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🔔CALL FOR APPLICATIONS 🔔
STIAS invites senior scholars and artists to submit applications for fellowships to be taken up in the second semester of 2025. The
#STIASFellowship
includes a fully equipped office, accommodation in Stellenbosch, a living allowance & travel expenses.
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🔔CALL FOR APPLICATIONS🔔
STIAS invites individual and team researchers from all disciplines to apply for residency fellowships for the second semester of 2024. Please submit your application by 30 April 2023. See more information on our website 👇🏽
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CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
STIAS invites early to mid-career scholars from research centres and academic institutions on the African continent to apply for the
#IsoLomsoFellowship
.
The deadline is 15 February 2024. See the link for details:
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🔔CALL FOR APPLICATIONS🔔
The call for applications for the
#IsoLomsoFellowship
is open. Send your application before 15 February 2023. More information can be found on the STIAS website 👇🏽
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BOOK LAUNCH
There is an African proverb: ‘Until the lion has a historian of his own, the tale of the hunt will always glorify the hunter’. This book is an acceptance of that challenge, to write a brand new kind of history, with the author becoming "The Lion’s Historian".
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World renowned musician, healer and storyteller
@nduduzo_m
performing at the STIAS
#NobelInAfrica
launch dinner last night. Gxabhashe!
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STIAS Director
@edkirumira
delivering the welcome address. Today is a momentous occasion for us at STIAS.
#NobelInAfrica
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A lot has been written about Beninese Philosopher, Paulin J Hountondji since his passing early this month. We remember him as a dear STIAS Fellow of 2012.
Our deepest condolences to all who knew him.
#PaulinHountondji
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🔔Call for Applications🔔
The call for Iso Lomso Fellowship applications is now open. See link below for application requirements. Send all application documents by Tuesday 15 February 2022. Email inquiries to: isolomso
@sun
.ac.za
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"I try to make history relatable – to humanise it. The historical record states but fiction demonstrates"
#STIASFellow
Zakes Mda on his writing
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The wait is over! The fourth cohort of
#IsoLomso
fellows has been announced.
Congratulations to:
Nasandratra Ravonjiarison 🇲🇬
Arcade Ndoricimpa 🇧🇮
Elina Amadhila 🇳🇦
Edwin Madala 🇿🇦
Etienne Wamba 🇨🇲
Lukman Abdulrauf 🇳🇬
Wamuwi Mbao 🇿🇦
See more👇🏽
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We're proud to announce that the next director of STIAS is Prof Edward K Kirumira from Makerere University. He succeeds Prof Hendrik Geyer in January 2019
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🔔Call for Applications🔔Applications for the
#IsoLomsoFellowship
2020 open on Thursday, 1 October 2020. Make sure you send in all the required documents in the correct format before deadline.
For more information see 👇🏽
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It’s official!
The STIAS Wallenberg Research Centre building is set to receive an expansion and facelift, thanks to funding from the Marianne & Marcus Wallenberg Foundation.
A groundbreaking ceremony was held this week to mark the beginning of the construction process.
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STIAS Director
@edkirumira
has been appointed Professor Extraordinary at the Department of Sociology & Social Anthropology at Stellenbosch University.
@SocAnthSUN
@StellenboschUni
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Very pleased to announce that STIAS is now a member of prestigious SIAS consortium of institutes for advanced study
@the_IAS
@NatlHumanities
@CASBSStanford
@RadInstitute
@NIAS_KNAW
@SCAS_Uppsala
@wiko_berlin
@IEAdeNantes
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Why has English become the language of science and is this the way to go? Great to have Fellows in robust discussion. We are a creative space for the mind.
@jocita001
@PhillipsonMia
@SilberbergGilad
@CarlenLab
#IsoLomsoFellowship
#WallenbergAcademy
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The first semester of 2023 has officially ended and our Fellows are returning home. We are left with great memories from the time we spent together. We wish you all the best in all that you do. Please keep in touch.
#MeetOurFellows
#2023FirstSemesterCohort
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We are grieved by the sudden passing of our Board member and Fellow, Christof Heyns. Christof had been in residence at STIAS over the last month until his death yesterday. He suffered a heart attack while hiking with his brother in Stellenbosch.
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Nobel Symposium activities are coming to Africa for the first time. We are honoured to be hosting the first 8 symposia under the flag, Nobel in Africa. Save the date: 25 October 2022, the official launch of the Nobel in Africa Symposium Series.
