Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study

🔔HAPPENING TODAY🔔
Be sure to join us this afternoon for the fourth lecture in the to be delivered by Lydia-Marie Joubert.

📍10 Marais Road, Stellenbosch
🕓 16h00
Can't make it in person? Join the conversation via livestream. See link below:

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🔔HAPPENING THIS WEEK🔔

Join us on Thursday for a by Lydia-Marie Joubert titled "Breaking the Ice: Unlocking cryo-electron microscopy for South Africa's future".

🗓️ 20 August 2026
⏰ 16:00 SAST
📍10 Marais Road, Stellenbosch
🔗https://www.stias.ac.za/events/

🔔EVENT INVITATION 🔔

Join us for the fourth lecture in the for 2026.

These lectures, presented in person and via livestream, offer the general public, academics, and students, both locally and abroad, an opportunity to engage with the work of STIAS Fellows.

STIAS Fellow, Lydia-Marie Joubert, will on Thursday, 20 August present a lecture titled "Breaking the Ice: Unlocking cryo-electron microscopy for South Africa's future".

🗓️ Thursday, 20 August 2026

⏰ 16:00 SAST

📍 STIAS Wallenberg Research Centre, 10 Marais Road, Stellenbosch

🎥 See more:

2026 Public Lecture Series: Lydia-Marie Joubert, Stanford University Join us for the fourth lecture in the for...

🔔NEW COHORT ANNOUNCEMENT🔔

STIAS is pleased to announce the 10th cohort of Iso Lomso Fellows, selected from over 140 applications submitted during the February 2026 Call.

Congratulations to:

• Adwoa Owusuaa Bobie, Centre for Cultural and African Studies, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.

• Farai Mlambo, Graduate School of Business Administration (Wits Business School), University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa.

• Claire-Anne Lester, Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

• Rachel Raïssa Ngono Mvondo, Department of Industrial and Mechanical Engineering, National Advanced School of Engineering, University of Yaounde I, Cameroon.

• Ousman Bajinka, School of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences, University of The Gambia, The Gambia.

• Danille Elize Bester, Department of Psychology, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

• Blasius Henry Ngayakamo, Civil Engineering, Dar es Salaam Institute of Technology, Tanzania.

• Akeem Sikiru, Animal Science, Federal University of Agriculture Zuru, Nigeria.

• John Akanni, Applied and Basic Sciences, KolaDaisi University, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Read more here 👇
https://www.stias.ac.za/news/10th-iso-lomso-cohort-announced/

Episode 4 🎙️🎥Out Now.

In this episode, we are in conversation with STIAS Fellow Sandra Soo-Jin Lee, who is the Chief of the Division of Ethics and Professor of Medical Humanities and Ethics at Columbia University's Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, where she researches and writes on the ethics of genomics and emerging biotechnologies, the role of race in biomedical research, and how societies govern scientific practice.

See the full episode on the STIAS website and YouTube: https://www.stias.ac.za/podcast/

STIAS is delighted to welcome the second-semester cohort of 2026.

The cohort of 29 includes mid-career and senior researchers in mathematics, law, biochemistry, psychology, engineering, languages and medicine.

Representing geographies across the globe, including the USA, Sweden, India, Australia, South Africa, Cameroon and Ghana, the cohort joins a growing community of STIAS Fellows, now around 900.

Here is a message from STIAS Director, Edward K Kirumira:

Welcome to the 2026 STIAS Second Semester Fellowship Programme STIAS is delighted to announce the second-semester cohort of 2026....

Episode 3 🎙️🎥Out Now.

We are in conversation with sculptors, Rose Namubiru Kirumira and Kobus la Grange, who transformed one of the pine trees that made way for the STIAS Wallenberg Research Centre extension building, into a symbol of knowledge, stewardship and renewal.

Kirumira is a visual artist from Uganda specialising in sculpture. She is a Research Fellow at the Visual Arts Department at Stellenbosch University and a Trustee of the Stellenbosch Outdoor Sculpture Trust.

La Grange is a figurative sculptor whose work focuses on the human condition, expressing a deep curiosity into the narratives of the body.

See the full episode on YouTube: https://bit.ly/STIASConversationsEpisode3

The first semester of 2026 is officially over, and we have bid farewell to our largest cohort ever. Each cohort brings unique energy to the space and defines its own experience. Our goal is to provide an enabling environment for thinking and engaging.

We wish you a restful time in your home institutions, and we look forward to hearing about your future endeavours.

Follow the work of this cohort, here: https://www.stias.ac.za/public-lectures-seminars/

🔔HAPPENING NOW🔔
We are live at the opening session of the second annual workshop on , focusing on Emerging Technologies, Community Support and Health Systems. Join the conversation in the link below:

African Migration Corridors: Emerging Technologies, Community Support and Health Systems The Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University, STIAS and S...

In case you missed it, the recording of the public lecture by Rosanne Kennedy is available at: https://www.youtube.com/live/j2eJQYlQALk?si=CNprPiDmS9zrbUIH

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