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Title
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Rhodes University 2009 Graduation Ceremony [at the] 1820 Settlers National Monument, Friday, 17 April at 18:00
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Creator
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Rhodes University
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Date
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2009/04/17
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Abstract
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This digitised archival document records the Rhodes University graduation ceremony held on Friday, 17 April 2009, at 18:00 at the 1820 Settlers National Monument in Grahamstown. The eighteen-page programme documents the conferral of undergraduate, honours, master’s and doctoral qualifications in the Faculty of Humanities, covering disciplines including English, History, Philosophy, Anthropology, Politics, International Studies, Psychology, Journalism and Media Studies, African Languages, Linguistics, Drama, Art History, Environmental Science, Sociology and Musicology. It records graduates receiving distinctions, academic honours and colours, alongside postgraduate research titles and supervisors. The research documented reflects a wide range of historical, cultural, linguistic, political and social concerns, with particular attention to South Africa and the Eastern Cape. Notable topics include the social and cultural history of Grahamstown from 1812 to approximately 1845, heritage tourism and Khoisan culture in the Cacadu district, governance of commonages in small Eastern Cape towns, intercultural communication in Eastern Cape HIV/AIDS clinics, representations of race at Rhodes University, and the incorporation of Indigenous Knowledge into isiXhosa teaching. Other research addresses migration and xenophobia, customary and constitutional law, gender representation, journalism, community radio, post-apartheid politics and African musical traditions. The doctoral section records Georgina Naomi Ramsay Cundill’s research on learning, governance and livelihoods in adaptive co-management under resource-poor conditions in South Africa, supervised by Professor C. Fabricius, and Jamie Alexander McGregor’s research on myth, music and modernism in the works of Virginia Woolf and James Joyce, supervised by Professor D.A. Wylie. The programme also records the conferral of the honorary Doctor of Literature degree on Dennis Vincent Brutus and the Vice-Chancellor’s awards recognising research, teaching and scholarship. Academic honours, colours, half-colours, scholarships, bursaries and prizes feature in the concluding sections. As a primary institutional record, this programme provides valuable evidence for biographical and genealogical research, verification of academic qualifications and distinctions, the history of postgraduate scholarship and supervision, and the study of Rhodes University’s intellectual and institutional history in 2009.
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Subject
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Rhodes University
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Graduation ceremonies
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Academic ceremonies
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Format
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application/pdf
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Language
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English
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Type
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text
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Extent
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18 pages
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Rights
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Rhodes University
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Is Part Of
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Rhodes University Graduation Programmes
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Genre
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Graduation program
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Publisher
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Rhodes University, Office of the Registrar
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Location
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Cory Library and Archives
