30Th Anniversary of Grantmaking in South Africa (1988–2018)
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1988–2018 30th Anniversary of Grantmaking in South Africa (1988–2018) Cover Image Diana Hulton, Mountain XII, 137.5 x 158.5 cm, centre canvas of Mountain Triptych, oil on canvas, 137.5 x 568.5 cm, 1985–1991 The Constitutional Court Trust and Iziko South African National Gallery Artist’s Statement “These are the main concerns of the work: a combination of the deliberate and scientific with a love of the subject, its ambiguity and elusive meaning, together with a love of paint, its suggestive potential and the challenge of colour structures in relation to natural light, atmosphere and the lie of the land. Treated in a series, the same landscape yields its own unpredictable structures and metaphors.” Diana Hulton is a professional painter working in oils, acrylic, watercolour, and other media. She was born in Cape Town, 1945. She painted under the name of Kenton from 1974 to 1991. Contents INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................5 BUILDING THE NEXT GENERATION OF SCHOLARS AND ARTISTS ..............................83 Human Flourishing for Diverse, Democratic Societies .............................................................................................5 The Inclusive Humanities Professoriate Initiative .................................................................................................... 84 Focused on the Future and the Common Good ........................................................................................................6 Academic Career Tracking for Exceptional Students: The Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship ........... 93 Higher Education and the Humanities as Engines of an Emerging Democratic Society in South Africa ........8 Honours Programme in Curatorship ......................................................................................................................... 97 Message from South Africa’s Minister of Higher Education and Training............................................................ 12 Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra: Education and Outreach ........................................................................... 98 The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation............................................................................................................................. 13 A New Generation of Black and Women Academics ...........................................................................................101 30 Years of South African Grantmaking ...................................................................................................................... 14 Reimagining Humanities Education Development for a Postcolonial South Africa .......................................104 Overall Key Achievements of South African Grantmaking .................................................................................... 22 A Tribute from the University of the Western Cape .............................................................................................. 26 CONSERVATION AND THE ENVIRONMENT .......................................................................105 A Tribute from Wits University .................................................................................................................................. 27 Fortuitous Fish and Chips ........................................................................................................................................... 106 A Tribute from the University of Cape Town .......................................................................................................... 28 A Game-changer for South Africa ............................................................................................................................. 108 A Tribute from the University of Pretoria ................................................................................................................. 29 Bill Robertson and the Kruger National Park ........................................................................................................109 A Tribute from Rhodes University .............................................................................................................................. 30 In Memory of Nelson Mandela and Jakes Gerwel ................................................................................................... 31 PUBLIC ARTS AND HUMANITIES ..........................................................................................111 A Conversation with Stuart J. Saunders ..................................................................................................................... 32 Becoming Human: the Humanities in Africa ............................................................................................................112 Celebrating 30 Years: Special Events and Programming .......................................................................................... 36 Experimental Art, Connected Communities ...........................................................................................................115 NEW KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION ........................................................................................39 ARTS AND CULTURE ................................................................................................................117 Reviving African Languages at Risk of Extinction ..................................................................................................... 40 A Nation of Unique Voices .......................................................................................................................................... 118 A Very Creative Moment ............................................................................................................................................... 42 Rich, Provocative Interaction in the Arts and Academia ......................................................................................120 Curating the Past in the Present ................................................................................................................................. 43 The Sophistication of African Rock Art ...................................................................................................................122 Trauma, Memory, and Representations of the Past ................................................................................................. 44 African Arts Revolution ............................................................................................................................................... 124 Love, Fear, Desire, Resistance, and the Politics of the Everyday ........................................................................... 47 Protecting Cultural History and Heritage By Caring for Art ..............................................................................126 The History of Rhodes University: Colonisation and the Transmission of Knowledge .................................. 50 Conserving Africa’s Vulnerable Cultural Heritage .................................................................................................128 Decolonising and Africanising Philosophy .................................................................................................................. 53 New Ways of Seeing, New Ways of Conserving ....................................................................................................130 The New Student Movement in South Africa .......................................................................................................... 54 Indexing the Human ....................................................................................................................................................... 55 SHOWCASING SPECIFIC GRANT PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS ...................................131 Advancing Women Academics ...................................................................................................................................... 56 The Everyday is the Aesthetic .................................................................................................................................... 132 The Legacies of Historical Trauma ............................................................................................................................ 134 INNOVATION IN POSTGRADUATE EDUCATION ................................................................57 Indexing South African Transformation ....................................................................................................................136 African Cities and the Lived Complexities of Contemporary Urbanism ........................................................... 58 New Ways of Seeing and Holes in the Ground ......................................................................................................138 Demography, Population, Refugees and Forced Migration ..................................................................................... 60 Radically Innovating Historical Knowledge Production ........................................................................................140 Boldness of Vision From Activist PhDs....................................................................................................................... 61 Sappers at Work and Fresh Dynamite Tamped.......................................................................................................141