shisanya, Wambongo Recha & Truphena Mukuna
September 2025
Signs on stage: Translating a classic play into a sign language - Fellows' seminar by Myriam Vermeerbergen
August 2025
Amyloids: the good and the bad - Fellows' seminar by Malgorzata Kotulska
August 2025
Phytospheric Justice: a fight for breathable air - Fellows' seminar by Helene Strauss
August 2025
The social construction of otherness: Interrogating the concept of ‘first-generation student’ - Fellows' seminar by Jennifer Case
August 2025
Advancing neuronal reprogramming for brain disorders in Africa - Fellows' seminar by Daniella Rylander Ottosson
August 2025
Out of Africa: unravelling the mysteries of human generative creativity and the evolutionary origins of language - Fellows' seminar by Robert Berwick
June 2025
Of shells and tongues
May 2025
Life: Autonomy in open-ended evolution
May 2025
Bringing unique data to wicked problems
May 2025
All in the question - Fellows' seminar by Bruce Janz
April 2025
Governance for sustainable soil management and digitalisation in Africa: time for a Pan-African approach? - Fellows' seminar by Harald Ginzky & Oliver Ruppel
April 2025
Looking at the potential of South African medicinal plant extracts for cancer therapies - Fellows' seminar by Tshepiso Makhafola
April 2025
Multimodality and boundary artefacts in education - Fellows' seminar by Anders Björkvall, Arlene Archer & Zach Simpson
April 2025
The institute that was …… or wasn’t? - Fellows' seminar by Rebekka Sandmeier
April 2025
Gunning for democracy - Fellows' seminar by Sishuwa Sishuwa
March 2025
South-South dialogue and inspiration - conversations about law in South Africa and Colombia - Fellows' seminar by Helena Alviar García
March 2025
Art, Culture and Complexity: making decisions to address local impacts of global change - Fellows' seminar by Ilan Chabay
March 2025
Archiving Ordinariness: fact, fiction, speculation, guesswork - Fellows' seminar by Brendon Nicholls
March 2025
Corporate regulation to address ESG sustainability - Fellows' seminar by Stephen Gelb
February 2025
Examining colonialism memory, culture and activism in postcolonial Namibia - Fellows' seminar by Heike Becker
February 2025
Unsettling the centre: Counter-securitisation of Ghana-US relations - Fellows' seminar by Isaac Mwinlaaru
February 2025
Reimagining migration governance and the psychology of major life choices - Fellows' seminar by Anna Triandafyllidou and Igor Grossmann
February 2025
The agrarian question in the 21st century - Fellows' seminar by Haroon Akram-Lodhi
December 2024
Ethical Affects: Food and Sense in Muslim Mumbai - Fellows' seminar by Shaheed Tayob
December 2024
The impact of maternal endocrine diseases on offspring health: The germline effects and beyond - Fellows' seminar by Qiaolin Deng
December 2024
A forest of memories: Trauma and the Biafran identity in post-colonial Nigeria - Fellows' seminar by Ngozika Obi-Ani
December 2024
‘Making stuff’ more responsibly: the science of materials - Fellows' seminar by Christian Müller
December 2024
Visions of another country: Creative co-operations across apartheid’s racial boundaries that sought to undermine them - Fellows' seminar by Vivian Bickford-Smith
November 2024
Racial malaise, revolutionary medicine and women’s work in South Africa and the United States, 1966-1976 - Fellows' seminar by Kanika Batra
November 2024
Writing history in a time of war: Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon and its afterlives - Fellows' seminar by Seth Anziska
November 2024
“Not the right fit”: Inhospitability and white-speak in South African contexts - Fellows' seminar by Nadia Sanger
November 2024
Tackling antimicrobial resistance in Africa: Are phages an alternative? - Fellows' seminar by Jerrold Agbankpe
October 2024
Legal prostitution: A crime against humanity? - Fellows' seminar by Max Waltman
October 2024
Restoration, rejuvenation and revitalisation: salvaging the past and building new futures - Fellows' seminar by Helen Moffett
October 2024
Fixing the past: Meditations on the limits of the law - Fellows' seminar by Danie Visser
October 2024
Knocking out fat: new approaches to anti-obesity therapeutics - Fellows' seminar by Carlos Ibanez
October 2024
Justice delivered or justice denied? - Fellows' seminar by Njoki Wamai
October 2024
Using land-based financing for biodiversity conservation in South Africa - Fellows' seminar by Riël Franzsen
September 2024
It’s a tough world for parasites but they are not all bad news - Fellows' seminar by Frida Ben-Ami
September 2024
Nonviolence, resistance and the poetics of space: The body in the body politic, from Dandi to Robben Island - Fellows' seminar by Vinay Lal
September 2024
A focus on African writers’ lives - Fellows' seminar by Bhakti Shringarpure
September 2024
Music, violence and trauma in apartheid and post-apartheid South Africa: Three elaborations
September 2024
Examining contemporary urbanism on three continents - Fellows' seminar by Alan Mabin
September 2024