#OfficialLaunch
#NobelInAfrica
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Congratulations on a successful workshop 🙌🏼 and best wishes to the participants as they go back to their home countries to implement the learnings.
Fun ending with a visit by Prof Thuli Madonsela to our workshop with
@AfricaCDC
@WHOAFRO
@ThuliMadonsela3
@SUDataSchool
@STIAS_SA
@ceri_news
@StellenboschUni
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The STIAS 2024 Fellowship Programme started this week. We look forward to hosting all Fellows joining us for the first semester of 2024. We trust you will have a productive residency period.
#STIASFellowship2024
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Welcome to all participants of the first ever Nobel Symposium to be organised on African soil. We extend a warm South African welcome to the physicists joining us from all over the world. It is great to finally host you after years of planning and postponing.
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A pleasure to host
@aguribfakim
today at STIAS to discuss
#African
#science
, young researchers and current affairs - here with STIAS director Hendrik Geyer, director-designate
@edkirumira
,
#STIASFellow
@AbdallahDaar
and Wallenberg representatives Ingrid Sundtröm & Sven Strömqvist
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Our
#IsoLomsoFellows
are hosting their peers from the Wallenberg Academy in Sweden for the next few days. Discussions include everything you can think of, from brain activity to the psychological effects of music to the mechanics of hair.
#EarlyCareerResearchers
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#Mitochondria
are small units in the cell that play a central role in regulating
#metabolism
. See what else these power plants inside our cells are capable of in this write up of
@mitopinionated
’s
#StiasSeminarSeries
talk 👇🏽
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Today we kick off a 3-day international conference in collaboration with
@MIASA_UG
@goetheuni
and
@UniJena
on Prospects for Regional Integration in Africa: A Comparative Perspective
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We are happy to announce that STIAS Fellow and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah will deliver the
@ASSAf_Official
Humanities Lecture at STIAS on Thursday, 3 November 2022. See link for registration details 👇🏽
“I just want to write as trustfully as I can, without trying to say something noble."
2021
#NobelPrize
laureate in literature Abdulrazak Gurnah's dedication to truth and his aversion to simplification are striking.
Learn more about Gurnah:
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Judith Omumbo of the Science for Africa Foundation closing off the morning formalities at the
#NobelInAfrica
Nobel Symposia Series launch.
@omumbo_judy
@SciforAfrica
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Congratulations to our newest cohort of Iso Lomso fellows!
@TatendaDalu
,
@christinehobden
,
@NkathaKabira
,
@LaltaikaE
, James Ocita,
@sweeteve222
and Eric Otchere will take up their first STIAS residencies during 2019/2020
#IsoLomso
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Our next and final
#STIASPublicLecture
for the year will be delivered by Professor Sylvia Tamale of
@MakerereU
on Tuesday, 22 October under the topic, “Peeling away the layers of colonization: The case of the African Academy. It’s free & open to all.
See 👉🏽
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Here’s wishing our Director
@edkirumira
well on his birthday. May you see many more 🥂
#PeopleOfSTIAS
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Our newest Permanent
#STIASFellow
,
@BerhanuAbegaz
is a lifelong champion of science in Africa and of Africa's young scholars; we are honoured
@AASciences
@AAS_AESA
#IsoLomso
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We are excited to be hosting the SIAS Annual Meeting this year. We wish to welcome our partners from
@CASBSStanford
@NatlHumanities
@IEAdeNantes
@NIAS_KNAW
@wiko_berlin
@the_IAS
@SCAS_Uppsala
@IIAS_Jerusalem
@RadInstitute
. About SIAS and the meeting 👇🏽
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#MeetOurFellows
“African literature in English has experienced something of a renaissance in the last ten years or so, and many novels that have become internationally available in that period have been described as novels of formation.” - Ranka Primorac
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If you have not already done so, register for the next
#NobelInAfrica
Physics outreach public lectures happening this Thursday
@UCT_news
@StellenboschUni
@UCTscience
Sign up here 👉🏽
#NobelSymposium183
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STIAS congratulates our previous director, Hendrik Geyer on being awarded the 2022 De Beers Gold Medal by the South African Institute of Physics. The award is in recognition of Geyer’s outstanding academic achievements over the course of his career.
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Our first public lecture of the semester will be presented by the influential sociologist and
#STIASFellow
Manuel Castells on 6 August: "Rupture. The Global Crisis of Liberal Democracy: Trump, Brexit and Beyond" Book your seats now
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#STIASSeminarSeries
Iso Lomso Fellow, Edwin Madala and his colleagues at
@Univenofficial
have developed techniques using liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) to investigate the effect of increased UV light on plants.
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STIAS Director
@edkirumira
together with
@StellenboschUni
Vice-Chancellor
@WimdeVilliers
met up with some
#STIASFellows
during a business meeting in Sweden today. Great seeing you
@mitopinionated
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We are honoured to be hosting the
@AfricaCDC
workshop on
#SARSCoV2
Genome Sequencing and Bioinformatics.
Congratulations on what you have achieved thus far and best wishes to all involved for the remaining few days.
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We close the
#NobelSymposium
week with a roundtable with policy makers of the National Treasury in Pretoria. Participants in the 2024 Nobel Symposium in Economic Sciences are sharing their research on
#SocialProtection
#ClimateChange
and
#Industrialisation
in low income countries
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We are counting down to the public lecture this afternoon by Tsitsi Dangarembga titled, “The Shona Subject: Who, How, If and Where to After All That”
@efie41209591
DATE: 15 April 2021
PLATFORM: MS Teams
TIME: 15:45 - 17:30 SAST
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Join us on Thursday, 29 February for the first STIAS Public Lecture of the year. The lecture titled, "Standing on the Edge of Error: Science in the Age of Artificial Intelligence", will be delivered by STIAS Donald Gordon Fellow
@Nigel_Shadbolt
#STIASPublicLectureSeries2024
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We are in the Opening Session of the 2024
#NobelSymposium
in Economic Sciences on the theme “Micro-development research in the last 20 years: What have we learned?” under the direction of MC Tracey Lange.
#NobelinAfrica2024
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Today, our
#IsoLomsoFellows
and our visitors from the
#WallenbergAcademy
in Sweden are in conversation about English as the language of science.
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It’s true, STIAS Fellow and winner of the
@NobelPrize
in Literature 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah is coming. See below for registration details 👇🏽
Listen, our latest Nobel Laureate for Literature is coming home, and will be delivering a talk (hybrid) at
@STIAS_SA
in Stellenbosch🥰✨. Details below.
For online attendance, register here:
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Modelling the effect of hydrogel injection into heart tissue following myocardial infarction (heart attack),
#IsoLomso
#STIASFellow
Mazin Sirry is finding new ways to repair the heart
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STIAS joined Twitter on this day six years ago. ‘Cela nithi hooray🥂
#MyTwitterAnniversary
#AcreativeSpaceForTheMind
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STIAS Director
@edkirumira
at the launch of
#SharingKnowledgeTransformingSocieties
reflects on what could make academic collaboration and networking work
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🔔HAPPENING NOW🔔
Join the Public Lecture by STIAS Fellows, Kopano Ratele and Glenn Adams titled “Toward a Decolonial Africa-centering Psychology: Beyond the Whitestream Gaze on Racism and Well-being”. See link below 👇🏽
#STIASPublicLectureSeries
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For more information visit our website.
DEADLINE: 30 April 2024
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DEADLINE THIS WEEK!
Remember to send in your application for the STIAS
#IsoLomsoFellowship
by Thursday, 15 February 2024. See the link below for application requirements and submit to isolomso
@sun
.ac.za.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
STIAS invites early to mid-career scholars from research centres and academic institutions on the African continent to apply for the
#IsoLomsoFellowship
.
The deadline is 15 February 2024. See the link for details:
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Social security in Africa: "We have to rethink social risks considering local practices and beliefs"
#STIASFellow
Augustin Emane
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#STIASSeminarSeries
"The emergence and spread of TB in South Africa is closely associated with industrialisation, with no conclusive evidence of its presence before colonial contact" - Maryna Steyn.
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The first group of our 2024 First Semester Fellows has arrived. We expect more arrivals in the coming few weeks.
#MeetOurFellows
and check their research interests here
#STIASFellows2024
#IsoLomsoFellowship
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A lovely Q&A with
#IsoLomso
#STIASFellow
Malebogo Ngoepe covering the science of aneurysms, ancient texts and hair type! Looking forward to continue growing our relationship with the
@WallInstitute
through this and other programmes.
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STIAS was honoured to host the Ambassador of
@SwedeninSA
Håkan Juholt with the Chief Whip of the Social Democratic Party of Sweden, Lena Hallengren and a delegation of Swedish parliamentarians during an unofficial study visit this week.
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STIAS Director
@edkirumira
is among 38 leading scholars and scientists who were inaugurated as members of the Academy of Science of South Africa last week. Members of the Academy are elected on the basis of academic excellence and significant contributions to society.
📢📢📢ASSAf inaugurated 38 new Members at the Academy's recent Awards and inauguration ceremony in Cape Town, bringing the total Membership of ASSAf to 689. For more info read here:
Photographed below are the new Members who were in attendance.
@dsigovza
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One of the first scholarly books on African stand-up comedy is in the making.
#IsoLomso
fellow, Izuchukwu Nwankwo
@IzuuTweets
is hosting a colloquium on African Stand-Up Comedy Practice with that goal in mind 👉🏽
#EarlyCareerScholars
#AfricanComedy
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A welcome visit this week by
@2017Kaw100
chair Peter Wallenberg Jr & Göran Sandberg presented a memorable opportunity to gather all three STIAS directors - Bernard Lategan, Hendrik Geyer and Edward Kirumira. Honoured to continue our relationship with the
#Wallenberg
Foundations
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Today we welcome new and returning fellows to the 2023 STIAS Programme. We look forward to a productive semester and year. See a message from STIAS Director, Edward K Kirumira
@edkirumira
in this short video.
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In a few minutes we will be hearing from one of our
#IsoLomso
fellows
@JGanle
from the university of Ghana who will speak about how disabled women experience and negotiate barriers to sexual expression.
#StiasSeminarSeries
#DisabilityIsSexy
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“His works have had & continue to have a profound impact on our understanding of what it means to live in a truly globalised world”-Edward Kirumira. Read more about
@GurnahAuthor
his novel project at STIAS and being awarded the
#NobelPrize
in literature.
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“Rainbows remind us that even after the darkest clouds and the fiercest winds, there is still beauty.” - Katrina Mayer
How are things in your neck of the woods?
📸
@JerzyKoch
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"The best way to expand our knowledge of the dynamic of postcolonial cities is not by debunking Western urban theories (which are aimed at universalising the urban experience), but by provincialising them."
#STIASFellow
Antonio Tomas on
#Luanda
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Sometimes, when we are not in a seminar or thinking and writing, we listen to music by one of our Fellows. Today, John Dupré took us through his musical journey and personal history with the viola da gamba. See more here 👉🏽
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🔔ATTENTION JOURNALISTS 🔔
You are invited to the official launch of the Nobel in Africa - Nobel Symposia Series on 25 October 2022 and to the Physics Outreach Programme of the 183rd Nobel Symposium currently underway. See more here 👇🏽
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#STIASSeminarSeries
#STIASFellows
I have renewed awe for the comprehensive and fundamental differences between living and non-living systems. We don’t really know anything about life yet - Johannes Jäger. See more about
@yoginho
and his research here 👇🏽
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It’s really happening!
#STIASFellow
Jonathan Kingdon and his wife Laura have arrived for the book launch on Wednesday.
Make sure you join us, it’s going to be epic. See details on the poster.
#OriginAfrica
#BookLaunch
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A massive congratulations to our
#IsoLomsoFellow
@DrTolullah
and her delegates and colleagues on the success of the 3-day workshop “Healthy Cities: Intersectoral Approaches to Improve Non-Communicable Disease Prevention in Africa”.
All the best with the next steps
@RICHE_Africa
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Our fourth annual Iso Lomso call is now open - calling Africa's brightest young minds to apply!
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Allow us to throw it back to last week's public lecture by STIAS Fellow and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2021, Abdulrazak Gurnah. The lecture was organised in partnership with the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf)
#ACreativeSpaceForTheMind
#MeetOurFellows
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The dynamic
@TraceyLange
taking us through the evening program of the
#NobelInAfrica
launch yesterday. What a pleasurable experience.
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There is no one waiting to save us. We must save ourselves. | Lindiwe Mazibuko | TedxEuston
@TedxEuston
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And we are back! We wish you our fellows and our followers a productive 2020.
Check out our Director
@edkirumira
reflecting on his first year at the helm.
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Recovering and realising our humanity: book launch on 13 Feb of
#STIASFellow
Zakes Mda's latest collection 'Justify the Enemy' in conversation with Wamuwi Mbao - see event details at jointly hosted with
@UKZNPress
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Excited to have been elected a Fellow of
@WolfsonCam
@Cambridge_Uni
Look forward to boundary-spanning conspirings with Fellows, Students and Alumni across disciplines, sectors & borders
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Why education should be first in any society: New book in the STIAS series by
#STIASFellows
Wolfgang Lutz & Reiner Klingholz - out soon
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We are delighted to be hosting this week a group of
#EarlyCareerScholars
from African and Middle Eastern universities attending the Early Career Scholars Program (ECSP) Colloquium funded through the International Higher Education & Strategic Projects of
@MellonFdn
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Inviting expressions of interest in our youngest research theme: "University and Society: Disruption, Discourse and New Directions" on the changing role of the university past, present and future
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Congratulations to
#STIASFellow
Abdulrazak Gurnah on being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
BREAKING NEWS:
The 2021
#NobelPrize
in Literature is awarded to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.”
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The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) and members of its Board of Directors welcome Morné du Plessis as incoming Chairperson of the Board. Du Plessis will assume full responsibility as Board Chairperson in May 2024.
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🔔Iso Lomso Fellows Announced🔔
The wait is over. The sixth cohort of
#IsoLomsoFellows
has been selected.
Congratulations:
Jerrold Agbankpe 🇧🇯
Asanda Benya 🇿🇦
Philippe Djorwé 🇨🇲
Achille Melingui 🇨🇲
Asante Mtenje 🇲🇼
Victoria Namuggala 🇺🇬
Paul Onanuga 🇳🇬
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We look forward to welcoming you
@GewaldJan
'Without the "Big Hole", as the diamond mine in Kimberley is called, southern Africa wouldn’t exist as it is now'. Read the interview with
@GewaldJan
on the occasion of his selection as a fellow at
@STIAS_SA
⬇️
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The full recording of the public lecture by
@LindaRichterECD
on the Birth to Thirty study
#Bt30
is now available, see
#STIASPublicLectureSeries
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We are getting ready to launch
#OriginAfrica
with
#STIASFellow
and author Jonathan Kingdon in conversation with Michael Cherry from the Department of Botany and Zoology at Stellenbosch University.
A book signing and reception will follow the official launch.
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#STIASSeminarSeries
What are universities for? Where do universities come from? We are in conversation with
#STIASFellow
Saleem Badat on the origins and development of universities in South Africa.
#MeetOurFellows
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Joseph Stiglitz's STIAS Lecture on The Revolution of Information Economics is now available on
@YouTube
at
@josephestiglitz
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We are in the final week of the STIAS program for the first semester of 2022. What a joy it has been to host fellows from various disciplines and parts of the world. Today, Jonathan Kingdon popped in
@STIAS_SA
Director
@edkirumira
’s office to say goodbye for now.
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Iso Lomso Fellowships 2018 Call for Applications now open: early career African researchers are invited to apply by 20 Oct
#IsoLomso
@GYA_GloSYS
@AASciences
@daandutoit
@ADA_SUIntl
@AAU_67
@RachelStrohm
@AfricaSLP
@AIMS_Next
@lindanordling
@RISESci
@aphrc
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🔔 New book alert 🔔
Saussure’s Linguistics, Structuralism, and Phenomenology by
#STIASFellow
Beata Stawarska documents the continued relevance of Saussure’s linguistics in the 21st Century. Read more about the author here 👇🏽
@uoregon
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Congratulations to all on a successful conference 🙌🏼
#SASCA2021
Our Director, Dr. Rothenberger, with Prof. Charles Fombad, director of the Institute for International and Comparative Law in Africa
@UPLawFaculty
, and Prof. Nico Steytler, SARCHI
@UWC_DOI
with the latest publications on the last
#SASCA
seminars, at
@STIAS_SA
,
@StellenboschUni
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#STIASPublicLectureSeries
In case you missed the public lecture by
@KopanoRatele
and Glenn Adams, the full recording is available on our YouTube channel.
See link 👉🏽
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We kick off our
#StiasSeminarSeries
for 2020 with an interesting topic this afternoon, “A Hairy Tale: An introduction to the evolution and meanings of human hair” by anthropologist Nina G. Jablonski of
@penn_state
. See what it’s all about here 👇🏽
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Investigating the risks of emerging contaminants in the urban water supplies of Nairobi, Kampala, Dar es Salaam, Lusaka, Lilongwe, Harare and Cape Town -
#STIASFellow
Lydia Olaka
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