Month: January 2019

  • Position available — Professor/Associate Professor in Sociology

    The Department of Anthropology and Sociology is looking for a sociologist at the level of Professor/Associate Professor with specialisation or research focus (evidenced by publication) in one of the following areas: health, technology, transformation, gender, social policy, animal-human relations, and climate change.   The Department of Anthropology and Sociology offers a three-year B.A. degree in Anthropology…

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  • UWC Partnership with Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Germany

    Sikelelwa Mashiyi, one of our Master’s students in Anthropology, was the first exchange student to visit the Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) in November 2018. During her stay, Sikelelwa presented her work on South African Spaza Hip Hop at the Department of Anthropology and African Studies. She also conducted research at the African Music Archives (AMA) at Mainz…

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  • Fascism? Populism? Democracy? Critical Theory in a Global Context—January 23-25, 2019 University of Brighton, UK

    Dr. Kelly Gillespie from the Department of Anthropology and Sociology (UWC) will be a keynote speaker at the conference “Fascism? Populism? Democracy? Critical Theory in a Global Context” that will take place at the University of Brighton, in January 23-25, 2019. Hosted jointly by the Centre for Applied Philosophy, Politics and Ethics (CAPPE) at the…

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