Resonance mechanism in the noncanonical Φ^6 model - Fellows' seminar by Ishmael Takyi
August 2024
Where Does the Air Go? An opera in the making - Fellows' seminar by Clare Loveday
August 2024
Losing the lustre: the end of gold in South Africa - Fellows' seminar by Duncan Money
August 2024
Understanding coevolution across time - Fellows' seminar by Dieter Ebert
August 2024
From Africans to Blacks: the making of a racial identity in contemporary France - Fellows' seminar by Abdoulaye Gueye
June 2024
A new path to welfare: Rights and constitutionalism in the Global South - Fellows' seminar by Sanjay Ruparelia
June 2024
What has a historian got to do with seaports? - Fellows' seminar by Ayodeji Olukoju
May 2024
Cocooned in harmony: singing the fisher’s songs - Fellows' seminar by Eric Otchere
May 2024
Land tenure in Bouaké (Côte d'Ivoire) and Kumasi (Ghana): Past and present - Fellows' seminar by Aïdas Sanogo
May 2024
What are species? (And why is this a controversial question?) - Fellows' seminar by Bengt Oxelman
May 2024
Omnipresent chaos and bio-inspired electronic oscillators - Fellows' seminar by Paul Woafo
May 2024
What do genes, medieval manuscripts, languages, Persian carpets and folktales have in common? - Fellows' seminar by Christopher Howe
May 2024
African (Akan) proverbs: Unveiling pathways to decolonising decoloniality - Fellows' seminar by Husein Inusah
May 2024
Examining the social infrastructure of rural labour in Zimbabwe’s borderlands - Fellows' seminar by Blair Rutherford
April 2024
Becoming God: walking the thin line between myth and history - Fellows' seminar by Christian Frevel
April 2024
Too little, too much, too dirty water: Where, when, why? - Fellows' seminar by Georgia Destouni
April 2024
‘We had an abortion’: representing abortion as an ordinary experience to achieve reproductive justice - Fellows' seminar by Rachel Hurst
April 2024
Family matters: Multilingualism, diversity and language policies - Fellows' seminar by Elizabeth Lanza
April 2024
Deep diving into the world of skin, hair follicles and stem cells - Fellows' seminar by Maria Kasper
April 2024
Our Universe, the Movie! - Fellows' seminar by Romeel Davé
April 2024
From Digital Divide to AI Divide - Fellows' seminar by Jean Louis Fendji
March 2024
Cellular identities: Highlighting the revolutionary impact of single-cell RNA-sequencing - Fellows' seminar by Rickard Sandberg
March 2024
Critically assessing sectional-title adjudications in South Africa - Fellows' seminar by Cornelius van der Merwe
March 2024
Breaking down the biodiversity and global food security debate - Fellow seminar by Ralf Seppelt
March 2024
Let the food live! Perishable foods and the cold chain - Fellows' seminar by Matia Mukama
March 2024
Exploring technopolitics and social grants in South Africa - Fellows' seminar by Natasha Vally
February 2024
Against isolation - multilingualism, transnationalism and literary dialogue in Dutch-Afrikaans formations - Fellows' seminar by Yves T'Sjoen
February 2024
Water, human beings and risks - a case of chemicals of emerging concern - Fellows' seminar by Faith Kandie
February 2024
Unlocking the mysteries of development and diversity of dopamine neurons - Fellows' seminar by Thomas Perlmann
February 2024
Nuclear necropolitics in South Africa - Fellows' seminar by Jo-Ansie van Wyk
February 2024
(De)constructing cultural rights: Academic freedom, the right to science, copyright and the right to education - Fellows' seminar by Klaus Beiter
February 2024
Our success as a species is due to our migratory nature - Fellows' seminar by Ian Goldin
January 2024
Exploring Christianity, sexuality and social justice in contemporary Nigerian literature - Fellows' seminar by Adriaan van Klinken
December 2023
Plastics for Good - Fellows' seminar by Harm-Anton Klok
December 2023
PAGASA tetralogy: A novenary in preparation of a novel - Fellows' seminar by Kristian Cordero
December 2023
Lived experience of rehabilitation - Fellows' seminar by Inger Berndtsson
December 2023
Bridging the gap between health and economics - Fellows' seminar by Ulf-Göran Gerdtham
November 2023
Challenges to our ideas of humanity - Fellows' seminar by Ingolf Dalferth
November 2023
The Anthropocene, Climate Emergency and International Relations: need for new thinking and Global South perspectives - Fellows' seminar by Carlos Milani
November 2023
Global Right, Global White: South Africa in the political imaginary of the radical right - Fellows' seminar by Rita Abrahamsen
November 2023
“I am not your white gaze” - Fellows' seminar by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
November 2023
Random walks to colonoscopies: Modelling how memory of the past affects future behaviour - Fellows' seminar by Rosemary Harris
October 2023
Colonialism and decolonisation: An autobiography - Fellows' Seminar by Charlie S Veric
October 2023
Understanding the Clocks of Life - Fellows' seminar by Carlos Ibanez
October 2023
#JustAndEquitableNow - Fellows' seminar by Brett Pyper and Susan Elizabeth Gagliardi et al.
