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.

#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👇🏽.

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.

#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.

#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 👉🏽

RT @MISR_Mak: Happening Today at 2PM!.🌍 Seminar: Social Representations of Land & the Right to the City in West Africa.📍 Insights from Côte….

#MeetOurFellows.#STIASFellows2025.Bruce Janz is with the Department of Philosophy at the University of Central Florida, USA. His project considers the diverse uses of questions & their function as disruptive elements in spaces of thought. Read more here 👇🏽

Feeling frustrated and alone in your PhD journey? Some members of the #STIASFellows2024 cohort penned this letter to encourage and remind you why you started this journey in the first place.

#MeetOurFellows.#STIASFellows2025 .Harald Ginzky from the GEA and Oliver Ruppel from Stellenbosch University are collaborating on a project aimed at supporting the development of a proposal for a model law on sustainable soil management. See👇🏽

RT @ZakesMda: Novelist Zakes Mda's books published in Mandarin via @YouTube.

#MeetOurFellows.#STIASFellows2025.Tshepiso Makhafola is with the Department of Health Sciences at Central University of Technology, South Africa. His research investigates the effects of some South African medicinal plant extracts on cancer. Read more👇🏽

#MeetOurFellows #STIASFellows2025 .Daniel Aili is from the Department of Physics at Linköping University, Sweden. Read about his research and the #STIASPublicLecture he presented, here 👇🏽

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#MeetOurFellows.#STIASFellows2025.Anders Björkvall from Örebro University, Sweden, Arlene Archer of the University of Cape Town, and Zach Simpson from the University of Johannesburg, are working on a project about principles for inclusive design of teaching and learning.

RT @IshmaelBeah: Honoured to be an artist in residence @STIAS_SA . A story set in contemporary #SierraLeone about a group of politicians wh….

#MeetOurFellows.#STIASFellows2025 .Rebekka Sandmeier is with the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town. Her research project is titled Jan Bouws and the Instituut vir Volksmusiek (1960-1972). Read more 👇🏽.

#MeetOurFellows.#STIASFellows2025 .Sishuwa Sishuwa is with the Department of History at Stellenbosch University. His #IsoLomsoFellowship project investigates the political role of the military in securing democratic gains in Zambia and Malawi. Read more👇🏽

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#MeetOurFellows.#STIASFellows2025 .Helena Alviar García is from Sciences Po Law School, France. She is working on a comparative law analysis between Colombia and South Africa, examining legal interventions to counteract environmental destruction and its gendered effects.