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Humanities Update 2016 HUMANITIES UPDATE Inside This Issue Faculty News: Greetings to Faculty 3 Dean’S Welcome 30 Student Bags National Excellence Award december 2016 humanities update 2016 HUMANITIES UPDATE inside this issue Faculty news: Greetings to Faculty 3 Dean’s welcome 30 Student bags National Excellence Award 4 Workshop on illicit trade attracts top 30 Auf Wiedersehen Derick Musindi alumni from the journalists 31 Sixth Michaelis student makes 5 South meets north, thanks to Tierney Fellowship list research grant Dean of 35 South African College of Music 6 Same story, different country trains educators 7 Blending arts and commerce to enhance 36 Institute for Creative Arts launched Humanities IT career prospects 37 Knighthood for Professor Pather 10 PC donation to benefit local schools This is my final Humanities Update. As you know, I will leave the Faculty and UCT at the end 40 Victoria Mxenge: a homeless people’s of January 2017 to join the University of Fort Hare on 1 February. I will leave behind a place 11 CALDi develops tool for endangered struggle for dignity that I have called home for three years, a community of peers, colleagues and students language 43 2016 staff graduation stories who welcomed me at the end of 2013 and who have worked alongside me ever since. 12 African music tours Mozambique I will always be grateful for those encounters. But enough about that! 44 UCT Art Historian to teach at Oxford 13 Generous gift boosts UCT Opera Campaign 45 Innovative research on Indian I am very excited to share this year’s e-magazine, which is and Karin Murris (School of Education). Promoted to the cultural histories packed with staff and student success stories! The year 2016 rank of Associate Professor are: Dr Veronica Baxter (Drama); 14 Homegrown filmmakers make was a tumultuous year for UCT and the rest of higher education Dr Tanja Bosch (CFMS); Ms Jean Brundrit (Michaelis); Dr Joanne international waves in South Africa. But it was also an extremely productive year Hardman (School of Education); Dr Leon Holtzhausen (Social Feature stories for us in Humanities and it makes me very proud to know that Development); Ms Svea Josephy (Michaelis); Dr Thiven Reddy 16 Made in India despite all of the challenges, we were still able to rise to the (Political Studies); Dr Karen Smith (Political Studies); Dr Asonzeh 8 Professor AC Jordan: a pioneering occasion to deliver beyond expectations. Ukah (Religious Studies) and Dr Sandra Young (English). Promoted 17 Specialist language unit turns 1 african scholar to the rank of Senior Lecturer are: Drs Greg Fried (Philosophy); It is worth noting that almost every story in this edition is about George Hull ( Philosophy); Khosi Kubeka (Social Development); 18 A Scorched Earth 28 A hand up, when it counts the most success. A number of Humanities staff and students received local Liani Maasdorp (Centre for Film and Media Studies); Nomusa and international accolades, academic awards and scholarships Makhuba (Michaelis); Shannon Morreira (Humanities EDU); 20 Young UCT artist profiled at Barclays 32 There… and back again: an interview in 2016. Some will be taking up their fellowships at prestigious Christopher Ouma (English); Elisabetta Porcu (Religious Studies) L’Atelier with Professor Sakhela Buhlungu institutions abroad demonstrating once again, the value placed and Mrs Lisa Wilson (Dance). Congratulations once again! on UCT’s training and exceptional research output. One of our 21 Sociology Professor appointed as feature stories celebrates the life and intellectual contribution Finally, I would like to thank all of the Humanities alumni who fourth Emeka Anyaoku Chair Alumni trailblazers of Professor AC Jordan, a pioneering scholar of African Studies, participated in the Performing and Creative Arts fundraising an alumnus himself and, a former member of UCT academic film initiative. Earlier this year, our the film crew invaded some 22 New film brings sexual violence 38 Humanitarian award for Sean Casey staff. Interestingly, the very thing that he stood for back then, to of your homes, your workplaces, your studios, theatre changing into focus ‘open access to higher education for all races’, is precisely what rooms and even a film set in Johannesburg. I want to thank you 42 Royal seal of approval for Jessica Dewhurst underpins the 2015 and 2016 student-led protests. You can read for taking time out of your busy schedules for these interviews. 