University of the Western Cape - UWC Department of Anthropology

07/06/2025

Lecturer (permanent position/tenure-track) in Anthropology at the University of the Western Cape (UWC), Cape Town, South Africa

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The University of the Western Cape (UWC) is a research-led institution recognised nationally and internationally for its sustained contribution to democratic change in South Africa. The Faculty of Arts & Humanities seeks to appoint a Lecturer in a permanent position in the Department of Anthropology. The Department of Anthropology is a vibrant space with a growing cohort of postgraduate students, and a record of research and teaching in the fields of Anthropology of Health; Men and Masculinities; Aesthetics, Performance and Popular Culture; Human-Plants Interfaces, Political and Legal Anthropology, Religion and Spirituality. The successful candidate will be expected to contribute in significant ways to research, teaching, and supervision, as well as to perform normal administrative tasks and duties.
To apply, please visit: https://uwc.hua.hrsmart.com/hr/ats/Posting/view/2036
Closing date 27 June 2025

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17/03/2025

10/10/2024

TODAY, 1pm - ANTHROPOLOGY SEMINAR ROOM

PALESTINIAN FUTURES?
HISTORIES AND CONTEMPORARY REALITIES IN GAZA

The UWC Anthropology is hosting today an event, in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Islam at the University of Cape Town, and invites you to a talk on genocide, resistance and peace in Gaza with Ms Hanan Jarrar, Palestinian Ambassador to South Africa.

This event joins ongoing global solidarity with Palestinians' political right of self-determination and citizenship. Please join us for a screening of the film Gaza's First Photographer, followed by a panel discussion that considers Palestine's present
and future in light of a history of colonial occupation. with Ms Hanan Jarrar, the Palestinian Ambassador and, Associate Heidi Grunebaum and chaired by Professor Heike Becker.

10/09/2024

Please join us for Radhika Desai's Dean's Lecture at UWC next week. All welcome. RSVP [email protected]

05/08/2024

All welcome to join us at our seminar series this semester.

Seminars take place IN PERSON on Wednesdays 13h00-14h30
Anthropology Seminar Room, Social Sciences Building, UWC

13/02/2024

All welcome to join us for this feast of talks this semester. Special gratitude to UWC History and Geography departments for partnering with us on two of the seminars.

Seminars take place on Wednesday lunchtimes during term dates.

21/07/2023

Please join us for this semester's great seminars! Every term Wednesday 13h00 to 14h30.

This coming Wednesday we begin with

Cape Flats South on the False Bay Coast: Towards an Intersectional Ecopolitics to Tackle Environmental Racism in Apartheid and Neoliberal Infrastructure

Lesley Green and Nikiwe Solomon
(University of Cape Town)

Wednesday 26 July
13h00-14h30

In person, all welcome

Anthropology Seminar Room
Social Sciences Building, UWC

23/06/2023

When will the mixed-race people also have a break? The new dispensation really doesn't care about those who lived as mixed-race for generations

02/03/2023

Our first seminar for the year is this coming Wednesday 8 March. Please join us!

Interactions of Disgust: Ethical Recognition, Critical Reflection and Economic and Political Imaginaries of Meat, Aversion and Order in Mumbai

Shaheed Tayob (Stellenbosch University)

02/03/2023

UWC Anthropology Seminar Series for this semester. All Welcome!

16/02/2023

This film screening & UWC Anthropology welcoming happened yesterday

Thank you Thindi for the stimulating film and everyone who attended for the vibrant engagement

Thanks to the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation Southern African office for the support