The History Department of the University of Stellenbosch and the History Department of the Free University of Amsterdam signed an exchange agreement in September 2006. The agreement provides for student exchange on post-graduate level to enroll in module courses at the two departments. Amsterdam history students can enroll for courses at Stellenbosch University in the second semester and Stellenbosch students can enroll for courses at the Free University in the first semester. The agreement also provides for the exchange of lecturers in the future.

Post-graduates in the History Department

Chet Fransch Fraveel@telkomsa.net Masters thesis: "Republican hegemony during the Anglo-Boer War, 1899-1902". (Supervisor: Dr Sandra Swart) Identity is often moulded around perceived ideas of a dominant group identity, in this instance, linked to the cataclysmic event of the Anglo-Boer War. By illuminating the existence of parallel yet often conflictual identities within the so-called group identity, an attempt is made to suggest the existence of not one dominant hegemony but the existence of plural co-existing identities which at times are mutually beneficial. Public Seminars: "The Don Juan Myth in Milan Kundera's Laughable Loves", Stellenbosch (2005) "Homosexuality or Homosexualities? The Diverse Nature and History of Homosexuality in Southern Africa", Stellenbosch (2007) Academic awards: Subject prizes- French and Sociology. Golden Key Academic colours 2006, University of Stellenbosch. Brightest Young Minds (2007) Bursaries: Merit bursary, US, 2004, 2005, 2006. Mandela-Rhodes Scholar 2006. Departmental Bursary, History - 2007.
Stefanie Josepha Emilie Vandenbergh 14494817@sun.ac.za Enrolled for MA in History: A social history of African horse sickness (Supervisor Dr. Sandra Swart) My thesis is about African horse sickness and the social implications regarding this disease on the history of Southern Africa. I will take a closer look at certain epidemics and stud farms affected by it. Awards and scholarships: Golden Key International Honour Society (2007)
Lize-Marie Van der Watt smevdw@gmail.com Enrolled for MA in History: A Socio-Environmental History of Drought in the Eastern Free State, 1919-1948. (Supervisor: Dr. Sandra Swart) I am busy with my research masters in socio-environmental history. I look at three major agronomic issues in the 1930s-1950s, namely how people – at official, state level but also at local, grass-root level, dealt with drought, erosion and locust plagues. I also look at what informed their ideas, especially to what extent American ideals impacted on ideas about agronomy. Geographically, the study is located in the eastern Free State. Awards and scholarships: Rhodes Award for Excellence in History (2007); 2003-2006: Carnegie South Africa Woman’s Scholarship Programme 2005: Best editorial staff, Die Matie student newspaper
Simone Kerseboom 14956179@sun.ac.za Enrolled for MA in History: “The Food of the Soul": Remembering and Recreating Sara Baartman in post-apartheid South Africa I am busy with my research masters in socio-cultural history. I offer a draft paper here to give a sense of the flavour of my research: “Burying Sara Baartman”: Commemoration, Memory and Historical Ethics”

Seminar Papers

Bernard Dubbeld (Universities of Stellenbosch & Chicago)
From Race and Ethnicity to ‘Individuality’ and ‘Skill’ as forms of constraint: Containerization and the foreclosure of radical unionism in Durban Harbour

Udo Hebel (Department of English and American Studies, University of Regensburg)
“U.S. American Collective Memories -- Sites of Consensus and Contestation.”

Albert Grundlingh (University of Stellenbosch)
“Are we Afrikaners getting too rich?”1 Cornucopia and change in Afrikanerdom in the 1960’s.

Andries Bezuidenhout (Sociology of Work Unit, University of the Witwatersrand) FROM VOËLVRY TO DE LA REY: POPULAR MUSIC, AFRIKANER NATIONALISM AND LOST IRONY

Raymond Suttner (Senior Researcher, Walter and Albertina Sisulu Knowledge and Heritage Unit, School for Graduate Studies, College of Human Sciences, University of South Africa)
The Jacob Zuma rape trial: Power and African National Congress (ANC) masculinities

J. P. Brits (University of South Africa)
THABO MBEKI AND THE AFRIKANERS

Papers delivered at the commemoration of the Department of History's centenary, April 2004

Adonis, Hannes (Universiteit Stellenbosch):
Sending en ekumene in die familie van NG Kerke in Suid-Afrika.

Baines, Gary (Rhodes University):
Nation Building as commemoration and concensus: History, memory and heritage in Post-Apartheid South Africa.

Botha, David:
Eenheidstrewe en sendingbeleid van die NG Kerk sedert 1857.

