POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSHIP IN CORPORATE COMMUNICATION

NORTH-WEST UNIVERSITY, MAHIKENG, SOUTH AFRICA The research entity Social Transformation is initiating applications for a post-doctoral fellowship in the field of corporate communication. Requirements A doctoral degree in communication (or related field), obtained within five years before the appointment as a post-doctoral fellow The applicant should be younger than 45 years It would be excepted …

UJ Arts & Culture seeks to appoint a Curator

UJ Arts & Culture, a division of the Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture (FADA), produces and presents world-class student and professional arts programmes aligned to the UJ vision of an international university, anchored in Africa, dynamically shaping the future. A robust range of arts platforms are offered on all four UJ campuses for students, …

Call for papers: Post-doctoral recruitment

Critical Arts is a peer-reviewed journal publishing 6 issues a year. Three of the six numbers are reserved for general issues and single submissions. Three are allocated to theme issues. In collaboration with the National Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences (NIHSS), Critical Artscalls for submissions from post-doctoral researchers. Qualifying articles will be published in a double …

Murder in Paris: a four year journey for director/ producer Enver Samuel

A misty spring morning in Paris, 29 March 1988. Exiled resident of Athlone, Cape Town Dulcie September had just visited the post office to collect mail for the ANC office in France, where she served as a Chief Representative of the African National Congress. She would have been completely unaware, as she pressed the lift …

Proposed book title: Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa: Emerging trends and perspectives.

Editors: Stanley Tsarwe and Sarah Chiumbu Proposed publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Even though at some point radio was regarded as the poor ‘cousin’ of the then newer ICTs (Myers 2008) in the 1990s, there is evidence that radio is now being brought back into the media technologies family and is increasingly converging with contemporary digital media …

Secondhand Cultures in Unsettled Times

Online Symposium hosted by the School of Media, Journalism and Culture, Cardiff University, 15-16 June 2021. Tuesday 15 June & Wednesday 16 June 2-9pm GMT, online. Secondhand cultures and practices, from reselling sites to charity shops and thrift stores to waste picking, have expanded and transformed over recent decades, with profound social, political, and environmental implications. This Symposium brings …

Book Call: Converged Radio, Youth and Urbanity in Africa: Emerging trends and perspectives.

Editors: Stanley Tsarwe and Sarah Chiumbu Proposed publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Even though at some point radio was regarded as the poor ‘cousin’ of the then newer ICTs (Myers 2008) in the 1990s, there is evidence that radio is now being brought back into the media technologies family and is increasingly converging with contemporary digital media …

The Journalist & Mail and Guardian celebrate World Freedom Day

The Journalist in partnership with the Mail and Guardian celebrates World Press Freedom Day 2021 (3 May 2021) and 30 years of the Windhoek Declaration with a special edition online at www.thejournalist.org.za and a print version in today’s Mail and Guardian.   See our main story: A Gift to the World from African JournalistsLink to the special …