Projects

FINDING HOMER is a contemporary music-theater work. It is inspired by real and imagined stories of Balkan women who live as men after taking vows of chastity and celibacy. The project raises questions...

Queues of Limitless Hope asks: what happens to the novel form under the conditions of protracted socio-political crisis? The book situates the question in decolonisation-era Southern Africa, and answers...

Social media are now a major part of our daily life. In this research, I will explore how social media has changed the way of science communication. In China, a unique form is called “Public WeChat”,...

This project is concerned with the role of language in epistemic justice, defined as an ethical project of reversing epistemic exclusions, mitigating epistemic harm, and seeking parity of epistemic authority...

Cervical cancer is globally the third most common cancer in women, and in South Africa it is more common than breast cancer. Cervical cancer is caused by human papilloma virus (HPV) and both HPV vaccination...

In general South African historiography has been marked by constant emphasis on apartheid, black resistance and formal Afrikaner politics has. Important as these may be, it has led historians to neglect...

This book project concerns the 1963-64 trial of Neville Alexander and ten other members of the National Liberation Front (NLF). Neglected in the scholarly literature, the NLF was distinctive in two respects....

The trilogy is a young adult dystopian speculative fiction designed to sensitize African and global adults, to the need to engage politically and personally in order to take their destiny into their own...

The current ‘sixth extinction’ event represents a major crisis for conservation as well as for global society more generally. But how to interpret this event in relation to the highly uneven patterns...

This research is a part of a larger project: a book on a philosophical account of human freedom, drawing strongly on the German philosopher Immanuel Kant. The first part of the book will cover the metaphysics...

The modern society is reliant on digital communication, at present experiencing an immense expansion, but the communication should also be secure. Based on global needs, there have been significant efforts...

The focus of this research is combining Bayesian statistics, in particular Bayesian data analysis, with utility theory. From utility theory we select the work from Kahneman and Tversky, i.e., Cumulative...