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64 NMMU Research and Innovation Report 2011 - Faculty of Arts • What does communication in all its ramifications entail, and why are there so many pitfalls in human communication practices? Among his achievements, the milestone of his career was reached when the Education Faculty at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) invited him, on the basis of his work regarding ecology and capitalism, to present a keynote address at their annual colloquium. The invited keynote address at UKZN enabled him to bring together his research on poststructuralist conceptions of subjectivity (to understand human behaviour) and ecological degradation, even the possibility of collapse, in the context of urgent challenges facing educators. Another milestone was achieved when Marie Palm, of the Norwegian Council for Africa, invited him to cross-post his blogs from the Mail & Guardian Thoughtleader website (many of them on themes related to his research project) onto the Council's Africa website, because they regard them as providing important information to their readers. Among the highlights of the year were certainly the four papers he presented at overseas conferences, as well as the keynote address he was invited to deliver at the annual UKZN Education Colloquium. These were significant, because all of them represented the culmination of his research, until that time, on the difficult work of Deleuze and Guattari, whose critique of psychoanalysis is usually regarded as precluding any similarities with psychoanalytical thinkers. The following helped him to attain his goals: firstly, at a personal level, an abiding interest in the need to understand events around him, both locally and internationally, but also an awareness of the urgency of communicating what any reasonably-informed, criticallyreflective individual would regard as being imperative for people to take note of at the present stage of the history of the world. Secondly, at the material-institutional level, NMMU’s Research Funding Policy has enabled him (and other researchers) to visit communicationally informative, like-minded colleagues (who are intellectual leaders) and attend multi-discipline oriented, enriching conferences overseas, as well as visit art-rich museums and experience architecture that would otherwise have remained inaccessible to him. He shall continue his research along the trajectory outlined above, with the focus on a philosophical and psychoanalytical interpretation of human behaviour in relation to the threat posed by, among other things, excessive consumer practices on social and natural ecologies. In addition, he believes that a great deal of work in philosophy departments worldwide consists of intellectual work that amounts to mere "finger exercises", and does not address the pressing questions of our time. Since its inception, genuine philosophy has always addressed important political, social, cultural and economic issues rooted in the time in which such philosophers lived. He believes this tradition should continue. Faculty Emerging Researcher of the Year Dr Theodore Petrus Dr Theodore Petrus is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology and teaches at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. In terms of his research interests, he specialises in crime anthropology, cultural symbolism and issues of Coloured identity. Most of his interests lie with research as he feels that this is where he can make the most significant contribution towards the betterment of society. The research that he undertakes looks closely at reconciling culture and human rights, especially in a multicultural society such as the one we have in South Africa. Furthermore, Dr Petrus is working in an area of research that he describes as underdeveloped and in some instances groundbreaking. Most of Dr Petrus' interests lie with research, as he feels that this is where he can make the most significant contribution towards the betterment of society. In his future pursuits of research, he will be looking at the phenomenon of gangs in the northern areas of Port Elizabeth. His quest is “to understand the issues, before you can shed light on them”.
Cyber Ethics and Social Media Mrs Adelina Mbinjama-Gamatham Ms Mary Duker The main area of research for Mrs Adelina Mbinjama-Gamatham is cyber ethics focusing on helping the users of social media like Facebook and Twitter not to inadvertently use these media to slander and defame others based on ignorance. Her intention is to bridge the gap between law and social media. With her kind of research she will influence how communication media must change in the light of shifts in the use of social media. She has a quest to see people conduct themselves morally online, as they would offline. In her research she asked a sample of 150 people how they dealt with issues of cyber ethics and cyber criminality. Mrs Mbinjama-Gamatham has a quest to see people conduct themselves Performing and Creative Arts Awards 65 Ms Mary Duker’s interest lies in the study of visual arts in relation to linguistic and social theories - in the engagement between the artist and society, and the reception and reading of artworks by the different audiences for art. This interest informs her teaching, her academic engagement and her creative and research outputs. Director of the School of Music, Art and Design, she was awarded a Creative and Performing Arts Award for her curating of Re.Sponse - an invited group exhibition with an accompanying catalogue of reflective essays. The exhibition was conceptualised as an interrogation and reinterpretation of the visual archive, and of history(ies), with contributions by selected contemporary artists, living and working in Nelson Mandela Bay. morally online, as they would offline. The R12 million project has a R7 million value. Apart from completing a Masters, Mrs Mbinjama-Gamatham has produced an article, which was published in the Journal of Intercultural Disciplines. She is currently supervising three students at Masters level. She has a burning quest to see the research that she conducts have relevance and application, resulting in technology being a teaching aid/tool. The research themes in the Faculty have helped her focus her energies. The curatorial strategy was to present a selection of works drawn from the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan Art Museum’s (NMMAM) historical and modernist collections to the invited artists, and offer them the opportunity to select, reframe, reread and reinterpret a work that had particular appeal to them, and respond with an artwork of their own. Her research thrust is a Mandela Bay Development Agency (MBDA) NMMU Arts Project, which is still ongoing. As an academic engagement activity, the project saw her working with collectives of NMMU students, alumni and community artists to install public artworks as part of the MBDA Route 67 project.
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