October 2023
Making the abstract real - Fellows' seminar by Willem Boshoff
September 2023
Beyond (the) tragic: Studying migrants in cities along the Mediterranean/Atlantic Route - Fellows' seminar by Patrick Ireland
September 2023
‘Undressing’ the politics of dress, gender and sexuality in Malawi - Fellows' seminar by Asante Mtenje
September 2023
Pondering mortality - Fellows' seminar by Pierre Durand
September 2023
What is Palestine Time? - Fellows' seminar by Greg Burris
September 2023
Toilet Trouble: defining humanity through water and sanitation - Fellows' seminar by Peter Redfield
September 2023
Optimising mass sensors for the tiniest objects - Fellows' seminar by Philippe Djorwé
August 2023
Poverty as a human-nature disaster - Fellows' seminar by Antoinette Lombard
August 2023
Speaking from a small place in a large language - Fellows' seminar by Richard Georges
August 2023
Using skeletal remains to uncover the evolution of disease - Fellows' seminar by Maryna Steyn
July 2023
Listening to what plants can teach us - Fellows' seminar by Edwin Madala
June 2023
Foregrounding spatiality as primary dimension of textuality - Fellows' seminar by James Ocita
June 2023
Adding to the archive of African feminist and queer literature - Fellows' seminar by Sharad Chari and Beverley Ditsie
June 2023
Krotoa is present - Fellows' seminar by Sylvia Vollenhoven
June 2023
Water, drought and song in the Kingdom of eSwatini - Fellows' seminar by Cara Stacey
June 2023
Extending ‘kitchen table conversations’ on the participation of women in sustainable agriculture - Fellows' seminar by Elina Amadhila
June 2023
Socialist remains: Rethinking African urbanism from Luanda’s ‘Cuban buildings’ - Fellows' seminar by Claudia Gastrow
May 2023
The not-so-rare rare earths - Fellows' seminar by Peter Junk
May 2023
Forced labour at sea - Fellows' seminar by Melissa Marschke
May 2023
On madness and eros: Tentative thoughts on an arrested present - Fellows' seminar by Carina Venter
May 2023
The art and visuality of early contact between Europeans and Africans - Fellows' seminar by Scott Nethersole
May 2023
Developing wearable devices to assist visually impaired people
May 2023
Arguing for creative reimagining - Fellows' seminar by Bronwen Morgan
April 2023
Transdisciplinary thinking through food in South Africa - Fellows' seminar by Desiree Lewis
April 2023
Controlling light at the nanoscale - Fellows' seminar by Magnus Jonsson
April 2023
Theorising recognition and identity - Fellows' seminar by Robert Vosloo
April 2023
Capital flight and African development - Fellows' seminar by Arcade Ndoricimpa
April 2023
Tracing the molecular and historical background of inherited blood disorders in Oman - Fellows' seminar by Shahina Daar
March 2023
Wandering in prehistory - Fellows' seminar by Nina Jablonski
March 2023
Everything is connected, linked and related to everything else
March 2023
The Amateur- Fellows' seminar by Saikat Majumdar
March 2023
Exposing the parallel realities of global oral health - Fellows' seminar by Habib Benzian
March 2023
To scar or not to scar - Fellows' seminar by Christian Göritz
February 2023
Reimagining an ‘ocean of the South’ - Fellows' seminar by Charne Lavery
February 2023
Calculating the global economic costs of aquatic invasive alien species - Fellows' seminar by Tatenda Dalu
February 2023
Exploring the geopolitics of language and literature migration - Fellows' seminar by Regenia Gagnier
February 2023
Unravelling the structure and function of the ‘brain in the gut’ - Fellows' seminar by Ulrika Marklund
February 2023
Be careful what you wish for - Fellows' seminar by Susanne Klausen
January 2023
One world or several: the future of globalisation - Fellows' seminar by Ian Goldin
December 2022
Philosophy meets technology - Fellows' seminar by Klaus Kornwachs
December 2022
Underground women miners - Fellows' seminar by Asanda Benya
December 2022
Beyond allegorical - Fellows' seminar by Maria Olaussen
December 2022
Enclaves or islands? - Fellows' seminar by Simon Bekker
December 2022
Mitochondria: More than just a powerhouse - Fellows' seminar by Joanna Rorbach
December 2022
Deadly Illusions: The Ukraine War and Russian historical imagination - Fellows' seminar by Igor Torbakov
November 2022
Influencing the people with influence - Fellows' seminar by Bai Lu
November 2022
‘I be superstar’: Machoism, rivalry and fandom in Nigerian Hip Hop - Fellows' seminar by Paul Onanuga
November 2022
Exploring conflicting depictions of sexuality and disability in African folktales - Fellows' seminar by Ifeyinwa Okolo
November 2022
They think they own their bodies - Fellows' seminar by Victoria Namuggala
November 2022
All in the nose: understanding and rediscovering our sense of smell - Fellows' seminar by Jonas Olofsson
November 2022
Identity is not just a list - Fellows' seminar by Samantha Balaton-Chrimes
October 2022
Apartheid’s Hounds - How South Africa invented the world’s most terrifying police dog - Fellows' seminar by Sandra Swart
October 2022
Process, partnership, passion - Fellows' seminar by Paul Castles and Mkhululi Mabija
October 2022
The pleasures of asphyxiation - Fellows' seminar by Løchlann Jain
October 2022
When thought was a crime: Neville Alexander and South Africa’s New Left - Fellows' seminar by Allison Drew
October 2022
Understanding the world through improved observation: research in the field of computational imaging - Fellows' seminar by Joseph Rosen
