Linguistics at UKZN

27/06/2026

Launching JSAS special issue 'Liberation Armies' Imagined Futures in Southern Africa' at in Harare. The issue is available here, all articles open access or currently free to read https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/cjss20/51/6
L to R chair Diana Jeater, author Methembe Hillary Hadebe, author and issue co-editor Justin Pearce with Methembe's two books.

27/06/2026

Applauding Dr Herkulaas Combrink, a finalist in the NSTF-SADiLaR Research Software: Human Language Technologies (HLT) Award category of the 2025/2026 NSTF-South32 Awards, known as the ‘Science Oscars’ of South Africa. These prestigious awards recognise and promote outstanding contributions to science, engineering, technology (SET) and innovation by related professionals, practitioners, teams, partnerships and organisations in South Africa.

Prof Combrink Co-Director: Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital Futures; Senior Lecturer: Economics and Management Sciences, University of the Free State. For the development of ‘The Lebitso App’, a research software platform for large-scale South African Sign Language (SASL) human language technology development, using computational infodemiology to analyse, structure, and model language in digital information ecosystems.

Read more about each finalist and their work: https://nstf.org.za/current-finalists/

New in 2026.

Sponsored by the South African Centre for Digital Language Resourcesr (SADiLaR).

South32 Department of Science,Technology and Innovation SA

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The last slide of PPT 👇

27/06/2026

APPLY HERE for the Oppenheimer Memorial Trust (OMT) Scholarships >> https://bit.ly/OMTscholarships

24/12/2025

In partnership with FIFA, Global Citizen has launched the FIFA Global Citizen Education Fund to support grassroots and community-based organizations worldwide. This initiative aims to expand access to quality education and sports programs for children in underserved communities.

Eligible applicants may receive up to USD 250,000 in funding.

Learn more here: https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/projects/fifa-global-citizen-education-fund/apply/

Submit your application until December 31, 2025!

24/12/2025

“𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗼𝘂𝗿𝗲𝗱* 𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗻𝗲𝗲𝗱𝘀 𝗮 𝗯𝗶𝗲𝘁𝗷𝗶𝗲 𝗿𝗼𝗼𝗺 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗿𝗲𝗮𝘁𝗵𝗲.” 🎓

This line anchors Chérise Adams’ Master’s research and suggest to listen more carefully to lived experiences of Coloured womxn.

Graduating with an MA in Visual Studies from Stellenbosch University, Adams’ work centres working-class Coloured womxn’s everyday practices of care, survival and resistance as forms of feminist knowledge.

Rooted in Cloetesville and the broader Winelands, her research reframes feminist theory from the ground up through what she terms “ghetto feminism”, insisting that the intellectual labour of womxn sharing food, pooling childcare and protecting one another be recognised with seriousness and dignity.

Written partly in Afrikaaps and published as a digital archive, her thesis challenges whose language, lives and knowledge are seen as legitimate in academic spaces.

𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚: https://cutt.ly/CtalcHhA

24/12/2025

Call for Applications: DAAD 2026–2027 Post-Doctoral Fellowships 📣

The Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins SAIS is now accepting applications!

DAAD Post-Doctoral Fellows will explore “the roles of the United States and Germany at a crucial moment in world history” through seminars, peer review sessions, and direct engagement with senior foreign policy practitioners and leading scholars. Fellows are expected to produce a research paper on the theme during their residency while continuing their own research projects.

Advance your research, connect with global experts, and contribute to shaping the understanding of international affairs! 🌍

📅 Application Deadline: 14 January 2026

Learn more about the programme, position and application here: ➡️ https://apply.interfolio.com/177831?utm_campaign=ausschreibungen&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_content=bildbeitrag

Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies