Arts and Culture

Executive Vice Presidential Initiatives

Higher Learning

Humanities in Place

Presidential Initiatives

Public Knowledge

to support a fellowship program for black students at the University of Cape Town Opera School and support for the Opera School

University of Cape Town Opera School

to renew support for a postgraduate honors program in curatorship

University of Cape Town - Honors Curatorship Program

to support production of a documentary about the University of Cape Town Opera School

University of Cape Town Opera School Documentary Project

to support the launch by the university's African Centre for Cities of an integrated master's program "Urban Studies:  Engaging Southern Urbanism from an African Perspective"

University of Cape Town - Master Program in Urbanism-ACC

to support the University of Cape Town Opera School fellowship program

Opera School

to support visiting scientists at the University of Cape Town to strengthen research bridges between South Africa and foreign universities

Visiting Scientists

to support management training and improving administrative structures at the University of Cape Town

Audit & Integration of Management Systems Project

to support planning for institutional restructuring at the University of Cape Town

Institutional Restructuring

to support an eight-month study of strategies employed by the University of Cape Town to enhance racial and socioeconomic equity in enrollment and completion

Equity Strategies

to support the Vice Chancellor at the University of Cape Town with discretionary funds

New Vice-Chancellor Support

for use by the University of Cape Town and the Western Cape Tertiary Institutions Trust to develop a plan for the Cape Library Cooperative (CALICO) program in South Africa

Cape Library Cooperative [CALICO]

in support of projects at the University of Cape Town which employ electronic materials to enhance quality and reduce the costs of teaching

Deep Foundations II [Multimedia Education Group]

to support the inaugural Frontiers of Knowledge University Leaders’ Forum

Frontiers of Knowledge University Leaders' Forum

to provide fellowships for a third cohort of faculty in the humanities section in the University Science, Humanities and Engineering Partnerships in Africa program and to provide small grants that will enable graduates to continue their research at their home institutions

University Science, Humanities and Engineering Partnerships in Africa

to support planning meetings to evaluate instructional technologies developed at an American university for use in teaching population statistics in a South African university

Evaluation Study

to support two visiting dancers at the School of Dance

School of Dance

Creative Writing Program

to support a Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Cultures, entitled "Knowledge, Diversity and Power: Science, the Indigenous Movement, and the Post-Colonial University"

Sawyer Seminars - Knowledge, Diversity, and Power

to support the travel and research necessary to complete a manuscript on the spatial development of universities

Spatial Development of Universities

to support master's and doctoral fellowships in the humanities through the University Science, Humanities and Engineering Partnerships in Africa program

USHEPiA Humanities Fellowships

to support the development of benchmarking processes for the USHEPiA program

Benchmarking Process - University Science, Humanities and Engineering Partnership in Africa

matching funds for faculty development and to strengthen library collections at three open universities in South Africa

Supplement - University of the Western Cape

to support strengthening of the university's research culture through the engagement of senior research scholars

Senior Research Scholars Program

to support the strengthening of the University’s research culture through the engagement of senior research scholars

to support an association of the university’s Center for Open Learning with Fine Music Radio, an independent community radio station, and a series of 15 broadcasts featuring distinguished scholars on important cultural, educational, and scientific issues

Fine Music Radio Series

to support the establishment of two research chairs in the faculty of humanities

Research Chairs

to support a series of courses and workshops in the areas of conservation and curatorship

Conservation & Curatorship

to support the short-term needs of capacity development in the fields of conservation and curatorship

to support efforts to create a comprehensive catalog of archived materials of the Black Sash organization

Black Sash

Visiting Fellows

to support the creation of an integrated database of ten cultural heritage sites in sub-Saharan Africa

African Heritage Database

to support the creation of a digital database of images and information on African plants

African Plants Initiative

to support the creation of a humanities institute

Humanities Institute

to support the development of a coordinated digital database of images and information on African plants

to support honors students in the faculty of humanities

Honors Fellowships

to support a program of ecological research and training

Research Bridges 

to support the strengthening of its capacity to conduct demographic research and training

Demography Center

to complete the digitization of materials relating to the indigenous peoples of western South Africa

Bleek and Lloyd Digitization

to support the continued conservation, documentation, and interpretation of archival materials related to the San people of Southern Africa

Land and San Language

to support programs of ecological research and training

Research Bridges [February]

Research Bridges [West]

Research Bridges [Bond]

to support the development of a residential retreat program for PhD students

PhD Student Retreats

to establish an integrated model of an undergraduate humanities curriculum

Reimagining Humanities Education

to support the appointment of 23 new black faculty members in the Faculty of Humanities

Employment Equity in the Humanities

to support the completion of a guide to Black Sash archival collections in South Africa and to expand and make more searchable the guide’s online database

Black Sash 

to support the travel of African Plants Initiative partners to the 2007 annual meeting

to support a project designed to assess and improve the quality of public data in South Africa

Public Data Quality

to support the work of the Centre for Popular Memory

Centre for Popular Memory

Artists as Catalysts

Artists as Catalysts Navigation Image

Beyond Incarceration

A side profile of a Black poet who is wearing glasses and a hat with a feather hat pin.

Borderlands Cultures

In portrait orientation, an aerial view of a major highway running parallel to a large border wall set on a hilly landscape

Civic Engagement

A man in a brown jacket stands in front of blue bulletin board that is covered with papers and advertisements  

Evolving Higher Education

A vertical image of an Indigenous person who is sitting on a chair in front of a backdrop.

Expanding Public Knowledge

An interior room filled with audio and video equipment 

Monuments and Memory

A multicolored painted totem pole set in front of a foggy forest landscape

Multivocality

Five people stand together in a group photo. They are laughing and smiling.

Power of the Word

Five colorful neon signs hang on the wall with messages that include, "Freedom cannot wait," "Brown owned," and "America is for Dreamers."

Public Places‚ Public Stories

A group of Indigenous Maskoke people stand and sit in the wooden frame of a structure in a woods

Puerto Rico and Its Diaspora

In a vertical image, a black leather vest is adorned with colorful pins across the front of it. Embroidery on the vest reads: "Felícitas "La Prieta" Méndez" 