October 2022
Sound thinking: Black women’s acoustemologies as resistance - Fellow's seminar by Uhuru Phalafala
September 2022
Send in the germs. Could a dose of dirt make mice more useful to science? - Fellows' seminar by Carlos Ibanez
September 2022
Finding Yahweh - Fellows' seminar by Juan Tebes
September 2022
No one-size-fits-all on the path to African regional integration - Fellows' seminar by Abena Oduro and Andreas Freytag
September 2022
Global Value Chain Law: A historical sociology of law approach - Fellows' seminar by Poul Kjaer
September 2022
More than just talk - Fellows' seminar by Anthea Garman
September 2022
Developing more sensitive mass sensors - Fellow's seminar by Philippe Djorwé
August 2022
Taming the roaring beast – in the digital battle who will make the final rules? - Fellows' seminar by Qingxiu Bu
August 2022
Reconceptualising contemporary musical theatre - Fellows' seminar by Karmina Šilec
August 2022
Telling a story with data - Fellows' seminar by Jody Heymann, David Gordon and Amy Raub
August 2022
Mind the gap: Women in law and leadership across Africa - Fellows' seminar by Jarpa Dawuni
June 2022
Unpacking the emergence of black feminist Afrikaans poetry in the 21st century - Fellows' seminar by Bibi Burger
June 2022
Is change good or bad? Highlighting the chemical defence strategy of plants against photo-induced stress - Fellows' seminar by Edwin Madala
June 2022
Why do autocracies in Africa promote women as leaders? - Fellows' seminar by Aili Mari Tripp
May 2022
Can fintech help to close the financing gap for small and medium size enterprises in Africa? - Fellows' seminar by Marcus Fedder
May 2022
Tapping into local soil knowledge to develop sustainable agricultural systems in Madagascar - Fellows' seminar by Nasandratra Ravonjiarison
May 2022
Trespassing as a way of being: Ancestral heritage in South Africa - Fellows' seminar by Silvia Tomášková
May 2022
Analysing the effect of neoliberal restructuring on peasant farmers in southern Africa - Fellows' seminar by Freedom Mazwi
May 2022
The fishy tale of trout: a story about more than trout - Fellows' seminar by Knut Nustad
April 2022
Academic freedom and the decolonisation of knowledge - Fellows' seminar by Erik Olsson
April 2022
Using complexity science to solve practical, important and urgent problems in agriculture - Fellows' seminar by Mario Giampietro, Aloisius Louie, Ansel Renner and Richard Sikora
April 2022
When, how, and why did race become an object of knowledge? - Fellows' seminar by Geoffrey Harpham
April 2022
Exploring the role of space, place, pace and race in our evolutionary journey - Fellows' seminar by Jonathan Kingdon
April 2022
From similar beginnings to different outcomes: a look at coalition politics and institutional transformation in contemporary Africa - Fellows' seminar by Moses Khisa
April 2022
Globalisation impacts not only biological but also cultural diversity - Fellows' seminar by Thomas Hylland Eriksen
April 2022
Facilitating quicker stroke and brain injury diagnosis - Fellows' seminar by Mikael Persson
March 2022
Need for African collaboration for pandemic studies - Fellows' seminar by Abdallah Daar
March 2022
Uncovering the full story of African literature - Fellows' seminar by Ashleigh Harris
March 2022
What are universities for? - Fellows' seminar by Saleem Badat
March 2022
When a cable is not just a cable - Fellows' seminar by Jess Auerbach
March 2022
Need for regional standards and guidelines for heavy-metal pollution in aquatic ecosystems highlighted - Fellows' seminar by Kafilat Bawa-Allah
March 2022
Interreligious dialogue and pluralism in the modern - Fellows' seminar by Ephraim Meir and Wolfram Weisse
February 2022
How, and how early, do we begin to ‘see’ race? - Fellows' seminar by Sandra Waxman
February 2022
Disasters, disruption and new dreams - Fellows' seminar by Ian Goldin
February 2022
The Garden of Life and City of Hope: a Christian public theological take on the ethics of sustainability - Fellows' seminar by Torsten Meireis
February 2022
Mathematics in the real world - Fellows' seminar by Kevin Knuth
December 2021
Minds on Fire - Fellows' seminar by Marlize Lombard, Anders Högberg and Peter Gärdenfors
November 2021
The complex interaction of virus and body - Fellows' seminar by Edvard Smith
November 2021
Finding low-cost, locally appropriate solutions to ensure access to safe drinking water in rural areas - Fellows' seminar by Ismaila Emahi
November 2021
COVID-19 - What have we learnt and what´s next? - Fellows' seminar by Ulf Gyllensten
November 2021
Uneven extinction: the vexing histories and geographies of the biodiversity crisis - Fellows' seminar by Bram Büscher
October 2021
Not one treatment fits all - Fellows' seminar by Collen Masimirembwa
October 2021
Decoding seashore harmonies - Fellows' seminar by Eric Otchere
October 2021
Unpacking the International Criminal Court intervention in Kenya - Fellows' seminar by Njoki Wamai
October 2021
Examining the moral dimensions of epistemic decolonisation - Fellows' seminar by Husein Inusah
October 2021
Streaming Africa – is local really king in the ‘Golden Age for African films’? - Fellows' seminar by Pier Paolo Frassinelli
October 2021
Highlighting the need to protect Africa’s hunter-gatherers - Fellows' seminar by Elifuraha Laltaika
September 2021
Social protection for climate change-induced displaced persons: in search of a new paradigm - Fellows' seminar by Marius Olivier, Evance Kalula and Avinash Govindjee
September 2021
Notes on literary historiography: the example of South Africa and Afrikaans - Fellows' seminar by Jerzy Koch
September 2021
Uncovering the ancient origins of emancipatory political thought - Fellows' seminar by Michael Neocosmos
September 2021
We’ve known what to do for a long time, it’s time to do it - Fellows' seminar by Salvatore Agosta and Daniel Brooks
August 2021
More than one way to think about time - Fellows' seminar by Oleksiy Polunin
August 2021
Constitutionalism and the internet in Africa: the emerging challenges - Fellows' seminar by Lukman Abdulrauf
August 2021
Sleeping Beauties: Dormant innovations in nature and culture - STIAS webinar by Andreas Wagner
August 2021
The complex world of patents in a pandemic - Fellows' seminar by Christoph Ann
August 2021
Rethinking the concept of Informality - Fellows' seminar by Elieth Eyebiyi
August 2021
Material politics - Fellows' seminar by Claudia Gastrow
July 2021
The Science of Art and the Art of Science - Fellows' seminar by Marcella Faria
May 2021
Unpacking the use of bilingual pragmatic markers in African Englishes - Fellows' seminar by Foluke Unuabonah
May 2021
Analysing the African Union’s Disaster Risk Reduction Strategy - Fellows' seminar by Roland Balgah
May 2021
Learning the lessons of history for the post-COVID world - STIAS webinar by Emmanuel Akyeampong
May 2021
Queues of limitless hope: The Bildungsroman and decolonisation in southern Africa - Fellows' seminar by Ranka Primorac
April 2021
Unravelling the full history of the Shona subject: Who, how, if and, where to, after all that - STIAS webinar by Tsitsi Dangarembga
April 2021
Examining misrecognition: Some short statements on affect - Fellows' seminar by Wamuwi Mbao
March 2021
Social protection to improve agricultural production: what works and why? - Fellows' seminar by Elina Amadhila
March 2021
Peaceful (and not so peaceful) assemblies: What are the international law standards? - Fellows' seminar by Christof Heyns
March 2021
Cell stories: how key are the words? - Fellows' seminar by Marcella Faria
March 2021
Following the money: understanding capital movement through trade misinvoicing in Africa - Fellows' seminar by Arcade Ndoricimpa
February 2021
A guided tour through complexity economics - Fellows' seminar by Brian Arthur
February 2021
Copyright Africa: The chronicle of a failed legal transplant - Fellows' seminar by Mamadou Diawara
January 2021
Gandhi’s Satyagraha: Exploring non-violent alternatives for effective political resistance and transformation - Fellows' seminar by Wolfgang Palaver, Louise du Toit, Ephraim Meir and Ed Noort
December 2020
Reading contemporary popular culture in Africa - Fellows' seminar by Lynda Spencer, Tina Steiner, Corinne Sandwith, Danai Mupotsa and Nedine Moonsamy
December 2020
Unsettled futures: The precarity and paradoxes of the post-apartheid project - Fellows' seminar by Bernard Dubbeld
December 2020
Shining the light on plant metabolites - Fellows' seminar by Ntakadzeni Edwin Madala
December 2020
Initiative will consider health and well-being of South African performing artists - Fellows' seminar by Bridget Rennie-Salonen and Clorinda Panebianco
December 2020
The mask unmasked: a look the gender politics of the face mask - Fellows' seminar by Mehita Iqani
November 2020
Documenting black archives and intellectual histories - Fellows' seminar by Mandisa Haarhoff, Khwezi Mkhize and Christopher Ouma
November 2020
Examining what it means to be human in times of contagion - Fellows' seminar by Irikidzayi Manase, Robert Muponde, Thabisani Ndlovu and Cheryl Stobie
November 2020
Whirling with gender: Mysticism, fluidity and Islamic Feminism - Fellows' seminar by Sa'diyya Shaikh
November 2020
Mobility as a South African urban integrator - Fellows' seminar by Megan Bruwer and Johann Andersen
November 2020
Digital platforms as a driver for transforming Africa's smallholder agriculture - Fellows' seminar by Matthias von Bismarck-Osten
November 2020
The riddle of Rosalind Ballingall: A glimpse at the hippie counterculture in 1960s Cape Town - Fellows' seminar by Albert Grundlingh
November 2020
Beyond the secular: Jacques Derrida and the theologico-political complex - Fellows' seminar by Andrea Cassatella
November 2020
Xnau-Xnau⁀GE@MP: Improvising through knots of time and place - Fellows' seminar by Garth Erasmus and Marietjie Pauw
October 2020
Understanding the complexities of human freedom - Fellows' seminar by Lucy Allais
October 2020
Documenting the state of the art in 3D printing of metals - Fellows' seminar by Anton du Plessis, Ina Yadroitsava and Igor Yadroitsev
October 2020
Clarifying the nature of money - Fellows' seminar by JP Smit
October 2020
Juxtaposing the politics and poetics of old age - Fellows' seminar by Catherine du Toit and Frans Viljoen
October 2020
Between Porbandar and Durban: In search of parochial Empire and its ‘navigator subjects’ - Fellows' seminar by Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen
October 2020
The politics of consumption - Fellows' seminar by Christine Hobden
September 2020
Time to fight for ocean health - Fellows' seminar by Stephanie Plön
September 2020
