Major electrical work is being carried out over the weekend of Saturday 8th and Sunday 9th March. While Computing Services Division are minimising the disruption to services to the greatest degree they can, there is a possibility that library web pages, and the electronic resources available through them (including the library catalogue), may not be working fully at certain times during this weekend.
Sound Beginnings is the title of a concert to take place at the Hilton College Theatre showcasing young KZN music pupils selected on audition by Christopher Duigan, well-known founder of Pietermaritzburg’s Music Revival.
The concert takes place on June 15 at 19h30. Tickets R50. All bookings and enquiries on 033 383 0126.
This award is to encourage HDR students to publish in high quality outlets during their candidature and to submit these publications as part of the School’s annual publications collection.
Awards will be made to up to two HDR students who publish an outstanding piece of research in a high quality outlet. This includes books, book chapters, refereed journal articles and refereed conference proceedings.
The work must have been published during the student’s candidature (i.e. students who publish after having lapsed their candidature are ineligible). Students who published during candidature and have subsequently completed their degree are eligible.
The publication must have been submitted as part of the School’s annual publications collection, and its eligibility verified by the University.
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Field Research Support and Travel Grants are open to application from students who will need … Continue reading Field Research Support and Travel →
This scheme provides editorial and strategic assistance in helping students prepare refereed publications. Students and … Continue reading HDR Publication Support →
Field Research Support and Travel Grants are open to application from students whose research is … Continue reading The Edith Lahr Bequest Grant for research related to Linguistics/Applied Linguistics →
Number of Annual Awards: There shall be 1 award per year. Award Benefits: The award … Continue reading LLCL Best Doctoral Thesis award →
Academic writing support officers (AWSO) will be employed on a casual basis to give HDR … Continue reading Academic Writing Support →
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This project examines how and why concepts of atrocity came to be an important part of delineating the limits of war. A cross-cultural study of a pivotal time in the development of the conduct and perceived limits of war, the project investigates the crusades to the Holy Land from 1095-c.1300 as well as crusades conducted against other perceived enemies such as heretics, pagans and political enemies in Europe, the Baltic, the Greek East and around the Mediterranean. The project thus considers understandings of atrocity in a range of cultural, social and religious contexts and encounters in order to investigate how atrocity was understood, represented and used across time and place. It considers atrocity from the perspective of perpetrators, victims and bystanders. By undertaking a sustained social and cultural analysis of the ways in which atrocity was understood in a range of environments across time, this project will show how atrocity in war becomes part of justification, regulation of conduct, and cultural thinking in regard to war. Given modern global attention to identifying and prosecuting atrocities in war, it is surprising that there has been no social and cultural study of atrocity in a long historical perspective. This project will provide the first such history. The time of the crusades was a critical historical moment when concepts of atrocity were increasingly used to describe, legitimise and critique the practice and nature of war. This is because the crusades, which were conducted in many theatres of war across Europe, the Middle East and the Mediterranean from 1095, brought together a multitude of people of different religions, ethnicity, status and culture. These encounters were, initially at least, rooted in the military hostility of holy war and the sources that describe these varied conflicts are rich sources for a cultural history of medieval war. At the same time, from the late eleventh century, there was both a revival of Augustinian just war theory in the west and a revival of the notion of jihad in the Islamic world. These developments were also due to the formulation of the crusade as a new instrument of holy war and the increased preaching of jihad as an effective response to the crusade, especially from the twelfth century. The crusading period was thus a turning point for the conceptualisation of the nature and conduct of war in general in both Islamic and Christian cultures.
Part of this project is conducted as an Associate Investigator for the ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions (http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/research/researchers/megan-cassidy-welch/)
Since the old projects in my website are not supported much time I have decided to turn this page into projects archive. The projects you can find here: