Department Sociology and Social Anthropology
Speaker: Derick Fay (Anthropology Department, California University, Riverside)
Title: The Unsettled Settlement: Conservation, Tourism and Land Rights at Dwesa-Cwebe Eight Years after Land Restitution
Date: Thursday 3 September 2009
Venue: Arts and Social Science Buiding, fourth floor, room 403
Time: 13:00
Contact person: Cyrildine Fortuin, cfortuin@sun.ac.za or 021 808 2417

Speaker: Prof Dominick Salvatore (Fordham University, New York)
Topic: Globalization, International Competitiveness and Growth
Date: Thursday 3 September 2009
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Venue: CGW Schumann Building, Sadie Lecture Hall (Room 207B)

Applications can now be made for the Commonwealth Scholarships.
Applications must be made through the Electronic Application System on the CSCUK website and hard copies must reach Mr Robert Kotze, Director: International Office, by 23 October 2009.
From the applications received, Stellenbosch University will nominate a maximum of 8 students to HESA (the national nominating agency), who [...]

Speaker: Roger Field (UWC)
Title: Coming Home, Coming Out: Achmat Dangor’s Cavafian Conversations
Date: Thursday 3 September 2009
Time: 12:00-13:00
Venue: “Green” Molteno Room (579), English Department, 5th Floor, Arts & Social Sciences Building
For further information email megsam@sun.ac.za
All welcome!

It is time once again for the annual book sale of the Library and Information Service.
Books from a wide range of subjects will be on sale from R5-00 (cash only).
Date: From Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Venue: JS Gericke Library, lower level
Please contact Niel Hendriksz, 021 808 4401 or nh@sun.ac.za, for further information or queries.

The Stellenbosch University Sport Performance Institute (SUSPI) presents a Sports Massage course in September.
Join us and learn how to use massage as part of a training programme, maybe you would like to support your child in his/her development as an athlete or you might even want to join one of our teams doing massage at [...]

Stellenbosch University (SU) will play host to the 2009 Association of Commonwealth Universities (ACU) International Benchmarking Workshop taking place this week. It is the first time that the University will host the Workshop.
The University has taken part in previous workshops including ones that were held in, among others, Jamaica, Australia and closer to home, in Bloemfontein. [...]

Five prominent theologians, among them a pioneer in the field of women’s theology in Africa and a noted researcher who was the first theologian in South Africa to receive A-rating research accreditation from the National Research Foundation, will be receiving honorary degrees from Stellenbosch University (SU) during a special graduation ceremony on Wednesday, 2 September.The [...]