Thu, 13 Sep 2007 - 14:14
A new French Honours degree in Teaching French as a Foreign Language will start in February 2008. The degree is the first of its kind in South Africa, and is the result of support from the Bureau for Cooperation for French in South Africa.
Thu, 18 Jun 2020 - 07:30
The Faculty of Humanities is shocked and saddened to learn of the murder of our alumnus, Kirvan Fortuin, who was a celebrated dancer, choreographer and LGBTQ+ activist.
Mon, 08 Jun 2020 - 10:45
Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Assoc Prof Shose Kessi, write to the faculty to convey important updates about the response to Covid-19 and the impact on teaching and learning for the rest of 2020.
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 - 14:00
"The question, 'where are you from', or better still, 'where are you originally from', is a hypothesis that is often difficult to engage with, because underlying that is the reduction of personhood to an entrapment in a geographical location, facilitated by an act of fate, birth," writes Dr Divine Fuh, director of the Institute for the Humanities in Africa. This article was first published by News24.
Mon, 01 Jun 2020 - 08:45
Artists, meaning people who make their living from the performing or visual arts, need to survive like all other people, and theatres need to remain solvent, like all other businesses in this time, writes Lara Foot, in an op-ed published in the Daily Maverick on 29 May 2020.
Fri, 29 May 2020 - 09:15
UCT's Centre for Theatre, Dance & Performance Studies won six categories at the 55th Fleur du Cap Theatre Awards.
Wed, 27 May 2020 - 19:30
Through its Research Development Fund, the Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) has thrown its weight and funding behind the establishment of the San and Khoe Research Unit at UCT, headed by the Centre for African Studies' Dr June Bam-Hutchison.
Wed, 13 May 2020 - 10:30
Third-year BSocSci student Tumo Masire launched Rona Tracker SA in April, a website that tracks the spread and health impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in South Africa in real-time.
Tue, 12 May 2020 - 08:00
Dr Divine Fuh, director of UCT's Institute for the Humanities in Africa (HUMA), took part in a webinar about COVID-19's possible impact on global inequalitues, hosted by the University of Bergen, Norway, on 8 May 2020.
Thu, 30 Apr 2020 - 20:00
“We need a system that runs on steroids of care rather than one operating on opium of destruction,” says Divine Fuh, Director of the Institute for the Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at the University of Cape Town, in this interview with the GRIP Secretariat of the University of Bergen on the COVID-19 pandemic and global inequality.
Tue, 07 Apr 2020 - 12:30
Dr Divine Fuh, director of the Institute for the Humanities in Africa, was interviewed on SAfm's View Points show about the recently launched Corona Times on 2 April.
Wed, 01 Apr 2020 - 08:45
A moving tribute to the late Prof Harry Garuba by Natasha Himmelman, Nicole Sarmiento and Thuto Thipe, of UCT's Centre for African Studies, was published in The Conversation on 31 March.