STIAS Conference on Memory and the Past to be held in Berlin
Research fellows from STIAS (the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study) will be participating in an international conference focusing on Historical Memory and Social Transformation to be held in...
View ArticleManuel Castells accepts visiting fellowship at STIAS
Prof Manuel Castells, world renowned sociologist, researcher and author on communication and the information society, has confirmed his acceptance of a visiting fellowship at the Stellenbosch Institute...
View ArticleFour nominations for SU Chancellor
Stellenbosch University has received four nominations for the office of Chancellor. An appointment process was launched after Dr Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert resigned as Chancellor earlier this year due...
View ArticleMinister Naledi Pandor visits STIAS
The Minister of Science and Technology, Ms Naledi Pandor, senior senior representatives from her office and the Department of Science and Technology has visited STIAS on Friday where they met with Prof...
View ArticleDr Marc van Regenmortel starts the STIAS 2010 Lecture Series
The STIAS 2010 Lecture Series commences with Dr Marc van Regenmortel, CNRS, Strasbourg on "Darwin and the Species Problem" (23 Feb, 13h00) and "Are viruses alive? A contemporary debate" (25 Feb, 13h00)...
View ArticleMaties to honour Nobel Prize winner
Stellenbosch University will bestow honorary doctorates upon a Nobel Prize winner, an internationally renowned anthropologist and a fighter for human rights and gender equality at its March Graduation...
View ArticleProf Nina Jablonski presents lecture at STIAS
The world-renowned anthropologist and palaeontologist, Prof Nina Jablonski, presented a lecture at the the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) on Tuesday night. The lecture, “Why human...
View ArticleNobel Prize winner presents STIAS Lecture
The 2002 Nobel Prize winner for Physiology/Medicine and recipient of an honorary doctorate from Stellenbosch University at its March Graduation Ceremony, Prof Sydney Brenner, presented a STIAS Lecture...
View ArticlePWIAS funds major HIV project at Tygerberg Hospital
The Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies (PWIAS) at the University of British Columbia (UBC) has awarded a Major Thematic Grant of $500 000 CAD (R3,5 million) over three years for a project to...
View ArticleMajor Wallenberg grant for the STIAS research programme
The Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation have announced that they will support the research programme at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) over the next five years with a grant...
View ArticleStriving for a common future – book on historical memory launched
Why are some individuals and communities able to move beyond a troubled past and why do others remain victims of that past? This is one of the intriguing questions dealt with in Historical Memory in...
View ArticleInvitation to 2011 STIAS Lecture series: Prof Nancy Fraser
You are hereby cordially invited to attend the fourth STIAS lecture of 2011. This event will offer all SU researchers and students, as well as members of the public, the opportunity to learn more about...
View ArticleEquality in the market can help solve capitalist crisis, says expert
We find it difficult to deal with the current capitalist crisis and to resolve it. This was the opinion of Professor Nancy Fraser, Loeb Professor of Philosophy and Politics at the New School for Social...
View ArticleThe DST commits over R6 million for research programme at STIAS
The Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, has approved that the Department of Science and Technology (DST) support the research programme at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study...
View ArticleColloquium on Law and Poverty
Local and international legal heavyweights are set to congregate at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS) from 29 to 31 May 2011 for a Colloquium on Law and Poverty being hosted by...
View ArticleTechnology changes thoughts and feelings
The unprecedented world created by computers and television in the 21st century dramatically changes our thoughts and feelings. This was the view of Baroness Susan Greenfield, Professor in Pharmacology...
View ArticleSU holds symposium on cancer
At a recent symposium (5 August) on cancer, researchers at Stellenbosch University (SU) highlighted ways to combat the disease. The symposium was jointly hosted by SU and the Cancer Association of...
View ArticleInternational Septuagint congress
An international Septuagint (Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible) congress will take place from 31 August – 2 September at the Wallenberg Research Centre (STIAS). Thirty-two speakers from all over...
View ArticleInternational honour for chairman of STIAS
Mr Desmond Smith, Chairman of the Board of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), was elected as President of the International Actuarial Association (IAA) at its recent congress in...
View ArticleSU celebrates African University Day
Stellenbosch University’s Postgraduate and International Office will be hosting a seminar on African Academic Networks in Action on Monday (14 November) in celebration of the annual African University...
View ArticleGerman Studies experts from Africa and Germany meet in Stellenbosch
A conference entitled “German language and culture in an African context” – for German and African experts in German Studies – will take place at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS)...
View ArticleSocial ties and innovative thinking help humankind survive
Humans have survived for more than 100 000 years by forming strong social networks and finding innovative ways of doing things. This was the view of Prof Curtis Marean, Associate Director of the...
View ArticleMaties well represented at 30th International Congress of Psychology
Stellenbosch University (SU) is a co-sponsor of the 30th International Congress of Psychology (ICP) taking place at the Cape Town International Convention Centre from 22 to 27 July 2012. Held every...
View ArticleSTIAS Lecture: Prof Nina Jablonski
You are hereby cordially invited to attend the sixth public STIAS lecture of 2012. This presents an opportunity to SU researchers and students, as well as members of the public, to learn more about...
View ArticleFormer Swedish Deputy Prime Minister Maud Olofsson visits STIAS
Ms Maud Olofsson, former Swedish Deputy Prime Minister (2006 – 2010) and Minister of Enterprise and Energy (2006 – 2011), visited STIAS recently to assist in the planning of the first STIAS-Wallenberg...
View ArticleBook about South Africa’s transition to democracy translated into Romanian
A collection of essays by Prof Bernard Lategan, founding director of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study in South Africa (STIAS) at Stellenbosch University (SU), has been translated into...
View ArticleNobel Prize winner is STIAS fellow during March
Prof Harald zur Hausen, the German virologist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine of Physiology in 2008 for his discovery of papilloma viruses that play a role in cervical cancers, will be a...
View ArticleMeeting explores state and future of SA energy landscape
There is some serious head-scratching ahead for the South African energy sector. That much was clear when a panel of South African and international experts (video), after three days of brushing up on...
View ArticleCancer lurks in overindulgence of beef, says Nobel laureate
People who eat too much red meat, especially beef, are at risk of getting colon cancer, said Nobel laureate and fellow of the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS), Prof Harald zur Hausen,...
View ArticleSignificant grants reaffirm the research stature of STIAS
The Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study (STIAS) has just received major grants from two Swedish foundations. This will enable the Institute to expand its research activities significantly and to...
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