In June 2020 STIAS issued an extraordinary call for group proposals by South African based scholars.
By doing so, STIAS sought to turn the international travel restrictions due to the Covid-19 pandemic into a unique opportunity to provide available office space to South African scholars and artists to develop new proposals for collaborative projects, or to further existing collaborative work.
Forty submission were received by the deadline at the end of July. Of these, fourteen projects were selected to be hosted at STIAS for periods of between two and four weeks between August and December 2020.
The selected projects and group members are as follows:
- The Disorder Project: Christine Dixie (Rhodes University), Helene van Aswegen (Stellenbosch University)
- Making sense of postgraduate education in context: Chrissie Boughey (Rhodes University), Sioux McKenna (Rhodes University), Langutani Masehela (University of Venda – joining remotely) and Lillian Omondi (Maseno University, joining remotely)
- Using a projectivized approach towards advanced studies in mental health research and developing graduateness among mental health students: Jürgen Becker (University of the Western Cape), Ugasvaree Subramaney (University of the Witwatersrand), Erhabor Idemudia (North-West University), Renier Steyn (UNISA), Ugasvaree Subramany (University of Witwatersrand)
- Assessing marine mammal health to monitor impacts of ‘Operation Phakisa’- the South African Ocean Health Network (OHN): Stephanie Plön (Bayworld Centre for Research and Education), Wolfgang Preiser (Stellenbosch University), Dirk Lang (University of Cape Town), Rob Ingle (University of Cape Town), Cecile Reed (University of Cape Town)
- White Women Engaging Black Lives Matter: Problematizing Solidarity in a Time of Identity Politics: Amanda Gouws (Stellenbosch University), Louise du Toit (Stellenbosch University), Azille Coetzee (Stellenbosch University)
- Small Ocean History: Thembisa Waetjen (University of Johannesburg), Goolam Vahed (University of KwaZulu-Natal)
- Fundamentals of laser powder bed fusion of metals: Anton du Plessis (Stellenbosch University), Ina Yadroitsava (Central University of Technology), Igor Yadriotsev (Central University of Technology)
- The politics and poetics of old age: Drawing on Law and Literature to assess the (cultural) legitimacy of African Union norms on the rights of older persons: Catherine du Toit (Stellenbosch University), Frans Viljoen (University of Pretoria)
- Xnau-Xnau⁀GE@MP: Marietjie Pauw (Stellenbosch University), Garth Erasmus (Stellenbosch University)
- Mobility solutions as a South African urban integrator: the Adam Tas Corridor test-bed case: Megan Bruwer (Stellenbosch University), Johann Andersen (Stellenbosch University)
- Text, Human Rights and pandemics: Being human in times of contagion: Thabisani Ndlovu (Walter Sisulu University), Cheryl Stobie (University of KwaZulu-Natal), Robert Muponde (University of Witwatersrand), Irikidzayi Manase (University of the Free State)
- Black Archives and Intellectual Histories: Khwezi Mkhize (University of the Witwatersrand), Christopher Ouma (University of Cape Town), Mandisa Haarhoff (University of Cape Town)
- Occupational Health and Well-being in the Performing Arts in South Africa: The formation of an interdisciplinary Performing Arts Health network led by the universities of Stellenbosch and Pretoria: Bridget Rennie-Salonen (Stellenbosch University), Clorinda Panebianco (University of Pretoria)
- Urban Connections in African Popular Imaginaries: Tina Steiner (Stellenbosch University), Lynda Spencer (Rhodes University), Corinne Sandwith (University of Pretoria), Danai Mupotsa (University of Witwatersrand), Nedine Moonsamy (University of Pretoria)