Brown, Jim (Samford University, Birmingham, USA):
Using the Johannesburg-to-Durban Corridor to teach modern South African history in Microcosm.

Changuion, Louis (Universiteit van Pretoria-Argief):
UP Departement Geskiedenis: Die Afrikaanse stem uit die noorde.

De Klerk, Pieter (Vaaldriehoekkampus, Noordwes Universiteit):
Die bydrae van JS du Plessis tot die geskiedskrywing.

De Villiers, Johan (University of Zululand):
MJ Swart en J St. Elmo Pretorius as dosente aan die US - 'n historiografiese analise.

Du Pisani, Kobus (Noordwes Universiteit):
The environmental historian and the challenges of interdisciplinary research.

Dunn, Paul (etv):
"Die man is geel van jaloesie en rooiwarm van haat": The correspondence between two Afrikaner historians, 1956-1963.

Freund, Bill (University of KwaZulu-Natal):
Urban history in South Africa and the African context.

Goodman, R:
History, Memory and Reconciliation: Njabulo Ndebele's Cry of Winnie Mandela and Pumla Gobodo-Mazikela's A Human Being Died that Night.

Groenewald, Ria (University of Pretoria-Archives):
University Archives: From passive preserving to active participation in the historical process.

Grundlingh, Albert (Universiteit van Stellenbosch):
"Rocking the boat?" The "Voëlvry" movement in South Africa: anatomy of Afrikaner anti-apartheid social protest in the eighties.

Harris, Karen (University of Pretoria):
"Encouraged and excluded: The Chinese at the Cape a century ago."

Jooste, Cecile (Vista Universiteit, Pretoria):
Die plaaslike koerant 'n noodsaaklike bron vir die skryf van plaaslike geskiedenis.

Jordaan, Marthinus (Universiteit van die Vrystaat):
Herhistorisering van die kwessies van identiteit en identiteitskepping: Die Jordaanfamilie.

Kapp, Pieter:
Pasaangeër of irrelevant? Die studie van geskiedenis op Stellenbosch, 1866-1985

Kitshoff, Herman (Universiteit van Stellenbosch):
Claiming cultural festivals: Playing for power at the KKNK.

Lichtenstein, Alex (Rice University, Houston, Texas, USA):
"Making Apartheid Work": African Trade Unions and the 1953 Native Labour (Settlement of Dispute) Act.

Lorenz, Chris (Free University of Amsterdam / Leiden University):
History and Identity.

Malherbe, VC (Centre for Social-Legal Research, University of Cape Town):
Baptism and identity creation at the Cape of Good Hope, 1665-1840.

McAleer, John (Trinity College, University of Dublin):
Captain Henry Butler's South African Sketches: Victorian Vanity Publishing and the lure of Africa.

McLeod, Andrew:
'n Psigo-historiese retrospeksie: Boere-ervaring van die guerillafase tydens die Anglo-Boereoorlog.

Morrell, Robert (University of KwaZulu-Natal):
"I didn't know my father. Reflections on the masculine identities of young men in Durban Secondary Schools."

Mouton, Alex (Unisa) en Van Jaarsveld, Albert (Universiteit van Zululand):
"Angry young men": FA van Jaarsveld, TS van Rooyen and the Afrikaner historiographical polemic of 1953-1954.

Oelofse, Marietjie (University of the Free State):
The need for Oral History in a changing South Africa.

Parpart, Jane L (Dalhousie and Stellenbosch Universities):
Closing Debate: "Sell Outs," Political Debate and the end of the Multiracial Option in Zimbabwe, 1953-1980.

Phillips, Howard (University of Cape Town):
'The beginning of history in South Africa': The establishment of the first university Department of History in South Africa.

Sevenhuysen, Karina (University of Pretoria):
Die historikus en tegnologie: Navorsing oor stedelike swart behuising in Suid-Afrika, met spesiale verwysing na Atteridgeville, 1939-1948.

Smit, Hennie (Military Academy, Saldanha):
Die bergpasse wat Mosselbaai met die Klein Karoo verbind: 'n Historiese oorsig.

Twala, Chitja (Free State University):
'Letsema / Ilima' Campaign: A smokescreen or essential strategy to deal with the unemployment crisis in South Africa.

Van der Walt, Lucien (University of the Witwatersrand):
Bakunin's Heirs in South Africa: race and revolutionary syndicalism from the First World War to the International Socialist League, 1910-1921.

Van Heyningen, Elizabeth:
Medical History and Afrikaner society.

Visser, Wessel (Universiteit van Stellenbosch):
The "Red Peril" and "Total Onslaught": History Production in South African Historiography.