Institute for Social and Health Sciences

10/09/2026

𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗡𝗧 𝗔𝗟𝗘𝗥𝗧‼

The Institute for Social and Health Sciences, University of South Africa, in collaboration with the Institute for Social Development, University of the Western Cape, invites you to a PUBLIC LECTURE

𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗧𝗢𝗥𝗧𝗨𝗥𝗘 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥: 𝗖𝗔𝗥𝗧𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗣𝗛𝗜𝗘𝗦 𝗢𝗙 𝗚𝗘𝗡𝗢𝗖𝗜𝗗𝗔𝗟 𝗧𝗘𝗥𝗥𝗢𝗥 with Prof Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

"What becomes of torture when the torture chamber is no longer a bounded space, but the conditions under which life is made to continue?" Drawing on testimonies from Gaza, this talk rethinks torture beyond discrete acts, identifiable bodies, and bounded sites. It asks how suffering is produced through the destruction of the material, social, infrastructural, and ecological conditions necessary for life.

📅When: 28 September 2026
🕧 Time: 12h30–14h30
📍 Where: Room 1E, School of Government Building
University of the Western Cape, Bellville

📩 RSVP to: Ndimakazi Khumalo at [email protected]

08/09/2026

📢𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗟 𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗧𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗗𝗨𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗔𝗦𝗦𝗜𝗦𝗧𝗔𝗡𝗧𝗦

The Institute for Social and Health Sciences (ISHS), College of Human Sciences at UNISA, is inviting applications from UNISA doctoral students to join the Black Planetary Studies (BPS) Programme as Postgraduate Assistants.

Successful applicants will contribute to one or more of four exciting BPS projects:

🌿 Radical Healing & Decolonial Struggles
🌊 Oceans, Black Shorelines & Cosmologies
✊🏿 Anticapitalist Geographies
🌍 Supporting Climate Justice

This is an opportunity to engage in critical, interdisciplinary work addressing social suffering, decolonial healing, indigenous knowledge, racialised inequality, climate justice, activism, advocacy, and transformative scholarship.

📅 Application deadline: 25 September 2026

📧 Applications & enquiries:
Nthabiseng Mpako: [email protected]
Mmakosha Mothupi: [email protected]

- Unisa College of Human Sciences - Unisa - The University of South Africa

02/09/2026

31/08/2026

31/08/2026

𝐄𝐕𝐄𝐍𝐓

Virtual Inaugural Lecture of Prof Brendon Barnes
"𝐒𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐂𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞: 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐖𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐀𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐭 𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲”

Date: Monday, 31st August 2026
Time: 17:00

Join here: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/373222589750473...

27/08/2026

FORTHCOMING PUBLICATION ALERT‼

𝐏𝐬𝐲𝐜𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲 𝐎𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐰𝐢𝐬𝐞: 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐎𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

By the Readsurama Decolonial Collective (which includes Geetha Reddy, Glenn Adams, Shahnaaz Suffla, Kopano Ratele & Nick Malherbe)

"The book extends calls for decolonisation by joining scholars from across the global academy in calling for a decolonial turn. The singular contribution the Readsurama Decolonial Collective makes is in beginning from Africa to think through resistance to psychology’s ‘world-colonising’ EuroAmerican-centric operations."

26/08/2026

To add to your reading list📌

𝐁𝐨𝐨𝐤 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰 of Sheehi, L. (2026). From the clinic to the streets: Psychoanalysis for revolutionary futures. Pluto Press. https://
www.plutobooks.com/product/from-the-clinic-to-the-streets/

By Nick Malherbe

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00812463261478424

Restricted accessBook reviewFirst published online August 20, 2026 Re-use permissionsBook Review: Sheehi, L., From the clinic to the streets: Psychoanalysis for revolutionary futuresNick Malherbe https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4968-4058View all authors and affiliationsBased on: Sheehi L. (2026). From t...