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#MeetOurFellows #STIASFellows2024 Max Waltman joins us from the Department of Political Science at Halmstad University, Sweden. His project at STIAS focuses on the prospect of holding authoritative actors accountable for legalized prostitution under the international legal rubric of crimes against humanity. #PoliticalScience https://lnkd.in/dhb_fBfi

#MeetOurFellows #STIASFellows2024 Helen Moffett is a South African writer, academic and researcher. Her STIAS project is about the interface between South African publishing, authors, the academy, and anglophone publishing elsewhere in Africa. See more about her work in the article below: https://lnkd.in/dMWPtq8d

#MeetOurFellows In case you missed it, the full recording of the #STIASPublicLecture by Elsabe Loots is available on the STIAS YouTube channel. In this talk, Loots discusses how destabilising geopolitical, economic, and climate shocks might influence the nature, direction, structure, and extent of aid flows to Africa. She further discusses the role of China, which has reshaped the global landscape of development finance. See more here, https://lnkd.in/dKYX3bDz

#MeetOurFellows Danie Visser joins us from the Department of Private Law at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. His research at STIAS is about the restitution of gains from profit-making wrongs. #PrivateLaw #STIASFellows2024 See more details in this summary below: https://lnkd.in/de7Ahy-v

#MeetOurFellows Carlos Ibanez is from the Department of Neuroscience at Karolinska Institute, Sweden. His research focuses on new approaches to anti-obesity therapeutics. #STIASFellows2024 #Neuroscience More about his work in this seminar summary: https://lnkd.in/dZFEPV2m

🔔HAPPENING THIS WEEK🔔 Join us for the final #STIASPublicLecture of 2024, delivered by the emeritus professor in development economics and former dean of the Faculty of Economic and Management Sciences at the University of Pretoria, Elsabé Loots. In the lecture, Loots will unpack the likely nature, direction, structure, and extent of aid flows to Africa amidst recent and expected geopolitical, economic, and climate shocks – in conjunction with the role of China, now the largest individual country donor of development aid to the continent. 🗓️ Thursday, 14 November 2024 📍 STIAS, 10 Marais Road, Stellenbosch ⏰ 16:00 - 17:30 SAST Register here 👇🏽 https://lnkd.in/d9TZJrpA

"His passing is a moment of great sadness for us and the wider psychology community around the world. He wrote prodigiously, and so, fortunately, leaves behind a rich archive filled with provocative insights with which we can work productively and generatively for many years,” - Crain Soudien. https://lnkd.in/dtWsDVBn

#MeetOurFellows Njoki Wamai is from the International Relations Department at the United States International University-Africa, Kenya. Her #IsoLomso project at STIAS is on the legacies of the International Criminal Court intervention in Kenya. See more about her work in this seminar write-up. https://lnkd.in/dkEn2UbM

#MeetOurFellows #STIASFellows2024 Riël Franzsen joins us from the Department of Economics at the University of Pretoria. His research at STIAS focuses on land-based financing tools as possible instruments that the government, especially at the local level, could use to enhance revenues and contribute to #biodiversityconversation. See more in the summary of his seminar below: https://lnkd.in/dkgSaSca

Most scientists who get the call telling them they had won The Nobel Prize are "very happy". No surprise there. But a few think it's a prank. Like the recipient who put the phone down three times. Read his story and other revelations about the 'Oscars for nerds' from Göran Hansson, who has made 'that call' 67 times through the years, in University World News (click here 👉) https://lnkd.in/dhA8ychP (Pic: Stefan Els) Karolinska Institutet, The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study, Stellenbosch University