Featuring Dr. Hamza Hamouchene and PhD candidate Razaz Bashier who contributed a chapter to the book, and with Dr. Nobukhosi Ngwenya as a discussant, this seminar will focus on green neoliberalism and colonialism in the Arab region.
Join the EHS seminar series, where scholars and practitioners of African environmental humanities meet fortnightly on Thursday mornings to discuss complex ecological and material challenges facing Africa
Join us on May 14, 2024, as Professor Lesley Green delivers her inaugural lecture titled “From Homo Economicus to Homo Sedimenta: Learning from the Failed Impact Assessments for Cabo Delgado’s Offshore Gas Projects, Mozambique".
EHS hosts Professor Thomas Hylland Eriksen as he gives a public seminar on 09 May 2024, titled "Beyond Boundary: Creole Identities from Mauritius to the Cape"
Reflecting on "Losing Face: Troubling human subjectivity through character development with merino sheep on southern rangelands" seminar offering by Dr Annika Capelán.
In "Losing Face: Troubling human subjectivity through character development with merino sheep on southern rangelands", Dr Annika Capelán focuses attention on the role of filmmaking in environmental humanities.
This scholarship opportunity is especially useful for previously disadvantaged Black, Colored, and Indian students looking to undertake a masters level studies at the University of Cape Town
Scheduled for 18 - 22 September 2023, this beadwork workshop facilitated by Rona (Chaka) focuses the attention on practices of gifting. The workshop will contend with monoculture and failures of food production in the wake of COVID-19
Professor Lesley Green delivered the 2023 ASSAf book award lecture, following her reception of the Humanities Book Award (Established Researcher Category)
The Environmental Humanities is recruiting 2 Junior Research Fellows in the following areas: Infrastructure Studies (3 years) and Critical Zones Research (3 years). Applications close on 24 September 2023, 23:59 (SAT).
Dr Cecilia Ojemaye, whose research looks into contamination in water bodies, is one of the six post-doctoral research fellows looking at the advancement of SDGs in line with the African Union Agenda 2063.
This 24-credit course is running from 28 September to 4 October 2023. And can be taken by anyone registered for a master's and PhD degree level at UCT. This course is offered in partnership with the University of Oslo, Norway.
The Environmental Humanities South, as part of the Critical Zones Africa South and East Studies (CzASE) is recruiting Research Consortium Operations Manager
Early-morning cycle rides in Cape Town’s southern coastal suburbs planted a seed that has ultimately seen Professor Lesley Green land a prestigious book prize from the Academy of Science of South Africa (ASSAf).
The grant allows the Critical Zones Africa network known as CzASE Studies, led by Professor Lesley Green of Environmental Humanities South (EHS), to develop research across six countries in Southern and Eastern Africa.
13–15 Sep 2021. Professor Lesley Green (EHS) is lead for "New Approaches to Teaching and Building Capability", one of seven thematic tracks bringing together those working in the field of sustainable development.
The water crisis of 2015–2018 was presented as a 'new' crisis for all, misrepresenting “Day Zero” as a novel experience. This was not the case for the city’s low-income residents, the authors say.
"Water Stories", the website on the urban water cycle in Cape Town, links current research on the urban water cycle in the greater Cape Town area with the public.
Faith Gara, a facilitator and second-year EHS MPhil candidate, attends virtual joint global citizenship course, reflecting on what citizenship means in their personal lives, their approach to their studies and research.
Universities, and society in general, must tackle the enormous challenge of bringing the sciences and social sciences together, says Lesley Green from EHS at the event “Sustainability practice and research management at UCT”.
