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The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) is a high-level research institute dedicated to innovative thinking and the production of knowledge.
Stellenbosch, South Africa
Joined September 2015
🔔HAPPENING THIS WEEK 🔔. Join us for the 5th #STIASPublicLecture of the year. STIAS Fellow, Siphokazi Magadla will present a lecture titled: “From Meadowlands to Libya: Love, family and the betrayal of freedom. 🗓️ 14 August 2025.⏰ 16:00 - 17:30 SAST.📍 STIAS, 10 Marais Road.
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Congratulations to #STIASFellows named in the Sunday Times Literary Awards long list:.In the Fiction category, Siphiwe Ndlovu’s The Creation of Half-Broken People. #STIASFellows2025.
The 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards longlist | Announcing the longlists for SA’s most prestigious annual literary awards for non-fiction and the fiction award in partnership with @ExclusiveBooks! .
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Congratulations to #STIASFellows named in the Sunday Times Literary Awards long list:.In the Non-fiction category, Uhuru Phalafala’s Keorapetse Kgositsile and the Black Arts Movement: Poetics of Possibility. #IsoLomsoFellowship.
The 2025 Sunday Times Literary Awards longlist | Announcing the longlists for SA’s most prestigious annual literary awards for non-fiction and the fiction award in partnership with @ExclusiveBooks! .
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RT @Ottossonlab: Happy and honoured to have been awarded a STIAS: Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study fellowship for 2025! . Look for….
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🔔PUBLIC LECTURE INVITATION 🔔. Join us for the 5th #STIASPublicLecture of the year. STIAS Fellow, Siphokazi Magadla will present a lecture titled: “From Meadowlands to Libya: Love, family and the betrayal of freedom”. 🗓️ 14 August 2025.⏰ 16:00 - 17:30 SAST
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RT @PublicBooks: New at PB, Urmila Seshagiri, Elleke Boehmer (@ellekeboehmer), Derek Attridge, and Ankhi Mukherjee (@AnkhiMukherjee9) revis….
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What freshly nuanced perspectives might we bring to the violent late 20th-century history Coetzee describes?
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RT @thandorasbox: Super chuffed to be selected for the #IsoLomsoFellowship ‘26 cohort @STIAS_SA ! I look forward to meeting the other fello….
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#MeetOurFellows.#IsoLomsoFellowship .It is with great excitement that we announce our latest Iso Lomso Fellows. Selected from the February 2025 Call for Applications, these Fellows form the ninth Iso Lomso cohort since the programme started in 2017. See 👇🏽.
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The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) is pleased to announce its ninth cohort of Iso Lomso Fellows for applications submitted during its February 2025 Call for Applications. For this...
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Our 2025 second-semester Fellows have arrived. We are excited to welcome the largest cohort STIAS has hosted since its inception. This is all thanks to the North Wing of the Wallenberg Research Centre, which was inaugurated in March 2025 and added more office and meeting spaces.
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#MeetOurFellows .#STIASFellows2025 .Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo is from the Department of Logic and Philosophy of Science at the University of the Basque Country, Spain. His project deals with the irreducible and pervasive complexity of the natural world. Read more👇🏽.
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An excursion into the irreducible complexity of the biological world and some of its epistemological and social implications “We are an excursion. We are not following an arrow,” said Kepa Ruiz-Mir...
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Look out for information about joining the opening session, the outreach programme at different campuses and bookstores and a public lecture by #NobelLaureates Abdulrazak Gurnah and JM Coetzee. #NobelInAfrica2025.
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We are thrilled to announce the Nobel Symposium in Literature, the fifth symposium in the #NobelInAfrica series. Under the theme, “Retrieving Pasts, Imagining Futures: Creative Forms in African Writing”, the symposium will run from 03 – 07 November 2025 in Stellenbosch.
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#MeetOurFellows.#STIASFellows2025 .Ismaila Emahi is with the Department of Chemical Science at the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana. His project focuses on finding alternative methods to detect and eliminate toxic metals from water.
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Advancing biogenic materials for water purification Ismaila Emahi is a man on a mission – to find low-cost solutions to providing cleaner, safer water. “Heavy-metal contamination, driven by industr...
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#MeetOurFellows.#STIASFellows2025 .A team of STIAS Fellows is working on a project aimed at understanding where to invest resources to improve health systems’ provision of injury in order to reduce death and disability. Read more here 👉🏽
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Injuries are one of the leading causes of death and disability in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs), especially in sub-Saharan Africa. High-quality, effective and accessible healthcare systems...
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