EHS - Environmental Humanities South

Applications are open for our 2026 program offerings! Apply here: humanities.uct.ac.za/envhumsouth/st… #envhum #africanenvironmentalism #UCT

The #CriticalZonesAfrica team attended @ACS2ET last week. We look forward to continuing conversations, research, and partnerships to advance #justice in #cliamtesolutions across the continent. #envhum #Africanenvironmentalism #ACS2 #CriticalZone #CriticalZonesAfrica

Soil Care = Climate Solutions. That’s why our #CriticalZonesAfrica researchers will be discussing how repairing relationships with soil and water can build a politics of habitability for liveable futures. Join us at our #ACS2 side event: 📆 10 September 📍 Room M8 🕦 11:30-13:00

Join us at @ACS2ET ! Repairing Relationships, Repairing Landscapes: towards a politics and science for liveable local futures. #ACS2 #climateweek2025 #Agenda2063 #criticalzonesafrica

Join us at @ACS2ET for our side event: Repairing Relationships, Repairing Landscapes! #ACS2 #AfricaClimateSummit #Agenda2063 #CriticalZonesAfrica

The Nelson Mandela School partners with UCT's Centre for African Studies to launch Prof Horman Chitonge's latest book, Reclaiming Economic Sovereignty in Africa: A Natural Resource-based Industrialisation 📍Wednesday, 2 July 2025 ⏲️14:00 - 15:30 RSVP: yolande.isaacs@uct.ac.za

[ICYMI] Amílcar Cabral remains one of the most important figures in the anticolonial struggles across the world, and most especially in Africa. Join our upcoming seminar with Prof Filipe Carreira da Silva. Read more: humanities.uct.ac.za/envhumsouth/ar…

[EHS Seminar] Join us in this upcoming seminar with Professor Filipe Carreira da Silva DATE: 19 June 2025 TIME: 11 AM - 12:30 PM VENUE: EHS Seminar Room, Level 2 Humanities Building, Upper Campus Join Online: zoom.us/j/98647549433?… Email Zainab.adams@uct.ac.za to RSVP #Envhum

New Agenda 96 | Investigating complexities and opportunities related to extractivism in Africa 🔗 Read the article:buff.ly/Kv3BQtU 📕 Read New Agenda 96: buff.ly/XTbyskf

[EHS Publications] We send our congratulations to Senior Lecturer and EHS Deputy Director Dr Nikiwe Solomon on her book chapter, which forms part of this edited collection, titled "Material Flows in Landscapes of Injustice". Purchase the book here: msupress.org/9781611865288/…

[Film Screening] Join us for the screening of "Tangled: Filming nearby woollen sheep", an ethnographic film by Dr Annika Cápelan. DATE: 22nd May 2025 TIME: 1 - 3 PM VENUE: EHS Seminar Room, Upper campus Read the synopsis here: humanities.uct.ac.za/envhumsouth/ar…

LARC presents uMhlaba Talks — a seven-part series exploring land in South Africa through the lenses of spirituality, politics, and law. Subscribe ahead of the premiere youtu.be/omGmfw0wVz8?si… #umhlabatalks

JOB ALERT 1 wk left to apply for this fab Tenure Track at Oulu Uni (at Assistant or Associate Prof). 5 years of (mainly) research, generous starting package, and a growing team of excellent environmental social scientists and humanists. Email qs to me! oulunyliopisto.varbi.com/what:job/jobID…

We have started a series that foregrounds the fieldwork experiences of graduate students who form part of #CriticalZonesAfrica, supported by @SciforAfrica Read Faith Gara's reflections, in which she speaks about methodologies of research in the field: humanities.uct.ac.za/envhumsouth/ar…

Excited to see this piece titled "The missing rungs of South Africa's housing ladder" is available online thanks to @UWC_DOI. In it, I reflect on the impact of the gaps in the housing policy for survivors of GBV (and their children) You can read it here: dullahomarinstitute.org.za/socio-economic…

New research from SCIS | Explore how big business shapes agriculture in South Africa. In a new journal article, Andrew Bowman and Nishal Robb unpack the contested dynamics of agro-food capital through a close look at grain milling and storage. 🔗 Read: Accumulation by Intermediation: The Contestation of Agro-Food Capital in the South African Maize Industry. > bit.ly/3GDlGQH

Call for participation: #FeesMustFall Re-membering Workshops

🍿 FREE: Join us on 14 May 2025 at @UWConline for a screening of the acclaimed Mathonga Elizwe - Spirits of the Nation. Directed by international award-winning creator Tsogo Kupa and produced by anthropology and sociology senior lecturer Dr Mnqobi Ngubane, the documentary reveals the experiences of land claimants and labour tenants as they fight for their land.

🏆 Congrats to Profs Hugo ka Canham & Siphokazi Magadla, joint winners of the 2025 ASSAf Humanities Book Prize! 🎉 Celebrating excellence in the Humanities, Social Sciences & Performing Arts in SA.

[ICYMI] Join our upcoming seminar featuring Dr A.M Lawal from Federal University Gusau, Nigeria DATE: 8 May 2025 TIME: 11 AM - 12:30 PM VENUE: EHS Seminar Room, Upper Campus UCT Email zainab.adams@uct.ac.za to join virtually #Envhum #AfricanEnvironmentalism #EHSeminars