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Posted on 9 November 2011, last modified on 9 October 2023
26 June 2023
On 27 June 1948, South African-born German anthropologist and philologist Dorothea Frances Bleek died in Newlands, Cape Town at the age of 75. She is known for her research on the San in Southern Africa.
21 June 2023
The Encyclopedia of Embroidery from Sub-Saharan Africa, by Leiden Textile Research Centre (TRC) director Gillian Vogelsang-Eastwood and her husband Willem Vogelsang, makes it clear that Africa has a rich culture of embroidery. It is the subject of our latest Library Highlight!
20 June 2023
Starting in September 2022, Lidewyde Berckmoes was invited for a three-month Embassy Science Fellowship at the Embassy of the Netherlands in Jakarta. She was asked to contribute ‘to structurally strengthen Indonesian knowledge of Africa’ and relations with African countries’ research institutions.
20 June 2023
This seminar on 2 November by Sharyn Spicer, University of the Western Cape, uses a social justice lens to shed light on human-animal relationships and to develop contextually appropriate and culturally competent animal welfare interventions.
20 June 2023
Harry Wels has been appointed Extraordinary Professor at the Department of Women's and Gender Studies (WGS) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) in South Africa. Harry's research is about organisational structures of cooperation in the context of nature conservation, touching on broader issues in Human-Animal studies.