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Two distinct, mutually influential, and globally inspirational black freedom struggles in the last half of the twentieth century – against segregation in the United States and apartheid in South Africa...
Israel’s 1982 invasion of Lebanon was a formative moment in Middle Eastern and international history, reshaping Israeli and Lebanese politics, society, and culture; the fate of Palestinian self-determination;...
In recent decades nations around the world have begun to open up significant amounts of the non-personal data they generate, gather and hold. From education to housing, health to transport, urban planning...
Phileas Fogg, the main character in Jules Verne’s acclaimed novel “Around the World in Eighty Days”, could not have suffered from jet-lag during his trip, despite crossing multiple time zones....
In this project, for the first time, the history of early Israelite Religion is based on the results of historical research on the emergence and development of the two states Judah and Israel. Accordingly,...
Neurodegenerative diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s, are devastating disorders affecting millions worldwide. All aging populations worldwide are increasing. With the population increase,...
Bioinspiration is the use of physical and technological principles to design devices working almost as biological entities (from the animal and vegetal species). This project aims to contribute in the...
The rise of neoliberalism caused a ‘lost decade’ of development in large parts of the global South. Yet it simultaneously compelled rights activists to protect welfare entitlements in many countries....
While policy-makers and international development practitioners in southern Africa put a great weight on supporting job creation given several decades of “jobless growth” in the region, there is less...
Hans V. Westerhoff will put together the theoretical foundations of today’s biology in a comprehensive new theory, by researching and establishing connections between the various theoretical approaches...
A key feature of the Anthropocene is the production of nuclear waste. Every stage of the nuclear fuel cycle produces radioactive waste that poses health and environmental risks and hence requires safe...
This project looks back at history via the short story genre. It focusses on historical events of the 19th and early 20th century in the Natal province. Most of these mammoth historical events were monumentalised...