2025 Post-doctoral Programme
| Topic | Date | Facilitator(s) | Venue | Contact person |
| Postdoctoral Office:Hands-On Public Speaking Workshop | 24 March | Thabani Mtzi | STIAS | Sindiswa Mzizi postdocinfo@sun.ac.za |
| Mid semester 1 Recess 29 March- 6 April | ||||
| Reading group: Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery |
8 April | Sophia Sanan Chapter: Introduction |
AVReQ Seminar Room | Wilhelm Verwoed wilhelmv@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Office: Fundamentals of Grant Writing |
10 April | Riana Coetsee | STIAS | Sindiswa Mzizi postdocinfo@sun.ac.za |
| Robyn Gill-Leslie Magical States and Latent Ghosts: Accountability for Apartheid-Era Crime In South Africa |
15 April | Veeran Naicker | AVReQ Seminar Room | Veeran Naicker vnaicker@sun.ac.za |
| Reading group: Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery |
24 April | Akuch Anyieth Chapter: Reimagining Aboriginality: An Indigenous People’s Response to Social Suffering |
AVReQ Seminar Room | Wilhelm Verwoed wilhelmv@sun.ac.za |
| Reading group: Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery |
6 May | Anell Stacey Daries Chapter: Spirit Possessions and Avenging Ghosts: Stories of Supernatural Activity as Narratives of Terror and Mechanisms of Coping and Remembering |
AVReQ Seminar Room | Wilhelm Verwoed wilhelmv@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Office: Mastering CV Writing for Postdocs |
7 May | Riana Coetsee | Online | Sindiswa Mzizi postdocinfo@sun.ac.za |
| Reading group: Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery |
20 May | Yumi Omori Chapter: The Bomb’s Womb? Women and the Atom Bomb |
AVReQ Seminar Room | Wilhelm Verwoed wilhelmv@sun.ac.za |
| Reading group: Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery |
3 June | Sophia Sanan Chapter: Boundaries, Names, Alterities: A Case Study of a “Communal Riot” in Dharavi, Bombay |
AVReQ Seminar Room | Wilhelm Verwoed wilhelmv@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Office: Project Management Workshop |
3 June | Joubert van Eeden | STIAS | Sindiswa Mzizi postdocinfo@sun.ac.za |
| Reading group: Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery |
17 June | Facilitator TBA) Chapter: Marginality, Suffering, and Community: The Politics of Collective Experience and Empowerment in Thailand |
AVReQ Seminar Room | Wilhelm Verwoed wilhelmv@sun.ac.za |
| Mid Year Recess 29 June – 20 July | ||||
| Reading group: Remaking a World: Violence, Social Suffering, and Recovery |
1 July | Veeran Naicker Chapter: Speech and Silence: Women’s Testimony in the First Five Weeks of Public Hearings of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission |
AVReQ Seminar Room | Wilhelm Verwoed wilhelmv@sun.ac.za |
| AVReQ Writing Retreat | July | Anell Stacey Daries | TBA | Anell Stacey Daries asdaries@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Office: Postdoc Writing Retreat |
July | Postdoctoral Office & DVC: Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies | Off-Campus | Sindiswa Mzizi postdocinfo@sun.ac.za |
| TED TALKS | August | Anell Stacey Daries | AVReQ Seminar Room | Anell Stacey Daries asdaries@sun.ac.za |
| Professor Marcos Martins Audiovisual Expression of Research |
August (two week workshop series) |
Anell Stacey Daries Kate Woode-Smith |
AVReQ Seminar Room | Kate Woode-Smith katews@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Office: Communicating Science with Impact |
21 August 28 August |
Marina Joubert | TBA | Sindiswa Mzizi postdocinfo@sun.ac.za or Izel Rossouw izel@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Office: Grant writing Retreat Bootcamp |
Semester 2 | Postdoctoral Office & CERI – Centre for Epidemic Response and Innovation | TBA | Sindiswa Mzizi postdocinfo@sun.ac.za or Izel Rossouw izel@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Office: Wrap around Support for Postdocs |
July- August Sept- October |
Postdoc Funding Office | Online | postgradfunding@sun.ac.za |
| Mid Semester 2 Recess 6 – 14 September | ||||
| AVReQ Writing Retreat | September | Anell Stacey Daries | TBA | Anell Stacey Daries asdaries@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Symposium | September | Anell Stacey Daries | AVReQ Seminar Room | Anell Stacey Daries asdaries@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Office: Researcher Toolkit: ORCID, SunDMP, and SciVal Essential |
16 September | SU Library Services Marie Roux Sizwe Ngcobo |
Online | Sindiswa Mzizi postdocinfo@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Office: Postdoc Appreciation Week |
15-19 September | Various Presenters | Online | Sindiswa Mzizi postdocinfo@sun.ac.za or Izel Rossouw izel@sun.ac.za |
| Postgraduate Office: SU academic supervisor training course |
27 October-24 November | TBA | In person/ online | Anell Stacey Daries asdaries@sun.ac.za or Deliandri Uithaler pgskills@sun.ac.za |
| Postdoctoral Office: DVC Postdoc Colloquium |
November | Postdoctoral Office & DVC: Research, Innovation and Postgraduate Studies. | TBA | Sindiswa Mzizi postdocinfo@sun.ac.za or Izel Rossouw izel@sun.ac.za |
| Second Semester ends 12 December | ||||