What’s a White woman to do? White women engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematising solidarity in a time of identity politics - Fellows' seminar by Amanda Gouws, Azille Coetzee and Louise du Toit
September 2020
Placing doctoral education in context - Fellows' seminar by Chrissie Boughey, Langutani Masehela, Sioux McKenna and Lillian Omondi
September 2020
In the private office: an insider’s view of the workings of government - Fellows' seminar by Rob Turrell
August 2020
Building research capacity through investigating the psychological impact of COVID-19 - Fellows' seminar by Renier Steyn, Erhabor Idemudia and Jürgen Becker
August 2020
More than words on a page: the book as artwork - Fellows' seminar by Christine Dixie and Heléne van Aswegen
June 2020
Conscious choice needed to restructure settlements towards a healed future - Fellows' seminar by Stephen Boshoff
June 2020
No Newton of a blade of grass: Organisms beyond mechanisms - Fellows' seminar by Johannes Jäger
June 2020
Rethinking the morality of violence - Fellows' seminar by Beata Stawarska
May 2020
Follow the money: exploring scientific persona and the impact of research funding - Fellows' seminar by Kirsti Niskanen
May 2020
Uncovering the complicated politics of race and belonging underlying the use of English as a lingua franca in South Africa - Fellows' seminar by Stephanie Rudwick
May 2020
Looking for better definitions of institutional objects for the social sciences - Fellows' seminar by JP Smit
April 2020
A federal solution to state-building in Africa - Fellows' seminar by Eghosa Osaghae
April 2020
Reflections on the intersections of art, culture and activism - Fellows' seminar by Mike van Graan
April 2020
The growth of militarised global apartheid and security empires - Fellows' seminar by Catherine Besteman
April 2020
Rediscovering a Khoisan language - Fellows' seminar by Menán Du Plessis
March 2020
Southern Imagining: A cultural and literary history of the far southern hemisphere - Fellows' seminar by Elleke Boehmer
March 2020
Exploring alternative channels for global humanities knowledge - Fellows' seminar by John Noyes and Bo Stråth
March 2020
The MDGs and SDGs: their significance and challenges for the development agenda - Fellows' seminar by David Malone
March 2020
Cartographies of hospitality: The gendered, racialised and classed politics of hosting - Fellows' seminar by Fataneh Farahani, Yasmin Gunaratnam and Suruchi Thapar-Björkert
February 2020
Taking another look at innovation and entrepreneurship under colonial rule - Fellows' seminar by Tony Hopkins
February 2020
Beaches of the mind: An early meditation on Daniel Morolong and Joseph Denfield’s photographs of the East London coastline - Fellows' seminar by Phindezwa Mnyaka
February 2020
Lighting up our lives – the challenges of lighting now and in the future - Fellows' seminar by Per Olof Holtz
February 2020
Looking at the role of mitochondria in cancer - Fellows' seminar by Nils-Göran Larsson
February 2020
Democratic citizenship in a globalised world - Fellows' seminar by Christine Hobden
February 2020
Reflections of a ‘traveller through history’ - Fellows' seminar by Marion Edmunds
January 2020
The hairy timeline of evolution - Fellows' seminar by Nina Jablonski
December 2019
Renascent Africa and cultural nationalism - Fellows' seminar by Obi Nwakanma
December 2019
Political culture in post-colonial Africa and post-communist Eastern Europe: Towards explaining democratic underdevelopment - Fellows' seminar by Petr Skalnik
December 2019
The audacity of imagining (African) history anew - Fellows' seminar by Aretha Phiri
November 2019
Monumental failures? Memorialisation, authority and disconnect in post-liberation Africa - Fellows' seminar by Jonathan Fisher
November 2019
Archaeology of a hungry mind - Fellows' seminar by Marlize Lombard, Anders Högberg and Peter Gärdenfors
November 2019
Africa must profit from leapfrogging to achieve sustainable transformation in health, education and agriculture - Fellows' seminar by Reiner Klingholz and Sabine Sütterlin
November 2019
White populism: Race and politics in the era of migration - Fellows' seminar by Dorian Bell
November 2019
In search of utopia: a fascinating glimpse into the novelist’s process - Fellows' seminar by Ilija Trojanow
October 2019
Studying the neurobiology of Alzheimer’s Disease in the hope of future treatment - Fellows' seminar by Carlos Ibanez
October 2019
Foregrounding spatiality in analyses of the postcolonial Western Indian Ocean novels - Fellows' seminar by James Ocita
October 2019
From one to many: Parallels between multicellularity and social behaviour - Fellows' seminar by Vidyanand Nanjundiah
October 2019
Demanding a ‘rightful share’? ‘Custom’, law and distributive claims on South Africa’s rural mining frontier - Fellows' seminar by Sonwabile Mnwana
October 2019
Reimagining democracy - Fellows' seminar by Marcelo Neves
September 2019
Negotiations of humanity, sexuality and (dis)ability in African fiction - Fellows' seminar by Ifeyinwa Okolo
September 2019
Philosophical reflections on Africa’s political condition - Fellows' seminar by Uchenna Okeja
September 2019
The complex world of fuel smuggling in the Benin-Nigeria borderlands - Fellows' seminar by Elieth Eyebiyi
September 2019
Examining in/appropriate appropriation/s - Fellows' seminar by Andrew van der Vlies
August 2019
Investigating novel treatment options for heart attacks - Fellows' seminar by Mazin Sirry
August 2019
Examining the impact of technological change on apartheid via literature - Fellows' seminar by Mark Sanders
August 2019
Fighting for the conservation of even the less-charismatic species - Fellows' seminar by Tatenda Dalu
August 2019
The artist as observer - Fellows' seminar by Patrick Flanery
August 2019
Framing me, framing you: Acting gender in South Africa - Fellows' seminar by Debra Shepherd
July 2019
Disability is sexy: examining the ‘hidden’ issue of disability and sexuality in the African context - Fellows' seminar by John Ganle
July 2019
An introduction to QBism: putting the humans into quantum theory - Fellows' seminar by Ruediger Schack
June 2019
The ‘Fallist’ movement and ‘where to now?’ for higher education in South Africa - Fellows' seminar by Susan Levine and Vivienne Bozalek
June 2019
Understanding theological ethics and their intersection with history, moral psychology and sociology - Fellows' seminar by Arne Rasmusson
June 2019
Lost and found in translation - Fellows' seminar by Rúnar Vignisson
June 2019
Understanding religious hybrid identities - Fellows' seminar by Wanda Deifelt
June 2019
Combinatorial evolution: a theory of evolution for technology - Fellows' seminar by Brian Arthur
May 2019
Embracing the ‘new science’ of complexity - Fellows' seminar by Jean Boulton
May 2019
Making sense of siege architecture and private security in middle-class residential neighbourhoods in Johannesburg - Fellows' seminar by Martin Murray
May 2019
Lessons of successes and failures in the politics of education reform - Fellows' seminar by Ben Ross Schneider
May 2019
Approaching a shared topic from different angles: studying the new middle classes in southern Africa - Fellows' seminar by Maxim Bolt, Claudia Gastrow and Preben Kaarsholm
April 2019
My role in our collective story - Fellows' seminar by Mathatha Tsedu
April 2019
Examining the new middle class in Africa - Fellows’ seminar by Deborah James, Carola Lentz, Isidore Lobnibe and Thabisani Ndlovu
March 2019
Getting under the skin of a city - Fellows' seminar by António Tomás
February 2019
Are we bound to violence? Looking at depictions of toxic queer masculinities in South African films - Fellows’ seminar by Gibson Ncube
January 2019
Finding excellence and unlocking possibilities- Seminar by Peter Wallenberg Jr and Göran Sandberg
January 2019
Unravelling the complicated history of human rights to understand its future - Fellows' seminar by Christof Heyns
December 2018
How we learnt to think like humans - Fellows' seminar by Peter Gärdenfors, Marlize Lombard and Anders Högberg
December 2018
Examining an African perspective on legal, human rights and governance issues - visiting scholars, Nkatha Kabira and Elifuraha Isaya Laltaika, highlight their projects
December 2018
Clear evidence that needs implementation - DOHaD fellows' seminar
November 2018
We need to think about health, cities and healthy cities differently - Fellows' seminar by Tolu Oni
November 2018
Are globalisation and social mobility leading to the demise of African modes of child fostering? - Fellows' seminar by Pamela Feldman-Savelsberg
November 2018
Knowing about genocide - Fellows' seminar by Joachim Savelsberg
November 2018
Getting to grips with the growing problem of falsified medicines - Fellows' seminar by Susanne Lundin and team
November 2018
Know thyself: the role of cultural and identity capital in South African education - Fellows' seminar by Debra Shepherd
October 2018
Battling a small but deadly foe - Fellows' seminar by Fara Raharimalala
October 2018
‘How things keep falling apart’: adding to the debate on the shaping of the post-colonial African mind - Fellows' seminar by Chielozona Eze
October 2018
Depictions of dogs in art and literature and what this tells us about being human - Fellows' seminar by Henrietta Mondry
October 2018
No quick fix but change needed for Africa’s future - Fellows' seminar by Berhanu Abegaz
October 2018
Changing creativity and what it means for the future of fiction writing - Fellows' seminar by Brian Chikwava
September 2018
Suffering in silence: The need for empirically validated options in the treatment of vulvodynia - Fellows' seminar by Natalie Rosen
September 2018
Rewilding language – reclaiming the words - Fellows' seminar by Duncan Brown
August 2018
Social justice is key to addressing corruption: Fellows' seminar by Tukumbi Lumumba-Kasongo
August 2018
Are GM crops the answer to Africa’s agricultural revolution? Fellows' seminar by Matthew Schnurr
August 2018
Finding new ways to repair the heart - Fellows' seminar by Mazin Sirry
July 2018
The transforming power of art - Fellows' seminar by Michelle LeBaron, Kim Berman and Kitche Magak
June 2018
Disappearing and reappearing – what effect does copyright and copyright reversion have on the availability of books? Fellows' seminar by Paul Heald
June 2018
Need for more data and more co-operation to protect water quality in Africa - Fellows' seminar by Lydia Olaka
June 2018
One size does not fit all and local practices must be understood - reconsidering social security from an African viewpoint: Fellows' seminar by Augustin Emane
May 2018
Can South Africa turn crisis into opportunity? Fellows' seminar by John Matisonn
May 2018
Telling the untold stories - Fellows' seminar by Mignonne Breier
May 2018
Delving deep to understand the relationship between statutory law and indigenous customary law across Africa - Fellows' seminar by Jan Erk
May 2018
Energy storage for a cleaner planet - Fellows' seminar by Michael Thackeray
April 2018
Understanding and promoting cities as drivers of economic development - Fellows' seminar by Gulelat Kebede
March 2018
Tracing the rise and decline of secondary schooling in Soweto - Fellows' seminar by Clive Glaser
March 2018
Reviving democratic citizenship - Fellows' seminar by Bruce Ackerman
March 2018
We need to deal with rape as a social not just a legal issue - Fellows' seminar by Lillian Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza
February 2018
Writing to fulfil a quest - Fellows' seminar by Jonny Steinberg
February 2018
Integration and co-ordination needed to avert future crises - Fellows' seminar by Ian Goldin
February 2018
Telling a good story - Fellows' seminar by Zakes Mda
February 2018
The African Court on Human and Peoples' Rights - Fellows' seminar by Gerard Niyungeko
February 2018
Life-cycle management for sustainable infrastructure development in Africa - Fellows' seminar by Getachew Assefa
January 2018
Exploring the future of artificial and human intelligence - Fellows' seminar by Christian Van den Broeck
January 2018
(Re)Imagining Africa(ns) in the world - Fellow's seminar by Aretha Phiri
December 2017
A story of idealism and betrayal - Fellows' seminar by David Attwell
December 2017
Business as usual will not do: we need better and more professional management of water resources worldwide - Fellows' seminar by Janos Bogardi
November 2017
Even where the science is clear translating it is a challenge - Fellows' seminar by the DOHaD group
November 2017
It was a Jazz Life - Fellows' seminar by Catherine and Darius Brubeck
November 2017
Clotting in aneurysms: identifying the good and the bad clots - Fellows' seminar by Malebogo Ngoepe
November 2017
The challenges of translating works of literature - Fellows' seminar by Derek Attridge
October 2017
Feeding our children’s children - update from the sustainable agro-ecosystems group
October 2017
Urgent need for evidence to inform policies and practices to protect precious groundwater for the future - Fellows' seminar by Daniel Olago
September 2017
What does the decolonisation of knowledge mean for black historians? Fellows' seminar by Jacob Dlamini
September 2017
The quest for a viable political philosophy for contemporary Africa - Fellows' seminar by Uchenna Okeja
August 2017
Unravelling the myth of hymen - Fellows' seminar by Margaret Ferguson
August 2017
To survive, democracy must transcend borders and become inclusive and responsive - Fellows' seminar by Marcelo Neves
August 2017
The power of words - Fellows' seminar by David Simpson
August 2017
Discovering new methods to test and treat a very old disease - Fellows' seminar by Nicole Sampson
August 2017
What do we wish to change with regard to race, racism and racialism? Fellows' Seminar by the 'Effects of Race' group
July 2017
Hearing the 'hidden voices' - Fellows' seminar by John Ganle
July 2017
Thinking not just selecting genes - Fellows' seminar by Scott Turner
June 2017
Exploring post-apartheid South Africa and the rise of xenophobia - Fellows' seminar by Fred Khumalo
June 2017
Is a legal order that can include without excluding possible? Fellows' seminar by Hans Lindahl
May 2017
“Let the dead speak for themselves - mummies rule!” Fellows' seminar by Salima Ikram
May 2017
The logic of life: bridging the physical, chemical and biological worlds - Fellows' seminar by Addy Pross
May 2017
Following the money - Fellows' seminar by Ulf Engel
May 2017
Tough decisions needed on what change is acceptable: the tale of the Okavango Delta - Fellows' seminar by Daniel Conley
April 2017
Entering the world of the writer: a quest for story and context - Fellows' seminar by Yvonne Owuor
March 2017
Climate change and the emerging disease crisis: An existential threat to technological humanity - Fellows' seminar by Dan Brooks
March 2017
Can Art answer the age-old question of what it means to be human? Fellows' seminar by John Noyes
February 2017
Is Ubuntu part of the solution to the values crisis? Fellows' seminar by Bo Stråth
January 2017
Circuiting to the future: electricity for medical use and a greener society - Fellows' seminar by Magnus Berggren
December 2016
Exploring the need for human-centred social cohesion - Fellows' seminar by Håkan Hydén
November 2016
Lack of vision and restraint undermines just cause in student protests - Public Lecture by Winston Nagan
October 2016
‘Tapping’ into state-society linkages: looking at perceptions of the state through the lens of water access - Fellows' Seminar by Leila Harris
September 2016
Healthy mothers, healthy babies – understanding the developmental origins of health and disease - DOHaD Fellows' seminar
August 2016
Testing low-cost mobile-based applications for health care in low-resource settings - Fellows' seminar by Guy Dumont
August 2016
Celebrity culture perpetuates old stereotypes - Fellows' seminar by Nina Jablonski
July 2016
Need for strengthened institutional capacity for Asia studies on the African continent - Fellows' seminar by Scarlett Cornelissen
July 2016
The evolving interface between religion and queer politics in Africa – Fellows' seminar by Adriaan van Klinken
October 2015