News archive for Faculty of Humanities

Image of Linda Fletcher on the left and Dt Wilhelm de Beer on the right. Christopher Henshilwood is in the middle.

Mother Africa – Welcome Home (20.12.2024)

The Blombos Museum of Archaeology has launched the much-anticipated exhibition Origins of Early Southern Sapiens Behaviour marking a significant milestone in understanding early human prehistory.

AHKR203: Introduction to the Environmental Humanities (17.12.2024)

Apply for admission to our new course Introduction to the Environmental Humanities! Through lectures, seminars, and fieldwork, the course explores cultural, historical, political, and creative engagements with the environment at local, national, and global scales.

CNA course at the University of São Paulo (05.12.2024)

On October 10 and 11, 2024, Dr. Jonathan Freitas (UFMG/Brazil) conducted an introductory CNA course at the Clinical Hospital of the School of Medicine at the University of São Paulo (HC/FMUSP). The course brought together approximately 30 members of HC’s Digital Health team. The event received exceptional feedback, sparking follow-up research initiatives centered on the CNA method.

Margit Simon leading climate researcher at Sapience

Margit Simon Receives Prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant (03.12.2024)

Dr. Margit H. Simon is awarded a prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant of 2,17 million Euros to lead the PIONEER project which will transform our understanding of how environmental factors shaped the evolution of behavioural complexity in early Homo sapiens.