23 Conversations with the Queen of about Professor Jordan’s legacy on page 8. Thank you also for the public endorsement of this important UCT indigenous music fundraising initiative. We now need the rest of our friends to Multimedia I am enormously proud of the progress being made at the UCT support this project which will see greater sustainability for 24 Standard Bank young artists for 2016 English Language Centre. One year following inception, this unit our flagship programmes. Please click on the link on page 49 to 46 Faculty publications and CDs now attracts a growing number of students across the African watch the 2016 film. 25 SA installation at Tate Modern continent, Europe and Asia. The Asian market now accounts for 47 Support the Performing and Creative Arts the biggest growth area for the ELC short courses. You can read As mentioned, this publication is a serious holiday read. So, sit 26 Baxter’s CEO named most influential fundraising initiative about some of the milestones achieved by this unit on page 17. back, relax and enjoy reading this year’s Humanities Update. leader 47 Stay in touch I would like to congratulate successful applicants of the Wishing you safe travels and a wonderful holiday! 27 SAMA for Dizu Plaaitjies Humanities Ad Hominem process. Promoted to the rank of Professor are: Associate Professors Franklin Larey (SACM) Professor Sakhela Buhlungu - 2 - - 3 - workshop on illicit trade south meets north, attracts top journalists thanks to The Centre for Film and Media Studies (CFMS) hosted 30 how wealthy individuals and corporations side-step regulations in investigative journalists from across Africa for a three-day workshop order to avoid declaring personal financial information. The Panama on reporting taxation and illicit financial outflows from the continent. Papers ‘whistleblower’ remains anonymous, even to journalists, to research grant The workshop, which was held from 27 - 29 June on UCT Upper this day. Campus, was a collaboration between the CFMS, the Nairobi-based heritage of the discipline, especially as it pertains to the study of Tax Justice Network Africa, the Open Society Foundation of South Dr Marion Walton from the CFMS, presented a session on new African languages. One of the key outcomes of this collaboration Africa, and the UK-based non-profit group Finance Uncovered. The trends in data journalism and discussed how data sources such as will be a volume titled ‘Colonial Linguistics, Knowledges and practice of illicit trade, corruption and irregular financial reporting Wikipedia; Google maps and news visualisations are still largely Epistemes’ (Oxford University Press). “Central to this critical are all serious issues facing African countries. informed by ‘colonial constructions of Africa’. “I really enjoyed engagement is a strong decolonial impetus – a wish to re-imagine the opportunity to engage such a fascinating group of African linguistics and sociolinguistics in new ways. This will be reflected This was the first such workshop hosted by the University of Cape journalists while discussing new trends in data journalism,” in a set of projects that move beyond a critical interrogation of the Town. From 2017, the CFMS intends to host this initiative annually she says. “Together with veteran journalist Ray Joseph we saw past, and begin to formulate new, trans-disciplinary ways of doing and will introduce an annual award for investigative journalism in how local projects such as Code4SA are revitalising investigative linguistics (in line with current debates in Southern Theory),” says the area of financial reporting. Dr Wallace Chuma, a senior lecturer journalism with open data in South Africa. We also looked closely Professor Deumert. at CFMS and co-ordinator of the workshop, said the success of at the pitfalls of visualisation in African media. Beyond a small the 2016 training initiative and the importance of the subject had “data elite” there are real problems communicating numerical data The Humboldt Research Award will also enable her to begin work inspired both the Centre and its partners to make this an annual and arguments. We have to avoid the tendency to simplify complex on a new monograph, tentatively titled ‘Language and Revolution’, event. “This year’s training attracted senior journalists from all events with irresponsible or uninformed visualisations. Yet rigorous that looks at language, and reflections about language, as an parts of the African continent, and the feedback has been extremely data journalism can also work with creative storytelling and integral part of revolutionary movements around the world. In positive. We’ve decided, together with our partners, to make this non-mathematical genres. Finally, digital projects also need to addition, she will be working at the Global South Studies Centres an annual event hosted by the CFMS. The subject of illicit financial be designed around the dominance of mobile phones in local (GSSC) on the visibility of multilingualism in education. outflows and other tax avoidance and evasion activities by both infrastructure and communicative practices,” said Walton. multinationals and individuals, and the implications for Africa’s A key objective of the research collaboration is that it will contribute development,
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